an electroacoustic ode to the greyboy allstars and one of the greatest acid jazz records of all time, "Freestylin", a huge inspiration for me.

Grey's Boy

Driver 8

Vintage Lounge Party Mix from 2000-5 period residency at the iconic, original boutique hotel of NYC. Includes tracks from Spoon, Luscious Jackson, Blonde Redhead, and French Kicks on the rock side and Tiga, Recloose, John Tejada, and Daft Punk on the beats side. Those were good times.

Vintage Mix Set @ SoHo Grand Hotel

a sonic journey through 3 distinct tracks, each with 2 interludes that make up something bigger than the sum of the parts. inspired by LCD 45:33.

Somewhere I'd Rather Be

Sugaree

A beautiful maui island original written by Jeff Thomas. Guitar and lead vocal here by Jeff. Guitars, bass, drums, back up vocal and production here by yours truly.

Don't Give Up

An original composition melding hard rock guitar riffs and bluegrass dobro with electronic production. Like if Jack White and Bela Fleck went to Burning Man.

Jack White Went to Burning Man

An original composition imagining Wes Montgomery going dub.

Nice To Be In Orbit

Jack White Goes To Burning Man (Breakee Mix)

Rejection Perfection

An electroacoustic original piece with electronics surrounding live performance on acoustic guitars and keys. Think Boards of Canada meets Michael Hedges.

I Try

Fusion of bluegrassy banjo and resonator with balearic beats.

Banjo Beats

Old school all vinyl lounge beats inspired by the soho grand sessions

1/ Guardians of Dalliance - Turn To Gold [Moving Shadow]
2/ Tosca - Orozco | Dubphonic Dub [G-Stone]
3/ Flora & Fauna - Harder Outer Layer [Codek]
4/ Zeb - Mood Electric [Irma]
5/ Funky Lowlives - Inside | Dorfmeister vs. Uptight Dub [Stereo Deluxe]
6/ Pilooski - Can't There Be Love | Double Club Edit [Diamond Traxx]
7/ Doors - Break On Through | Dublex Re-edit [White Label]
8/ Blueflame - Last Man Standing [Bolshi Blue]
9/ Aural Float - Session 5 [Elektrolux]
10/ Guitar - How So Bright of Universe [Morr Music]
11/ Zeb - Swimming Pool [Codek]
12/ Thievery Corporation - Focus on Sight [ESL Music]
13/ Toro Y Moi - Still Sound | Voodoo Bar Remix [Amazing Sounds]
14/ Ralph Myerz & the Jack Herren Band - Dub Pirates [Telle]
15/ Madonna - Justify My Love | Willam Orbit Remix [Sire]
16/ Nickodemus & Osiris - Brooklyn Ole [Wonderwheel]
17/ Jon Kennedy - Let Me Get Myself Together [Tru Thoughts]
18/ James Nylon - Brooklyn Loves You [Irma]
19/ Quantic - Apricot Morning [Tru Thoughts]
20/ Quantic - Trouble From the Water [Tru Thoughts]

Soho Grandito

Original tune written for acoustic guitars and performed by Jeff Thomas. Accompanied by Ben Butler on lead guitar.

Baying At The Moon [Live Outtake]

An acoustic space take on the Dylan/Band/Dead classic. Live, one take. Guitar/lead vocal performed by Jonathan Butler, lead guitar/backing vocal by Ben Butler.

When I Paint My Masterpiece [BBJB Acoustic Space Take]

a late night live jam outtake with a few nuggets that could make an interesting tune.

Acoustic Improvisation No. 2

Some sound design & effects production fun around a late night, live take, two guitar droney jam. Performed by Jeff Thomas and Ben Butler on 6.24.21

It's Late, Think I'll Walk [Acoustic Improvisation No. 3]

A mid-late Nineties trip down DNB memory lane. Luke Vibert, J Majik, Total Science, Blame, Moving Shadow, Hospital. All good baby. Feels like home.

Drum N Space

Some fun melding rock, beats, and bluegrass.

Red's Return

After not having my vinyl for 7+ years, I got it back. And in my new house in Laurel Canyon, LA. Hell yeah these tracks sound better than when I first got them [mostly] over 20 years ago. Throwback set here.

1/ Wild Beasts - Fun Powder Plot [Domino]
2/ Bassman - On the Corner [Automatique]
3/ Sinkane - Making Time / Tuff City Kids Remix [DFA]
4/ Arto Lindsay - Q Samba / Sub Dub Mix [Gramavision]
5/ Troublemakers - Electrorloge [Guidance]
6/ Organic Grooves - Gods Eye [Codek]
7/ Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Back on the Black [BBE]
8/ Up Bustle & Out - The Educators / Remix PHD in street, crime, word to mind power [Ninja Tune]
9/ Beyonce - Crazy in Love / Adam 12 So Crazy Remix [Columbia]
10/ Dzihan & Kamien - Stiff Jazz / Richard Dorfmeister vs. Rodney Hunter Remix [Couch]
11/ Max Sedgley - Happy / Soul Mekanik Mix [Sunday Best]
12/ Fresh Mooods - Parasol [Elektrolux] 
13/ Ben Butler - Ambient Interlude
14/ Josh Wise - I Drew a Crooked Line [White Label]

Vintage Beats

Tanlines - Brothers
Buscemi - The Salon Section
G-Pal - That Music
Hakan Lidbo - Orgazmo
Alexi Delano - Round & Round
Neon Heights - 16 Again
Atjazz - Touch the Sun
Funk D'Void - To Ya Waistline
Scuba - NE1BUTU
Mazi feat. Collette - Do You Want Me [20/20 Vocal Mix]
Superpitcher - Tell Me About It
Ambusher - Superscience
!!! - Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard
SCSI-9 - When She Said Goodbye
Joni Mitchell - Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire [Nash & Crosby Session]

A Very Very Very Fine House

Heady grooves that play with delays

1/ Troublebeck Bros - Back to the Hip Hop
2/ Migs & Jelly - Sunday Night
3/ Guardner - Someday in My Life
4/ Deadly Wiz Da Disko - Deadly Wiz Da Disko
5/ Moonchild - Greenland
6/ Inverse Cinematics - Someone's Soul (Dublex Rmx)
7/ Spoon - Wild (Dennis Bovell Rmx)
8/ Psychemagik - A Valley of Paradise
9/ Azure Taint - Funky Element
10/ Senor Piccolino - Mad Beans
11/ Organic Grooves feat. Muhamadou Salieu Suso - Sutukung (Dub Mix)
12/ Tornado Wallace - Thinking Allowed
13/ Dean & Britta - Neon Licht (Holy Shit Rmx)
14/ Gabor Deutsch - Kidnapped Radiance (Yonderboi Rmx feat. Zagar)
15/ Q-Burns Abstract Message - Jennifer
16/ Lacarno & Burns - So Far
17/ Billy Cobham - Stratus

Dub Canyon

A continuous DJ mix set inspired by and featuring some of the best of the late 90s deep and tech house scene. Featuring labels like Plastic City America, Nitegrooves, and Compost.

1/ High Fidelity - Work It Out (Nordic Trax)

2/ Emerald City - Good Time (Visage)

3/ DJ Swingsett & J. Warrin - Knuckle (Ism)

4/ Tigerskin - In Public (Future Classic)

5/ Beanfield - The Season (Compost)

6/ Mateo & Matos - Love Style (Spiritual Life Music)

7/ Shit Robot - Simple Things (Todd Terje Rmx) DFA

8/ Salt City Orchestra - This Pagan Thing (Pagan)

9/ High Fidelity - Take Control (Nordic Traxx)

10/ G-Pal - Where Do We Go Now? (Plastic City America)

11/ Ananda Project - Falling For You (G-Pal’s Child of the Sun Rmx) Nitegrooves

12/ Ashtar Afterhours - Body Music (Plastic City America)

13/ Flicker - Work It (Plastic City Suburbia)

14/ Chaser - Tall Stories (Pooley’s ‘Lars from Mars’ Mix) Soma

15/ Interference - Dinheiro (Ubiquity)

16/ Lindstrom - Pesto og Kolera (Brennan Green Saucey Version (Feedelity)

17/ 2ruamwohnung - Ich and Elaine (2raumwohnung Club Mix) Goldrush

18/ Defenders of the Faith - The Fallen (Greyhound)

19/ Licht & Schatten - You (Raum…musik)

20/ Telepopmusik - Breathe (Jori Hulkkonen Mix) Catalogue

Glass House

Flora Park Live

With the all the 90s vibes in the air I got inspired to dig into my old techno and house records and decided to make a mix.  It's more like a scattering of techno and house tunes, and the second half of the mix takes a bit more of an offbeat turn.

Tracklist

Dani Siciliano - Come As You Are (!K7)
Robi Uppin - Silent Runner (Driftwood)
Derek Marin - Inhale (Lap Dance)
Maetrik - Fall Out Live Dub (Intrinsic Design)
G.E. - Sunrising (Plastic City)
Maffia Soundsystem - Angelic Sphere (Dialogue)
Sensecity - Enlight My Day (Pulver)
Freddie Mas - Detail of a Detail (Codek)
White Label (Codek)
M. Rohn - Hot Stuff (Konvex/Konkav)

Rave Fall

Deep Folk Take on the beautiful traditional tune made famous by the Grateful Dead.

Peggy-O

A Red Barn Burner classic. Reggae and dub infused funk with a dose of Maui vibes. Original tune written by a dude named Freedom. Recorded with Jeff Jeebie Thomas

Two Roads

A new Deep Folk take on the Neil Young classic.

Old Man

A beautiful original tune written by my friend Jeebie Jeff Thomas, with whom I performed and produced this take here. Inspired by the island vibes of his beloved Maui, the track is rooted in reggae rhythms but put through a modern deep folk and balearic blender.

Wind and Years

an acoustic sonic adventure. with jeff thomas on guitar and me on resonator.

Acoustic Improvisation No. 1

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B.A. in Music Composition, Vassar College. Resident DJ & Music Producer, Soho & Tribeca Grand Hotels NYC 2000-5. Now creative marketing by day, musician by night. Deep folk, dubby rock, and quirk grooves & beats.

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