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Erbalist & Joker Jones - Ruffneck

Written for my love, she has eyes that I get lost in, so I wanted to write a song that I could lose myself in.

Joker Jones - Beautiful blue eyes

Drum and bass meets Surf Rock.  Diggi Tri Produced by Pietro Manzone, Bass - Joe Warner, Guitar - Steve West

Giggawattz Theme - Diggi Tri

Echo

Written and co-produced with Harricane from Staggerquake. Mastered by Chris Harris at Staggerquake sound. 

Way Back

This track is a marriage between dark dirty bass and rolling beats. Thanks to DJ Locked for pointing me in a better direction while mastering.   

Lightning and Thunder

I was listening to a lot of Marley on my mp3 player while I wrote this. Also I really like the Dub Rock sound so....Enjoy

Joker Jones - I Shot the Junglist

This is the second in my series of three Dub Rock tracks I started writing. It features Steve West on the Guitar. Please enjoy responsibly, low bass frequencies at high decibels have been proven to destroy speakers. I'm just sayin'...

Joker Jones - Snipers Don't Sing

This is the third of three dub rock influenced tracks I set out to write. This one is special to me because I fell in love during its creation. Its funny what the love of a beautiful woman will do to a track. Enjoy!

Joker Jones - Three of Three(come back to me)

Piertro YYZ or Peter Manzone has been known as Joker Jones since 1992. Originating in a small studio above a mechanics shop this first carnation of Joker Jones was conceived as stage persona Peter would adopt during performances on the congas or drum kit with bands. As the ninety's progressed Pietro YYZ found himself attracted to the newly re-emerging electronic dance culture in Toronto. Especially the sounds being spun by Legendary DJ ‘Dr. No’, simply called ‘Hardcore’ at the time. The music was like a soundscape for the mind. With the perfect marriage of drum and bass, it was irresistible. While all his friends became DJ's, Peter had production on his mind: he wanted to write the tracks himself.

To begin this path, Peter started to play along side some DJ's forming partnerships and throwing events and parties. As time progressed he found himself a resident at the ‘Beat Junkie’ Night Club in Toronto. Concurrently, he played congas with an electronic group called ‘Kinder Atom’. It was during this period he started his collection vintage effects and keyboard synthesizers. Eventually, this addiction spread to acquiring electronic drums and drum machines.

Peter went back to school in Hamilton, in 1997, to obtain a degree in audio engineering from the Recording Arts Program of Canada. Spending every waking moment exploring analog synths and drum machines was his dream. By this time his collection of vintage equipment was fairly impressive. At this time Peter was also working nights and weekends in a music shop refinishing drum kits and teaching children how to play the drums.

In 1998 after obtaining his degree he moved to Peterborough, Ontario where he formed a partnership with a DJ to perform "Live Techno" (using drum machines and synths to play Techno live). During this time he honed his skills playing three nights a week. That summer he played at an OM festival in Tweed setting up a side stage and performing multiple times during the weekend with various DJ's.

In the fall of 1998, Pietro YYZ started to work with a long time friend on a newly budding Toronto nightlife promotional team. Lifeforce was the collective of three of Toronto's largest production companies, boasting attendances of 8-25 thousand people at events as well as countless smaller nightclub events. One club was System Sound Bar, where Pietro had opportunities to play along side some of the greatest house DJ’s in the world! Later he would have a weekly residency at Turbo nightclub.

In 2000 Pietro YYZ celebrated the new millennium and a new era of song writing. It was now time to work with computers for music sequencing, as opposed to writing directly with vintage instruments and multi-track recording gear.

In 2002 Peter was working during the days at Steve's music in Toronto, he was writing on state of the art equipment at work, every second he could, as part of his job. He was refining his craft. It was here that he was offered a chance to fly to San Francisco to write an album. Unfortunately he was unable to obtain the rights to release it in Canada.

For the last decade, Peter has been experimenting with engineering techniques, sound layering and making a comfortable living working as a welder.

Pietro Manzone

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