The world is a dumpster fire wrapped in a hellfire roasting in a barbecue pit, but Hot As Sun, aka Jamie Jackson and Deborah Stoll, are dropping a new EP. 
  
Joined by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, St. Vincent, Nine Inch Nails) on bass and mixing duties, the new EP — It Was Bananas — is a jagged mashup of rebellious hooks and raw, tropical, dance-punk buzz.  
 
“During the lockdown, T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and Rachel Yoder’s book, Night Bitch inspired me to pick up a bass and just get wild and honest. Motherhood, especially during a pandemic, is complicated and I felt lost creatively, but as the songs started to come…I realized being a mom was very f**cking rock- n-roll. With the help of Deborah, I tapped back in. She always lights the match.” -Jackson 
  
“The moment Jamie and I started writing together again it was euphoric pandemonium. Lyrics and sounds and images and reminiscences of our long-lost LA summer nights… To me, It Was Bananas embodies our combined psyches processing lunatic lives the best way we know how—by turning them into primal, sweaty, riotous songs.” -Stoll
  
Two independently accomplished women in their own right, Jamie composes for film & TV and is currently scoring Apple TV’s upcoming drama, Bad Monkey. Deborah is a widely published writer, working on her second book for Harper Collins about the rise of female, LQBTG and non-binary skateboarders, dropping Spring, 2023.   
  
Hailing from Mississippi and NYC respectively, Jamie and Deborah began releasing music as Hot as Sun after meeting over a soundbath at the Integreton in Joshua tree. Lauded by the LA Times as sounding like “Kate Bush at her first fake-ID rave” and writing “John Hughes montage-ready songs that sound like the Supremes throwing a dance party with the Strokes,” they’ve opened for Phantogram, Foster the People and Gotye and created rooftop water ballet pool parties and multi-media downtown underground art performances “that may owe something to the Velvet Underground at the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.” 
  
New EP, new videos, old attitudes, fall 2022.

It Was Bananas

Unsuspecting vocals recorded in the wild by Lauren Weidner and Michael Monzon.
Composed and mixed in Ableton Live, synths are the Modular and Mini in Arturia Analog Lab V and Dexed's DX7 (sorry, real one gathering dust...). Mastered with Cloud's matering template.

Bassline inspired by In Flagranti's remix of Disco for the Devil by Bottin: https://open.spotify.com/track/2fe70PK4YkLz893W4V59Vo?si=1fb198de8d584f79

Forensic Entomoogology

I recorded 'Flower on the Moon' about 9 years ago. Unfortunately I made a few mistakes in the mix. Since I no longer have the original file, I couldn't fix it. Since this is the missing part of 'Constellation' and 'Falling Star', I decided to upload the title anyway.

Flower on the Moon

Lifeform 2034 - Flower On The Moon

This is the Prophet Syntheizer run thru 3 times.
Starts with an original program which I made early today, whilst funkin around with some talking and setting up cameras a different way this was under my hands so I made the preset

Then I went along with it to the ARP from the AKAI Advance 25 which is a real good arpeggiator, and I did so in (originally) the Loom program from VIP which is really made for the Akai there.  

I started to dream as my 7 or 8 fingers laid on the prophet, and I made the video you see on my Bitchute channel right now(Wind Whispering Through The Trees), rounding things out with the drums to play the prophet, and turning on the ARP 2600 at some point to set the drone around 2300 in.  I mustnt forget that at around the 730 minute mark the LaunchKey Mini Mk3 arp is beginning to be heard as it played the original Prophet Program (417 I I R C) through the rest of the track till I stopped it near the end.  Even alongside as I began to play the drums to the Prophet at 2300 minutes in.

So to make it the one synthesizer challenge i had to go back in and choose a prophet preset to run the Akai advance 25 MIDI thru was it 155 Factory? Yes I think you should find it was if you watch the accompanying 3 hour video about the making of this which was just a video I made while I made the thing.

Finally then I came out to the USER presets for the drone to replicate if I could the sounds I have been getting in the ARP 2600 from Arturia.  The drone only capable with turning on the Hold capabiity in globals on the Prophet.  The rest of the creating of that preset took quite a bit of effort and can be found on the 3 hour video supplemental material.

Along the way I discarded several instruments that may be sensed in the original video of the original song's (several synths and VSTs) performance, the iPhone Model D, the other Arturia Synth there was CMI.  Then also the System 1m.  All were almost inaudible in the original.  The System 1m was there but not important to keep and any way being a modular with some strange plugged cables would be impossible to replicate in the Prophet.  
I kept the extra VST drums with the 808 remastered 808 that I have been featuring lately which you hear during the 23 minute first part as an occasional clave.  I also had amplified the Bass you get from the VST Impact out of Studio One.  Not audible I don't think, in the original video.  

So the Deep Groove drums remained, playing the original prophet after I stopped playing it with my hands, (15 min thru end) and you hear that synth sound here throughout this track it is the constantly tremolo and noisy main 'lead' sounds.

One Keyboard Changes

Cyrus Skies

I Can Feel Your Love by Hot As Sun
Produced by: www.wearethegifted.com
Featuring: WAZ & Seth Kauffman

I Can Feel Your Love

Never Be The Same

Little Friend

Am I Crazy

Live sequenced space-jam.
Equipment used:
Moog Mother-32
Make Noise 0-Coast
Korg Minilogue
Ableton Live
Arturia Arp2600V
Modart Pianoteq

Inner Space

Digging up some of my favorite stripped tunes I recorded years ago in my closet on an old Tascam. Enjoy!

One Keyboard Changes

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