A weekend, no work (in the studio)...

So, I was out of the studio all weekend...


Photo of me by Lisa Salasin.



Doesn't say much for attempting to write and record an album in a month...

This afternoon I will be back in there, working on finishing Jesse's track and starting on Jacob Kaufman's track.

Jacob is an avid reader, a brilliant musician and theologian, and purveyor of wisdom.  It has been a blessing to call him a brother in Christ, mentor, and, above all, friend.

A few months ago he began to tell me about a book called Hip-Hop Redemption.  In his synopsis of the book, Jacob said, "[Author Ralph Basui] Watkins encourages the Christian community to consider the genre, learn what it is about, and then realize that God can use it for wonderful purposes."

As a Christian priest who DJ's, composes/performs electronica, and beatboxes, I find the last part of Jacob's statement to be prophetically comforting.

When I began to compose house music back in 1998 (the days of step MIDI programming), I knew it to be the land of club music, except for techno-pop covers of Christian music which seemed to be one-offs by record companies trying to find a foothold in the rave community.  Thus my journey as a Christian electronica artist was, like much of the electronica scene as a whole until recently, underground until about six years ago...

I had made EPs of electronica stuff for my dad.  He has been one of my most ardent fans through this all.  It wasn't until I went back to school the first time to begin my studies for ordination that I decided to make public my electronic leanings.  Mass Communications was born of that time.  Since that time I have put out several EPs and a couple albums, with more to come in 2012.  My hope, like that of Watkins' and Jacob's, is that the Christian community will see and hear God working through electronica music and "...realize that God can use it for wonderful purposes."

Thanks, Jake!