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Drummer Aaron Spears Dies at 47

- Musician worked with Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne and others

Drummer Aaron Spears has died at 47, his family said.

“It is with a heavy heart and overwhelming sadness that I share the news of the passing of my beloved husband, Aaron Spears,” Jessica Spears wrote Oct. 30 on social media; the date and cause of the drummer’s death were not provided.

“Aaron was not only an incredibly accomplished drummer, admired by many for his unparalleled talent and passion for music, but he was also a devoted father to our precious son, August,” she said. “His love, guidance and warmth were the pillars of our family, and his absence leaves a void that words cannot describe.”

Questlove reckons concertgoers have probably “seen Aaron drum … five-10 times in your life … and sometimes without knowing - that’s how much in-demand his services were.”

Spears played on albums and tours backing the likes of Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Usher and Ariana Grande, who called the drummer “the absolute brightest light of a human being,” in a post on social media.

“I will miss your hugs,” she said. “You are so, so loved and will be so very missed.”

Stanton Moore eulogized Spears as an “amazing musician and drummer” and a “warm, funny, kind and supportive human being,” while Adam Deitch mourned the massive “loss for the drumming community.”

Spears was “a luminous soul in the drumming community,” Ludwig Drums said in a statement, adding: “Aaron was so much more than a musician; he was an inspiration, a mentor and a truly remarkable human being.”

10/31/23

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Trina Robbins

American cartoonist and author whose pioneering work in comics included being the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman

The American illustrator and writer Trina Robbins, who has died aged 85, began her career in comics in her native New York in the 1960s as a contributor to the counterculture newspaper East Village Other. She also drew and wrote strips for Gothic Blimp Works, an underground comic.

Then came comic strips, covers and spot illustrations for the underground publications Berkeley Tribe and It Ain’t Me, Babe, often described as the first feminist newspaper, before before she put together an all-women comic, It Ain’t Me, Babe Comix (1970), followed by the anthology All Girl Thrills (1971) and the solo comic Girl Fight Comics (1972).

Her black heroine, Fox, was serialised in Good Times (1971) and another of her characters, Panthea, who first appeared in Gothic Blimp Works (1969), was a regular in Comix Book (1974-76).

She also became one of the 10 founders of Wimmen’s Comix, an all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992, and in the late 70s was a contributor to High Times, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon and Playboy.

Later she adapted the 1919 novel Dope, by Sax Rohmer, for Eclipse Comics (1981-83) and wrote and drew Meet Misty (1985-86) for Marvel. She was also the first woman to draw Wonder Woman, in The Legend of Wonder Woman (1986).

Robbins’ wider interest in the history of girls’ comics led her to co-write a book about the genre, Women and the Comics (1986), with Catherine Yronwode, and later A Century of Women Cartoonists (1993), followed by a number of biographies of female comic pioneers, including Nell Brinkley, Lily Renée, Gladys Parker and Tarpé Mills.

Born in Brooklyn, she grew up in Queens, where her mother, Bessie (nee Roseman) was a teacher. Her father, Max Perlson, was a tailor who later wrote for Yiddish-language newspapers and published a collection of stories, A Minyen Yidn (1938), that was turned by Trina into a comic anthology in 2017.

At the age of 10 she graduated from reading wholesome animal comics to Millie the Model, Patsy Walker and others with female protagonists. The Katy Keene comic was especially influential, as it encouraged Robbins to make paper dolls and design clothing for them. She was also a huge fan of the jungle adventuress Sheena.

Having discovered science fiction at 14, Robbins began attending conventions, and at one such gathering she met the short story writer Harlan Ellison. At 21 he was five years her senior, but they dated briefly and he later wrote her into his film The Oscar (1966) as Trina Yale, played by Edie Adams.

Trina attended Queens College before studying drawing at Cooper Union, although she dropped out after a year. In 1957 she married the cartoonist Art Castillo; they moved to the Bay area of Los Angeles until he disappeared to Mexico and the relationship ended.

Working for a time as a model for men’s magazines, she was a cinema usherette when she met Paul Robbins, whom she married in 1962 following Castillo’s death. Her new husband wrote for the LA Free Press, which gave her access to the Byrds, Bob Dylan and other musicians, and she began making clothing to sell to musician friends, including Mama Cass.

Returning alone to New York in 1966 (she and Robbins eventually divorced, in 1972), she opened a boutique called Broccoli on East 4th Street, making clothes for exotic customers and having flings with a number of them, including the Doors’ singer Jim Morrison and the activist Abbie Hoffman; she also had longer relationships with Paul Williams, editor of Crawdaddy magazine, and the cartoonist Kim Deitch, with whom she set up a cartoon art museum on East 9th Street.

Her clothes-making got her into a song by Joni Mitchell, who wrote in Ladies of the Canyon that “Trina wears her wampum beads / She fills her drawing book with line / Sewing lace on widows’ weeds / And filigree on leaf and vine”.

After she had sold her boutique in 1969 and began to make her living in comics, there was no looking back.

Apart from her writing and illustrating activities over the years, in 1994 she became one of the founders of Friends of Lulu, a US-based charity that promotes the reading of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry.

Her later work on the history of women in comics produced three further books, From Girls to Grrrlz (1996), The Great Women Cartoonists (2001) and Pretty in Ink (2013).

She also wrote a number of books for children, starting with Catswalk: The Growing of Girl (1990), and including the Chicagoland Detective Agency series (2010-14) of bizarre high school mystery adventures.

For adults she wrote The Great Women Superheroes (1996), Eternally Bad: Goddesses With Attitude (2001), Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill (2003) and Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens and Warrior Queens (2004).

Her most recent comic was Won’t Back Down (2024), a pro-choice anthology.

She is survived by her partner, Steve Leialoha, a daughter, Casey, from her relationship with Dietch, and her sister Harriet.

🔔 Trina Robbins, writer and illustrator, born 17 August 1938; died 10 April 2024

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Adam Deitch Quartet Roll the Tape

Adam Deitch Quartet Roll the Tape Golden Wolf Drummer and composer Adam Deitch is best known as the leader of the jazz/funk/jam band Lettuce, but he leads his soul-jazz quartet for the second time here on Roll the Tape. This is organ-oriented music featuring organist Wil Blades and two of Deitch’s Lettuce bandmates, Eric ‘Benny’ Bloom on trumpet and Ryan Zoidis on saxophone. Guitarist John…

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10 Randomised Breakbeats for Sequencers

10 sequencer scores for breakbeats with percentage chances.

Original source is the Breakbeat Bible by Mike Adamo.

The text sequences where developed for the Elektron sequencers Conditional steps changed to percentages for a broader range of sequencers. 

Adamo has examples over 8 bars which have been compressed into one bar with percentage chances of hits. 

The initial idea was for use with the Elektron Rytm and then the Polyend Play to explore their chance based features.

These two sequences have features for conditional steps which have been changes to percentage values for more generalised sequencers.

These scores will sound different to the initial score because of the randomisation and due to different drum kits being used 

while providing an overall feel for the patten. 

One aim of the system is not to duplicate the beat but to provide a basis for variations depending on the needs of the producer and the features of the drum machine.

Studying the breakbeats can be helpful in creating your own.

Breakbeats are used because there is more variety than the standard 4x4 of EDM but if the Kick a shifted a bit and percentages changed these patten can be used. 

Having an initial patten and then using the features of your drum machine is also a useful way to learn the features and gain mastery.

C = closed hihat , O = open hihat, S = snare, K = kick, Cy = cymbals, R - rimshot

1. Runnin - The Pharcyde - J Dilla

94bpm C,3,5,7,9,11,13,15 @ 100% S 5,13 @ 100 K 1@87, 2@12, 3@38, 6@25 8@50 9@37 10@75 12@87, 16@37 A straight forward percentage patten. With an all percentage track there is the slight chance that there can be no hits or all hits. Note: Percentage as calculated which may need to be rounded if the drum machine has fixed values.

2. Funky Drummer - James Brown - Clyde Stubblefield

101bpm C 1,2,3,4, 5 @100, 6@50, 8@75, 9,10,11,12,13@100,14@12,15,16@100 O 8@25, 14@88 S 5@100, 8@100, K 1@100, 3@30, 6@12, 9@33 11@100, 14@100, 16@1 This is a very simplified version of the patten as there is a lot more hat work in the original.

3. Amen Brother - The Winstons - Gregory C. Coleman

129bpm C 1.3.5.7.9, 11 @75, 13@75, 15@100 O 11@25 Cy 13@25 S 2@25, 5,8,10@100, 13@50, 15@50,16@50 K 1@75, 3@100, 4@25, 11@100, 12@50

4. Apache - Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band - Jim Gordon

bpm116 C 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15 @ 100 S 5,10,13,16 @ 100 K 3@75, 111@100

A repetitive four bar patten with scope for added probabilities.

5. Soul Pride - James Brown - Clyde Subblefield

bpm 121 C 1@100, 3@66, 5@100, 7@100, 9@100, 11@50, 13@100, 15@50 S 2@50, 4@33, 5@78, 6@16, 8@78, 10@100, 11@66, 12@50, 14@50, 15@6100, 16@50 K 1@50, 3@78, 7@33, 9@50, 11@50, 13@50, 15@50

6. Tighten Up - Archie Bell and the Drells - Billy Butler

bpm133 C 1,3,5,7 @ 100, 9@75 R 8@100, 12@25, 13@25, 16@100 O 1,5,9,13@100 S 2,5@100, 6@75, 10@100, 13@75, 14@100 K 1,3,7 @100, 11@75, 15@25

7. You Know I’m No Good - Amy Winehouse - Homer Steinweiss

bpm: 104 O 8,11@25 C 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15@100 S 5@100, 7@75, 8@100, 10@50, 13@100, 15@16 K 1@100, 7@25, 11@100, 15@100

8. Speak E.Z. - Lettuce - Adam Deitch

bpm: 83 CY 1@1st C 1@12, 3@100, 5@25, 7@75, 8@12, 9@12, 10@12, 11@75, 13@12, 15@100, 16@12 O 5@25, 13@12 S 2@20, 3@12, 5@75, 6@50, 8@100, 9@12, 10@12, 11@12, 13@75, 15@12, 16@75 K 1@100, 2@12, 4@75, 7@12, 9@1:2, 10@100, 12@75, 14@12, 16@12

9. Organ Donor - DJ Shadow

bpm: 110 CH 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15@100 SD 1@12 2@25, 4@12, 5@75, 6@12 8@25, 9@12, 10@100, 11@8:8, 12@12, 13@75, 14@8:8, 16@100 BD 1@100, 3@75, 5@12, 6@12, 7@50, 8@50, 9@59, 11@100, 12@8:8, 15@25

10. God make me Funky - James Brown - Clyde Stubblefield

94bpm C 1,3,5,7,9,@100, 11@75, 13@100, 14@75, 15@75 O 11@25 S  5,13@100 K 1,8@100, 16@88

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In Pictures: See Inside a Gargantuan Graffiti and Street Art Exhibition in Hong Kong, Stacked With Works by Basquiat, Kaws, Futura, Lady Pink, and More

When “City as Studio” opens today in Hong Kong, it will mark the arrival of the biggest exhibition of graffiti art the city has ever seen. Arrayed across the shopping complex of K11 Musea are more than 100 works that track graffiti’s stunning trajectory, springing off the subways cars of New York and highways of Los Angeles to emerge as a global art and market force. 

The show has as its curator Jeffrey Deitch, the artist, writer, and gallerist who isn’t just the latest guy to bring graffiti art to Hong Kong, but is quite likely the first.

Deitch, who grew tight with the genre’s leading artists in the mid 1970s when he moved to New York, had accompanied Dondi, Futura, and Zephyr to Hong Kong in 1982. The artists painted a parking garage, which eventually became the I Club, marking the Wild Style pioneers’s first-ever visit to Asia.

Fab 5 Freddy, Return Of God To Africa (1984). Photo courtesy of the artist.

In curating “City as Studio,” Deitch told Artnet News, “I wanted to focus on artistic innovators and include artists whose influence continues to be felt.”

Hence the inclusion of downtown New York practitioners such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rammellzee, and Kenny Scharf, Wild Style innovators including Futura and Lady Pink, and Los Angeles leading lights such as Chaz Bojórquez and Mister Cartoon. Today’s street art scene is also represented by works from Kaws, Aiko, JR, and Osgemeos. 

Deitch himself is excited to present a number of paintings by Martin Wong, the Chinese-American artist who documented New York street life with poetic realism, and an avid collector of graffiti sketchbooks.

Martin Wong, Untitled (Bicycle Boy) (1997-98). Photo: © Estate of Martin Wong, courtesy of William Lim c/o Living Limited, the Estate of Martin Wong and P•P•O•W, New York.

While the exhibition launches in time to coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong, it also marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, of which graffiti forms a key element. Alongside the artworks, “City as Studio” has gathered historic photographs by the likes of Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper to situate the art form within the then-burgeoning movement. Its curator, too, has had the opportunity to reflect on graffiti’s, and in turn hip hop’s, continued influence.

“I start my catalog essay with the observation that the Wild Style graffiti that was invented by teenagers in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Lower Manhattan might be the most influential art movement since Pop art,” Deitch said. “You see street art around the world influenced by these innovations. The three linked creative forms: hip hop, Wild Style graffiti, and breakdancing defined a remarkable cultural moment and they continue to resonate.”

See more artworks from the exhibition below.

“” is on view at K11 Musea, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, through May 14, 2023.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Valentine (1984). Photo: © Lisa Kato, courtesy of Paige Powell.

Kenny Scharf, BLOBZIC (2018). Photo courtesy of the artist.

Chaz Bojórquez, Mr. Lucky (2019). Photo courtesy of the artist.

Haroshi, Mosh Pit (2019). Photo: © Genevieve Hanson, courtesy of the artist, Jeffrey Deitch, and NANZUKA.

Lady Pink, TC5 in the Ghost Yard (2020). Photo courtesy of the artist.

KAWS, UNTITLED (NICOLE MILLER) (1996). Photo: Farzad Owrang, © KAWS, courtesy of the artist.

Rammellzee, SIGMA-BATTL’S A GO (ca. 1985). Photo courtesy of the Estate of Rammellzee.

Gusmano Cesaretti, Chaz Running (1973). Photo: © Gusmano Cesaretti, courtesy of Gusmano Cesaretti.

Henry Chalfant, Mad PJ (1980). Photo courtesy of the artist and Eric Firestone Gallery.

Keith Haring / LA II, Untitled (1983). Photo: © Adam Reich. LA II Artwork © LA II / Keith Haring Artwork © Keith Haring Foundation, courtesy of K11 Collection.

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Break Science Ascends to New Heights With Meditative EP ‘Mecha Flora’

Reemerging like the sun on the horizon, Lettuce’s Adam Deitch and Borahm Lee from the Pretty Lights band have reunited as Break Science with a brand new mind-melting EP in Mecha Flora. Released on February 2, Mecha Flora marks the duo’s first full-length project since dropping Grid of Souls in 2018 as they expand on their otherworldly jamtronic sound. Spanning across six introspective tracks,…

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New Audio: Eddie Roberts, Adam Deitch and Robert Walter Team up with Nick Gerlach on a Funky and Strutting Bop

New Audio: Eddie Roberts, Adam Deitch and Robert Walter Team up with Nick Gerlach on a Funky and Strutting Bop @Roughneck_Music @RealDeitchBeats @B3RobertWalter @colorredmusic

https://soundcloud.com/wrdtrio/chum-city-feat-adam-deitch WRD Trio is a dynamic and gritty organ trio that features three highly accomplished bandleaders and musicians: Leeds-born, Denver-based New Mastersounds founder, solo artist, collaborator, producer and Color Red Music co-founder Eddie Roberts (guitar). As either a member of New Mastersounds, a sideman, solo artist and/or producer,…

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“Forever Phunky:” Dumpstaphunk Bassist Nick Daniels III Dies at 68

Dumpstaphunk bassist Nick Daniels III died April 26 at 68 from complications of multiple myeloma, NOLA.com reports.

The band plans to continue because playing live “is going to help us get through this,” Ivan Neville told the outlet.

“(Daniels) was an incredible musician and singer, but more importantly, a kind, inspiring and supportive person,” the “extremely heartbroken” members of Galactic said in a statement.

“Thank you, Nick, for the gifts you gave us.”

In addition to co-anchoring Dumpstaphunk with fellow bassist Tony Hall, Daniels collaborated with the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Etta James, Boz Scaggs and others.

“Forever phunky,” Tipitina’s posted on social media. “We love you, Nick Daniels III.”

Lettuce’s Adam Deitch recalled the musical tutelage and good humor Daniels bestowed upon him, while Anders Osborne eulogized the bassist as an “extraordinary musician and (the) kindest human.”

“In the crazy world of New Orleans funk, Nick Daniels stood tall as a voice of reason and wisdom,” Papa John Gros said in a statement.

“And just like his bass playing, he knew when to drop the hammer and slap sense into the truth. I loved being with him onstage and off as his groove was oh, so strong. Nick Daniels was one of the greats.”

4/27/24

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W.R.D. - Judy

“Judy” by WRD (ft. Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, and Adam Deitch) pays homage to classic organ trios combined with 60s British Invasion influences. Composed by organist and keyboard Robert Walter, the Meters-inspired track carries inventive harmonic movement that keeps you on your toes mixed with Eddie’s production vision that harks to early rock band Small Faces. The title is dually inspired by both a nickname for Walters’ girlfriend, Julia, and his love for The Jetsons. Recorded during a 2-day session in winter 2019, “Judy” is the lead single by the esteemed trio that will be part of a full-length album to be released later this year.creditsreleased March 25, 2020 Produced by Eddie Roberts Robert Walter - Electric Organ Eddie Roberts - Guitar (Electric) Adam Deitch - Drums

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"Force of Nature (ft Paperwhite)" by Break Science

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Headnodic and Adam Deitch make pure magic together on 'First Takes' - seriously don't miss out on this wizardry! http://fingersonblast.com/blog/2017/1/30/headnodic-adam-deitch-first-takes.html