johnhdavis / inundation records

Live on Radio Tomorrow Night @ 8

Brice Randall Bickford and I will be having a joint appearance on WXYC 89.3 FM in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, (August 2nd) from 8 – 9 pm. We’ll both play 20 minute live solo sets and chat with the DJ for 20 more in advance of our double bill at Cat’s Cradle on Monday 8/3. […]

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August 1, 2015

Music, Shows and Events

Brice Randall Bickford, Cat’s Cradle, Music, Shows and Events, WXYC
The Core is Getting Soft.16: Quick Shelving

I’ve been spending more time than I really wanted to figuring out how to translate incidental sounds from loops and samples on my forthcoming record to a live setting this week. I haven’t played live in more years than I can shake a stick at, and the last time I did this with Folk Implosion […]

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July 30, 2015

Folk Implosion, Music, Pultec, Series of posts, UAD

Digital vs. Analog, software reviews, The Core is Getting Soft, Universal Audio
Organize 2020 and Durham’s Tipping Point

I’m posting today to ask folks to consider supporting an Indie Go Go campaign currently heading into its final week by Organize 2020, the social justice caucus of the North Carolina Association of Educators. As an active member of this group, I have been impressed by the commitment, vision and integrity of people involved in this […]

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July 28, 2015

Anti-Neoliberalism, Current Events, Economics, Education, Politics

Bryan Proffitt, Durham, Durham Association of Educators, Economics, Eddie Conway, education, Jillian Johnson, Organize2020, Politics, Race
DJ for a day

Well, this should be interesting. I’ve never done a radio show as a DJ before, but I’ll be giving it a spin – sorry – this Friday, July 10th, from 12-2 pm eastern time on WXDU Durham, which you can stream online at wxdu.org. It’s a great station – usually. I’m sure it’ll go back […]

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July 6, 2015

Music, Site News

Dennis Johnson, DJ, Upcoming Projects, WXDU
Cat’s Got my Tongue

I’ll be playing my first show in many moons on August 3rd at the Cat’s Cradle Backroom in Carrboro, NC. Brice Randall Bickford will be opening. This will be a full band show with 6+ guests. I’m especially looking forward to playing live with Peter Hughes, one of the first friends I made in this […]

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July 2, 2015

Music, Shows and Events

Brice Randall Bickford, Cat’s Cradle, Music, Peter Hughes, Shows and Events
The Core Is Getting Soft.15: Crash Pad Course

I’ve been spending the day loading my iPad up with samples and loops I used on my new record. I’m getting a group of folks together to play some of these songs live locally and perhaps 1 or 2 places elsewhere this summer, and 2 of us are gonna practice tomorrow. While live playing will […]

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June 28, 2015

Music, Production, Series of posts, The Core is Getting Soft

Audiobus, Audioshare, AUFX, CME X Key, Digital vs. Analog, Folk Implosion, iConnectivity, iPad, Kids Soundtrack, Kymatica, Mr. Potato Head, Oscillators!, Public Image Ltd., Rubik’s Cube, Silver Apples, The Core is Getting Soft, Tim O’Heir, Upcoming Projects
New Project Update

I’ve just posted an update to the Kickstarter page about where we’re at with mixing the new record. You can check it out here. In the meantime, here’s to rallies in the rain: April 15th, 2015 at Shaw University.

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April 25, 2015

Crowdfunding, Current Events, Music

El Pulpo, Fight for 15, Kickstarter, Shaw University
Dirty Harry Does Diversity.2: Indicting Invictus

(Like the original Magnum Force, this post is a sequel to the first Dirty Harry.) Of all of Clint Eastwood’s “Sympathy for the Other” movies, Invictus was the most popular in the Land of the Liberals. J. Edgar (gays), Million Dollar Baby (women), and Gran Torino (SE Asians) all did well but received more criticism than […]

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March 22, 2015

Anti-Neoliberalism, Current Events, Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History

A.O. Scott, Africa, american empire, ANC, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clint Eastwood, Economics, Films, IMF, Invictus, Irvin Jim, Left media, Matt Damon, Nelson Mandela, Neoliberalism, NUMSA, Pambazuka News, Patrick Bond, Paul Jay, Politics, profit margins, Race, Selma, The New York Times, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus
The Core is Getting Soft.14: Bang a Slate

One of the digital tools I threw in the mix of my new record is SSD4, the drum sampler made by Slate Digital. It was the first time I used something other than an electronic drum machine to program drums. The closest I’d come to fake “real” drums was the time we sampled a drum […]

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February 27, 2015

Music, The Core is Getting Soft, Work In Progress

Digital vs. Analog, Folk Implosion, Imperialism, Music, Plug Ins, R.I.P. D.I.Y., Shrimper Records, software reviews, SSD4, Steven Slate, The Core is Getting Soft, Thurston Moore, Tom Petty, UAD
Dirty Harry Does Diversity.1: Magnum Tucked In Tweed

One of the weirder phenomena of early 21st century cinema has been the emergence of Clint Eastwood as would-be spokesman for various groups marginalized by the white male power structure his famed ’70’s character Dirty Harry once defended with a famously long phallic symbol. Million Dollar Baby (2004) concerned itself with issues of gender and […]

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February 18, 2015

Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History, Series of posts, Uncategorized

ANC, Angela Y. Davis, Berkeley CA, Black Panther Party, Brezhnev, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Ed Sanders, Films, Gran Torino, Invictus, J. Edgar, J. Hoberman, Jack Kerouac, John Wayne, Magnum Force, Million Dollar Baby, Nelson Mandela, Other John Davises, Pauline Kael, People’s Park Protest, Politics, Race, Reds, Roger Ebert, Ronald Reagan, The Enforcer, The Ex, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tim Buckley, Too Many Cowboys, Warren Beatty, William F. Buckley