David Starfire Abelton Live music production and songwriting course

Monday Nov 28
Temple of Peace
75 Haiku Rd
6-9pm $35
www.templeofpeacemaui.com
RSVP to: bioniclove@gmail.com

This course is for anyone interested in learning the basics and some advanced skills of music production and songwriting with Abelton live. The emphasis will be on electronic music production and some general skills will be helpful for live musicians. This course will be mainly focused on the “session view” part of abelton live and there will be a hands on section, so please bring your computer and headphones. You will receive a CD with signature sounds, abelton templates and FX from David to help you create your own songs.

NOTE: This is not a course on DJing with abelton live.

About David:

David Starfire is a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is signed with the internationally known label Six Degrees Records, home to artists such as The Orb, Bebel Gilberto, Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale, Midival Punditz, Michael Franti, Natacha Atlas and many others. He’s released two records, “Bollyhood Bass” in 2010 and “Bombay Beatz” in 2007. His tunes have been played on BBC, NPR, National Geographic, XM radio and various stations around the world.

His signature sound landed him several DJ gigs at large scale international festivals all over the world such as Winter Music Conference, Coachella, Love Parade, Shambhala, Harmony, Lightning in a Bottle and Earthdance. He’s shared the stage with all the top DJ’s such as Tiesto, Bassnectar and Skrillex. He’s had DJ tours in the US, India, Canada and Europe with rave reviews.

David’s songs are featured on CD compilations, DVD’s, video games & TV. He’s collaborated with Afrika Bambaataa, FreQ Nasty, Ooah (Glitch Mob), Information Society, American Music Club, Wire Train and members of Beck.

I was very excited to receive a message from a production company about an extraordinary DJ gig in the Mojave Desert for the Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two (SS2) unveiling at the Mojave Air and Spaceport. For those of you that don’t know about Virgin Galactic, it’s a division of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group (like Virgin Airlines) and is dedicated to be the world’s first commercial space travel service. Yes you can travel to space for a mere $200,000, in a couple of years after test runs and the actual ship was there at the event for everyone to see for the first time.

The gig seemed almost too good to be true and had to keep some secrecy about it because of security reasons with V.I.P.s including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Richardson and various elite from around the world including and 300 people that have paid $20,000 down payment on their future space flight. The DJ gig was from 8pm-12am and had to be prepared to play for any type of crowd and ultimately had to create a cool vibe. I took lots of time to prepare a special set of taking the guests on a musical ride of a lifetime, as if I was creating a DJ set for a space flight to the moon. I knew that that I was in good company when I heard that the #4 DJ’s in the world Above & Beyond were spinning before me, which meant I had step it up. The set up of the party was something like 2001 space oddity meets burning man meets the W hotel bar. In the party area were 2 giant plastic inflatable dome structures, an outside section that had an ice bar hosted by Absolut and the Swedish Ice Hotel bar with a woman making ice sculptures. There was a clear plastic tent for press where Richard Branson talked about his SpaceShip Two (also named VSS Enterprise) and his company as well as the people that helped him to create it. After the press conference the ship rolled out on the tarmac and came through the fog and snow like a ufo approaching. The celebrity crowd surrounds the ship to get a glimpse of their future ride to space. Soon afterward the party kicked off with Above & Beyond rocking the decks with some nice house music. The VIP crowd seemed to be in their late 30′s-40′s and all had cocktails in hand and were feeling very special indeed. The rain and snow had stopped, but the wind was picking up and they decided to close one of the domes down and move everyone into one dome. The domes were rated at 40 miles per hour, but was picking up fast and was about 30 degrees and getting colder. The party crowd seemed content and cozy with their Puma Virgin Galactic jackets that were handed out to them. It kinda looked like everyone were in uniforms and you couldn’t tell the production crew from the jet set. Above & Beyond had finished their set and I started to spin and started off with the song “Sitarfire” from my upcoming album Bollyhood Bass (Six Degrees records) that will be out January 12th. I was on for a bit when all of a sudden I hear, “Attention, there’s a tremendous storm approaching and everyone must evacuate immediately!” and there went the rest of my DJ set. I started grabbing my gear and was placing it out of the dome when a large man came up to me and said, “You gotta get outta here, this domes gonna go any second!”. I ran out to the car and had experienced wind that I hadn’t experienced since I was in a tornado in Oklahoma, or when I was in a hurricane in Puerto Rico (really!). I was hoping the winds died down but just kept picking up to 70 mph and the party was definitely over. Went to my hotel room and the power was out, so drove back to Los Angeles and was an experience that I will never forget.

great news article and pics here

www.virgingalactic.com
www.davidstarfire.com
www.sixdegreesrecords.com

Hey folks! I have a new video, well kinda… It’s from Coachella at the Do Lab’s misting oasis 2008 and features the song Load off of my new album Vindaloo Voodoo coming out in Nov on Six Degrees Records. The video was produced and edited by Marc Anderson and he did a killer job. I also just posted lots of new dates including my schedule for Burning Man in the events section!

There’s a nice review in Relix Magazine of “Bollyhood Bass” and is the premier jam band magazine so check out the July issue!

The Bollyhood Bass tour is off and running and coming to a city near you! Most dates are live DJ sets and there are some special shows that will have a full band or special performers and check out in the events section for all upcoming shows including NYC, SF, Burning Man, Earthdance and more!

I have a song I produced with iCatching called “Classic” that is on the Domes for Haiti compilation and is a free download with donation! Is features awesome artists like FreQ Nasty, Beats Antique, Ill Gates, Kraddy, Mochipet, Little John and more! Check it out here

Here are some pics from the Coachella gig in the Heineken dome with iCatching and was an amazing fest! Check out all the dates in the event section for the Bollyhood Bass tour!

I have a new song out on a High Chai Recordings compilation called Tumbi Blaster and features iCatching on vocals! To check it out below and buy it HERE

Hey peeps!
I had a great opportunity to DJ at the Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two unveiling on Monday Dec 7th and was an amazing event, but my set was unfortunately cut short because of severe weather with 70 mph winds, rain and snow. Check out the whole story in my blog

Here’s a free download of Sub Swara’s Koli Stance remix that I did! I’ve been playing it out the past couple of months and have had many people ask about it and here is the 320k hi res file for free! Note that you will need to enter your email address so that it can be sent to you.

Listen to it here!

Download it here!

The new Sub Swara Coup d Yah Remixes Volume 3 includes remixes by David Starfire, Mochipet, Sub Swara’s own Sharmaji and Process Rebel. Check it out and buy it here!
http://subswara.com/coup-dyah-remixes-vol-3

I also have new track called Tumbi Blaster (feat iCatching) out in Dec on High Chai Recordings (NY) titled Nu Asian SoundZ and check back for more info!

I performed a special StarCulture show with a cast of amazing performers at LoveEvolution festival, Oct 3rd in San Francisco on main stage from 4-5 pm. The performers include VJ Culture, iCatching, SuzeQ, Raj, Aradia and Sunev.
www.star-culture.com

Check out this new video of me with Dvine1 at the Hookadome at Burning man this year and features a unreleased song written by us with Henry Strange.

Yo! So my remix of Mochipet’s song Godzilla New Year (featuring iCatching) is #1 this week on the BBC show Friction! He has been playing it the last couple of weeks and love his support! Click on pic to check it out!