Welcome to the home of rustyjam, an independent musician who likes to experiment
with guitars, bass, keybords, real drum samples and computer programming.
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2013
14th April, 2013
Started my new blog on rustyjam.wordpress.com.
January, 2013
Re-published "Last Train to Awakening" and "The Flight" on Indabamusic for The Russian Spy Production Library. The other song is "The Art of Lovemaking", which is an adaptation of "Psyche (You Went to Sleep Alone)" that I used for the Family of the Year contest.
2012
21st December, 2012
Published a new song and video, entirely composed by me, by the title "War (Out of Nowhere)" on YouTube. For the video I used old footage from the Vietnam war in the '60s. It is a copyright free video that I found on archive.org.
17th November, 2012
Published my version of "Salala" ft. Angelique Kidjo and Peter Gabriel on YouTube, which won an Hot Pick mention in the Real World Remixed website in 2007.
9th November, 2012
Published on YouTube my version of "Matter of Time" ft. Shannon Hurley, a beautiful song by Shannon, that I first published on ccmixter in 2009. This is one of the songs that I prefer and of which I am most proud.
7th November, 2012
Published on YouTube my version of "Matter of Time" ft. Shannon Hurley, a beautiful song by Shannon, that I first published on ccmixter in 2009. This is one of the songs that I prefer and of which I am most proud.
25th October, 2012
Published on YouTube the video of "The Flight, The Felix Baumgartner Red Bull Edit".
24th October, 2012
Published a new and shorter version of "The Flight, The Felix Baumgartner Red Bull Edit", on Indabamusic for the October 17, 2012, Weekly Brief.
15th October, 2012
Published "Top of the World (Jammed)" on Indabamusic for the Slightly Stoopid "Top of the World" Remix Contest.
3rd July, 2012
Published on YouTube the video of "Voices Inside My Head/Bring On The Night".
15th May , 2012
Published "The Art of Lovemaking" on YouTube, with a video I edited from a longer copyright-free video I found on archive.org, which represents bogus bohemians of late 1960s New York model Mod cotton fashions. It was originally taken from the Prelinger Archives.
7th April, 2012
Published again "Static Attraction" on Indabamusic for the April 4, 2012, Weekly Brief. This is a remixed and remastered version of the same song which was the result of the collaboration with A Minor Theory.
30th March, 2012
Published "Move Over (Funky Pop)" on Indabamusic for the Janis Joplin, The Pearl Sessions Remix.
22nd February, 2012
Published "A Night at the Savoy" on Indabamusic for the February 15, 2012, Weekly Brief.
2011
1st December, 2011
Published "Voices Inside My Head/Bring On The Night" in the Cover Song Contest on Indabamusic. This was my personal interpretation of these two Police classics, that I had already published in Myspace in around 2008.
11th November, 2011
Published "Deeper and Progressive" on Indabamusic, ft. Umphrey's McGee. This track won an Honourable Mention in the Death By Stereo Remix Contest.
16th November, 2011
Published "Booth Love (Funky Dance)" on Indabamusic, ft. Umphrey's McGee.
September, 2011
Started a collaboration with Sgomber and Sassy Gal for the song "Broken".
7th August, 2011
Published "Last Train to Awakening" on Indabamusic, a semi-instrumental
song with a few lyrics, which was previously used for the "Satellite Mind"
remix and that I re-adapted as a stand alone song. I don't think I'll do the
experiment again. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam - © 2011
4th August, 2011
My song "The Flight" won the "WEST LA CNCT
Digital Mixtape #4" competition on Indabamusic. Click
here for the contest page.
13th July, 2011
Published "The Flight" on Indabamusic, an instrumental song I had
composed two years ago. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam - © 2011
11th July, 2011
Published "Notes from the Sky" on Indabamusic, an instrumental song
that I published on Myspace in 2007. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam
- © 2011
26th May, 2011
Started a parallel project by the name "Nova Curiosa" with UK singer
and songwriter Kate Gatsby on Indabamusic.
15th May, 2011
From now onwards I will concentrate mainly on my original songs and no more
remixes for a while.
12th May, 2011
Published "Love is Eternally Love" ft. Paul Simon on Indabamusic.
28th April, 2011
Published "Get Derezzed Unconventionally" ft Daft Punk on Indabamusic.
25th March, 2011
Published "Sunset in Serengeti" for Bar Karma. This was intended for
Episode #110 - "The Day the Music Died", broadcasted on April 15th, 2011, but
never appeared in the series. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam -
© 2011
25th March, 2011
Published "Ghetto Boys" for Bar Karma. This was intended for Episode
#110 - "The Day the Music Died", broadcasted on April 15th, 2011, but never
appeared in the series. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam - © 2011
2nd March, 2011
Published "The Evil Side of Janus" for Bar Karma. This was intended
for Episode #106 - "Term Limits", broadcasted on March 18th, 2011 but never
appeared in the series. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam - © 2011
24th February, 2011
Interview for Indabamusic after Current TV choose "An American Football
Player" for Episode #105 of Bar Karma. Read
the full interview here.
16th February, 2011
Published "An American Football Player", an original song by rustyjam,
featured in the Bar Karma TV series on Current TV: Episode #105 "Fair Catch",
broadcasted on March 11th, 2011. Written, performed and recorded by rustyjam
- © 2011
13th February, 2011
Scomber, a fantastic songwriter and remixer from ccmixter, added a new vocal
line and lyrics to my arrangement for "It's Just a Matter of Time",
originally recorded for Shannon Hurley vocals.
2nd February, 2011
Published "Psyche (You Went to Sleep Alone)" ft. Family of the Year
on Indabamusic. This was a Contest Judges Pick.
14th January, 2011
Published "A Very Simple Shine" ft. John Legend on Indabamusic.
2010
27th December, 2010
Published "Ali in the Jungle Meets Moz" ft. The Hours on Indabamusic.
2nd December, 2010
Published "Satellite Mind" ft. Metric on Indabamusic.
22nd July, 2010
Re-published "Dream in Blue 2.0" ft. A Minor Theory on ccmixter.
This is the remixed and remastered version of the same track published in
a minor theory's website in 2008.
15th April, 2010
Published "Stop the Funky War" ft. Brad Stanfield on ccmixter.
2009
13th July, 2009
Published "It's Just a Matter of Time" ft. Shannon Hurley on ccmixter.
26th June, 2009
Published "Static Attraction (It's Shocking)" ft. A Minor Theory
on ccmixter.
2008
17th January, 2008
Published "Dream in Blue" ft. A Minor Theory in the A Minor Theory
website.
2007
25th April, 2007
Published "Salala - African Version in 6/8 (The Union)" ft. Peter
Gabriel and Angelique Kidjo in the Real World Remix website.
16th April, 2007
Published "Psychedelic Joi (And a Seagull Came)" ft. Joi in the Real World Remix website.
6th April, 2007
Published "From the Lions' Den (A-Live Again)" ft. Little Axe. This
track was chosen as a Hotpick in the Real World Remix website.
29th March, 2007
Published "Salala - Live Version in 5/4 (Guitars a go go)" in RWR,
ft. Peter Gabriel and Angelique Kidjo. This track was chosen as a Hotpick
in the Real World Remix website.
9th March, 2007
Published "The Drum is King, and Joy Rejoyces" in the Real World Remix website.
February
2007
Started the rustyjam project