Lazy Sunday Mix

Kelly Taylor_Lazy Sunday Mix by Kelly Taylor on Mixcloud

The freshest of fresh fish.

Are you tired of your old, worn out tension? You crave something fresh and new that will leave your old tension in the wastebin of history where it belongs? Try new, never before seen Hypertension© made with real chunks of of tense so you know it's good.

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I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween weekend this year. Here is a little something I whipped up in my lab for the occassion.

Let's get Naughty, It's a Party!!!!!

Sometimes you just got to write a mindless party anthem, you know?

Click here to get the Party Started

Oxygen Tent

Turn your brain inside out. Now shake all those cobwebs out of it, turn it right side out again and if you aren't dancing by now, the least you could do is twitch for awhile.

Now isn't that better?

The Flash Drive Flash Dance

Has your system crashed after a failed backup? Dance it out, Buddy. Dance. It. Out.

Remember, we are all just Star-Dust spinning around on a rock hurtling through space at break-neck speeds. How amazing is it that we can make music and poetry and paint and dance? One day we will all "Close Without Saving" (just like your data) and the universe won't miss us one bit. What to do about that? I don't know, but dancing seems like a good place to start.

Back Up Failed

Where can I buy Kelly Taylor's album, Close Without Saving?

The real question is, where can't you buy it? It is everywhere online. I am still tracking down links, so if you really really need a link and just can't seem to find it, let me know. We will go have a beer together and commiserate about how the internet sucks.

• 7Digital 
• AmazonMP3 
• Anghami 
• AT&T Music 
• Audible Magic 
• Beatport
• Deezer 
• Digital Tunes 
• DJShop.DE 
• eMusic 
• Express In Music 
• Google Music 
• Grooveshark  
• iHeartRadio 
• iTunes  
• JoMedia 
• JunoDownload 
• K Digital 
• Medianet 
• MobiSYM 
• Muve Music 
• Muzu TV 
• MyMusicHouse 
• Nokia 
• OraStream 
• Psonar 
• Qobuz 
• Rdio 
• Rhapsody 
• Rumblefish 
• Satellite EDM 
• Shazam 
• Slacker 
• Sony Music Unlimited 
• Soundhound 
• Spotify 
• Starzik 
• TrackItDown 
• Tunes4DJs 
• Valleyarm Asia 
• Vervelife 
• Vidzone 
• WaWaWa (China) 
• WDA WIMP.no 
• XBox Music 
• Yandex.ru 
• Zik 
• ZVOOQ

Catalog #: VMFR1016

Release Name: Close Without Saving

Release Type: EP

UPC Code: 811868463070

Number Of Tracks: 9

Primary Artist: Kelly Taylor

Label: Vitalistik Records

Main Genre: Electronic

Genre: Electronica

Price Tier: F

Explicit Content: No

Copyright: 2014 Vitalistik Records

Publisher: 2014 Kelly Taylor

Jupiter by Kelly Taylor

Close Without Saving

Salem musician takes new direction, gains attention

The press kit for my new album "Inside The Box". 

Release date set for new album by Salem musician  

Kelly Taylor, a leader in the alternative Salem Oregon Metro music scene, has turned his highly skilled hand to electronic dance music (EDM) in a big way and it shows in his forthcoming album, “Inside The Box,” which will be released Feb. 27 on the boutique label Vitalistik Records, a electronic music label out of Knoxville, Tenn.

 

The album which is classified as Chill Out, a subgenre of EDM, consists of eight songs that bring an avant-garde approach to electronic music from a traditionally trained musician.

Each song is an exploration of electronic music and technology and brings to the music the same depth and dimension that fusion brings to jazz.

According to Taylor, each song has a back story.

“I was exploring chord progressions. The chord progressions in this song (“House Boat”) are based the chord progression I used in another song, “Mud Hut,” he said.

Parking Garage was written while I was sitting in parking garage in downtown Portland. There was all this energy around me and I wanted to express that.” The song contains sampled sounds of the city that he recorded while there.

“I wrote ‘I Play My Clarinet’ after listening to Penn Jillette interview comedian, Emo Philips, who speaks so musically I was inspired to write a song,” Taylor said.

Other songs are experiments in musical time signatures as well attempting to elicit specific moods and emotions in his listeners, the artist said.

“Riplets came about because I wanted to play musically with triplets, or a three quarter time signature; it transitions from four - four time,” he said.  I was inspired to write something energetic that made people feel happy, so I came up with “Move Your Butt.”

According to Taylor, “Anubus Rex” was his way of taking the listener back to the 80’s for that classic dance music feel.

“With “Melodica” I wanted something that was relaxed; that would leave someone feeling calm. “Melodious,” is a remix of “Melodica” (it comes right after it) and then ruins the relaxation that the listener would have gotten,” he said with a mischievous smile.

Taylor grew up surrounded by music and obsessed with sound. He comes from a family of musicians and music has always been a part of his life. He began his musical education as a young boy when his mother started teaching him piano. This skill would eventually be his entrance into the world of electronic music. A skilled pianist, organist, keyboardist and synth player, Taylor also plays the guitar and bass.

Described as a musical leader and visionary by his peers, Taylor weaves the various styles and his musical influences into the eclectic sound that is his own music. are as varied as his own music: The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Lyle Lovett, Elliott Smith, David Bowie, Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, Mars Volta, Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, Glitch Mob, Porter Robinson, the Ramones, the Clash, Acrobot, Alt J and Skrillex.  

Taylor began his music career as a bassist for the band, “Cynical Son,” a long-time staple of the Salem music scene, while still in high school. His lyrical poetry and song writing talents soon led to him co-writing lyrics and music for the band.

Not to be contained, Taylor made the leap to lead guitarist and lead singer/song writer. He fronted the alternative band, Come Back Maggie, which released two albums and drew large crowds to their shows and went on to form “We Are Street,” a three man, guitar heavy garage rock band, in which he was lead singer/songwriter and played guitar.

He has played in a variety of bands and his musical experiences run the gamut; Indy, punk, garage, Southern rock, and as a solo singer songwriter playing acoustic guitar in low key establishments.

A true Renaissance man in the classic fashion, not only does Taylor write poetry and prose as well and play several instruments, Taylor is an amazing artist who sketches in charcoal and paints in oil and is high skilled art photographer. A craftsman, he long maintained a day job as a furniture architect and designer as well as custom woodworker securing million dollar contracts for his company.

“Inside the Box” promises to be a rare gem in the music industry, innovative, interesting and a pleasure to listen to. The album can be purchased as a download on iTunes, BeatPort, Spotify and GrooveShark on Feb. 27 and selected songs are available to preview on SoundCloud, https://soundcloud.com/vitalistik.

Taylor is available for phone, Skype and in-person interviews. To schedule and interview, contact his management team at DMeantit Productions, (971)241-8256 or send email to dmeantit@gmail.com.

Gunshot

I saw a Youtube video where this kid, this young kid who is obviously in way over his head, he is holding a convenience store clerk hostage. He has a gun up against the back of this ladies neck, she just worked there, you know? And this young guy, really just a dumb kid who thought it would be a good idea to get some money by robbing a store with an old lady behind the counter, he is pushing her out the door of the shop, and she is resisting him, not letting this little dude push her outside. You've really got to hand it to anyone who has the guts to push back against someone who literally has a gun on your spine. 

You know that spot right on the back of your neck where you get chills when your lover kisses you? That's the spot, but in this case nobody was kissing anybody. 

So this guy won't take no for an answer, but this old lady has seen some things and she knows the SWAT team is outside and she knows that those guys have psoriasis or whatever it is that makes your fingers itchy, and they love to scratch that itch, you know what I'm saying? So this Dude, this Kid, this Young Man or whatever you want to call him, he keeps pushing the old cashier lady around with his gun to the sweet spot on the back of her neck and finally they get outside and whatdoyaknow BANG!!! The SWAT team shoots him the second he walks outside. Just like that. Should have listened to the old lady I guess. 

Anyway, I sampled the sound of the gunshot that iced that Young Buck and I fiddled some knobs and pressed some keys and wrote a song that uses mostly the waveforms from that bullet. I don't know if Young Buck even heard it, but I sure did.

"Gunshot" by Kelly Taylor