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Ableton Live 8 Tour & 2 Year Anniversary Parties Recap

DubSpot, New York City’s home for dynamic electronic music production and DJ education, celebrated its 2 Year anniversary with a long weekend June 25th-28th.  In addition to hosting three individual birthday parties, DubSpot also brought its Live 8 U.S. Sessions Tour in for its home stop, with Ableton Live 8 production and performance workshops.  An abundance of high profile artists were involved throughout the events, and the weekend has received enthusiastic praise from all participants not only for its ingenuity, but also its originality and high standard of quality.  Full workshop videos with techno auteurs Richie Hawtin & Ambivalent, Dub pioneer Scientist, Peter Kirn of CreateDigitalMusic.com and much more to be made available online soon.  Check out the DubSpot blog here for updates.

The first of DubSpot’s 2 Year Anniversary parties was the Funk Aid for Africa NYC release party.  The album, and the fundraising effort in general, had been riding high already from a 4 star review from Time Out New York, and DJ sets from OBaH, Reborn and Ticklah carried the party late into the night. The second of DubSpot’s 2 Year Anniversary Parties was held at Love, and saw Minus‘ Richie Hawtin take to the decks for a special 4-hour set.  Hawtin set the place ablaze in an all too rare club appearance in New York.  Working with our partner, NYC techno promoters  Blk|Market Membership, DubSpot packed the house with instructors, students and friends, and danced until dawn to the banging beats of world-class techno. Sunday night’s Hi-Fidelity DubSpot Sessions kept the momentum going late, as Scientist mixed Dub Is A Weapon live, plus sets from Badawi, DJ Kiva, Matt Shadetek, and DJ Rupture.  The show was widely enjoyed and appreciated as a world-class night of music and community.

DubSpot Upcoming Class Start Dates : Summer 2009
Registration is open for DubSpot’s summer sessions. Get started on bringing your musical ambitions to life.

July 9: Mixing & Mastering with Daniel Wyatt:  Class meets once a week at 7:30pm at a variety of locations throughout the city.
July 15: Sound Design & Synthesis with Heinrich Zwahlen: A ‘Swiss/German synthesist’ and Certified Ableton Instructor, teaches his specialty – Wednesday at 9:15pm.
*July 10: Summer Intensive Music Production Course – Reason, Ableton and Logic:
Class will meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:15am and be taught by DJ Kiva
*July 10: DJ/Producer Package – Summer Intensive Course: Will meet 5 days per week.
July 11: DJ Beginner & Extensive packages Saturdays @ 2pm with DJ Reborn
July 12: Sunday Ableton Live Level 1 with DJ Kiva – Sundays at 1pm.
July 21: DJ Beginner & Extensive packages Tuesdays will begin with DJ OBaH at 7:15pm.
July 21: Turntablism classes meeting on Tuesday will begin with 2007 DMC World Supremacy champ DJ Shiftee at 5:15pm.
July 23 Music Production package B: encompassing Reason Ableton & Logic Thurs 6:15 taught by Chris Petti of the Reason Users group.
August 2nd Ableton Live with Jon Margulies: Sundays at 4:00pm Can be taken separately or as part of our year long Ableton certificate program
August 7th Ableton Live with Jon Margulies: Class will meet Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:15pm. Can be taken separately or as part of our year long Ableton certificate program
August 14th  Logic Intensive with Matt Shadetek of Dutty Artz – Mondays Wednesdays Fridays 10:15am
August 18th Ableton Live Class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:15pm. Can be taken separately or as part of our year long Ableton certificate program
August 18th DJing with Video class with Lars of DVJ Vision begins Tuesdays at 5:15pm.

SEE WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING HERE

In just two short years, DubSpot has fully emerged as a force in the electronic music world.  The Live 8 U.S. Sessions Tour will continue this Fall in Los Angeles in October, then move on to 5 other cities including Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin and Washington D.C.  And that’s just this first round.  The tour will continue to grow, and continue to be the ambassador of DubSpot’s devotion to excellence in electronic music.  By providing unique opportunities for established and aspiring artists alike to develop their knowledge, careers, and production and performance abilities,DubSpot will secure and advance its position on the cutting edge of electronic music education!

DubSpot 348 West 14th Street New York, NY 10014
212.242.2100 // info@dubSpot.com
www.dubspot.com

DubSpot & Ableton present
‘Live 8 U.S. Sessions Tour’ Kicking Off in San Francisco : May 7
Ableton Weekend Workshop May 9 & 10

DubSpot, New York City’s forward-thinking electronic music production and DJ institute is coming to San Francisco!  We’re launching a nationwide 8-city tour, designed to teach, first-hand, the magic of the most revolutionary piece of music production software on the planet, Ableton Live 8 and it’s first dedicated controller, the highly anticipated Akai APC40!  Participants learn through a unique series of interactive workshops, live performances, and engaging Q&A’s with a diverse pool of talented artists as your instructors.

ABLETON LIVE 8 & Akai APC40 : 8 WORKSHOPS : 8 U.S. CITIES!

Journey with Jon Margulies, DubSpot instructor & author of Ableton Live 7 (& 8 ) Power!, Music Supervisor Barry Cole (Blue Mountain Music Publishing, Spot Music) and Dub Gabriel(Universal, Warner Brothers, Destroy All Concepts), Christopher Willits (Overlap/Ghostly/12K), Jason Short (Auralism), Matt Moldover (Warper NYC, LoveTech SF), and more.

Please let us know if you’d like us to visit your city: Chicago, Austin, LA, DC, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle…

To Register or obtain more Info, please go to: www.dubspot.com/pages/abletontour.jsp

SAN FRANCISCO : MAY 7 – 10, 2009

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, MAY 9th

“Ableton In the Studio”: Creating Music with Live
Explore essentials such as Live’s interactive session View, and timeline-based Arrange View. And dig deeper into new innovations in version 8, such as the upgraded Warping Engine and Groove Pool.

12-1:30 Dub Gabriel: Session View
Remixing, Mashing & Jamming Gabriel is an experienced producer and musician with remix commissions from well over a dozen internationally known artists. He will demonstrate how to work effectively in Live’s revolutionary Session View, and use this to efficiently manage and manipulate the components of your track.

2-3:30 Jason Short: Beats, Bass & Beyond
Jason will outline, discuss and demonstrate what it takes to create a minimal techno track from scratch, as he has done hundreds of times over the past decade for either his label Auralism or any one of his past collaborative projects.

4-5:30 Jon Margulies: Arrange View
The Final Mix Jon Margulies is the author of the two latest editions of Ableton Power, the definitive user manual for the program. In this session he will demonstrate how to put the finishing touches on your track, including polishing and refining your arrangements and automation in addition to tying up other loose ends that often get forgotten or overlooked.

6-7pm Barry Cole: ‘My Tracks are Banging Now What?’
Music Supervisor for over 60 Films and manager of a publishing catalog with over 15,000 songs from Bob Marley to Justice, Barry will discuss ways to protect and monetize your tracks, music publishing and royalties, digital distribution and licensing your music for Film, TV, Video Games and Advertising.

SUNDAY, MAY 10th

‘Taking Ableton on Stage’: Performing with Live.
If performance is what you’re interested in, we’ll be covering the basics of setting up a quality DJ set and beyond – hybrid DJ/Live PA sets, setting up MIDI controllers, live effects control and the highly anticipated Akai APC40!

12-1:30 Christopher Willits: Live for Instrumentalists & Vocalists
With over 15 releases in 7 years, Chris has been instrumental in redefining the roll of the guitar in the digital age. In this session he will demonstrate how Ableton can manipulate guitar and vocal recordings to create musical compositions never before possible.

2-3:30 Jon Margulies: DJ / Live PA
Hybrid Sets with the Akai APC40 Jon will be back for another session, this time demonstrating the capabilities of Ableton in a live PA or DJ hybrid setup. He will focus on using the Akai APC40, the most revolutionary Ableton controller on the market.

4-5:30 Matt Moldover: Controllers & Performance
Known as the “godfather of controllerism,” Moldover is famous for building, hacking and playing controllers with virtuosic skill. See him show off some of his favorites, and demonstrate a variety of methods for effectively incorporating hardware of many different kinds into your set.

6-7pm Special Guest Performance

*Price: $225 for all 8 Workshops! Or $125 for a single day.
RSVP & Questions: info@dubspot.com.
Location: To be announced.

EVENING EVENTS : At night there will be live performances by internationally recognized artists of the highest caliber, along with FREE Ableton Public Clinics.

THURSDAY, MAY 7th

FunkAid Nationwide Release Party!
Featuring Afrolicious and Dubspot’s DJ Obah @ Elbo Room (647 Valencia St). Dubspot’s first nationwide philanthropic project, this party will celebrate the first release in a series of compilations all designed to promote awareness and raise funds for African children affected by the AIDS crisis. 100% of the proceeds will go directly to charity. www.funkaid.com
Ableton Free Public Clinic #1
Robotspeak (589 1/2 Haight St) at 6PM

FRIDAY, MAY 8th

Ableton Free Public Clinic #2
Guitar Center (1645 Van Ness Ave) at 7PM
Dirtybird Spring Pajama Jam
Justin Martin, Worthy, J. Phlip, Claude Vonstoke, Christian Martin @ Mezzanine (444 Jessie St.)

SUNDAY, MAY 10th

Dub Mission
@ Elbo Room (647 Valencia St) San Francisco’s favorite Dub night for over a dozen years, whose resident DJ’s include DJ Sep, Dub Mission’s internationally respected founder, as well as J-Boogie. They will be performing along with DJ Sabbo, who will be making his Dub Mission debut. The party runs from 9pm to 2am.

ABOUT DUBSPOT
DUBSPOT– a world-class electronic music production and DJ institute located in NYC’s Meatpacking District – is now offering open enrollment for Spring 2009. As one of the first Ableton Certified Training Centers in the world, DubSpot has become the premier music school for both aspiring and experienced producers and DJ’s.  Check out the new Spring 2009 courses, instructors, and updated curriculum.  Learn Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reason, Serato, and Native Instruments and class offerings range from beginner to advanced, analog to digital, hardware to software, everything you need to start making music today.  DubSpot is redefining music education for tomorrow’s digital age in their start-of-the-art. For more info, please go to www.dubspot.com.