Author: DJ GodsOwn

In spite of my health issues I’m feeling pretty happy right now. Music helps a lot with any depression that I could possibly be feeling. DJing and making beats takes me out of my head and gives me something to strive for and focus on. I’d like to get a new 100% remote/work-from-home gig at some point, so I can do more of the things I need to do on my own without the help of family or any other sources. There are times where I feel like I’m being setup by certain people, but at this point I don’t care anymore. I see in the Gangstalking Reddit that a lot of people feel this way, and I don’t deny there’s something going on, but it’s a lot bigger than an individual so why stress about it?

People who target others and deny them a way to earn a living or try to judge them for things are going to face an extreme karma at some point in their life. That’s why I’m trying to live a non-judgmental life. Meaning, I don’t hold any judgements towards other people. We all make mistakes especially when we are young and dumb, and the way this society is, it breeds and programs people to do a lot of the things they do. Young men of all races listen to rap songs where the rapper glorifies not being faithful in a relationship, or abusing drugs, etc. It’s no wonder the youth of today are so troubled.

I have some methods of finding ways to relax and contemplate on our society and I feel they have been very beneficial as of late. We aren’t told a lot of things about how our reality works. People don’t understand that “the word” or “the tongue” is very powerful. You can speak things into existence. We saw it happen with Tupac and Notorious BIG right before our eyes. They both talked about death and dying violently and sure enough, they met that fate. You have to speak positivity into your world. Speak favor from GOD and speak towards a better version of yourself. Say it 3 times, 3 times a day for 30 days and see if you don’t see a change. Nikola Tesla said if you want to understand the secrets of the universe, look into the power of the numbers 3, 6, and 9. That exercise I just mentioned keys in on that.

If anyone reads this website, I hope to start adding more information about meditation and self improvement, as I do it myself. We all want peace and to coexist with our neighbors. Keep pushing for that, and speak it into reality. Take care of yourselves….

So Akai has released the Akai MPC X SE and the MPC One+. The SE gives the current MPC X a retro skin makeover, and adds 2GB of RAM for a total of 4GB. For what most music makers are doing, the additional 2GB of RAM was not needed. People are still buying it, but only because they have the money and nothing else to do with it. It’s not a necessary upgrade if you already have a MPC X. I’ve seen producers who only make basic boom bap hip hop beats buying the SE when they already have a vanilla X. The main users that would benefit from the SE version would be people doing live sets with theirs and who need to load a lot of the instrument plugins into memory to be able to use them without much slowdown or load time. It’s a great device. If I had the money, I’d buy one, however, I think if you already own a MPC X there’s no reason to drop $2.5k on the “upgrade” when you’re not getting much different from what you already own. To each their own and far be it from me to tell someone how to spend their money. If it makes them happy, by all means, go for it!

For the MPC One+, they have it priced at the same price as the MPC One vanilla. It has a red colorway and adds wifi and bluetooth and removes the ethernet port from the back. It’s cool that they added wifi and bluetooth, but I don’t understand why they removed the ethernet port. Some people, like myself, prefer to have all their devices connected with a hard wire. My Playstation is hooked up that way, my PC, as well as my MPC One. I guess it was a way to keep production costs down when modifying the current MPC template with wifi and bluetooth cards. I wish they had also given the One+ 4GB of RAM. For a current MPC One user, it’s not worth it to me to spend another $699 when all I’m getting is a red skin which I could technically get myself from a company like styleflip or the like. The wifi and bluetooth are great additions, but I don’t think they justify another purchase. The One+ still doesn’t have a lithium battery, so it’s not really meant to be portable. You need a power outlet or a power-bank to plug it into. It’s not tailor-made for portability like the Live 2 is per say. For new MPC users, the One+ is a great upgrade, but I’d say if you already own a MPC One, keep your money and spend it on records to sample, expansions, or upcoming instrument plugins!

A lot of people like to complain about Akai, but I like their products and how they are constantly innovating with new plugins and expansion packs for the MPC universe. These most recent “upgrades” seem to be fool-hearted though. I’d like to see them improve the software for the current MPCs that are already out. Serato Studio has had stems features for a bit. I’d like to see that added to the current MPC software with an upgrade of some type. Even if it was a paid upgrade, I’m sure a lot of music makers would love to be able to access stems separation tools natively on their MPCs. There’s other features like disk streaming that MPC users have been wanting for a while now. Akai needs to stop trying to hock hardware to people and update the software side of things to compete with the growing competition. Serato, Ableton, Reason, and a ton of other standalone or DAW makers have added features that are leaving the MPC 2.0 software system in the dust. Hopefully Akai’s R&D team realizes this and they are cooking up something that we’ll all find amazing and much needed very soon!

Hey what’s up? I hope life is treating you well. I am unemployed right now, but it’s probably for the best with my health condition I have. Corporate America doesn’t care about you as an individual, and its hard to find a company that will show compassion towards you when you have a hardship. That’s why I don’t believe in loyalty to any company. Yes I will do my absolute best when working for you, but I don’t fool myself into the notion that this company in any way shape or form cares about me as a person. I’m a social security number doing work for them and if it benefits the companies bottom line to let me go they will. Almost every company I’ve worked for has done exactly that to people in some capacity. Anyway, I’ve been Dj scratching like crazy and I’m getting better slowly but surely. I also picked up a better computer chair, as mine was done for. It was making it so I couldn’t sit down and get comfortable to work on my music. Hopefully with this new chair, I’ll be more motivated to sit in front of my MPC and SP 404mk2 and get busy with em’. I’m practicing daily affirmations now and reading Bible passages more often. I feel like I want to switch my mind to one that focuses on positive thoughts more-so than negative. Negativity is everywhere around us and it gets into your mind and takes over. You have to feed your mind positivity in order for it to switch to that pole and stay there. Bible passages are ripe with positivity, so I’m hoping reading them more often will get me to the place I want to be.

I’ll try to remember to post on here more often, and let anyone who MAY be viewing this page know what’s going on with me. Til next time!

Soooo, I got laid off from my job in March of this year. It sucks but its whatever. I had kind of gotten tired of working their anyway. They hired too many people to do a job that couldn’t have been easier if you knew what you were doing. It was very slow at times, and I didn’t like when they started making us come into the office on a “Hybrid” schedule. When will companies realize that if a department or team can do their job effectively remotely/working from home, you should allow them to do so. The employee will be happier, their kids if they have any will be happier, their pets if they have any will be happier and just in general their life will be a lot less difficult by just giving that little leeway. Its going to take the “old breed” to leave the workplace and for the younger generations to get into positions of power to make that become the norm. The people who are managers and directors are people who worked in the workplace probably before there was even email or the internet. They are accustomed to certain things and as is usual of people, they resist change, even if it’s for the better. When some people in my generation and the entirety of the generation after mine get into those positions, things will change for the better and the workplace will take full advantage of the technologies available. They’ll realize we don’t NEED to sit up looking in each others face in person, and that a Teams meeting is perfectly sufficient. That’s why the tech was designed. All an in person meeting adds is the ability to catch the flu or a cold from each other, which in turns adds to missing days of work, etc. Also I remember people working sick at a couple of my jobs because they were at home and able to get setup in a comfortable way where they still were able to get their work done. Coming into the office they would have had to call out. Anyway, the world is bass ackwards and the people in charge make it so. I hope the younger generation can get it right in the future and change the narrative. Maybe they’ll realize that if someone can’t afford a high car note, you don’t charge them more money, but you charge them less, etc. Maybe they’ll realize that people should be paid a wage where they can live comfortably and enjoy some things in life as well, regardless of where they work or what career path they chose. Maybe they’ll realize that a college degree doesn’t equal intelligence, and that there’s a lot of idiots with them, as well as a lot of smart people without them. I hope the future is better than this current state of the world. People who want to change the world need to invest in the children. Til next time.

So I recently picked up JDilla’s “Donuts” album on cassette tape. I play it on my cassette player I got off Turntable lab at one point. It sounds very good, and I love the sound well recorded cassette tapes can have. I noticed that places like Fatbeats.com and GetonDown.com are now selling golden era hip hop and other albums on cassette tape. I think it’s pretty cool, as listening to music on cassette really takes me back to my teenage years. I remember getting Tupac All Eyes on Me on cassette from a guy at school. It turned out to be a bootleg, but it had the album art and everything and sounded fine to me. I remember there was a record store near my house that sold a lot of hip hop albums on tape, and it turns out THEY were selling tapes bootleg and just printing the artwork inserts. They ended up getting shut down and I was really disappointed. They were within walking distance from my house and I was getting to know the owner and he would give me cool deals on multiple tapes or CDs. I got a few more cassette’s incoming like WuTang Forever, Petestrumentals 3, and De La Soul is Dead. I’m looking forward to listening to something besides Donuts. Donuts is a great album, but I’ve listened to it over and over and over this past week since getting it. I think it’s really cool that both vinyl and cassettes are making a comeback. I’m sure it’s mainly millenials like myself fueling the comeback, but regardless, its enough people that sites like the ones I mentioned are releasing official albums on both mediums. I hope it’s not just a fad that will die in a year or two, and I hope us old heads keep it alive and keep buying our favorite boom bap, golden era music from the 90s on cassettes and vinyl. It’s the best way to listen to the music as you get that warmth and analog sound that really does the genre well. I’ll post a review in my reviews section soon about the tape player I have, and maybe some of the cassette’s I pick up as I go along. With all that being said, keep enjoying your tunes and keep living life. You only get one in this body so make the best of it! L8r!

Don’t forget to check out my Bandcamp page at http://www.godsowndj.bandcamp.com . You can see my journey from pretty wack beats to good sounding beats. I love making music and it’s my passion and joy in this lifetime. Please support by following my page and downloading my music if anything piques your fancy. Take care and GOD bless.

Happy Monday! It’s another beautiful day under the sun. We’re all going through some things, but I’d say be content in the knowledge that everything will be all right. Stay in faith of the power of GOD and just enjoy your life to the fullest. I’m still working on my beat tape and I recorded some lyrics on it last night. It was a lot of fun to do and I felt productive after completing it. I may have said this before, but its very important to have hobbies that make you feel productive and creative. A lot of these kids running the street or getting into trouble don’t have anything to do. They are bored with life and the idle mind is the devils workshop.

If you have children or are close to any children, do your best to help them keep their mind occupied with something positive and creative. Music, arts and crafts, model building, or a sport can all be good things that a child can get into and help them keep out of trouble. I have a step grandson that I wish lived closer so I could expose him to Djing and music at an early age and give him something to do with his mind instead of playing video games or watching TV. I hope my stepdaughter realizes how important that is and tries to give him some creative outlet to give him something to do with is free time.

I’m about to start working, but I’ll add some reviews of some new pickups I’ve gotten lately and talk about them in detail. Til next time…

I’d like to get one of the Roland Fantom-0 synths, but they are extremely expensive. They cost 1.5k to 2k. One day when money gets a bit better for me I’ll pick one up. Even though I don’t make music as a career, I would get my moneys worth from a device that costs that much because I would use it so much. I’ve used my MPC One and Roland 404 mk2 a ton, as well as my Pioneer DJM-S11. I have on synth, the Roland GAIA SH101, but the higher end Roland synths would be a lot of fun to own and get to use on a daily basis. A lot of people spend way more money than me on their music hobby. I’ve seen people in the Facebook MPC group that have like 4 or 5 synths/keyboards, drum pad machines, all types of rack mounted units for processing sound. A lot of them go really overboard. I guess if you don’t have kids and make decent money what else are you going to spend your money on besides your hobby which is usually a love of yours. My wife Laura likes to buy planners and arts and crafts supplies. That’s her vice and what she will spend a good amount of money on. I’m going to drop a few new reviews in the Reviews section and update the spirituality section pretty soon. I really need to buckle down and get this site up to snuff. I’ll work on it.. Til next time….

So I’m working on a 7 track beat tape to bring out in a month or two. I want it to be high quality and to be the best work I’ve done to date. Right now I have about two tracks done that still need a little bit of work. It’s a lot of fun and gives me something to look forward to and a goal to work on. I’m using all royalty free samples so I can sell it and maybe put it on Distrokid for release on different platforms. I’m going to advertise it on my Instagram and Twitter pages. I’m still not looking to be famous or make a lot of money with music, but it’s just something fun to do. We’re all sitting around trying to make the time go buy as we live out our lives and having goals is something productive to do with it.

I would never want to be famous like Kanye West or someone like that. That seems like a miserable life and I can’t understand why someone would want to attain that. What an ego you must have to feel that you should be looked at above or heard over other people. I wouldn’t mind money like Kanye’s, but I wouldn’t live an extravagant life. I’d buy a nice modest house somewhere and no one around me would know just how much money I had. My cars would be everyday average cars with the most extravagant one being a Tesla or Mustang GT or something. I wouldn’t want a Lamborgini or Ferrari. Those cars put a target on your back. I gather there are people out there who look to damage those cars on purpose out of jealousy or hate when they see them in a grocery store or other parking lot. I’ve seen Ferrari’s parked in some of the weirdest places before.

Back to music, I’m looking forward to seeing how this beat tape turns out. I’ll mention it here as well once I’m done making it, although I don’t know how many people visit this page as I never check the metrics on it. This page is just my little blog that I like to write on from time to time. It’s linked from my Bandcamp page which I’ve given out to a few people, so I’m sure some people have checked it out maybe. That’s it for today. Take care of yourselves, stay blessed, and keep GOD and the music in your life. L8r!

It’s been a minute since I updated this blog, but I’m posting now. I was recently diagnosed with a pretty serious health condition, as well as having some deaths in the family that hit us pretty hard. I’m doing ok health wise now, but I have to keep pressing and trying to get better and take good care of myself. Music has been a huge help in me dealing with things lately. As it has been said, “Music is medicine”. It’s medicine for the soul I feel, and between Djing and making beats, I get a lot of fulfillment and relaxation from both practices. I recently picked up a Roland SP404 mk2 and I’ve fallen in love with it. It’s much more portable than my MPC One, albeit having less bells and whistles. I can still make a good beat on it though and I’ve picked up the workflow very quickly.

I kind of feel like I have an intelligence level where I can learn pretty much anything to a serviceable level. Some people really struggle with learning new things. I wouldn’t say they are stupid, they just don’t connect the dots as quickly as others and have to be walked step by step through every little thing. Because I have the type of intelligence that lets me learn quickly, I’m not going to be accepting the minimum wage for a particular job anymore. 10/10 I’m going to be one of the better performing employees, and I’ll pick up the companies workflow and system quickly and become very efficient at it. For that alone I deserve to be paid the maximum wage offered. It’s very hard as an employer to find competent people who know how to utilize common sense. On my next job interview, the mission will be to convey what I just said to the interviewer without coming off arrogant or pompous.

Me and my wife are looking to move to the east coast soon to be closer to her family. My stepdaughter and step grandson. Time will tell if that comes to fruition. I am tired of paying these ridiculous rents and gas prices here on the West Coast though. For what I pay for a SMALL one bedroom apartment I could afford a house somewhere else. I’ll try to update the page a bit more often and add some more reviews and beef up the spirituality section. I plan on talking about spirituality a lot more. We are all on the journey to being better versions of ourselves, and that includes me. Til next time…..