Here is the link to Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol.11 on Itunes.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol. 11 on Itunes
Hi,
Here is the link to Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol.11 on Itunes.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Here is the link to Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol.11 on Itunes.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Acid House Diva Finds God
Hi,
This article was originally posted at http://www.zooloader.com/NewsItem.aspx?newsItemId=312
Here's the text:
Soul 2 Soul/ Marshall Jefferson collaborator Kim Mazelle chatted candidly about becoming an evangelical Christian this week, and
admitted that she struggled with success when moving to the UK in the early 90s from America.
“Show business can be a very bad place and I ended up on a lot of rocky roads, whilst in this country,” she told the Voice newspaper, “I
fell into a lot of things, like the whole partying scene, and then met a guy and got into the things he was doing, which was drugs,” she
confessed.
The former opera singer, whose biggest solo hit was ‘Love Me The Right Way’, nowadays performs at evangelical gospel events in both
Ibiza and London and spoke cheerfully of witnessing conversions at her show. She also found success covering ‘Young Hearts Run
Free;’ the 70s disco classic written by soul diva Candi Staton, who herself converted to evangelical Christianity in the early 80s.
Chatting to Skrufff several years ago, Candi described hanging out with then close friends Diana Ross, Gloria Gaynor, Patti Labelle and
Chaka Khan and admitted she thoroughly enjoyed the notoriously decadent disco scene.
“I loved the dancing, the excitement, the people. I used to go to Studio 54 and stay there all night,” she recalled, “I had my drinks for
free, the DJs would recognise you and bring your drinks over, then ask you to dance. It was just a never ending party.”
By 1982 she’d embraced evangelical Christianity wholeheartedly (teaming up with subsequently disgraced charismatic leaders Jim and
Tammy Bakker) and said she remains much happier since finding God.
“I still love worshipping the Lord, it gives me so much peace,” she said, “I’m in a state right now that I wouldn’t trade for any money in
the world, I have the kind of peace that I’ve always looked for. The Lord is my man now,” she added.
Acid house pioneers DJ Pierre and Green Velvet also converted in recent years as did the man who enjoyed Britain’s first crossover hit
Love Can’t Turn Around: Farley Jackmaster Funk. Chatting to Skrufff in 2004, Farley recalled seducing ‘harems of girls’ as his career as
a superstar DJ took off.
“I blew my mind, it would blow anybody’s mind, and that was when I started losing all touch with reality,” he confessed.
“You start thinking these girls want you because you look so good, it’s not that, it’s because people are drawn to success and power
positions. Because I was the DJ in the club, I was the guy with the most notoriety in the club so of course girls would gravitate to me. I
wasn’t the best looking guy; I was overweight. So there had to be another reason these girls were flocking to me.”
“But I lost all sense of who I was, when I’d look in the mirror I stopped seeing the person I used to see and I saw what I wanted to see,
because all these girls were flocking to me. I was looking at myself thinking ‘these girls want me because I’m the most handsome guy’,
but no, I’d lost all touch with reality,” he added.
Fighting to stay at the top, his career gradually imploded until he reached out to God in 1990 and reassessed his priorities.
“Being number 1 is one of the hardest things in the world to handle because as the bible itself says ‘you can gain a whole world but lose
a whole soul’ because you end up giving up all moral things just to stay number one,” said Farley.
“Whatever I had to do to stay number one, I did,” he continued, “You stop caring at all about whose feelings you hurt because all you
want to do is continually have people praising you and telling you you’re so great. And what extent you will go to, to stay number one is
the part where you lose your soul,” he adds.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
This article was originally posted at http://www.zooloader.com/NewsItem.aspx?newsItemId=312
Here's the text:
Soul 2 Soul/ Marshall Jefferson collaborator Kim Mazelle chatted candidly about becoming an evangelical Christian this week, and
admitted that she struggled with success when moving to the UK in the early 90s from America.
“Show business can be a very bad place and I ended up on a lot of rocky roads, whilst in this country,” she told the Voice newspaper, “I
fell into a lot of things, like the whole partying scene, and then met a guy and got into the things he was doing, which was drugs,” she
confessed.
The former opera singer, whose biggest solo hit was ‘Love Me The Right Way’, nowadays performs at evangelical gospel events in both
Ibiza and London and spoke cheerfully of witnessing conversions at her show. She also found success covering ‘Young Hearts Run
Free;’ the 70s disco classic written by soul diva Candi Staton, who herself converted to evangelical Christianity in the early 80s.
Chatting to Skrufff several years ago, Candi described hanging out with then close friends Diana Ross, Gloria Gaynor, Patti Labelle and
Chaka Khan and admitted she thoroughly enjoyed the notoriously decadent disco scene.
“I loved the dancing, the excitement, the people. I used to go to Studio 54 and stay there all night,” she recalled, “I had my drinks for
free, the DJs would recognise you and bring your drinks over, then ask you to dance. It was just a never ending party.”
By 1982 she’d embraced evangelical Christianity wholeheartedly (teaming up with subsequently disgraced charismatic leaders Jim and
Tammy Bakker) and said she remains much happier since finding God.
“I still love worshipping the Lord, it gives me so much peace,” she said, “I’m in a state right now that I wouldn’t trade for any money in
the world, I have the kind of peace that I’ve always looked for. The Lord is my man now,” she added.
Acid house pioneers DJ Pierre and Green Velvet also converted in recent years as did the man who enjoyed Britain’s first crossover hit
Love Can’t Turn Around: Farley Jackmaster Funk. Chatting to Skrufff in 2004, Farley recalled seducing ‘harems of girls’ as his career as
a superstar DJ took off.
“I blew my mind, it would blow anybody’s mind, and that was when I started losing all touch with reality,” he confessed.
“You start thinking these girls want you because you look so good, it’s not that, it’s because people are drawn to success and power
positions. Because I was the DJ in the club, I was the guy with the most notoriety in the club so of course girls would gravitate to me. I
wasn’t the best looking guy; I was overweight. So there had to be another reason these girls were flocking to me.”
“But I lost all sense of who I was, when I’d look in the mirror I stopped seeing the person I used to see and I saw what I wanted to see,
because all these girls were flocking to me. I was looking at myself thinking ‘these girls want me because I’m the most handsome guy’,
but no, I’d lost all touch with reality,” he added.
Fighting to stay at the top, his career gradually imploded until he reached out to God in 1990 and reassessed his priorities.
“Being number 1 is one of the hardest things in the world to handle because as the bible itself says ‘you can gain a whole world but lose
a whole soul’ because you end up giving up all moral things just to stay number one,” said Farley.
“Whatever I had to do to stay number one, I did,” he continued, “You stop caring at all about whose feelings you hurt because all you
want to do is continually have people praising you and telling you you’re so great. And what extent you will go to, to stay number one is
the part where you lose your soul,” he adds.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Todd Edwards
Hi,
Here is an interesting link. I guess this guy has produced for Daft Punk. He talks a little about his spirituality.
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/todd-edwards-the-stylus-interview.htm
Here's a couple snippets
I’m guessing the church was important growing up. What role did it play in your childhood?
Funny you should ask. The honest truth of it [is], the church was the cause of a lot of controversy in my life. My mother was a devout Catholic. The ’80s [were] a time when the term “born again” became almost like a denomination. It’s a term that’s almost caused a split in the Catholic Church, which is too bad.
My church had a small denomination, 100 people, 200 people max, a lot of old people. As a kid, you had to go to Sunday school, and I learned a lot. That was good, because I learned the New Testament of the Bible. But my church was extremely legalistic. My father—I love him dearly, we have a really good relationship—but a lot of our bonding came—I’m sort of jesting [when I say] that we spent a lot of time having religious debates and religious arguments. You’ve got to understand that I grew up in a normal school environment. Obviously, there was a lot of Catholic Christians, but it wasn’t so outwardly shared. You don’t go to a club and talk about religion, and you didn’t go to school and talk about it. I was battling against my father’s view of Christianity and a secular view from school. There are a lot of disciplines in Christianity that are good for you, but you should practice them because they’re good for you, not just because it’s a rule.
At the time, I didn’t wanna deal with it. Again, kids watched certain movies, did certain things. He was being very overprotective of me. It was frustrating; as a kid I rebelled against that. There was a lot that I was grasping by reading the New Testament, but there was another side I was seeing. Going back, in this church, you were dealing with a very old generation of people. It’s not like they had priests—they had elders. There were 12 elders that ran the church, and they told us to accept Jesus every week.
It was hard to fathom people in church who didn’t already believe in Jesus. It was almost like there was a bit of acting; something never felt right with the church, like when you see an evangelist on TV. It didn’t feel heartfelt. I basically had problems with that. By junior year I’d decided not to go to church, and had it out with my father. I didn’t want to deal with God at all. Correction—I dealt with him more on my terms, not in a you’re-the-boss way, but in an I’m-keeping-you-at-arms-length way.
In high school I wrote songs. That’s how I dealt with stress in school, be them bad relationships—not that I had a lot, but you know, it was a way to get the stress out. By the end of high school, my friend, who goes under the Original Filthy Rich, was into club music and introduced me to the club music he was into. At the time was Todd Terry and Masters at Work, 1989-90, I got an education in that, and I decided to get into that. Up to that time I was writing pop stuff or whatever. It seemed like dance music was easy enough to make, do that and break into the music industry. But I underestimated that. Just getting a style and making a name for yourself takes time.
The plan to incorporate talking about God in my work came later. In my 20s, I kind of bottomed out. I hit a rocky period; I kind of threw my hands up. After that, the negative relationship I had with God was healed. I started putting positive messages in; it wasn’t meant to be preachy, but I wanted to share something that helped me and maybe give that inspiration for other people. Even in remixes I would cut up vocals to say spiritual phrases, and if you listen closely you can hear them.
Do you think if you lived somewhere other than New Jersey that your music might be different?
Yeah. There’s a lot of different things that contribute to music. When I worked with Daft Punk, I went to Paris twice. It is an inspiring city. Going to Europe, period—and I’m sure it’s a commonplace for people who DJ a lot more—going there had a really big impact. The architecture alone had a big impact. I’m sure if I was living out in the Midwest you definitely get a different sound. I think it’s proven, whether it’s Chicago or California or whatever, you get different sounds in different areas, in dance or in rap or anything else. But I do think what was meant to be was meant to be. My background is part of who I am and I look at it as God’s plan.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Here is an interesting link. I guess this guy has produced for Daft Punk. He talks a little about his spirituality.
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/todd-edwards-the-stylus-interview.htm
Here's a couple snippets
I’m guessing the church was important growing up. What role did it play in your childhood?
Funny you should ask. The honest truth of it [is], the church was the cause of a lot of controversy in my life. My mother was a devout Catholic. The ’80s [were] a time when the term “born again” became almost like a denomination. It’s a term that’s almost caused a split in the Catholic Church, which is too bad.
My church had a small denomination, 100 people, 200 people max, a lot of old people. As a kid, you had to go to Sunday school, and I learned a lot. That was good, because I learned the New Testament of the Bible. But my church was extremely legalistic. My father—I love him dearly, we have a really good relationship—but a lot of our bonding came—I’m sort of jesting [when I say] that we spent a lot of time having religious debates and religious arguments. You’ve got to understand that I grew up in a normal school environment. Obviously, there was a lot of Catholic Christians, but it wasn’t so outwardly shared. You don’t go to a club and talk about religion, and you didn’t go to school and talk about it. I was battling against my father’s view of Christianity and a secular view from school. There are a lot of disciplines in Christianity that are good for you, but you should practice them because they’re good for you, not just because it’s a rule.
At the time, I didn’t wanna deal with it. Again, kids watched certain movies, did certain things. He was being very overprotective of me. It was frustrating; as a kid I rebelled against that. There was a lot that I was grasping by reading the New Testament, but there was another side I was seeing. Going back, in this church, you were dealing with a very old generation of people. It’s not like they had priests—they had elders. There were 12 elders that ran the church, and they told us to accept Jesus every week.
It was hard to fathom people in church who didn’t already believe in Jesus. It was almost like there was a bit of acting; something never felt right with the church, like when you see an evangelist on TV. It didn’t feel heartfelt. I basically had problems with that. By junior year I’d decided not to go to church, and had it out with my father. I didn’t want to deal with God at all. Correction—I dealt with him more on my terms, not in a you’re-the-boss way, but in an I’m-keeping-you-at-arms-length way.
In high school I wrote songs. That’s how I dealt with stress in school, be them bad relationships—not that I had a lot, but you know, it was a way to get the stress out. By the end of high school, my friend, who goes under the Original Filthy Rich, was into club music and introduced me to the club music he was into. At the time was Todd Terry and Masters at Work, 1989-90, I got an education in that, and I decided to get into that. Up to that time I was writing pop stuff or whatever. It seemed like dance music was easy enough to make, do that and break into the music industry. But I underestimated that. Just getting a style and making a name for yourself takes time.
The plan to incorporate talking about God in my work came later. In my 20s, I kind of bottomed out. I hit a rocky period; I kind of threw my hands up. After that, the negative relationship I had with God was healed. I started putting positive messages in; it wasn’t meant to be preachy, but I wanted to share something that helped me and maybe give that inspiration for other people. Even in remixes I would cut up vocals to say spiritual phrases, and if you listen closely you can hear them.
Do you think if you lived somewhere other than New Jersey that your music might be different?
Yeah. There’s a lot of different things that contribute to music. When I worked with Daft Punk, I went to Paris twice. It is an inspiring city. Going to Europe, period—and I’m sure it’s a commonplace for people who DJ a lot more—going there had a really big impact. The architecture alone had a big impact. I’m sure if I was living out in the Midwest you definitely get a different sound. I think it’s proven, whether it’s Chicago or California or whatever, you get different sounds in different areas, in dance or in rap or anything else. But I do think what was meant to be was meant to be. My background is part of who I am and I look at it as God’s plan.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Helping a non-profit fill its need for sports drinks
Hi,
I am helping a a good cause this holiday season.
There is a non-profit called "Weathered Hands" here in Portland Oregon that is giving away sack meals to homeless people in Oregon. They need sports drinks to fill in these bags. It is a big cost for them to do this. So they are asking for help.
Weathered Hands
-supports 18 shelters
-100% of the proceeds go to those in need
-gift bags will be given to more than 1500 people
If you would like to donate go to creukradio.org and click on the banner on the main page that asks for donations. I am going to be purchasing the sports drinks. The deadline to donate is Dec. 18th.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
I am helping a a good cause this holiday season.
There is a non-profit called "Weathered Hands" here in Portland Oregon that is giving away sack meals to homeless people in Oregon. They need sports drinks to fill in these bags. It is a big cost for them to do this. So they are asking for help.
Weathered Hands
-supports 18 shelters
-100% of the proceeds go to those in need
-gift bags will be given to more than 1500 people
If you would like to donate go to creukradio.org and click on the banner on the main page that asks for donations. I am going to be purchasing the sports drinks. The deadline to donate is Dec. 18th.
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Archive of Xfest NW 2008 Warehouse Dance
Hi,
I archived the Xfest NW Warehouse Dance 2008 videos (they are a little over ten minutes long each so they wouldn't fit on Youtube).
Here are the links.
http://www.archive.org/details/KingdomAgeAtXfestNw2008
http://www.archive.org/details/PatDAtXfest2008
I also archived the Aaron Cavananaugh VSTi's and Vst's (tools for music producers).
http://www.archive.org/details/AaronCavanaughVsts
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
I archived the Xfest NW Warehouse Dance 2008 videos (they are a little over ten minutes long each so they wouldn't fit on Youtube).
Here are the links.
http://www.archive.org/details/KingdomAgeAtXfestNw2008
http://www.archive.org/details/PatDAtXfest2008
I also archived the Aaron Cavananaugh VSTi's and Vst's (tools for music producers).
http://www.archive.org/details/AaronCavanaughVsts
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol. 10 on Itunes
Hi,
Here is a link to Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol. 10 on Itunes.
Check out the other Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol. 1-9
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Here is a link to Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol. 10 on Itunes.
Check out the other Aaron's Christian Electronica Vol. 1-9
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Image Journal
Hi,
A creative writing journal mixing religion and art published via Seattle Pacific University.
http://imagejournal.org
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
A creative writing journal mixing religion and art published via Seattle Pacific University.
http://imagejournal.org
Thanks. God Bless.
Aaron.
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