Teft’s Blog

So you’re a DJ and you love a radio hit that’s currently topping the charts. But you don’t have a club’ish remix …. Why not make one! I remixed Rihanna’s Umbrella track (sorry, it’s rough … I spent about 2 hours on it) to give it a more housey 4 to the floor […]

Okay .. First one hour song of the year … well, not quite an hour. More like hour and thirty minutes (it’s always the lyricists fault!). My best bud Jesse Janzen was up from LA and sat in on this session. Anddddd .. We had Kate Janzen as the “Director of Photography” […]

YO! It’s been way too long since my last post … but, music business has been kicking up for Mimi & Teft. I’ve got very little free time to write. But, we had time for a tuneback! We did a twist this time around … we video taped it! I […]

Finally! Another 1 hour song! We’ve been trying to find time to do another tuneback for weeks … but we made it happen two days ago! And this time with one of my best friends, Jesse Janzen. Jesse has been known to collaborate with us from time to time, so we […]

I remember when I first started out in music production not having a single clue how samples and loops were constructed. I was like “how do people produce these sounds?!” One the goals for this blog is to help people learn production techniques and to give away production material (loops, samples, kits, etc). […]

Recently, Judy (Mom) came back from a spiritual retreat. A lot of it focused on what messages mother Earth is giving to us (mankind). We had written this ambient track a while ago (last September) and shelved it because it didn’t fit the artistic vision of “Mimi & Teft”. When Judy got […]

Ever since Mimi and I went to Miami I’ve been loving that electro sound. Hearing it in the clubs was tight! So I thought, why not make an electro-ish beat? Cool. Then I thought, instead of relying on drum samples in things like Stylus RMX, make the beat out of […]