Hi Reader, Straight Signal has two versions now. I didn't plan it that way. The first one has a 2-step feel. Syncopated, a little restless, the groove doing more work than the melody. Vocals dry and close. It wants to move but it doesn't announce it. The second version is house. Wider. Warmer. Same topline sitting differently over the kick. I started it thinking it would be a remix. It became its own thing. I'm finishing both. The 2-step version keeps asking me to leave space where I want to...

Hi Reader, I just got back from a weeklong vacation in Oaxaca, Mexico, and it was incredible: the food, culture, history, crafts, everything. I went with my parents, and we ventured with local Zapotec guides into small artisan villages and visited pottery workshops, woodcarving villages, textile weaving homes, quesillo artisans (delicious cheese, and the place where they recently won the Guinness World Record for largest quesillo (cheeseball of this style) in the world, markets, the Tule tree...

Hi Reader, It's been a powerful start to the year so far, this year of the fire horse! I had a live performance during Art Week here in Mexico City. Friday night at The Vault, an intimate art gallery in Roma Norte. A full live electronic set of unreleased and existing original music I prepared with DiVinci, Miss Lauryn Hill's controllerist, who'd just played the Grammys that weekend. The set was tighter because of it. The city filled up with artists, designers, and creatives from all over the...