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While I’m still getting around to putting a proper bio up here somewhere, in the meantime, I don’t think I can really introduce myself to you guys without mentioning the whole sax/jazz music dimension.

Despite my excessive and extravagant production studio, you’ll be shocked to learn that music production was actually not my entry point into the world of music. Long before I picked up a Juno 106, I was keepin’ it real on football fields all over Southern California as part of the Agoura High School Marching band. More specifically, I was spending hours on end stuffing my face…with a saxophone (and despising the marching band, which was my one-way ticket to “untouchable” status in my high school’s caste system). My real passion was jazz music, starting smooth n’easy with David Sanborn but then extending to the jazz saxophone masters such as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderly, Lee Konitz, Joe Henderson, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, Michael Brecker, Jan Garbarek, and the list could go on for days.

Playing in the high school jazz band was my life and I eventually went on to study jazz in and around NYC and even do some touring (see my first blog for a little more info on that).

I got into house music production because of all the sub genres of dance music, house music is the one which most easily accommodates jazz, so if you listen to any of the tracks I’ve ever had a hand in, you will undoubtedly find some amount of jazz influence.

I first started adding my sax to house music while performing live with house music act TwentyTwelve and continued it with me and my production partner Gabriel D Vine’s project, Monkey Bars. Since then, a huge part of my performing career has been accompanying DJs at clubs and in the studio. Some people I’ve collaborated with are Roy Davis Jr., J.T. Donaldson, Rick Preston, and Eric Davenport to name just a few.

Here’s a clip of some selected sax solos I did on the Monkey Bars remix of Roy Davis Jr.’s song, “Live it Up.”



WHEW! One of these days I’m going to write a short post, but I guess it’s all about progress, not perfection…

With love from Marina Del Rey,

Doron