Dream Shala
About Dream Shala
Jason Taylor is a musician originally from Toronto. His project Dream Shala focusses mainly on ambient music. He has played live electronic sets (no computer) for yoga classes in Mexico. Taylor got his first taste of electronic music at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in the early 90s. “I started out playing guitar and jamming with friends but when I got to art school I was introduced to a crazy side of music I had never heard before! Artists like Jon Hassell, John Cage, Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Phillip Glass, this stuff was mind blowing. And for the most part they didn’t have access to samplers and computers like we do today.” A couple of my art school buddies and I put on a show and my “instrument” was a CB radio, like a trucker’s radio, played through a sampler delay pedal. I would tweak the sideband clarifier on the CB and get these awesome squelchy vocal sounds and then sample them and tweak the feedback and delay time knobs.” While in art school Taylor spent a good chunk of his student loans on a used Casio FZ1 sampler, a Roland TX81Z and an Atari 1040ST for sequencing. Taylor recalls; “The samplers back then were so limited! I think my FZ1 had like 1MB of memory in it, and that was a lot! You had to load and save everything to floppy disks”.
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Digitakt Sample Pack of Proteus 2000 using the Zoom SampleTrak ST224
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Digitakt Sample Pack – Proteus 2000 into Zoom SampleTrak at 16khz!
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So I recently picked up a Roland 303 clone - the Behringer TD3 and man is this thing not intuitive. No wonder it was a complete flop back in the 80s. That being said I LOVE the thing. The real charm of the instrument are the happy accidents you get when you punch in a...
Casio SK1 Sample Pack
Casio SK1 (1985) Samples I have sampled all the built-in tones and drum beats from my Casio SK-1 (1985). These tones are about as lo-fi as they come but for this reason they have their own charm! Put enough reverb on anything and it is usable! As usual I sampled the...
Digitakt Ambient Experimental / Deep Minimal – Sample Pack
I put together a cool little sample pack with some of my more glitchy type sounds. I use things like the Pocket Operator PO33 to get really gritty lo-fi 8-bit pad sounds and glitch as well as things like my Soma Ether and other off-the-wall methods of sound design and...
Alesis SR18 Drum Machine Sample Pack
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Octatrack Experimental Ambient Improv Live Looping
Experimental live looping using the Octatrack, Roland Boutique JP08 and Hokema kalimba.
Microbrute Ambient
Arturia Microbrute Ambient Jam Here's an Arturia Microbrute ambient jam using only the Microbrute. I use a Boss RC1 to lay down the initial drone and a Hall of Fame reverb pedal for some ambient reverb. Please like and comment!
Octatrack Experimental Ambient Live Looping
Here’s a 10 minute experimental jam on the Octatrack. I’m using the OT as a live looper with the main effect being the LoFi effect. All effects except the reverb are from the Octatrack. Track 1 is a Thru track and 2 is a Neighbor track.
Gear:
Octatrack MKii, PRS guitar, homemade noise instrument, Hokema kalimba, Roland JP08, Eventide Space reverb pedal.
Dream Shala Music
Micro Compressions – 2021
Tripticó – 2021
Epica Flasa – 2019
Music for Yoga – 2018
Dream Shala YouTube Videos
Digitakt Sample Pack of Proteus 2000 using the Zoom SampleTrak ST224
Proteus 2000 Sample Pack for Digitakt This is a very cool and unique Digitakt sample pack!! I sampled 90 of my favorite sounds from my late Proteus 2000 (late 90s synth/sample module) into my quirky yet beautiful Zoom SampleTrak ST-224 sampler (sampler from the late...
How the sequencer works on the Roland 303 or Behringer TDR – Tutorial
So I recently picked up a Roland 303 clone - the Behringer TD3 and man is this thing not intuitive. No wonder it was a complete flop back in the 80s. That being said I LOVE the thing. The real charm of the instrument are the happy accidents you get when you punch in a...
Octatrack Experimental Ambient Improv Live Looping
Experimental live looping using the Octatrack, Roland Boutique JP08 and Hokema kalimba.
Microbrute Ambient
Arturia Microbrute Ambient Jam Here's an Arturia Microbrute ambient jam using only the Microbrute. I use a Boss RC1 to lay down the initial drone and a Hall of Fame reverb pedal for some ambient reverb. Please like and comment!
Octatrack Experimental Ambient Live Looping
Here’s a 10 minute experimental jam on the Octatrack. I’m using the OT as a live looper with the main effect being the LoFi effect. All effects except the reverb are from the Octatrack. Track 1 is a Thru track and 2 is a Neighbor track.
Gear:
Octatrack MKii, PRS guitar, homemade noise instrument, Hokema kalimba, Roland JP08, Eventide Space reverb pedal.
Octatrack Ambient Live Looping
This is a minimal ambient track using the Octatrack as a live looper.
Track 1 is a Thru track for the Digitakt (drums) so it doesn’t get looped. The Digitone and JP08 go through a Mackie mixer and get looped on Pickup machines on tracks 2, 3 and 4. The digitone covers the pad sound, and whale sound. I use the JP08 at the end just for some clicky filtered sounds towards the end.