Ghost in the machine

I got an opportunity to go to the Numark/Akai offices, talk about excited, I felt like I was going on a class trip lol. I went there for a meeting but besides that I dug out my MPC 3000 and wanted to see if i could get some things fixed on it and figure out some new and old tricks.

As soon as I got there I saw a S900 and a MPC60, talk about 2 classic machines. These are the pieces that Prince Paul, Dr Dre, Pete Rock and Marley Marl started on, so many hits were made on these machines. I felt like I was looking at gold, there was so much equipment laying around but I felt like I was window shopping lol.

It was time for me to take my MPC 3000 to the doctor lol. I used to call my MPC the Death Star but now it looks more like the Dirt Star lol. The drum pads defiantly needed some 409 x2 lol.

I got a chance to see the workings of the company, some areas was so top secret that I couldn’t event take pictures. I finally linked up with the MPC doctor which is my dude Dan Gill. He is the basically The Ghost In The Machine.

After I got all the news from Dan the doctor, I went over to tech support. This was like a producers library, I saw all the products from Akai, Numark, Ion and Alesis. It was crazy to see people answering the phones and answering questions about all the different machines. This room was running like a well oiled machine.

It was a great trip and I learned a lot and now it was time to head off and crank up the Death Star and see if I can start producing some tracks again. C-ya