Evenstar to be first band featured on MusicFreedom
(7/19/04) NSYNC.com

Evenstar has been added to the official list of CFTC performers.

Rhett Fisher (singer/song writer) and Micah Faulkner (guitar/bass) are two extremely talented artists you’re sure to hear from in the near future. Formed in the Los Angeles suburb of Westlake, the guys have been friends for 4 years now. Both are self-taught musicians that have just recently started collaborating and getting people’s attention. Their music has been compared to that of Incubus by all who have heard it and they are thought by many to be the next big thing in the rock genre. Evenstar is working on getting signed to a major record label with the help of MusicFreedom.com. Evenstar is the first ever up and coming group to be featured on the music site and will be there for fans everywhere to listen to and get to know them. To find out more information on Evenstar, visit www.musicfreedom.com.

 

Spin: The Remix Reloaded
With MTV Music Generator 3, JC Chasez produces the best songs you're ever likely to hear on an Xbox
(7/19/04) Sarah Lewitinn SPIN Magazine
(thanks nsyncgirlique0 for scanning, candy for transcribing!)

With his eclectic musical tastes and his roster of electronica-genius pals, JC Chasez might be the only member of 'N Sync who we'd actually want to hear DJ. He's also the lone pop star we'd trust with MTV Music Generator 3: This Is the Remix (Codemasters), a "videogame" that turns your PS2 or Xbox into a virtual recording studio, allowing you to remix songs by artists such as OutKast, Snoop Dogg, and Sean Paul. From the comfort of his luxury tour bus, we watched and listened as Chasez twiddled with his knobs.

Track 1: "From Tha Chuuuch to Da Palace" by Snoop Dogg

For his first attempt at an Xbox-engineered remix, Chasez selects this Snoop/Neptunes collaboration. With the touch of a button, he's able to quickly strip away the drums, the backing vocals, and just about anything else that makes it sound like a Neptunes-produced track. But by adding special effects (most of which have the word ice in their names, for some reason), Chasez creates a song that's more stoned-out than a Dogg-day afternoon on the chronic. "This program makes the remixes sound progressive for me," he says. "No matter what I do, it'll always sound like something the Prodigy cooked up."

Track 2: "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand

Just as Chasez starts getting comfortable with Music Generator, we throw him a curveball and ask him to use the game's built-in sampler to remix an indie-rock track from among the CDs we brought with us. But he doesn't recognize any of the titles, so we choose one for him. After messing with the tempo for a few minutes, Chasez starts singing along, and builds an entire track out of the sampled lyric "So if you're lonely." "This song sounds familiar," he says before breaking into "That's All" by Genesis.

Track 3: "Get Busy" by Sean Paul

Sadly, Chasez's efforts to graft the Franz Ferdinand samples to this track spawn a song that's unfit for human ears, so he settles for creating his own remix of the dancehall hit, which is mellower and more trippy than the original. "It's my dub mix," he says. "It's just darker." Ultimately, Chasez concludes that Music Generator is a game best played in private and not in the presence of friends: "They're all musicians, so they'd be all jumping in, going, 'Do this! Do that!' and then they'd end up taking it too far." And though his afternoon's work has yielded (mostly) melodic results, he isn't ready to give up his day job for a career in producing. "I leave that shit up to the Basement Jaxx and BT."