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It’s been real Austin. I’m headed home after 12 days, 6 festival sets, 2 masterclasses, 2 rollicking jazz club sit-ins, 2 rehearsals, trips to Nagodoches and Lockhart, lots of great BBQ, one busted pair of shoes, rain, mud, heat, SO much dust, old friends and amazing new ones. It was an awesome trip filled with music and fun. #stuffyoucanuse

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The best band a guy could ask for 💙💙💙💙

Thank you guys!

ACL WEEKEND 2 DAY 2:

On stage at 4:30 PM, Kiddie Limits! See ya there!

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AUSTIN, TX- catch “Teacher/Rapper/Hero” and GRAMMY-Nominee Mega Ran as he headlines 2 nights at the Star-studded Austin City Limits Festival. Mega Ran ends off a great weekend of music on the Austin Kiddie Limits Stage.

Ran says: “The dream continues… we run it back this weekend with better weather (hopefully)!

Catch your boy and an all-star band including Rob Kovacs on keys, Rob Mitzner on drums, and locals Strawbitty Yops, back in ATX for Austin City Limits weekend 2! 4:30 PM Sat and Sunday.

One set for the gamers, one set for the rest, it’s all gonna rock. See you soon and let’s make a memory!” #ACL

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#FBF Going crazy at @twitchcon rapping about anime. A time was had. Nothing like performing with live music. Shout out to @robkovacsmusic and @dompalombimusic on the keys and drums. San Diego is a beautiful city 😎 #twitchcon #nerdcorehiphop #sandiegoconventioncenter

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If you had told me a year ago that “Carlos you’re gonna play the Boutique theme from Pokémon X/Y / Pokémon Legends: Z-A live at Pokémon Worlds and end it with a crazy band cadenza” I would have ABSOLUTELY not believed you… but somehow it happened. This might be the single most “rockstar” moment of my life thus far… and it was so much FUN!!!

This tune was intended to be our second encore for our band sets at PokémonXP, and unlike every other song in our set, the band used no sheet music for this song. During a rehearsal, I demonstrated each individual part to each individual band member basically by rote, and everybody memorized a ~4 bar loop that became the basis of this song. Then we came up with the structure of the arrangement to feature a solo from everyone in the band, eventually ending in this sax cadenza at the end (which was not my idea initially tbh!) But holy crap it was so much fun. Watching this video back I still kinda pinch myself and say “did this really happen?”

This is the last clip I’m going to share from my performance from PokémonXP, at least for the next while. Thank you all for checking out these clips and the full video ❤️ We hope to play live again in the future!

Band:
Trumpet: @maxboikomusic
Acoustic Guitar: @joshvasquezguitar
Keyboard: @88bitmusic
Electric Bass: @nicomendozamusic
Drumset: @dompalombimusic
Tambourine: @toastymarshmellow_  Video Edit: @kim_sutton

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A month late to posting this but, better late than never! At the end of August, I had the immense joy of being able to go to (& film at) the Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP convention in San Francisco, where @robkovacsmusic played 3 shows of Pokemon Legends Z-A music with Carlos Eiene who worked on music for the game (with a host of other friends/amazing musicians!). I was lucky enough to be able to film the sets and edit together an hour+ long full performance video which we uploaded last week (200k views in the first week ☺️) One of those moments where I’m pinching myself that this is just kinda what my life entails at this point. ❤️ Thank you so much to Rob for bringing me along for the ride, and to Carlos for organizing, arranging, composing, god knows what else! Dream team! 🎶🎥🙌

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My favorite EWI solo moment from PokémonXP! This is “Battle! Team MZ” from Pokémon Legends: Z-A, originally composed by Shinji Hosoe, and if you didn’t know any better… based on this rendition you might think this was a T-Square song!

Well, it just so happens to work out that I am a massive fan of T-Square, and also absolutely love playing the EWI, which is commonly used as the lead instrument in T-Square’s music. I remember when I discovered the EWI (electric wind instrument) around 2013, I was blown away that such an instrument even existed, AND that it was played by my favorite sax player of all time Michael Brecker AND has been used by the lead wind players of T-Square - a very serendipitous link that I still think is super cool. Reminds me of the term “multiple discovery” in history where completely independent civilizations figured out the same thing at around the same time… maybe I’m reaching with that one though LOL

Anyway, rare is the moment when I get to rip on an EWI and have it be stylistically appropriate… but here is one of those moments :D

(Also watching back this clip… man it’s kinda weird having my name written in such big letters right over my head… I don’t think I’m ever gonna get used to that LOL)

Band: 
Electric Guitar: @joshvasquezguitar
Keyboard: @88bitmusic
Electric Bass: @nicomendozamusic
Drumset: @dompalombimusic

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Okay now that our full show video is out… it’s MY turn to share some of my favorite clips from our live performance at PokémonXP!

Here’s my sax solo over “Lumiose City (Night)”. This might just be my favorite live solo I’ve ever played - it’s not very long or anything but I love the challenge of playing something meaningful in a relatively short amount of time! The reed I had on during this show cooperated with me very nicely and gave me some really nice split tone altissimo A’s! I’ve also struggled in the past with making “fast flurry of notes” passages feel meaningful, and when I listen back to this solo… the parts where I kinda just spam notes actually feel pretty good. So I’m really happy with this! (Can you tell that my favorite saxophonist is Michael Brecker?? If it’s not obvious… then maybe I’m doing something wrong 🤣)

This was a song I arranged for the soundtrack of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and I’m overjoyed to have had this chance to perform it live with such an incredible band 🙏

Band:  Tenor Saxophone / EWI / Flute: @insaneintherainmusic
Trumpet / Flugelhorn: @maxboikomusic
Acoustic / Electric Guitar: @joshvasquezguitar
Keyboard: @88bitmusic
Electric Bass: @nicomendozamusic
Drumset: @dompalombimusic Video Edit: @kim_sutton

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I ROGUE MEGA EVOLED AFTER THIS DRUM SOLO 🔥 🥁 🔥

Reposting this moment from performing with @insaneintherainmusic ‘s band at PokémonXP, this was a blast of a show, and doing it with some of the best people ever. @joshvasquezguitar @nicomendozamusic @robkovacsmusic

Shouts to @kim_sutton for the epic edit!

GO WATCH THE FULL SHOW ON CARLOS’ CHANNEL!!!

#pokèmon #pokemonlegendsza #vgm #drums #pokemonxp

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Many of you asked for this… and I’m sooooo excited to share that I’ve released a full hour-long+ concert video of one of my band performances at PokémonXP! The entire week of PokémonXP was the best week of my life so far, so I’m really happy to be able to immortalize Sunday’s show in video form. If you caught the show in person, now you can relive it again, or if you weren’t able to make it to the concert in person… now you can see it no matter where you are in the world!

The full video is up on my YouTube channel. Please enjoy our performance ❤️ We all had SO MUCH FUN playing these shows, and I hope you can feel that energy as you watch this video :D

Band:  Tenor Saxophone / EWI / Flute: @insaneintherainmusic
Trumpet / Flugelhorn: @maxboikomusic
Acoustic / Electric Guitar: @joshvasquezguitar
Keyboard: @88bitmusic
Electric Bass: @nicomendozamusic
Drumset: @dompalombimusic
Vocals: @toastymarshmellow_ Video Edit: @kim_sutton

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@pokemon World Championships Selfie Drop No. 3

I’ve seen some amazing VGM bands, but @insaneintherainmusic and his band was the first time I’ve ever seen a live performance be exactly one-to-one to the video game! Not only was his music an big inspiration for me, especially as I was doing music in college, but his music he wrote for Pokemon Legends: Z-A was undoubtedly the best part of the game. To then hear it live by him and the absolutely AMAZING musicians that joined him was unbelievably stunning! Fantastic job to @insaneintherain on both sax and EWI, @toastymarshmellow_ on vocals, @joshvasquezguitar on guitar, @robkovacsmusic on keys, @nicomendozamusic on bass, dompalombimusic on drums, and @maxboikomusic on trumpet (forgot to get a pic with Max, but he was also FANTASTIC)!

P.S. I also got to meet the amazing @sixthstationtrio as well, pictured with @robkovacsmusic!

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Performing tomorrow in Cleveland! #undertale #undertalesymphony #tobyfox @undertalesymph

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