John Dylan singles (recording, mixing and co-production by Golddragon; all performance and songwriting by John Mulhausen) - 2018
Golddragon hiphop (2017-18)
Classical Performances
Golddragon hiphop remixes (2011)
Golddragon hiphop remixes (2009-10)
Golddragon beats (2009-10)
Golddragon with Alphabet City beats (2009-10)
Golddragon - Parachutes Project beats (2009)
Golddragon - Dakar (2008) - Senegalese drumming, movie soundtrack samples, and classic funk/soul breaks provide the backdrop for a full-length Notorious B.I.G. remix album. (Sample credits here.)
Golddragon hiphop remixes (2008-07) - Jay-Z, Dre, Kanye, Rakim, and more....
The Hip-Hop Verses Project (2007)
<-- [Download album]
These are ten minute long mixes with only one rule - no choruses!
New Mackrosoft (2007)
Crossfaded excerpts of my sax work on Goonie Birds , from the new Aja West release "The Olympian."
Film score cues (2007)
New York City (2006)
New beats for a new city:
Yoo-Tang Clan: torture.mp3 (Bush, John Woo (Justice Dept author of the CIA torture memos), and the Wu-Tang Clan.)
African Fusion (2005)
Old West African field recordings combined with live bass and strings.
Experimental and moody.
This blend of space jazz, rock and drum 'n bass puts everything
I've been loving since college together in one wild package. It started
with tracking Jimmy Gilbertson, the drummer from Terrene, and me on
bass. Then I chopped up the beats, added keyboards, and recorded Ryan
Leyva on guitar and Zach Price on congas. Inspired by FCS
North, 78 Nova, and Squarepusher,
this would have been my dream band if I hadn't left Seattle.
Get the zip!:
LiveAtNowhere.zip
Terrene (2004-2005) - Songs written by John Mulhausen: [Download the album]
I played bass on this record. My favorite is Mermaid. Sparkly indie
rock is how John describes it - I say it is epic weather, layers upon
layers of shimmering guitar effects and thin, high, yearning vocals.
John Mulhausen is a genius! Sorry I had to leave this band when I
moved to NYC. Phil Ek produced the
record.
Vent Studios (2002-2005)
<da remixes>
<decathalon>
- Gold
Chains - David Bratton
deserves his own section. It's a crime how little music we've made
together over the years. This collaboration features my man on the
guitar. The bass line is a sample from 24 Karat Black.
<other peeps>
- "420
Tonight" - The High Children - THC,
get it? Another beat that I made. The artist has a show on MTV
Canada and has sold beats to J-Lo and Ghosface Killa.
- "Get
Freak With Me" - Mighty - A very KUBE pop hip-hop dance
song. I contributed substantially to the beat/music. Mighty was
an L.A. promoter, always talking about big movies he was getting
involved with, all these famous hip-hop artists he supposedly hung
out with. He showed me Paris Hilton and Dr. Dre in his cell phone
address book. Hmm.
- Hallelujah"
by Leonard Cohen, performed by Kate Noson - I'm on djembe and
Hammond B-3 organ. Kate is a total sweetheart, and an old friend
from college. She does this song better than most people except
Buckley.
- "Sun
and Moon" by Frankie Fiction- Frank played guitar and sang,
I did the backing music. A rock ballad.
- "Hulk"
by Lazarus - This rapper intended the song to be on
the Hulk soundtrack. He came in with a beat,
which I stripped down to only a few drum parts, and then created
the rest of the music. An unusual use of strings.
<Trination>
I produced this EP for the most incredibly talented jazz-turned-rock
musicians ever to come out of north Seattle - Will Moore and Ryan
Leyva have soul and stage presence. Engineered by Brad Zeffrin
at Chomasound.
My favorite tracks:
<beatz> - Would somebody please steal these!? (zip includes beats from 2006)
Mackrosoft (since birth) :
These guys were finalists in the Independent
Music Awards 2006, jam album category, for their new album by
Flash and Snowball, as judged by George Clinton and Norah Jones. I
met Paul and Alex Cheever in Boy Scouts. When high school ended, they
built a studio in their parents' basement, and thus began a decade-long
saga of dirty nasty funk and innocence lost. I've played sax on
their recordings as often as possible, and their latest masterpiece
has been rewarded with the only true mark of social relevance - a
spot on The Real World. Here I present my favorite excerpts (all saxophone
unless noted):
Beat Congress (2004)
A sad story - the Latin mega-group that almost was...but
we never found a lead singer.
Civilized Animals (2003):
My first experience playing bass in hard rock band - two brothers
from Jersey, thick accents, no bullshit. This is an ultra lo-fi rehearsal
recording. You've been warned.
- Nanotuning
- Noisecore chaos improv.
- Track
11 - A dark instrumental written by Jay Casatelli and Mike Romagnino
- Different
People - written by Jay Casatelli and Mike Romagnino
- King
Feather - written by Jay Casatelli and Mike Romagnino
Nova Animations (2003)
Movies, movies, movies! By high school kids from Nova! Taught by my
friend Stefan Gruber.
Cast of the Akwada (2002)
A funk band - original compositions by Thomas Kim plus a turntabilist.
Jazz Trio at MusicMatch (2001)
And what's this? I stumbled across this
live video of a jazz trio in 2001, and I'm on sax playing a Miles Davis tune called "Dr. Jekyll."
San Diego Sessions (2000-2002)
The start of what later became Vent Studios, these were all made in my bedroom in San Diego on Park
Blvd during my years at MusicMatch.
- Bezerk
- I was living with a drum 'n bass promoter, and this is an experiment
in crushed glass.
- Bezerk
(Palette mix) - The source material for the main track came
from this less commercial version.
- SubSub
- Too fast to be drum n bass really, but my favorite of the bunch.
- About
You - Sophy wrote the lyrics and melody, I did the backing music.
Trip-hop.
- Dub
- Quicker
On The Draw - The girl who sang this, Gabrielle, was a dynamite
singer who I collaborated with a few summers back in Seattle, and
then lost the files when my Syquest drive failed. This is all that
remains of our connection.
- Chrysalis
Juju is the epitome of the earth mother raver solistice girl.
San Francisco Acid EP (1999)
I can still see the computer monitor sitting on the cardboard box
in my bedroom in the apartment half a block from Haight and Ashbury.
I'm striding around on the phone working on my startup, SphereMedia,
just out of school. And I got Acid 1.0 and started making breakbeat-tempo
electronica.
Stanford computer music (1999)
Computer
Music Final - Produced by writing a software program.
Inside Outsemble (1999)
Jazz sextet, all originals - we gigged around the Bay Area for a
few months.
Gumbo (1997-1999)
A mix of styles from my days at Stanford, 1997-1999, playing around
in the studio.
- DreamDance
- The only string quintet I ever wrote, composed to accompany a
modern dance performance! An out-of-tune performance in places,
and poor recording by me, but I was still proud of the composition.
Click
here for sheet music.
- Funk
Flow - Super funky collaboration between Alex Cheever and me.
I'm all over the keys, he chopped it up.
- Live
At Starbucks 1 - My junior year summer, 1998, I played sax with
a tabla player at the Starbucks on top of Queen Anne hill in Seattle.
I was really in to Ravi Shankar and Indian music at the time, and
this is all improvised.
- Live
At Starbucks 2
- Smash
- One of the few bop tunes for jazz combo I wrote in high school
that got recorded. Please forgive the church reverb. Click
here for sheet music
- Zen
Suite - This was actually recorded in high school, mixed in
college. It was inspired by my Zen studies in my senior year, combined
with all the late Coltrane I was listening to at the time.
- Deconstructing
Miles - My first time playing with an MPC2000.
- Space
Madness - Ambient spooky electronica.
- Triple
- Trip-hop instrumental in three parts.
- Volcano
- Hyper and strange. Includes a sample of my favorite instrument
from the Batak album - it's a double reed mini-oboe from Sumatra
that sounds like an electric guitar.
Low Flying Planes (1998)
A poetry/slam band, with David Bratton on guitar and featuring the
brilliant poems of Pauls Toutonghi. My two best friends from high
school here. I'm on percussion most of the time, much of it Nigerian.
...and the rest:
Robots Engage (1998)
A studio band that existed for three days. Poorly executed, poorly
recorded, but it marks the debut of Pauls as a singer/songwriter.
Ornette Coleman tribute band (1997)
Yale classical music (1996)
- Theme
and Variations - I took many classical theory and composition
courses....my favorite work, a string quartet, was lost by my professor!
But at least I saved this piano piece and managed to squeeze out
a performance. Click
here for sheet music.
Gnarled Mack - The soundtrack to an original play performed at Yale
in 1996.
Garfield Jazz Band (1994)