Check out my Jam Stratus-Fear with Jimi Ruccolo and Larry Hirt!

Stratus Fear – FUNKMEISTER featuring Jimi Ruccolo andLarry Hirt Check out this cool jam from Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock’s debut album, FUNKMEISTER featuring my awesome friend and brother, guitarist Jimi Ruccolo and another awesome friend and brother, drummer Larry Hirt. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Some Recent Production Work I Did

I have recently produced an album for an artist from India named Sam Robinson Thalluri. Sam is a very good man and a Christian minister as well. He comes from the Bollywood tradition, but is also very hung up on American Rock and Rhythm and Blues as well as British Rock like Phil Collins. In…

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Quit Cryin’ Redux!

This is a song I wrote in 1988, recorded on analog tape in 1993, brought the analog mixdown into digital in 2008 and finally remixed that and re-mastered in 2012. The song was inspired by a recording session at Cloudborn Studio in 1978 with Lamont Johnson doing recordings for his album “Music of the Sun”.…

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Belita Woods, Soulful Detroit Songstress 1948-2012

Detroit Soul & Funk icon Belita Karen Woods has passed away yesterday (May 14, 2012) of heart failure during an operation. Belita was best known as the lead vocalist for Detroit disco band Brainstorm during the 1970s and 80s. During the 90s and beyond, Belita also gained recognition as the lead singer with George Clinton…

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Digital Recording Magic

When I decided to record my own album, I wanted do a lot of experimental stuff and really try to push the envelope. But I really didn’t know where to start — even though I tried everything, before I was through. After producing four albums on my own, and now having mastered and mixed countless…

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Brand New Day

All right I’m back after quite some time without updating the website — I’ve just updated everything to a whole fresh new look and I think this website will provide a whole new user experience to people interested in what’s going on with me and my world. Yeah Baby! Main thing going on with me…

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Guitar god Steve Kimock meets keyboard king Bernie Worrell

I’d like to meet him. Bernie played on all my favorite Funkadelic hits, like Flashlight, Mothership Connection, Give Up the Funk, etc. Guitar god Steve Kimock meets keyboard king Bernie Worrell Boston Globe “But Steve wasn’t the first Kimock whom Worrell joined in musical pursuits. “My eldest son, John Morgan, is a drummer and a…

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End of Year Round-Up

Wow it’s been such an amazing year, I haven’t even had time to update this blog for many months. In my new company Groove-Phonic Mastering and MIxing, I’ve had the opportunity to work for so many wonderful artists, and continue to do so. Just this weekend I’m finished up work on an album release for…

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new projects and other stuff

Update for 7/11/2011 — I just finished co-producing, mixing and mastering a new CD for EMI recording artist Jade check out Jade’s website and hear one of the tracks. I’m just finishing up an album for an unsigned artist named Sam Robinson Thalluri. Sam is an incredibly talented singer-songwriter who has sold thousands of records in…

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Mike Gould and the Gene Pool Band

Rotating Records Presents: Mike Gould and the Gene Pool BandRecorded February 14, 1982 Mike Gould: telecaster and vocalsDoug Koernke: lead guitarJeff Michael: guitarAndy Boller: keyboardsHugh J. Hitchcock: bass guitarRob King: drums Recorded Live at the University of Michigan Student Unionfor the 3rd Annual WCBN Ann Arbor BASH eventValentine’s Day, 1982 with:Illuminatus Light ShowWayne GillisZita GillisAnn…

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update 2011-3-16

I’d like to say Hello to Carlos Mantilla in Bucaramanga Columbia — he’s the latest DJ to add my record FUNKMEISTER to the playlist over at Radio 96.9 Bucaramanga! Thanks Carlos. My second release “Mixed Messages” off the record has also been doing well in the international charts this year, so thanks everyone. Be sure…

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stepwise

Stepwise from the album Jesse Jones Jr.: Father of Scat Hop © copyright 2010 Funkatology Records LLC Jesse Jones Jr.: saxophones, vocals, scat and “scat hop” Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock (producer): drum programming, all basses, keyboards, rhythm guitars Ike Woods: lead and rhythm guitars Norma Hitchcock: female vocals Dennis Sierra: lead guitars Joe Collado: conga and…

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