{"id":499,"date":"2012-11-29T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autofish.net\/web_log\/?p=499"},"modified":"2012-11-30T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T06:45:12","slug":"ronald-jenkees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autofish.net\/web_log\/archives\/499","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Jenkees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronald Jenkees released his third album Days Away<\/a> today, so I suppose it’s a good time to mention him here.<\/p>\n

Jenkees first became famous-on-the-Internet when he began posting videos of himself playing his synthesizer on Youtube<\/a>. He began each video with the greeting “Hello, Youtubes!” <\/p>\n

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He’s certainly talented, and I’ve listened to his previous two albums many times. And his latest seems to be at least as good as the previous two. <\/p>\n

From a 2008 interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I used to make beats and silly raps and share them with friends on my website, but that was the extent of my music career. I actually studied tech in college and always did music for the fun of it (still do!). I started posting videos on YouTube just to entertain people \u2013 mainly my old college friends. Eventually I started posting vids of myself playing music. I guess it mixed well with my goofiness on camera, but mainly that combination of being entertaining and letting loose helped me to not feel like such a show-off. The YouTube audience is the only reason I came out with a whole album and am now working on a second.<\/div>\n

Days Away seems to be his first instrumental-only album, the others each featuring two rap songs (their titles helpfully including “rap” in parentheses). Whatever your opinion on rap, I’d recommend listening to 56K (rap)<\/a> and Let’s Ride (rap)<\/a> at least once–but try some of his other songs first.<\/p>\n

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