My most recent music project. A really stupid name chosen as part of my "anti marketing" scheme. I was really inspired by this painting that said "I gave up without stopping". I wanted to be more irreverent. Less thoughtful of my image and just puke out my insides.

Not to overexplain the joke but "Assblaster64" is a combination of a lot of things. The games Master Blaster and how every N64 game ended in 64. Big booty bass/Miami bass was definitely an inspiration but 

This album is selected works from the years 2021-2024. Its just the songs I think others would like. It's got all the drum beats and the basslines and all the vocal hooks people tend to tolerate. It's "All That You Want From Me". Nothing More, Nothing Less.

Released on the PVD Indie label Serrel Sweet Recordings November 1st 2024.

Wasn't sure to put this in "music" or the "video" section but in the spirit of this site, I'll put it in both.

This was made towards the end of lockdown when local arts space AS220 has dedicated itself for awhile to hosting live music performances. While this set isn't technically "live" I did try to record a whole setlist in one go, and then sliced in some extra visuals to keep it engaging.

Its a short visual album about my experience trying to use VR to dissaccoceate from the horrors of Covid. Ignoring the constant news cycle and  focusing all my energy on my pet rats and felling better about myself.

Filming by NicoleCarriere. Everything else me

May 2021

This was more towards the beginning of lockdown. It was heavily inspired by the band Sweet Valley who heavily samples old video games into heavy drum beats. I wanted to make a mash up of all the games I love while lamenting about the absurd work hours I was pulling while the world around me fell apart.

Filming by NicoleCarriere. Everything else me

"Almost live from Quarantine in Rhode Island, Joe-Lou brings a short sketch pad, dripping with neon electric moods."

September 2020

Space Heater is a band I'm in with Maiden X and we have always had a focus on live performances. Theirs still a bunch of unrecorded songs we played out live but we put together this demo to keep some of them fresh in our head.

March 2020

This was an origional song we made in collaboration with fashion designer Kent Stetson. 

October 2020

This the first and only fully recorded album we did. Recording came a bit easier before our live show schedule really took off. But after this we really dirlled down on telling stories live. We would fight villians on stage and do all kinds of crazy antics to produce mini-sci-fi rock operas.

Space Heater X is a Providence band with Maiden-X on vocals and Joe Lou on assorted instruments and programming. This is dance music for doctoral candidates from outer space and love songs for robots. … (Eric Baylies) –The Noise Boston

This was relseased in June 2018

I was really inspired by seing Hatsune Miku live and thought about what if I could design a virtual pop star. 

Little Lou was a charicter I came up with to make fun of my problems. I never got around to animating her entire body before I moved on to othe projects but I wanted to take a quick video show show the proof of concept.

I only performed out with this a few times but I would do rear projection on a large piece of tulle fabric, so it looked like it was floating.

March 2018

This was a really amazing oppertunity. We (steph and I) got to collaborate with Kent Stetson to provide a live score for his runway performance at RI Styleweek. It was called "Motherboard"

Description from PVD Indie Label Quantum Wampum

Joe-Lou has one live set that really defies regular-ass descriptions. Sometimes comical and interactive, other times extreme experiments with visual and audio experience (such as the Amazing "multi-dimension booth" or his holographic pop-star), yet he's always pushing for something a little more different.

Here is some of his musical output, 5 awesome weird lil' electronic grooves , with all the clicks and whistles required for the maximumest of maximums. And go see his dang live set! It's cool!
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released April 13, 2017

P R O V I D E N C E, R H O D E I S L A N D
Written and performed on a DSI Tempest.
Recorded and mixed by Joe-Lou
Mastered by Robert Galbraith
Album art by: PICTOGLAZE

It was all quick tongue in cheek jams to have fun.

So for a couple of years I played sax and jammed on a sampler in Baylie's band. Eric's band had already been going strong for like 25 years by the time I joined. So it was a really fun project to be a part of. I got to get me feet wet in some new music spaces and see what the New Bedford art scene was like.

Ultimately I'm not a very good sax player and I love making beats too much, so I eventually left the band. But it was a fun couple of years!

2011-2013

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Selected works from 4 diffrent albums I made after dropping the "Outsider Joe" name and just using " Joe-Lou" These albums were made after I moved to PVD and was still learning Drum Synthesis.

Theirs also 2 bonus tracks of my work with the late Joe Buzzel. RIP dude I really miss you.

My one and only ambient album. Inspired by nights watching work/death perform live. This was origionally released as a split with Ross Lafond back in 2012. It uses samples taken on my second trip to Japan where I whept at the beauty of seeing a pirate ship sailing on a lake ontop of a mountian.

Selected works from my first 3 albums, back when I perfomed under the name "OutsiderJoe".

Some of this music is really bad. I just mean like, rough, not well made. I didnt have much skill but I dont want to delete it because at least its honest.

I eventually dropped the name "outsider" out of respect for those I would consider actual "outsider" artists. People with less resources than me, either incarcerated or living in more remote and difficult conditions.