DJ Puzzle

Dj Puzzle
Background information
Birth name	Jason Donnelly
Born	March 22, 1973 (1973-03-22) (age 38) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres	House Breaks Electro
Occupations	Disc jockey, Music producer
Instruments	Drums, Keyboards, Guitar, Turntables
Years active	1989-present
Labels	BasicLUX, Sony, Solar Sound Records
Website	www.djpuzzle.com

DJ Puzzle (real name Jason Donnelly) is an American Disc Jockey and Music Producer from Chicago. He is best known for his production work on the Dj Puzzle: Scratch Tactics Sony Sound Series loop library. Scratch Tactics was the first collection of turntable scratches designed specifically for popular loop based music programs such as Sony ACID Pro.

Anyone using loops to create music or enhance a DJ set has probably used his material whether they know it or not. Donnelly, AKA DJ Puzzle, has been creating loops in a range of genres from Rock to Reggaeton to Electro to Hardcore ever since he started his career with Sony Creative Software in 1998, back when it was still called Sonic Foundry.

His work with Acid DJ 3.0 eventually led to him starting his own company, Peace Love Productions (PLP), one of the first to offer Acid loops (Sonic Foundry being the first). More than a few aspiring producers landed deals using PLP loops. Dj Puzzle founded Peace Love Productions in January 2000. Peace Love Productions specializes in royalty free music loops, sound design, music for video games, and music for film.

Where can you find Jason Donnelly’s work? He’s spotlighted in Acoustica's Mixcraft software and is responsible for most of the loops for Looptastic, the iPad/iPhone/iPod app by Sound Trends. His latest work includes a fresh batch of Hardcore beats for Sony Creative Software entitled X-Core.

Jason Donnelly isn’t quite content just to run Peace Love Productions; his DJ Puzzle releases—including his most recent release "Geodesic Peers" are available via iTunes, Rhapsody, and Amazon and his future plans include an invasion of the video game sound design industry. He is also a freelance reporter for Chicago based eZine Music Site Gearwire.com

Selected discography

Film Scores

REFORM by Jamal Caesar - 2011 Blackash Blue Pictures

Selected discography

Compilations, Singles, & Albums

• Emoticon
• Jah Boogie - Power (Dj Puzzle Club Mix)
• MYU Entertainment - TMRW - (Dj Puzzle Remix)
• Geodesic Peers Disc 1 and 2
• Summer Daze; New Sound Theory BasicLUX Records
• Shoong, Don't Let Em Catch Ya Alive; Precipice Recordings

iPad, iPhone, & iPod Touch Apps

• Midi Sequences & Synths Patches For Gruvtron By Sound Trends
• Loops for Looptastic & Studio.HD by Sound Trends

Music Software for PC

• Loops as part of the Mixcraft Software by Acoustica
• Loops on the Acid Dj 3.0 content content disc

Sample CDs and Sample Packs

• Dj Tools; Peace Love Productions on Beatport.com
• Tribal House; Loopmasters
• Dirty Disco:Nouveau Break Beat; Sony Sound Series
• Afterhours EDM; Sony Sound Series
• ACID DJ Expander Pack; Sony Sound Series
• Designer Dance Tools; Sony Sound Series
• Dj Puzzle: Scratch Tactics; Sony Sound Series
• Trance Sold NRG; Sony Sound Series
• Trance Sold NRG2; Sony Sound Series
• X-Core : Hardcore Techno Construction Kit; Sony Sound Series

External links

• http://www.bangontunes.com – Music production services
• http://www.djpuzzle.com – Dj Puzzle official homepage
• http://www.peaceloveproductions.com – Royalty free music loops
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4591965/ Dj Puzzle on IMDb
• http://www.emusic.com/album/Geodesic-Peers-Disc-1-Geodesic-Peers-Disc-1-MP3-Download/11278014.html; eMusic Download Dj Puzzle

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Name	Puzzle, Dj
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Date of birth	March 22, 1973
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