This is where all the different parts of my creative life exist.
NERDZILLA DELUXE is the home for all my creative output. I'm NERDZILLA DELUXE aka Taylor Jordan, a Southern California musician, composer, coder, artist, collector, tinkerer, and lifelong maker of things.
I'm usually bouncing between writing music, building a plug-in, messing with a game idea, digging through old random technology, sampling something weird, making art, or starting another project because my brain runs circles around my brain... wait, what?
I also love collaborating, especially when music, games, software, and visual ideas start overlapping. If you're working on a game, record, soundtrack, software project, or something and you think I could bring something to it, reach out.
Get High, Stay High: Vol. 1 is the first release under the NERDZILLA DELUXE project. It's an instrumental hip-hop record I built around samples, breakbeats, live instruments, and a lot of the sounds I grew up loving.
It's my love letter to '90s hip-hop and those weird electronic records that had a really unified feeling from beginning to end. The whole album plays as one continuous mix. I wanted it to feel like those late nights with friends, putting on records, digging through sounds, and just letting the music take over the room.
I've always built software to solve problems in my own workflow, but I finally decided to put real time into making tools I can release properly. My first full VST project is NESZILLA, which recreates the sound of Nintendo's Ricoh 2A03 APU and related expansion hardware as focused virtual instruments. It keeps the character of the original chips while adding modern sequencing, sampling, modulation, and sound-shaping tools. COMING SOON!
I just added my first physical media release for Get High, Stay High: Vol. 1, available on cassette, CD, and 180g vinyl. The store is also where I'll be launching the NESZILLA plug-ins, future software, apparel, more music, and whatever else strikes my fancy enough to turn into a real thing.
I've composed music and sound effects for games, and I've been tinkering with my own game projects for years. Most of them have been little ideas, prototypes, and a whole lot of HTML games that started because I wanted to see if I could make something work.
I'll be putting more of those projects up here soon. I especially love collaborating in the video game world because it is one of the places where music, sound, code, visual art, and storytelling can all collide at the same time.
My brain never really shuts off. I usually have a million and one ideas and two million and one projects going at the same time. Most of them will probably never be finished or see the light of day. Experiments is the home for the weird stuff: prototypes, little tools, broken ideas, side quests, strange tests, and whatever else I feel like making. Some of it may grow into something bigger. But let's face it, probably not.
If you want to reach out for any reason, you're welcome to. I especially love hearing about interesting collaborations in music, games, software, sound, and anything that lands somewhere between all of those things.
You can use the form or email me directly.
nerdzilladeluxe@gmail.com