DJ Puzzle is an American Disc Jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 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

Sound design

Sound design is the process of specifying, acquiring, manipulating or generating audio elements. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including filmmaking, television production, theatre, sound recording and reproduction, live performance, sound art, post-production and video game software...

, music for video games, and music for film.

Where can you find Jason Donnelly’s work? He’s spotlighted in Acoustica

Acoustica

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's Mixcraft

Mixcraft

Mixcraft is a multitrack recording application for Windows. The software functions as a Digital Audio Workstation , MIDI sequencer, virtual instrument host, non-linear video arranger, and as a music loop remix program....

 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

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
  Mixcraft
  Mixcraft is a multitrack recording application for Windows. The software functions as a Digital Audio Workstation , MIDI sequencer, virtual instrument host, non-linear video arranger, and as a music loop remix program....
  
   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
  Loopmasters
  Loopmasters isa sound design label based in Brighton, UK. Loopmasters release and publish sample packs on the pro-audio market and cooperate with major software and hardware vendors including Ableton Live and Focusrite. Since 2008 Loopmasters also functions as an online store for music composers,...
  
  
• 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