Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Another Single

After taking a few months off to recharge the batteries I just found out that I have another single getting played nationally. Six-8 and I recorded Bobby Valentino's new single "Altered Ego" featuring 50 Cent at ZAC's here in Atlanta.
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video800.php?v=wshhrh94FE7Rhd6AbI46&set_size=1

Tony Gaines and I have also been composing music for several IPhone video games, stay Tuned for titles.

Friday, July 30, 2010

N9ne Time!

I recently recorded Sundae on 2 tracks ("Too Many Girls" & "What's Your Psycho") for the new Tech N9ne collabos CD "The Gates Mixed Plate". It's nice working again with my old friend, I'm hoping I get to work on the new Nnutthowze project as I'm one of the original 10 members. It would be a blast making some noise again with Tech and my "Bomb Futuristic Attack Shit" Kung Fu style would rattle a few eardrums worldwide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVjY3oZQq4
http://strangemusicinc.net/

I'm proud of what he's done and how he did it... his way. After years of hard work he has the world's attention..... I prey he uses his voice well and returns to his roots of being the most outlandish, creative, B-Boyin', MC (that's got something to say) & unstoppable mouthpiece in the world. He is unlike any other Rapper, and in my top 5 best of all time.

FWIW - I'm no longer teased by other artists, producers, A&R's and Industry people outside of the Midwest when I recite my work and Tech's name is mentioned. Now, I'm actually respected. It's amusing how that happens, you know, watching people catch the Vapors, lol. Biz was right, it is funny.

I told him once that Absolute Power corrupts absolutely, and I watched him spend almost a decade going down a path I could not follow. It's great to hear how he's sober and doing well but until I see his Drivers License I refuse to believe he has one LOL!!

http://www.therealtechn9ne.com/

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Youtube work

 Here is some of my recent work posted on youtube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdMaB4Z2Yc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwnNQTJiMT4&feature=related
I recently mixed Bobby V's "Phone Number" with Plias.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUPqWUHyV0
I recorded the whole song. Bun is pro, no punches!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZHILbhhmrU&feature=related
I cut The track and Jazze's vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ_O7Pvtqos&feature=related
I cut the track and the backgrounds but I was sick the day we were to cut Bobby and my asst. Six 8 cut Bobby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yiNEB3qjSY
I cut the track, Chris cut Gucci at Stankonia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xLYFGfju9I
I cut Angie's vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhr2ymowt9k
I cut everything but Ray J's vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTGhMLMKv6c
Mixed

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mix and Match

Mixing, mixing & mixing.
It's getting busy here in the A and I have finally broken through on the mixing side of things.
I recently mixed Bobby V's new single feat. Plies, a song for the Stomp the Yard soundtrack for Guitar Boy Pat, Vawn's club single "Get a Room" feat Bobby V,  songs for the Outsyders, & several for CBD one for DJ Trauma and others.

Vawn recently resigned with Def Jam and his fantastic project has the green light from LA. I've worked close with Vawn from the start of his project and it's been fantastic. I love watching artists come into their own, I was blessed to watch Tech N9ne do it and seeing it again reminds me of how lucky we are in this biz at times.

My long time production partner and friend Tony Gaines is finally moving to Atlanta, we have big production plans and I'm very excited to have my old partner at my side once again slammin the keys and balancing my crazy energy. Look out world..... here we come!!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Windows 7

I've been busy the past month mixing and recording all over Atlanta. I had been getting many calls about Windows 7 and after the Vista crap OS I just kept my XP machine buzzing along (my PC actually out preforms most of the Macs in Atlanta) but....... because of my tech work I finally jumped into Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit with both feet and have spent weeks working out the wrinkles for audio. I am now Win 7 geeked out and ready to spew my opinions all over the net, lol.

IMHO, with minimal tweaking Win 7 is great for audio, drivers were easy, lol, actually the hardest transition was Pro Tools and Digidesign not having a clue. Reaper has a 64 bit version and runs flawless, most of the programs work fine, but check them first before installing because I did have a few bumps installing then uninstalling several non working programs. Plugins were easy but a few of my old favorites are not supported, the Sonic Timeworks Mastering Limiter is my favorite 2bus comp and It is not working under Win 7. Most websites have the info around or just hit up the great forums online.

Power settings and core parking tweaks were a big help and I'm putting together my tweak list to email to anyone that wants it, anything to save me a trip out to somebody's headache, lol.

The biggest bonus with Win 7 I see is you can now have more than 3.5 gig of RAM and with Kontakt instruments getting bigger and bigger a Win 7 production PC can rock, for mixing the benefit is small but staying up on technology is key to future success in this biz.

Digidesign 8.03cs1 workes great on Win 7, but I must say it is sad that PT will no longer work on Power Macs and Original Mboxes. This type of company decision is what helped me to go Win 7, at what point will Digidesign drop XP support? So I am now future proof (until the next OS) and my audio PC is loving me.
As always be blessed or bendicones.