March 2010 Blog Posts (19)

Inglorious Beta CD April 1st On Inner Loop Records

Added by Indy on March 31, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Buy The Wu-Massacre Album Here (Meth/Rae/Ghost)

Wu-Tang Clan members Method Man, Raekwon and Ghostface team up to bring you the Wu-Massacre album. This is a moment in hip hop history. You can get the album here today on iTunes or… Continue

Added by Indy on March 30, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Judah Presents The Amber Rose Instrumental Video

Music producer Judah linked up with ABB Video to add visuals to his Amber Rose Instrumental mixtape. CLICK HERE to download the Amber Rose Instrumentals. Contact ABB Video if you need camera… Continue

Added by Indy on March 25, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

City Of God's Son: A Hip Hop Opera/Film For The Blind

Introducing a ground-breaking new form of story telling, filmmaker Kenzo Hakuta reveals his latest production entitled City of God’s Son featuring Nas, Jay Z, Biggie Smalls, Delroy Lindo, Ghostface, Raekwon, Samuel L. Jackson, and Laurence Fishburne. The project is a spectacular soundscape into the world of the iconic gangster. Utilizing multiple mediums including 3D… Continue

Added by Indy on March 22, 2010 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Artist B.o.B. Pays Homage To Slick Rick Album Cover

Atlanta rapper B.o.B. has an album hitting stores April 27th. His album artwork is similar to Slick Rick's cover art for The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. B.o.B. is signed to TI's label Grand Hustle/Atlantic Records.…

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Added by Indy on March 22, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

VIDEO: Producers Dre and Vidal Mentor A Producer

Dre & Vidal is a multi-Grammy Award Winning songwriting and production duo consisting of Andre Harris and Vidal Davis, who are best known as the main producers for Jill Scott and Glenn Lewis. Alumni of DJ Jazzy Jeff's A Touch of Jazz production team, Dre & Vidal were also instrumental in the… Continue

Added by Indy on March 22, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Free Beats Friday: All Tracks Produced By E-Minah

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Added by Indy on March 19, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Music Producers Gamble & Huff Speak On Masters

Check out this interview with legendary music producers Gamble & Huff. They have produced hit songs for the O'Jays, Diana Ross & The Supremes and The… Continue

Added by Indy on March 19, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Mike Kalombo Makes Another Track From Scratch

Mike Kalombo produces a hot track from scratch. Mike goes by the name Klassic Master on Youtube. He has recently been working with Jermaine Dupri so you will be hearing a lot more of his music in… Continue

Added by Indy on March 19, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

3 Levels of A&R: Who Can Really Get You Signed?

In the music industry, A&R stands for artist and repertoire. Traditionally A&R guys (and it was almost exclusively guys) would match up recording artists with songwriters, picking songs that would suit the artists and picking artists that would score hits for a songwriter. Over the years their role has changed, and while they may still suggest songwriters and producers for artists to work with their main job in acting as the point of contact between the… Continue

Added by Indy on March 17, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

Music Producer Engineers Entire Album On iPhone

iMatik, a new release today from DJ and music producer, Freematik was engineered entirely from Tom Freeman's iPhone with apps like Beatmaker, iDrum,… Continue

Added by Indy on March 17, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Ryan Leslie Documents His Recent European Tour

Music producer Ryan Leslie recently documented his European Tour. It is amazing how many artists fail to realize the opportunities to make money in countries outside of their own. That statement is true for producers, managers, and DJs,… Continue

Added by Indy on March 16, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Cool New J-Dilla Donut Shop Serato Collector Set

Serato and Stones Throw have teamed with the J Dilla Estate for the official J Dilla Serato release, Donut Shop. This is 2 discs with six J Dilla tracks, 2 sides with Serato Control Tone (for use with Serato Scratch Live DJ software), and 2 donut slipmats in a package designed by Studio No.1. This will be released May… Continue

Added by Indy on March 16, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Cure Writer's Block By Doing This Daily Exercise

As musicians, we’re all familiar with the concept of practicing to improve. Too few of us, however, practice enough when it comes to songwriting. If we did, we probably wouldn’t suffer from writer’s block as much as we often do. But practicing songwriting skills on a daily basis is vital if we want to improve our craft. To improve your lyric-writing skills, try this rewording exercise.

Choose a lyrical phrase from one of your songs as an example… Continue

Added by Indy on March 15, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Nottz To Produce Rah Digga's Entire Next Album

Music producer Nottz will be producing Rah Digga's entire next album. You may remember Rah Digga from Busta Rhymes' group Flipmode Squad. Her first album was a classic and included production form DJ Premier, Swizz Beats, Rockwilder, and Nottz. This is a great lesson for music producers. Rah Digga valued their chemistry so much that… Continue

Added by Indy on March 14, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Video: Pharrell Creates A Song From Scratch

Can anyone name the mystery girl in this Youtube video? It seems like The Neptunes were creating the song for her to sing. The video is a few years old so I'm guessing the song is still… Continue

Added by Indy on March 12, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Wu-Tang Seeking Nine New Members For The Group

It’s kind of like when the Uncanny X-Men turned the duties over to the new school X-Men. It was bound to happen. Basically stating that Wu-Tang Clan is more of a brand and less of a group, Wu-Tang Management is holding an MC competition to find “The Next 9 Generals”… Continue

Added by Indy on March 11, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Music Producer Disko Dave Makes A Hot New Beat

Music producer Disko Dave makes a beat from scratch. I spotted this video at HipHopMakers. You should definitely check out their site daily if you are interested in music production and new studio… Continue

Added by Indy on March 8, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Video: Phil Ade- Hollywood (Beat by Mark Henry)

Phil Ade video "Hollywood" from Okayplayer on… Continue

Added by Indy on March 5, 2010 at 9:53am — No Comments

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