Most musicians feel that giving anything away for free is taking away from their bottom line.  Let's face it, music today can largely be found for free with just a little googling.  So the mp3 is not 'special' anymore.  It's actually become more of an advertising tool than an actual product!

Think about it, if you play a ton of shows, the best way for people to see your show is (more...)

The film that is a world wide co-creation from Spike Lee and online user content is coming to a close soon ... but, we still need your submissions!

Act 3 is about death.  Your submissions don't have to be about a person dying, or a death scene ... instead, it can be anything that symbolizes the end of a phase.  Like a flower wilting.

Also, music is tremendously needed right now!  You can submit music via video onto the JumpCut platform for submission into the film.  And Spike said that he needs much more music than what is currently been submitted so far.

Either way, Spike needs your content!  Audio or Video!  Go over to Nokia Productions right now and start submitting!!! 

What happens when you convert a jazzy R&B beat to some electronica dirty groove? You get my remix! And that's what I did to that "American Boy" track on the radio right now

Here's the YouTube version ...

I found the accapella online and was thrilled because (more...)

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I've been a bit quite over the past few months ... lots of work, songwriting, promotions, etc .. you know the drill. But, what's really exciting is that I'm helping out on a project that involves Spike Lee and Nokia. Basically, the project requires lots of people to upload lots of movie clips, photos, songs, and even text messages.

First, check it out at www.nokiaproductions.com and (more...)

Miracle Beats -- It says it all ....

The song in the middle and end is "Take Me" by Mimi & Teft

Hey Guys ... so I was VERY fortunate to have the amazing experience of having a video shot on the new Red One video camera a couple of months ago ... the video is going to be released in a few weeks!

First off ...

This camera is nuts (and expensive)!! Imagine, for moment, that you could take a Canon 5d and make it snap photos at 24 frames a second .... that's right! 12mp at 24 frames a second. But wait! There's more. It can not only double, but triple that speed!! In the movie industry they call this resolution "4k". It's basically 35mm film, only saved to compact flash card!

Some stills ...

Ok, so these aren't 4k stills ... not even standard definition stills! But they're (more...)

I had to do it! I just started catching up on American Idol off of my Tivo box .., "We're brothers foreeeever!" Hilarious! So of course, I had to throw a mix together and turn the song into an anthem ... Thank you to Renaldo Lapuz!!

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So you're a DJ and you love a radio hit that's currently topping the charts. But you don't have a club'ish remix .... Why not make one! I remixed Rihanna's Umbrella track (sorry, it's rough ... I spent about 2 hours on it) to give it a more housey 4 to the floor flavor. I YouTubed it .. check it out:

So let's take a look at the process of remixing from a radio master .... (more...)

It's that time of year when new always seems "better". That new 8-core MacPro looks nice and shiny! Think of all the plugins I could run with an 8-core machine! It would stomp all over my dual G5, right?

Let's jump into a theoretical upgrade see what happens for a moment:

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Okay .. First one hour song of the year ... well, not quite an hour. More like hour and thirty minutes (it's always the lyricists fault!). My best bud Jesse Janzen was up from LA and sat in on this session. Anddddd .. We had Kate Janzen as the "Director of Photography" for the video. Very cool stuff.

The song's called Badlands and we've got two video versions: A 4:20 length quicky overview, and the full length version (1:27:35) for those that want to see how the hour/half shook down.

Listen to the mp3: (download mp3)
And check out the Video:

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