From Bradford Davis..
This is the second installment to what we’re calling the “20 minute music video”. It’s a concept we came up after a few drinks and thought that it would be fun to put together a couple of easy shoots with some of the talented artists in the area that we know. We actually broke our our rule on this one and ended up shooting for like an hour. It was a quick shoot, so pardon the blip of a shadow, reflection, or even in one case, me holding my macbook trying to get out of frame. Almost forgot to mention this, the entire video was shot on an iphone 4, and that’s what we plan to shoot all of these “20 minute music videos” on throughout the duration of the project. The track is “At your service” performed by Bobby Blunt and produced by Ta-Ku. DJ Cornbread just happened to be riding by and we asked him to shoot a few scenes with us, and I’m very glad that he did. Me and Markus produced it, with me directing and Markus shooting (and for shooting on a phone, he did a great job btw in my opinion) and me doing the editing. It was a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy.
Produced by Clark Barclay
Mixed by Nic Pope at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, CA*
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield at AudibleOddities in Oakland, CA
Bass: Adam Walter
Guitar: Adam Walter and Reid Griggs
Every Second of the Night
Sneak peak Listen!
The Dope sophomore opus by The Bins due out in mid April. For now you wet your ears.
Features yours truly
I just sent up a Google alert not even five minutes and it sent me a video someone did somewhere in France (the writing was French) or at least it look that way to me. Anyway its the song Take Me Away I did with Ta-Ku and a couple a pics of me and the rest are sexy ladies who are nowhere around me. Damn! Its still wild to me how close we are through this medium. When meeting in face to face is no longer needed the speed of communication is fascinating to me.
I don’t think I tend to realize exactly how fast information travels. I’m too use to the speed and comfort in instant gratification. However I guess this proves that with a Google alert I can take a little blogging time to reflect on the instant info.
Truthfully this proves how power music can be. When I wrote the song it was just random thoughts and experiences and I didn’t think nothing of it after that. But people hear it and you start to hear back responses so quick now. Even though that project is considered old in the era of ADD its not even a year old yet.
(Source: youtube.com)
Digging the Blogosphere
Bobby Blunt song “Grandma” is featured on the Digging the Blogosphere LP which is a collection of songs found on blogs found by the french label Heavenly Sweetness due out today as a digital release and March 19th as a LP release. Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/heavenlysweetness/digging-the-blogosphere#play
There was a time (not so long ago) when, if you wanted to discover new music,
you had to listen to the radio (often late at night), read (the right) magazines, watch the (rare) music programmes on TV or spend hours and hours in record shops. If you were skint or particularly inquisitive, you had to get up (very early) on Sunday mornings to scour the flea markets, second-hand stalls and jumble sales for unknown records at knockdown prices – and thus satisfy your hunger for novelty. Now you no longer have to do any of that, because a standard computer and a good Internet connection bring hours and megaoctets of music from all over the world to you.
Yep, Internet may have revolutionised the world of music, but the promise of seeing budding geniuses appear and become stars by sheer force of talent and the hope of not missing the new Beatles or a burgeoning Miles Davis didn’t last very long. In fact, music-lovers are so swamped by the ocean of music files, promising artists, legal and illegal websites, YouTube videos and mixes to download that they no longer know where to click or which blog to follow. There are very few artists who have managed to set themselves apart and earn success and recognition on the Internet by themselves. Which leaves the same artists that are flooding our airwaves and TV screens in pole position on the web too.
However, music fans have never had it so good. Never has so much music been produced, so many tracks been available and so many artists broadcasted their work directly to listeners. But you have to look for it, surf for days on end, leap from Mixcloud to Bandcamp, and listen to hours of music before you come across the track, the little gem that makes your ears prick up, your head nod and your hair stand on end. Your long and thrilling quest has led you to this.
This compilation is a chance for us to share with you some of our finest net
discoveries and lend some support to these new wizards of sound: the child
beatmakers of Mo’Wax, Prefuse 73, DâM-FunK and Flying Lotus, post-dubstep
fiddlers, jazz 2.0, MCs who have picked up on certain ideas about hip-hop, and futuresoul brothers. These are our absolute faves, the tracks that sent a tingle of delight down our spines. We hope they have the same effect on you. This is “HeavenlySweetness Digs The Blogosphere”.
Thanks to Heavenly Sweetness for the love
(Source: itunes.apple.com)
rights to DOPE WAX records
Production and Arrangement By NiceRec
Additional Production By Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble
Remix Produced by Kenny Dope at Kay-Dee Studios,NJ
Miles and Bobby Blunt connected with the Goulash beat and Miles Had to record to it right away. So much so that the vocal was recorded in a hotel room on a generic laptop built-in mic. With that 1 take, freestyle, the song was birthed, followed by the Bobby Blunt verse, and then a masterful Kenny Dope remix. Modern soul in it’s many styles, brought together into 2 simple tracks that speak volumes about the ear and talent of all involved. A Gift to the world.
(Source: traxsource.com)
Aura feat. Bobby Blunt
Produced by Mecca 83
