The Glee way to market music

What's Glee world? I was sitting at home last night switching through the cable TV whilst waiting for Pulse 2 to play on CineMax when i came across Glee. I mean, I've came across it's annoying advert a thousand time, claiming it has millions of downloads for its ringtones in Asia.

I put my judgment on Glee aside yesterday and watched the series, up to my surprise, this college/teen drama was filled with music and choreography. Brought me back to those Evita and Nightmare Before Christmas like scene's that i loved watching back then. Something that I sat through and pondered...

Just like High School Musical and such, Glee seems to be the new sex to triumph amongst serial lovers and of course music listeners, Music wise-its clean mixes with strong vocals by the singers, while the presentations were modern day dances with loads of hip hop moves integrated in it. I'm not being skeptical but believe me, I watched loads of breaks..

I caught half an hour of the show, and I was indeed taken by surprise.

Internationally, I've always been moved from the far east's effort on Afro Samurai an anime, where the scores were harmonized by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan. In Malaysia, I've came across The Rhymeweaver who has taken a different approach by constantly dropping novel like game books, quizzes and magazines and currently working on a comic apart from his rap story telling. I've also heard about loads of cats who are on the move of rising gospel rap up in the churches after sermons although I've not witnessed this with my own eyes, One of them is particularly Radically Saved according to my mate Grandpa Chronic X. Whats' Glee about this? NUTHIN!!!! It's just the approach, movement and effort these creative people make but its not sensed by the masses.

What I'm trying to point out is, an independent artist of caliber could do is.. maybe make a series of any creative idealism you have. Never a harm to try apart from the budget part being a bitch. Let's put our hard headed music style apart sometimes to experiment... Do not get me wrong, this is just a suggestion.

I've already got masses of albums and loads of underground shows to attend to, I'm wishing upon a star to view a choreographed hip hop narration and story telling with creativity. I'd love to watch live, listen, ponder and feast myself with it..

Pondering,
MCN

An apple today kept the doctor away

Good morning world, if ya'all happened to read this and ya'all are anywhere around my place, then it should only be by two means. The 1st one would be, you is sitting at home in front of your PC or whatever cyber socializing while the second would be ya'all are accessing this through your feeds/updates/mobile/blackberry and such while partying hard.

The latter brings me to this post...

I was having a ball past evening chilling at Cronik's base-camp(the place we use to kick our recordings done). We had loads to catch-up since I've been relatively busy recently when I only get to see this guys as performing counterparts on shows. So we chatted and chatted and chatted (looping!). And we hit YOUTUBE....

The interface we were using was practically Apple i-Mac and since i was enthusiastic on sharing some independent hip hop with these cats, I piloted the computer and I was INDEED having a HARD TIME with the TOUCH PAD, CURSORS, WINDOWS, SCROLLING and such... I mean u have touch pads with singular click panel-no lefts and rights(seemed like telephones with no handles), and a charger which would jump from your hand to the PC when it's approximately 4 centimeters away. I know I'm hyperbolic, my bad..

So yeah, this wasn't my first date with an i-Mac, years ago i was bumping on a apple program called Garage Band, and it earns you to be a producer with clicks away. You'd have loops of all kinds which are ready for your creative arrangement. I loved it, but i hated it at the same time coz I could basically use this only via my pals laptop.. I do not have a Mac, yet..my bad

I even found out the universal truth that Mac based interfaces project better sound quality at the constant bit-rate when compared to Windows(leaving out the sound-card variable here). I started downloading '.aiff' files to be converted to '.wav' though knowing im splicing the bit-rate... my bad but hey..im much more of a sample based producer

All these events had made me ponder today that, despite of me trying to get down with loads of 'techy' stuffs related to my music, I'm a noob when it comes to APPLE. I have my thumbs up for u guys who wud murder music production via composing, playing live and recording with a Mac. DJ E-One, you is dope!!!

Well done u kept the doctor at bay!!!

Windowing while feeling secured coz I ain't got a CMD key anywhere near my Ctrl or Alt button

MCN

Feeling This

Its gonna be afternoon soon and I'm heading for lunch but I've already got food for my head via this post. Previously I spoke about Drum N Bass but I'm going to shift it back to hip hop right now. Ive been a big fan of Nujabes, Nomak, and Ayur. These cats rip brilliant tunes on easy-listening to hardcore beats. What do they have in common apart from being in the far east? - They have what it takes to arrange a proper symphony.

As a beat-maker I'm always on the urge to find new sounds for my composition and recently i came across this post by Movemint here. I landed a listening ear, and I had my Wernicke's area on a run with rhymes.

This is ILL! coz it has Illa J and Madlib's touch to it but this has been Motion's best track that I'm digging so far. And he's a Malaysian local artist- applauds. I instantaneously recognized the reverse effects of the song and the high keyed piano's from Fruity loops(FL Studio). I would wanna to see this guy hooking up emcees with his beats and watch them murder it daylight..Nuff said



watch the video and rate it of coz

Listening,
MCN

Drum N Bass Anyone?

Morning world,

Particularly each morning before i get to work, its almost a must for me to fiddle with the net and read some news. What's a must? i NEED MUSIC vibrating my ear drums for real. I usually start my day with some instrumentals since it would somewhat gets me more active. Drum n Bass has never been any part of my morning routine. I mean, I would not wanna shift my tempo to something really fast and hard to follow. Perhaps them morning blues...

Still wondering what's DnB? Cited from Wikipedia, Drum and bass is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 160–190 bpm, occasional variation is noted in older compositions), with heavy bass, sub-bass lines, and occasional infra-bass lines. Drum and bass began as an offshoot of the United Kingdom rave scene of the very early 1990s. Read more here

Recently, i partied hard a local club called Innocence in Ciwalk, Bandung. I seldom get into drum n bass parties coz I have always made it a point that this should be my escapade from my music since its a contra to what I work with. DJ Scratchy proved me wrong the other night when he introduced me to various sounds of DNB that has emerged in the Indonesian drum n bass parties. Two years back i was listening drum n bass which were relatively electronic-ish.. today I'm listening pop and traditional song being repelled in... My point is, i got lifted by the music.. I was HIGH!

What brings me to this post is Rusko.Honestly i just got to know his music and I'm being and addict. The atmosphere was wicked when i heard "Cockney Thug" and it has broken my morning routine... I'm playing it purposely loud wake people up! Listen it here and perhaps BUY em! This song has the dub feel with thick British accent. After all his an English lad.

Now I'm bumping to loads of DnB artists such as Skream, Benja, Pendulum n such. The Rebel Scum has been surprising me with their DnB mixes in their underground hip hop mixtapes. The only one i know in Malaysia

Id love to hear more of this kind of music from Malaysian artists from now. Perhaps I would wanna work on DnB mixes for my next project??

Drum N Bass Anyone?

Listening,
MCN

Free Download: Music From the Depths of My Heart

I updated about this FREE MIXTAPE couple of days ago via my Facebook, but i guess I'd make use of my blogspot as well.

Who is Rhymeweaver? Why a FREE MIXTAPE? Beat it to this and ya'll would find out this is the 4th installation of the homeboys mixtape series. and yeah, its all free. If you has not recognized this young cat yet- I think it's time ya'all should. This guy is a Malaysian emcee currently doing his internship in New Zealand? (You serious mate?- well ask him yourself will ya!)

I was lucky enough to be part of the emcee's demo mixtape called Hymns of Wrath and Passion and ya'all could watch the video called "Paradise Lost" on youtube. That's right, no link for ya'all. Google us!

For now, jump to his blog, download the mixtape, spread it and such and drop him a message since the boy is in a lovey dovey mood. Mencari Cinta and Never Alone : Tetap di Sisi has been feasting my ears and its hard to get it off my playlist.

Meanwhile i can't wait to jump on another joint with the cat,spread Tha Love people,

Cheers,
MCN

Kicking It Alive

Salam sejahtera world! Just as said, Fresh Tapes blog kicks it alive today. My mind is kinda eager to talk loads of things on this single post, but guess I'd have to opt it out for the next posts ad etc.

The blogger template I'm currently using is a simple interface which has been and is being my current playground. I'd be updating the designs and all them eye-candies for ya'all from time to time yeah.

Anyways, Id like to welcome ya'all to my blog and feel free to comment and share whatever relevant on this blog. For insances, I'd love to promo struggling independent musicians, photographers, web developers, designers on my blog. so hit me up on my mail or any of my social networks, and lets see how we take it from there.

Since I'm an infant to the blogging world, do feed me with ideas and critics to make my blog a better place.

Cheers,
MCN