Jesse Ware is a very lovely person… she also does a good line in songs with a velvety voice and great writing. But don’t take my word for it, check out her new video for Running, it’s a good look
With our commitment to customer service we vow that, no matter how difficult or confusing your music needs might be, we will never ever resort to murder. Unlike Atlanta’s Johnny Jackson III, AKA DJ OUTLAW, who allegedly shot clubber Mark Williams 5 times with a shotgun for requesting a track.
Seems like no-one’s safe these days.
Another blow to the music industry this week as news of the death of another fallen superstar spanned the globe. Whitney Houston was found in her hotel room in Beverley Hills on Sunday. She was pronounced dead on the scene. The 48 year-old was best known for her hit song from the film The Bodyguard, “I Will Always Love You” in 1992.
Her career was littered with awards. Two Emmy’s, six Grammy’s, 30 Billboard Music awards. A total of 415 music awards received during her lifetime. She sold over 170 million albums worldwide and was cited by Guiness World Records as the most awarded female act of all time.
In 1992 she married ex-New Edition singer Bobby Brown with whom she had her only child, their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in March 1993. It was about this time that her much documented drug use began and by 1996 she was a daily user.
Her 1998 album, ‘My Love Is Your Love’ was well reviewed but the drug abuse began to affect her reputation and press reports at the time said that she was becoming difficult to work with, if she turned up at all. She was dropped from a performance at The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) (TV) because she was “out of it” at rehearsals. Her weight fluctuated wildly – she was so thin at a ‘Michael Jackson’ tribute in 2001 that rumors circulated the next day that she had died – and her voice began to fail her. She was twice admitted to rehab and declared herself drug-free in 2010 but returned to rehab in May 2011.
A very sad loss of another great talent this year but one that will be remembered forever.
When we’re not releasing amazing production music we like to get involved in other projects now and then. One of my personal projects last year was consulting on the music for a documentary called “Just Do It”. The film has since been released, is very good and the soundtrack is great! It features some of our composers; Hazlitt, Oliver Price/Bronze Medalists, Joe Mesch/Jason Tarver, Alex Banks/Sandbank and Tom Caruana, as well as some other amazing artists. Everyone donated their time and tracks for free so check out the film and the soundtrack at www.justdoitfilm.com… or you can watch the trailer below:
We’re often asked by our clients “just how do you keep up to date with all the latest musical trends?”
Well guys, the only way to be as good as us is to have many sources. But here’s one little tip to get you started. I’ve just discovered the ultimate source for all the latest dubstep sounds. Here’s an example of the treats you’ll find:
Of course our music is played everywhere, all the time and we love it, but we were especially happy to hear that Bobby Friction played one of our upcoming releases called “Dusty Path” on Tuesday night. You can’t download the track from our search engine yet but it will be available on a 12″ and online from the 13th Feb through the 2NX label… You can also see the video for Dusty Path and the other two tracks from the “Globe Stepping 1″ EP on YouTube. POW
We’ve just been interviewed for Pro Sound Europe magazine and Audio Media.
Pro audio specialist KMR Audio has supplied a pair of Barefoot MM27 monitors to London-based music library Imagem Production Music – the largest independent production music publisher in the UK. “We release 40 to 50 albums a year and needed a pair of monitors that could be used for mixing and mastering the huge range of music”, explains studio manager, Iain Roberton. “KMR were great. The demo units were in huge demand and the waiting list for production units is insane but they managed to squeeze in two demos at short notice and secured us a pair.”
From left to right. Iain Roberton (studio manager/engineer), Taz Mattar (studio engineer) and Alex Black (general manager)
The Barefoot MM27′s are part of a studio upgrade which includes new plug-ins by Waves, TC and Abbey Road plus a shared storage system. Designed to break down the barriers between nearfield, mastering, and main monitors, the compact and powerful enclosures are said to be exceptionally neutral in critical listening applications. “We were blown away by the Barefoots,” adds Iain Roberton. “The clarity of the low frequencies, the solidity of the stereo image and the detail at low levels is astonishing – scary even. They’re really the best near/midfield monitors I’ve ever heard.”
seriously, is it clever or just plain lazy for 5 people to play a guitar at one. I go for column A personally but have a look and decide for yourself
PS this moment of musical niceness was brought to you by Walk Off The Earth & Sarah Blackwood, maybe you should check them out?
We spotted a picture of James May of Top Gear fame in the Telegraph the other day, with his trusty Imagem Production Music mug (sorry folks, we’re all out!)… any Top Gear fans out there will be familiar with a load of our music, but this proves that it’s not just the production team who are big fans of ours… or something…
Anyway, anything Top Gear can do, we can do better, as beautifully demonstrated here by Sophie… with a musical accompaniment from CAVT 7 – Drums Of Thunder
that’s right, one of our favourite composers of the moment Benji Boko is only remixing the joy that is Little Dragon. Check out Benji’s remixes below and if you like them as much as we do make sure you VOTE for him to be on the next DJ SHADOW single by using this link: http://remix.djshadow.com/tracks/86. you know you want to
Of course you can check out some of Benji’s original tracks on Abaco 204 – Hip Hop…
