Salutations party people and a belated "Happy New Year"! I been pretty dormant on my production blog, and even my production in 2k11... was so busy touring with the home Randomthat i had my lowest beat output in 10 years! So that was my #1 new year's resolution in terms of music- make LOTS of new beats, which subsequently means MORE projects! Already, I'm off to a nice start and felt like i should share with you loyal fans what exactly you can expect from me & Neosonic Productionsin 2012, so here we go...
1. Hero Muzik Vol. 1 - I came up with an excuse to do another instrumental series as i was slacking in 2k11, and the idea behind this one is flipping the themes of the protagonists of some of my favorite RPGs; The first volume will feature the music of the 14 heroes of Final Fantasy 6 (which was 3 here in the States). The title spawned from the song myself & Ran did in 2k10 called "Hero Muzik", where i flipped Link's theme from Zelda 2; Listen & download the FREE instrumental of the song below! My fave of the FF series was #6 mainly due to it having the most playable characters of all the installments (thus far), so look out for that at the end of this month dropping alongside the remixes to Random's classic Black Materiaalbum, which will be celebrating it's 1 year anniversary on 1/31.
2. The "Beats From The East" EP - This FREE EP was inspired by my recent trip to Japan as part of the "More B.A.R.K. Less Bitin' Tour". It will be another instrumental project featuring me flipping songs from some of my favorite Japanese-born musicians who have influenced me and i'm releasing this in conjunction with one of my favorite music sites who is known for their promotion of dope hip-hop around the world- The Find Magazine. Look for that later this winter too ;)
3. "Net-works" - Announced last fall, "Net-works" will be another collaborative project i'm doing with yet another one of my favorite music websites- WordisBond.com. Shouts to the whole WIB staff for essentially acting as A&Rs by recruiting a glut of DOPE emcees, singers & poets which will all be featured over my production for this project that will drop top of Spring. It's similar to my album Piano-rama in that it'll showcase an array of styles, but BIGGER! The name of the project derived from the idea that the majority of indie music WORK these days is done via the interNET, plus via networking, i have been able to expand my sound globally and look forward to continue that by partnering with forward-thinking sites like WIB!
4. Panacea - Midnight Morning Africa - Yes, myself & Raw Poetic are STILL together as we are in pre-production mode for our 6th studio album after a year hiatus making music! We dropped the free track "The Prelude" (below) last fall to whet you all's appetites and also plan on hitting the road (hopefully) again in 2k12 to better promote MMA. Not much to report yet about this album as we usually keep tight-lipped but i think it'll be our best effort yet as both myself and especially Raw P have grown individually as artist, so collectively we'll be that more potent as Panacea ;) If i had to speculate however, i'd say this new album may be surfacing sometime in the summer/fall.. and on vinyl!
5. Mega Ran & K-Murdock - SEGA-City - Last but not least, myself & Ran will be closing out the year with the follow-up to our 2010 collaborative project Forever Famicomas we are doing a whole album flipping some of Sega's classics that range from the 8-bit master system to the Dreamcast! We will both be holding open voting on our forums this spring to see what games you would like to hear flipped on the project and we have some pretty fresh ideas for packaging the album once it's done. Admittedly, i've always been a little more partial to SEGA (as the underdog) so i anticipate this album to be epic & a solid compliment to FF.
So that's it... for now. I do plan on continuing some of my other series in the future too, a la iMANGANAtion & the Mood Muzik series, so who knows, but i can say for sure that these aforementioned projects will all be 100% sureshot Neosonic releases this year! Speaking of which, I have made the Facebook fan page for Neosonic Productionsthe primary site for info on me & the label, BUT have some BIG plans for a more interactive site in the works... i call it my Kosmetropolis... stay tuned!
Hey guys & gals, here's the latest episode of SS Instros... hopefully i can try and get back on track with an episode EVERY month in 2k12... fingers crossed ;)
I'M BACK!!! Actually been back for a few weeks and trying to catch up after 8 weeks away is a mutha!@#$%, but one thing that happened while i was out on the road was my Soundcloud inbox was overflowing with new music! So naturally in an effort to "catch-up' on episodes, i am planning 3 more for the remainder of the year including this November one! As usual, you download the episode from the Subsoniq website HERE!
Also, i just stared a group for all my Soundcloud using producers to streamline the process of sharing songs for consideration for future episodes AND to build a community for my fellow beat-makers to share amongst themselves in hopes of stimulating more creativity! It's called the "Instru-mentalists" and anyone can join & share original instros! You can also share beats via the dropbox i added to this blog's sidebar--->
Wassup yall, apologies on the lack of posts up here the last couple weeks! If you didn't know im on my first major tour since 2006 when Panacea toured with Brand Nubian... remind me to tell you stories about that some other time ;) Right now i'm in the midst of a 44-date tour along with the homie Random aka Mega Ran opening for Nerdcore artist/Adult swim voxover actor MC Chrisin support of his "Race Wars Tour". Time to do anything but drive, perform and sleep is at a premium so excuse me if i i'm erratically posting while on the road.
In the world of production, i definitely wanted to let u know about myself & Ran's latest and final installment of our Forever Famicom DLC series. We released it digitally the day before we left for tour last Monday and are taking pre-orders for the CD copies- replete with exclusive artwork & the song's instrumentals! Find out more about it HERE!
BTW- i just posted up myself & Ran's first video blog update (above) so you can hear more about what the hell we been up to on the road the last week! Lastly, PLEASE keep the "Likes" comin' on the Neosonic Productions Facebook fan pageso i can drop my next remix... remember the faster we get to 1,000 Likes, the sooner my FREE remixalbum Champlooed will be out!
Back in 2k7, when yours truly & Panacea were signed to our first record deal on Glow in The Dark Records, we had label-mates called The Project that consisted of 3 emcees from Harlem, NY. Their first single off their debut release The Truth Todaypaid homage to the dance crazy that was sweeping the country at the time, The Light Feet, which is better showcased (in the video below) than me tryin' to explain it, lol...
So yeah, i dug the song and wanted to show label love by doing this remix which i dubbed the "Come on Feet" version, replete with samples from Madlib's song of the same name off the classic Quasiomoto album!
Unfortunately, though both the fellas in the group & the label acknowledged they liked the remix, as with many of the remixes i have done, it just didn't merit release at the time, so here we are now with this as the 3rd free download of the "1,000 Likes" campaign we got going at Neosonic Productions. If you are curious as to what happened to The Project, the only one from the crew i could find who is still actively making music is emcee/producer Jah- C, who has found some success as solo artist. Enjoy and stay tuned for the next remix!
One cool way myself and fellow beatsmiths DN3 & Lost Perception kept sharp production-wise while on the road recently was via the competition Random dubbed "The Beat-Off"... PAUSE! lol. Basically, Ran picked out a sample, in this case it was the lesser known instro track "Let's Get Away" from the classic Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds and each of us went to work creating our own beat out of it. The time limit was 24 hours, which sometimes is not enough for me as i'm very meticulous in my production- to the point i can spend hours just milling over whether to use ONE particular sound! But i guess pressure can be a good thing as this is what i turned out...
This track came out so good, that Raw Poetic is penning a new Panacea song to it as we speak! Stay tuned for that and the other songs created using Lost & DN3's respective tracks; Those will be available when myself & Ran present the official release for "The Beat Off" Vol. 1 ;) Make sure to subscribe to The Neosonic News Feed to find out when it drops!
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