good riddance 2010 – hello redance 2011
now i don’t normally come to blog-a-bitch, but i am just sayin not my finest growth spurt period….2010, lata! aye yay yay! i hate to say it but, 2010 could be gone yesterday and it would be not a second too soon…i had a not so stellar personal year…way too many things. and sometimes too much of not enough! i am adjusting to 40 and wasn’t gripping reality too tight about its obvious truths! however, it panned itself past and i lost the initial sneak attack. but i bounced back for the 13th round at the 11th hour and can say, i didn’t get k.o’d. but i did get blown back a bit and got counted out of the ring! however, i centered myself, dusted of my leather boots and proceeded to stomp into a new era. i still can rock a house. but roll a stone….i’m not sure!
now i am back to sane and stable, not kane and able…
Now the good news is, i saved a lot on my car insurance….
on to the upside of the down 10!
I can truly say, professionally, i was ok in that department. there was some cool shit goin down that i got my hands dirty with. lets accentuate the positive with recap, shall we?
i ended the year finishing a kickass remix for quentin harris’ “paradise” single. it should be coming up in the next few singles from his fantabulous album “sacrifice”.
i also did a cool mix for Ben Sharkey’s single “actually” on Detox
i just finished mastering and some production work on the LP “Sticky/foreplay” by La Veda on my label Harlem Station Recordings.
i penned the song “grocery store” for her and the project. i do quite enjoy the song, it’s one of my favorite songs i’ve written as of late. check it out.
speaking of la veda. she will be everywhere in 2011. she wrote lyrics for a song to go on my lp, “no vacancy“. it was called “gotta get to you” unfortunately, i wasn’t able to finish the music in time for the lp, so i put it on backburner for another project (her lp). well before i could blink, CJ Burken pulled it out of the vault and made a supreme track around it – recreating it into a deep 111 bpm masterpiece…i am so glad i was not able to do this song…justice was served by the man himself! this will be out on jan. 11, 2011
speaking of CJ Burken, i wrote a song for his upcoming LP, tentatively titled “my third eye”. the song is called “startanu my friend”. he revamped his hit song “startanu” into a downtempo reggae styled moodswing. the instrumental is on the 2nd part of the startanu release. titled startanu (cj burkens nu nu mix) from harlem station recordings. his lp will be blazing the world in spring 2011. startanu was one of my favorite songs of 201o, and guess what? i did a mix to that too called the undah-dub empathy mix – i love it, it rocked me – and according to sales, many other kind folk too!!!
other mixes included, Lee Bradley – rhythmship and Fuckin DJ’s – Kuntunpau on Decibel NYC. get it at beatport.com
i just released a dj mix cd for Decibel NYC called “we are decibel nyc 2″ and it follows the first one from 2008 also
also my LP “No Vacancy” is still available in everystore! digitally or cd
so overall, 2010 was musically good for me. got some things out, butlooking forward to a wonderful 2011. full of inner peace, love, prosperity and journey to continue creating thyself for thy people!
look out for the new smear. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
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