Second track off of Roll Call ‘10! ADM’s contribution, “Circumstance,” featuring Black and Blue Ink.!
More coming soon!
-mnshyn
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Second Track from Roll Call ‘10: Circumstance featuring ADM and Black and Blue Ink.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010MsP Production Vault: Drum Kit – Ethnic Percussion, and Some More Roll Call ’10 Updates!
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010It’s Wednesday, so you know a new drum kit is up for download in the production vault! This week’s kit is about ethnic percussion. Djembes, congas, bongos, cabasas, wood blocks, and other non standard drum kit sounds can be yours today! Remember, this is all free for download, so feel free to let your fellow producers know about it so they can get it too. (pause)
Roll Call ’10 Updates:
- More work done on the FoRcE oNe track, which also now has an official title: “Top Pedigree feat. MooN ShynE.” We did a few more takes of Uno’s first verse and finalized the hook. I also wrote my verse and did some amendments during the week, so I’ll be ready to record this weekend. Once again, we’re aiming for this Saturday, and since we’re more than half-way done at this point, that goal is much more realistic this week than it was last week.
- ADM’s contribution had a decent amount of discussion this past weekend. K-Maculate will be spittin on this track with me, and after intense debate and clarification of miscommunication, we’ve got a concept and structure that we are all very excited about. Hopefully this coming Sunday we’ll be able to finish this one as well.
That’s it for now, we’ve got more coming to you, so stay tuned!
-mnshyn
Track listing complete. Order is finalized. 75% done.
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Just a few notes from me re: Chamber Waves.
If you’ve been to the ADM facebook page and clicked on “discography” you would have seen a 10-track listing for the Chamber Waves album. Though I initially wanted to keep it to 10 tracks I’m adding an 11th. The 8th track will be “Switch-up” which is what we’re working on now and I didn’t want to remove any of the other songs because I like the way they fit into the flow of the album. I thought about perhaps moving something to the 2nd album but that’s a while off and that album will be going in a slightly different direction.
*Speaking of the 2nd album, I CAN tell you it will have a 149 BPM hardstyle track and an 80 BPM ambient track with NO percussion or audible bassline.*
At the end of this post you can see the finalized album listing.
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are finished.
Tracks 5, 8, 11 are works in progress
Tracks 7 and 10 are in need of a major overhaul, including instrumentation (10) and massive EQ’ing (7)
As far as track 8 is concerned, I’m not sure what MooN ShynE will do on his Roll Call ’10 album, but I sort of want it to feature BBI on my album. Only because I already have a track featuring MooN ShynE and track 11, MMSKM, I will try to get background vocals from K-Maculate so that will feature him (hopefully). Maybe I’m being OCD about this but I just don’t want to repeat myself and, at least visually, I want to give the album variety.
1. Parallel
2. And Want Two
3. Reflections of You
4. Screamer
5. Project InhalOr feat. MooN ShynE
6. XXIII
7. Fast Fantasy
8. Switch-Up feat. Black and Blue Ink – (tentative…)
9. Create the Electric Process
10. Lonely on the Outside
11. MMSKM
That’s it for now………
Are you a fist pumper? Do you like David Guetta?
Monday, March 8th, 2010Just a few notes from me re: BBI/ADM track.
I submitted a new drum beat loop to MooN ShinE w/ all new percussion b/c after listening to what we were using, at my house on bass-intensive speakers and headphones, it sounded like were playing on kettle drums. So the kick drum will be replaced w/ a Hard-House kick, the popping snare will be claps w/ a clap break, the hats will be a combo of tambs., 707s, and 78s.
The gate is “Deceptor” from Nexus. We scrapped Vanguard b/c it didn’t have enough of a punch.
I’m liking the title MooN ShinE came up w/: “Switch-up.” It’s a work in progress but I’m leaning towards it very much.
I have a feeling we’re going to be in disagreement over a/the bassline…
Strings will be changed, I agree.
There is a saw-ish part throughout the song that I believe needs to be stretched JUST A TAD – I MEAN A FREAKIN’ TAD… It also needs to be layered, made richer, given more beef!! Not melody, just more presence.
Vocals will be Sing, Rap, Sing-Rap(??), repeat. I’ll try to convince them to put in some sort of a bridge type part to make this similar to a club/pop/dance track and less hip-hop – like “Memories.” Although I do believe that “K-talk” just might take care of that..!
MooN ShinE didn’t mention this but this will also be on the “Chamber Waves” album by ADM.
I think we should also discuss how it will appear on albums. Obviously on MooN ShynE’s album or ADM’s album it will be
MooN ShynE – Switch-up feat. ADM, K-Maculate
and
ADM – Switch-up feat. MooN ShynE, K-Maculate
But I can also make it:
ADM – Switch-up feat. BBI
And he can also make it:
BBI – Switch-up feat. ADM
Which brings me to my next point. Since on an album the artist will be the album artist regardless, featuring the others, but AS A SOLO track how should it look:
MooN ShynE, ADM, K-Maculate – Switch-up
or
BBI & ADM – Switch-up
New topic: Going back 2 weeks, we continued work on Project InhalOr.
So picture this, if the song is from your house to the moon, we never made it out the front door… But it will be finished, we just needed motivation – after all it’s a genre neither of us ever worked with and we didn’t know how to attack it.
That’s it for now………
Black and Blue Ink.’s Lyricist Manifesto, “Left Hook,” and The Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 Windows 7 Fix
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Before I begin, I’ll put the fix up:
ProTools M-Powered 7.4, Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 Fix
As I’m sure many people will be wanting that first. I don’t want people to think I actually don’t have the fix and I’m just leading them to my blog as a deception. For more info, read further down below about the fix because I did make some notes on it.
As a short note, this is the fix for the 0xc0000005 error you get when starting Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 on Windows 7 32-bit, with or without Internet Explorer 8. My guess is that you can probably apply this fix on older versions of Windows and it will allow you to keep IE8.
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So Black and Blue Ink. has officially started work on “The Lyricist Manifesto,” the new album slated for this coming Fall 2010. Since you can count on BBI coming through with nothing but hard lyrics and hard beats, that’s what you will pretty much get out of this. No hooks, no fancy intros, no nonsense. Just straight up in your face lyrics with creativity and imagery, pushing the limits of rap lyrics. As soon as the beats hit, we’re off taking turns spittin a 16, 24, or even 32. If you’re a fan of metaphors, imagery, punchlines, and literary devices, and other rap/poetry/prose techniques, this is the album for you, combined with hardcore beats.
This is a bit of a departure for me, because I am more of a song/track oriented rapper than a lyrical rapper (though I used to be back in the days), and that’s because as of late I’ve been really pushing for my musicianism to materialize in my music in terms of the way beats are made, usage of music theory, different techniques in song form, etc. However, the fact that it is a departure, also presents itself and a challenge, and a challenge I definitely want to take up.
The challenge now, involves a couple of things.
First off, for example, we just finished recording a song called “Left Hook.” It’s called as such because we “left hook” out. No hook. Also, for some odd reason (though commonplace if you’ve ever had the experience of watching K-Maculate record), K-Maculate alludes to not being lefty but bringing it to you. I don’t know why, he just did (it brought many a laugh between me, ADM, Harmony Speaks and Boy Gnyus who were all present at the time). The song itself is 1:45. Yes, not even two minutes. We both spit 16 bars, and that was it. As K wanted it, he wanted no hooks, no intros, no nonsense, spit and continue on.
It just seems a bit short to me. However, we agreed that we could maybe spit 24s on future beats, just to try to at least make the 2 minute mark. So that was resolved.
The next challenge, is making the entire album not sound repetitive, and giving each song a character. Normally, every song has some kind of character to the beat, to your lyrics, some character by topic, and by the chorus you put in or other characteristics. With this project, you’re confined to the beat and lyrics only.
The good thing about this is that it hones in my writing, and maybe it will make me more creative lyrically.
As a producer, I have to make the marriage between the vocals and the beat in a way that even if we are spittin our usual bravado for every song, I can make it so that each song still carries a character.
I’ll know I’ve succeeded if by the end of this project, the vocals and beat are so intertwined that mixing the acapellas and instrumentals would be blasphemous (tempo not withstanding).
This may not seem like a challenge, but when you’re dealing with these type of lyrics, those vocals can easily be moved to a different instrumental and it would be perfectly fine. I feel that in order for this album to be stronger, the beats and vocals must be 100% complementary, and that may only be possible if the beat is tailored perfectly to the vocals. I don’t want loose vocals that could go on any beat. This means a lot more post-production work rather than pre. Once K and I record our verses, I will go through the track, take notes on the vocals, then go back and add to the beat so that the beat fits the vocals as completely as possible. I guess you can say it’s like a movie score.
Now that I’ve written all that, I feel I have a better grasp on what I need to do with these tracks as we move forward. Let’s see what happens. Watch our main home page here, as well as the BBI Facebook as I will be posting up “Left Hook” in the next few days.
Also, as indicated by the title, I’ve stumbled upon (no pun intended, I didn’t use stumbleupon) a fix for Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 to work on Windows 7. It drove me bananas for months since I got Windows 7 that my Pro Tools does not work, but now with this fix, it works perfectly on 7. The original fix though had a lot of URL’s in it, most of which I remember as spyware related sites, so I deleted all of those (they were in the site zone entries and history entries written into the .reg file), and left the more appropriate registry entries. Please feel free to delete any other suspicious registry entries and let me know so I can update this patch as well.
ProTools M-Powered 7.4, Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 Fix
Mind you, I don’t deal in warez, so that is just the fix, not the program itself. Click the link if you’re having that problem with M-Powered 7.4 with either IE8 and/or Windows 7. On prior versions of Windows, uninstalling IE8 would do the trick, but disabling it on Windows 7 (uninstalling IE8 is not permitted on Win7, just disabling) would not work. This will get you around that.
As I said above, I’ve deleted the questionable entries (that I’ve noticed). You may want to give the .reg file a once-over first before merging it with yours in case you have a better eye.
I’ll have more soon! More projects, and this weekend I am excited for a FoRcE oNe beat selection/recording session, as he is taking the initiative to make a song and be a big part of the creative process. I’m a fan of artist evolution, so this will be a very fulfilling project for me. He has only one solo song under his belt completed, so we’ll see what the young gunna has to say. Be on the lookout for that one.
Also, Cocoa has some demos she is looking to have me hear and work on, and Destiny and I have a few projects on deck as well. You can’t forget projeCt inhalOr with ADM, and I’m sure you’ll be hearing a bunch from Brian Bullion soon as far as production is concerned. The entire fam has got at least one project waiting in the wings, so as I’ve always said, 2010 is our year. Watch!
-mnshyn