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Upcoming artist, here is a chance to be featured on the next Nu Revolution & Revolt Radio Mixtape and  possible rotation on Revolt Radio.

Here is what they sent me:You can let anyone interested know to send their songs for consideration to musicsubmissions@revoltradio.com and put “Mixtape Submission” in the subject. We are planning to release one the first Tuesday of every month.

Here is the latest mixtape:

Its Finally here, Wordsmith, Nu Revolution Entertainment LLC & Revolt Radio would like to present to you “The Revolution Riot Report Mixtape Vol 1?. This first of many installments that will be dropping the first Tuesday of every month. The Revolution Riot Report Mixtape Volume 1 features new music from some of the hottest Indie/Unsigned Artists that include Wordsmith, Kontact, K. Sparks, K-Betta, Judah, V-Styles, Dynasty, Whitefolkz and many more!! Get your briefing from Revolt Radio Host & Nu Revolution Recording artist Black Knight as Nu Revolution Deejay, DJ Nominal provides the fire power on the Turntables. Check out the track listing and download after the jump.

DOWNLOAD: The Revolution Riot Report Mixtape Volume 1 (Hosted By Black Knight Mixed and Blended By DJ Nominal)

Tracklist:

01. Intro – Black Knight

02. Situations – Prolific

03. Throw A Stack – Whitefolkz

04. Doin My Thang (Get It In) – Max Pain

05. Car Service – Jae Skeese & Superlative T.E.S.T

06. High Resolution – O. Smith of Deep Space

07. Friends with Strangers – DK aka Wayne Watts

08. Troubled Child – K-Beta feat Judah

09. Interlude – Black Knight

10. Graffiti Walls – Wordsmith feat Kontact

11. Real Eyes – Marcus Medley

12. Get It Straight – Tre Dot

13. Cant Stop A Man – V Stylez feat Buff 1 and Stretch Money

14. Magnificent – Dynasty

15. Hip Hop (It Don’t Stop) – Face

16. Gather Around – Black Knight

17. Momma Say – K Sparks

18. Outro – Black Knight

Whats up people, I haven’t posted in a while because I have been busy with music work and working on a few special project. Ill kee y’all posted.

In the mean time, Wordsmith’s “Vintage Experience” album is out now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vintage-experience/id356547753

Very impressive video:

PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

Great read on how instrumental music is not easy for everybody and the attention span of listener.

Here are my favorite paragraphs:

If you have written your own music, you have probably experienced this before: You play it for your friends to get their opinions. For about 10 seconds, everyone is silent. After 20 seconds, their eyes start to wander around. After 30 seconds, someone says something, which triggers everyone else to speak up. After 40 seconds, no one is actually listening to your music. I grew up sitting in front of the stereo with my father, closing our eyes, listening only to what came out of the speakers. This would go on for an hour or two as if we were watching a movie. It wasn’t just me; many of my friends did the same. Who does that anymore? In today’s living rooms, stereos are treated as accessories to television sets.

Visual dominancy isn’t the only problem. The bigger problem is the dominance of our thought. Most Americans do not know what to do with abstraction in general. To be able to fully appreciate abstraction, you must be able to turn off your thought, or at least be able to put your thought into the background. This is not as easy as it might seem. In modern art museums, most people’s minds are dominated by thoughts like: “Even I could do this.” Or, “Why is this in a museum?” Or, “This looks like my bed sheet.” Etc.. They are unable to let the abstraction affect their emotions directly; their experience must be filtered through interpretations. In a way, this is a defense mechanism. It is a way to deal with fears like, “If I admit that I don’t understand this, I’ll look unsophisticated.” This type of fear fills their minds with noise, and they become unable to see, hear, or taste.

Full article after the bump

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This is totally unrelated to production but I searched for a good week before finding the solution….

Your sms notification on the home page like this one disappeared???

You have too many sms. Delete some or move them to a different folder. POwer off. Power On. You should be golden!!!!

*make sure you have the message notification ticked in tools>setting>general>personalization>home screen>mode setting> home screen applications>enabled applications

Its a stupid glitch with the S60 phones

This is amazing! Just for the business card function…. I am amazed by Google!

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The flyer explains everything! I mess with Felisha and Dynamicproducer.com HARD! They are official!

After World War II, Americans began to reverse engineer the highly advanced magnetic tape technology the Germans possessed. When Bing Crosby realized that recording on tape would allow him to continue putting on a new show everyday but pre-recording them so he could have days off, he invested $50,000.00 in Ampex, the company that was working on the technology at the time.

When Ampex released the Ampex 200, he gave one to his friend Les Paul. Les Paul used this recorder to invent the concept of multi-track recording. So you see, artists are always the front runners of new technology.

Bing Crosby Wikipedia page

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