Music you WILL get high to...

This is a draft edit of a new track, produced by my music partner Kenny Dee, complimented by the lyrical skills and soothing vocals of singer/songwriter Faye Nash.

The pair is in talks of putting together an EP, one can only hope will consist of more down tempo, melodic and somewhat 'trippy' type tracks as we find here.

ENJOY.

Lazy Grafters collaboration with Mr. Sam

With the recent drop of their mixtape and pending post production of their official EP, The Lazy Grafters are keeping busy on the music front. I was lucky enough to receive a call for a feature spot on their forthcoming project, as in preparations for the drop the guys are generating some buzz with this witty and laid back remix of Mac Miller's 'La La La'.

Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/Ayhaytv

Behind the scenes of 'A Whisky Bird Romance'

It is the brink of a halloween weekend and thus filming begins on set of 'A Whisky Bird Romance'.

The cast is assembled and the camera is rolling, as roaring in from a distance a bright orange, viper striped Camaro rolls onto set; everybody knows "It's Time!"

Enjoy the first behind the scenes images of the feature-short independent, coming to a festival near you next year!

'The Clash', Chocolate Factory Music & Collaborations galore!

The Clash is the collective producing duo that is myself and long time friend, producer 'Kenny Dee'. Ken and I have been working together on music for the better of four years now and through numerous trial and tribulation have found ourselves as artist and music creators, both individually and as a partnership.

Currently 'The Clash' are at the ender side my debut LP 'Hearts. Bleed. Rainbows'

The LP is being constructed under our working production body 'Chocolate Factory Music'. Alongside this, there are talks of plans to put together a producers LP titled 'Bridges and UniVerses'; a collective of the work ken and I put together for other artists.

Also look out for the forthcoming solo project by Kenny Dee 'The Throwaways'!

http://mrkennydee.blogspot.com/

There's a lot to come on the music front so stay tuned and watch this page!

NEW 'THE CLASH' VIDEO w/ SNEEK PEEK/SNIPPET

Wembley and promoting new Def Jam Rapstar game

Saturday 24th of July, a fun-filled day I spent up at the beautiful Wembley Arena promoting the forthcoming Def Jam Rapstar game.

The promotion was sidelining the PES Ranking finale, the top 64 players in the country battling it out over a computer game for a hefty £1,000 winners prize (which i'm still in awe about, I mean…really!?)

Being apart of this promotion meant I got to play the first draft of the game before its soon release in a few months time.

My verdict, I'm no critic but if I'm putting in my two cents I'd have to say that at first the initial idea of rap karaoke just sounds awful, your first time playing the game will probably reinforce this notion. It's simply too difficult to perform rap songs unless you know each lyric word for word. Even with songs I thought I knew I found myself struggling when the actual words were up on screen in front of me, along with that it's just not as enthralling to rendition even your favourite rap songs as it is to belch and yell a simple long noted pop song. The chorus' are the most enjoyable part, where as verses are just hard to adapt to. However there's an interesting paradox as the difficult nature of the game eventually becomes something of a draw-in, appealing to those of a naturally competitive nature. The will to practice and learn certain tracks and eventually become good at them grows the more you play and I ended up finding the game pretty infectious and addictive, striving for the game's acceptance as it rated me out of ROUGH, WACK, ON POINT, DOPE and OF THE CHAIN!!!!

There is also a really interesting feature called the 'freestyle' option. Basically players can option to lay down their own raps over instrumentals produced by some of the biggest names in the game e.g. Just Blaze, DJ Khalil, Cool and Dre etc. Players can then upload the track to Xbox live where millions can vote and rate their material. I believe they plan on using this feature to create some kind of Xbox live rap tournament and scout new talent, basically Def Jam Factor! (Lol)

Overall it isn't a bad game, for those who love rap it should be pretty satisfying and I'm eagerly anticipating the game's reception.

Dream Fitness (A Promotional Video)

So I find myself with the opportunity to help out a friend a spirt some of my creative juices along the way.

When long time good friend and personal trainer Chris Davies approached me with the idea of helping him create a promotional video for his fitness company 'Dream Fitness', I couldn't say no. Together we went back and forth on some ideas and concepts, that we eventually morphed into what turned out to be a pretty sweet promo shoot.

Here is the final product. Enjoy and don't forget to check out my buddy's site!

Dreamfitness.co.uk

Making The Magic ep.2

Laying down some guitar and writing for the LP!

FILM UPDATE

Casting for my short feature 'A Whisky Bird Romance' has commenced. We're holding the auditions in Maidenhead over the next few weekends as we work towards finalising the lead cast.

Alex Fidelski of CallBack Production is my active right hand man, together we have traveled far and wide in search of various locations to shoot the film.

It's all getting very bright and exciting and auditions are about to be posted on Mandy.com for any actors out there (the more the merrier).

Filming is set for mid-August and there are plans to shoot a series of micro-shorts in the run up to act as trailers. Let's provoke some hype shall we!?

More coming soon...

Late Night Jam w/ Phonzay

Let's chill and relax, a hip hop recap with some freestylin' fun thrown in too.

Studio Session w/ The Vibes

More studio fun with Phonz and Johnny Max (The Vibes).

Check out these guys www.youtube.com/user/thevibesofficial

It happens to the best of us...

Making The Magic ep.1

Me and Ken working on the first songs of the album.

Greetings Bloggers !

MY FILM! COMING 2011...

A Whisky BIRD ROMANCE©

IN THE HEAT OF THE SOUTH

LOVE IS A BEVERAGE BEST SERVED COLD.

He is an outlaw. She is a marked women. Strangers when they first meet, Rose and Johnny are drawn to each other by a sexual magnetism and a sweet tooth for chaos. Curious to explore the other's complex psyche they fall into a danger fuelled, lust driven game of cat and mouse. Similar in as many ways as different, they both share a thrill seeking nature that becomes a recipe for disaster the longer they stay together. The worlds they come from want them apart, but they have other plans. This romance won't have a happily ever after...

Hearts Bleed Rainbows LP

HBR is my debut LP under my singing alias 'Mr. Sam'. The concept behind the tittle supports the colourful, multi layered and four dimensional sound of the album. I often relate certain colours with moods and as with music, colours can convey a particular emotion. In popular culture the heart is recognised as the generator of human emotion, thus from this I bring you Hearts Bleed Rainbows.

The LP is produced by myself and long time friend and producer Kenny-Dee. The album will feature a collective of other talents/artists from rappers to singers.

MORE COMING SOON...