Jaden Music are currently looking for a couple of new vocalists, either male and female, to work with us recording our new material. You can get an idea of the type of tracks we are doing by checking out the playlist on this blog. Experience would be preferable, and ideally influences would include such modern R&B/pop superstars as Amerie, Beyonce and Ciara for the girls, and Ryan Leslie, Ne-Yo, and Usher for the boys.
If you are interested or know anyone that might be, please get in touch with us to discuss. If you have any demo tracks available you are also welcome to send them to info@jadenmusic.com.
Spending extended periods of time in any room/office/studio/house starts to play tricks on one’s mind. Everyone has different methods of blowing off steam. Some hit the party scene every weekend, others yell at the TV screen in hope that this will improve the performance of their favorite team. Musicians and Producers, while prone to the aforementioned, have a tendency use this ‘relaxation period’ to explore new creative destinations.
Today Charmaine walked into the studio and proclaimed; ‘I wanna rap!’
2 hours later we woke up to this.
Enjoy.
Note: No top-40 performers, Hollywood darlings, Antares plug-ins or Australian territories were harmed during the production of Drip Dry.
whenever i feel down about all the things in life i want to do but may never get the time or the opportunity to do, i just stop myself and and take a minute to consider… there are so many people in the world that are born into lives of poverty, suffering or ignorance; destined to follow an unjust or unfulfilling path in life – who am i to complain about having too many options.
life is too short to continue rambling in this blog any further, im off to watch re-runs of late-night jamster mobile ads from 2005
(subject quote was courtesy of the infinitely and brilliantly confounding miss Erykah Badu)
I understand the need for information.
I crave to find out more about everything that inspires me.
Whenever I hear an interesting sound, see a pretty face or hear a fact requiring verification i have the assurance that a six letter monster will answer the immediate questions composing in my head.
Some say we are killing the process of learning and natural discovery but i think we are enhancing it as well as just being efficient.
Things move so fast that i don’t have the time to go a library and check out a couple of books in order to learn more about Quincy Jones. Wikipedia and YouTube give me a 15 minute crash course and the option do to further research at my own leisure.
In a way it helps us digest information in order to stay in the game.
You’re probably thinking, oh the irony.
But blogging my thoughts while i should be sleeping serves greater purpose. We now have the opportunity to get closer to our idols/inspirations by staying connected through their various sites/blogs/videos.
There are days when i feel so far away from where i want to be and reading the writings of people i admire and respect often gives me the necessary drive to get up the next morning and keep working towards my goals.
Blogging my thoughts, emotions and ideas for anyone interested to read is just another instrument i can use to express myself.
Hi, I am Daniel.
I have thousands of ideas, over a hundred nicknames, several lives, 3 tattoos, 2 passions, 1 MIDI keyboard and countless dreams i am yet to achieve.
This inspires me.
I came across this picture after one of the multi-talented producer/photographer Daniel’s recent late night sessions. It got me thinking…
Something about this scene strikes me as quite extraordinary – it speaks as a voice announcing itself as music’s autobiographical commentary on its resistance to the futuristic synthetic robot carnage ‘melodies’ that dominate our stereos and iTunes libraries in this, the age of the 20-hundreds – exuding the sort of bittersweet disappointment I would imagine to transpire when a master teacher is surpassed by his student -who becomes superior in all ways – ultimately stepping forward to take the master’s place in what could perhaps be called the cruelest of all ironies (no, I’m not talking about Star Wars…).
Is it possible that the once vibrant and youthful face of music could be so quickly reduced to little more than a film of dust, just a garnish sprinkled over the buffet of modern day monster-mash? A spitefully venomous yet futile revenge waged upon a techno-tronic world, one that has pillaged and stripped the very soul from music… A now meagre existence unequivocally ended as it is so intentfully smudged out by the fingers of change.
Could it be that this estranged dust still has its place in the recording studio of today – coating the green and red flashing LEDs of a state of the art mixer, filling the gaps between the keys of an infinitely customizable synth keyboard, intercepting the bluetooth signals projecting from a wireless mouse, or confiding in the sleek black pads of an electronic drum kit…?
My promise to you is this – before I go to sleep tonight, I know that i’ll be praying for dust.
Much like most other internet trends i’ve caught onto, never did i think there would come a time when i would be blogging!
My question for you today is this:
“In a time where popular music is loosing quality, being simplified, and is sold mostly on image, is there anything the consumer or artist can do to restore pop’s ‘musical goodness’?
