what I’m listening to at the moment

Plan b – ill manors

Ive been finding it really hard to find some fresh rap based stuff that i can really sin my teeth into, but this is fucking epic, really looking forward to the album if its like this…

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever people say I am thats what I’m not

This is the album that made me pick up a guitar in the first place, so while writing my own album I thought Id go back to the source for a lil inspiration

Two Door Cinema Club

sick band, sick album. They’re my label mates too which is pretty cool!

Random Impulse X Tinchy Stryder – Gangsta? REFIX

loved this song so much i wanted to do a freestyle on it, but couldn’t find the instrumental anywhere, so i decided to make it myself with my weapon of choice, the american standard strat electric guitar!

This is the first in a line of free songs ill be putting out where i recreate the music as well as laying down my own lyrics on a bunch of songs, so look out for it!

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DONT FORGET TO SUPPORT AND BUY THE ORIGINAL SONG!

ITS SICK!
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The Super Duo: In The Studio With Ed Sheeran

As you may or may not know, when it comes to my music, im SUPER picky with who I collaborate with, its so bad infact that i can count on one hand the number of people that ive worked with on my guitar stuff and that includes engineers and producers too.

Enter Ed Sheeran, the 19 year old musical genius that does it ALL, singing, sonwriting,plays guitar, keys (a lil) and puts on one of the BEST one man shows I have ever seen. I reached out to him through the recommendation of Guy Chambers (who we’ve both been working with), sayng how much Id love to work and much to my surprise he was trying to get a hold of me for the same reason!

Although we couldnt be any more different, the simularites we share are crazy, its like where polar opposites of the same magnet lol.

when someone I click with this much comes along doing just one song isnt enough, and we’ve both agreed that a big batch of stuff is the only option. Its either that or the etire world collapses, or something of the same epic epicness.

Oh yeah!! he joined up to S.A.N.G.A (super awesome nerd genius army) too! and by joined i mean i added him and without him knowing :p

Anyway! Expect Awesome music on the way from the new super duo! watch this space!

Cardboard Record Player

I don’t know anyone anymore that actually owns a record player. I still find them interesting, but I can’t say that I’ve found much of a need to rush out and get one. Well for those of you that would like to have something small and easily hidden around, this record player is one way to do it. What was formerly nothing more than a sleeve for a record gets reshaped and reused as a record player.

Sure, it’s nothing top of the line and it will probably need a little help from you, but it would still work. In order to get it up and running, just assemble all of the corrugated cardboard into the proper formation. Then just put a pencil in the center of the record on the player. The vibrations will then go through the needle and become amplified by the cardboard. It was just something that was sent out to creative directors across North America in order to demonstrate GGRP’s sound engineering capabilities.

Mixing Down The New Faith SFX Feature Album: Man or Machine

When I first decided to build my own studio, I pre-planned out every single last detail except for probably the most vital one: “who’s gonna engineer?” that left me with no option but to self teach myself, and 3 years on I can proudly say i’ve mixed projects like Scorcher- Simply The Best Vol.1, Frisco – Back To Da Lab 2, Chipmunk – Whatever The Weather Vol 1&2, as well as ALL my own stuff including Full Metal ALchemist.

Now ever since my solo work took a sudden turn for the best, I’ve Srayed from mixing other peoples projects as its SO time consuming, but when my mate Faith Sfx told me the sound he wanted was that of my mixtape full metal, i thought “why not? mixing other peoples stuff wasnt THAT bad right?”

WRONG
Faiths New Project is a VERY challenging one at that: every single instrumental of every single track track was made by ONLY his mouth, which is quite frankly, insane. As if that wasn’t sick enough, it features the very cream of the underground scene from the likes of chipmunk, ghetts, p-money, dot rotten and lowkey down to new draft pics like maxsta, double s, there’s even a feature from yours truly heh heh 😀

As amazing as this feature album is, I’m VERY VERY happy that this sunday is my last day working on it as its stopped me doing all the amazing-ness planned for your guys like my free downloads and starting my show (more on that later).

It also means ill stop looking like this:

and go back to looking like this:

Im not quiiiite sure when the release date for “Man Or Machine” is but I’ll be sure to keep you updated here. look out for it! :p