Time flies
Hi again. We’re already approaching the last day of Remix Hotel, and I’m a little woozy from all the action yesterday. If you see me and I’m downing Red Bulls, it’s ’cause the four hours of sleep last night didn’t really cut it. But it was worth it. As usual, yesterday was a whirlwind. I helped judge the iStandard Producers battle,which was cool. There were a lot of great tracks. Da Grindaz, who have apparently already worked with T.I., took home the prize for their commercial radio appeal. Their tracks were really hard-hitting and definitely had hit potential. But my personal favorite was a little left of center: Soul Nana & Taka. I believe Soul Nana is from Ghana, Africa, and Taka is from Toyko, Japan, and their tracks were as diverse as their nationalities. They didn’t have the same commercial style as Grindaz, but the tracks were really cool and original. iStandard chose the eight finalists from 60 entries, so everyone who hit the stage was really talented. And man, it takes guts to get up in front of all those people and put yourself out there. The other judges (including A&R from Interscope and Atlantic) and I didn’t always agree on everything, and we made various songwriting and technical suggestions, but hopefully our comments were helpful to the producers.
So after the battle, I ran over to watch DJ Babu scratch it up in the Rane room and DJ Rap talk about making tracks in Logic in the Apple room. And finally, the “Producers, Bring Your Beats” panel was really cool. Aloe Blacc, DJ Rhettmatic, DJ Babu, MED, Charles Goodan and a couple other producers picked numbers out of a bucket and gave feedback to people on their tracks. We’ll have a ton of video to show you of everything soon. Day 1 video will hopefully roll out here in a few hours.
Today we have T-Pain, Carmen Rizzo, FreQ Nasty and a ton of other producers, musicians, DJs, etc. in the house. Come on down! –Kylee
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