Yes we have been away from the blog for a while and now we are back, the whole team will be contributing over the coming months, any ways we wanted to let you know about a great band Veil Cassini these Exeter lads have been hiding out in Camden for the past few years, but now armed with a new drummer some new songs and a couple of videos, they are cutting a swathe across town.
They have played recent gigs at the Hawley Arms, The Dublin Castle and Ska Studios to much acclaim, listen out for these guys you wont be disapointed.
Hasan Salaam & Rugged’N'Raw = Mohammad Dangerfield. These guys from New York just dropped their self titled LP as a duo and this is their second video off the album. The track features I.mpaq (last verse) and is produced by myself, dj INSITE.
The full length album also features Immortal Technique and includes the singles Hero Sandwich and The BBQ Joint. They actually will have just performed with Immortal Technique at this years SXSW festival in the states..
This week I want to get a little more serious. Last week we discussed Black Slate’s excellent ‘Mozart in Trenchtown’ but today we return to more sober thoughts and charitable actions.
As many of you will know, Haiti suffered an earthquake last year and help has been pouring in from all around the globe. However there is still much that needs to be done for the people of the island and Sound Solution Recording Studios have been pitching in with a recording by Folasade Phillip (aka Fola). The song is called ‘One By One’ and speaks directly and candidly about the problems the Haitian people have been through and those they have yet to face.
Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake on January 12, 2010. An estimated 300,000 people were killed and over 1.5 million left homeless. They have faced Cholera and, in November, a hurricane caused even more devastation and further outbreaks of disease.
The importance of even the smallest contributions cannot be overstated and Fola’s song does well to highlight the issue. On a more musical note, this song soars with a wonderful string section and choral arrangements. It is both saddening and inspiring.
Also due out very soon will be a full album featuring some of London’s leading award winning and critically acclaimed singer songwriters and spoken word artists doing their bit to honour and aid the Haitian people.
This initiative hopes to raise at least £10,000 for two child centered charities: Christian Aid and United Haitians in the United Kingdom (UHUK).
A dedicated website: ukartistcollective.co.uk will go online within the week. In the meantime you can check out the progress of this project on Facebook (onebyoneforhaiti) or Twitter.com (onebyone4haiti)
We at Sound Solution aim to bring you the very best in music and this week it’s no different. Famous music venue King’s Place are hosting a competition: Mozart (Un)Rapped. Its purpose is to highlight the composer’s music and his influence on later generations using modern techniques and sampling.
Sound Solution’s very own reggae and dub legends, Black Slate, were asked for their own interpretation of Mozart’s works. The recording resulted in one of the finest dub tracks we’ve ever heard: ‘Mozart in Trenchtown’.
Over at the inner sanctum of the mixing room, mastering engineer, label and studio owner Byron Mitchell, oversaw the recording studio sessions using string and brass sections with some of the capital’s top reggae musicians. Among them musicians, currently working at the National Theatre on hit musical production ‘Fela’.
I have been given a preview of this tune and all I can say is that Black Slate’s legendary bassist, “Bassy” Elroy Bailey, certainly lives up to his name. String and bass runs, drum fills and a killer chorus will put you right back in the London streets of the late 70’s and early 80’s when reggae ruled the world.
The deadline for submissions is May 30th so if you’re interested, go along to the website and read the details. Entrants must be aged between 14 and 21 and tracks can be recorded on PC and Mac or using the RJDJ App on your iPhone. Backing tracks are provided by the likes of Ty, Jehst, DJ Food, BROKE’N’£NGLISH, Spin Doctor, Dorian Concept,Terror Danjah and, of course, Black Slate. Hurry!
Our friends Piano Magic released the EP Dark Horses, which was recorded, mixed and mastered at Sound Solution Recording Studios London, in 2008 with Engineer/Producer Jerome Tcherneyan.
a single 12″ Dubplate acetate copy of the EP was auctioned on eBay and was sold for a staggering £470 to a mystery French collector, the dubplate was cut using Sound Solutions Scully Vinyl Mastering Lathe.
The tracklisting is :
1) Dark Horses
2) Stations
3) Vacancies
4) A Book I Should Not Read
Personnel for the tracks were Franck Alba, Angele David-Guillou, Glen Johnson, Cedric Pin, Alasdair Steer and Jerome Tcherneyan.
Scottish band Molly Wagger have been in the recording studio during the year working on their debut ep and album for Tirk Recordings recorded and produced by label mate Architeq (Sam Annand) one of Sound Solutions house Engineer/producers with help from the wicked Sunharbour String Quartet another band to look out for absolutely fantastic live, yes we like em.
Molly Wagger are a Scottish based band consisting of brothers James and Charlie Denholm and Edward Hulme and David Ayre.
Molly Wagger have just released their first EP “Weekend” on Tirk Recordings to much acclaim recorded at Sound Solution recording studios London. Available to buy on Vinyl from all good record shops, also available for download.
BOOMKAT.COM says!
‘Weekend’ is quite simply the loveliest thing Tirk have released all year. It’s the debut release from Edinburgh-based six-piece Molly Wagger, with some help from the Sunharbour string quartet and remarkable production from Sam Annand aka Architeq. That pop-primed lead cut revolves around a killer piano and vocal hook with shades of classic Fleetwood Mac, while ‘Molly’ is more of a pastoral indie charmer with subtle electronic embellishments. Richard Norris steps in with a Balearic remix of ‘Weekend’ giving it a 4/4 tap on the ass and DJ friendly playing time.
These are some of a series of 7″ Vinyl Records that were repressed by Sound Solution London Recording Studios for Sir Collins owner of the Collins Downbeat sound system, some of these releases date back to 1968.
In the late 60’s Clancy Collins AKA Sir Collins Downbeat started releasing records. From the start he had a relationship with Bunny Lee who provided mastertapes that were either released as they were or overdubbed in the UK with singers, DJs or instrumental solos.
Welcome to Sir Collins’ Music Wheel, a piece of late sixties early seventies reggae music that has, until now, been pretty much lost to history, apart from a small collectors market willing to pay high prices for the original releases.
These are a few of Sir Collins releases,
Lester Stirling And Sir Collins – Sir Collins Special (Sir Collins production – UK Collins Downbeat)
Owen Gray – Rock It Down (Sir Collins production – UK Collins Downbeat)
Sir Collins, Don Simmons And Lester Stirling – Three Wise Men (Sir Collins production – UK Collins Downbeat)
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Delroy Wilson – Live As One (Sir Collins production – UK blank LP)
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Sir Collins And Bob Stackie – Sock It softly (Sir Collins production – UK Collins Downbeat)
Owen Gray – I’m So Lonely (Sir Collins production – UK Collins Downbeat)
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Uniques – I’m A Fool For You (Bunny Lee production – UK Collins Downbeat)
Marlene Webber – Hard Life (Sir Collins production – UK Smash)
Collins All Stars – Version Life (Sir Collins production – UK Smash)
For more info please visit Sir Collins Music or email - sircollinsmusic@hotmail.co.uk
for quotes on vinyl mastering and pressing please visit Sound Solution London Recording Studios
At Sound Solution London Recording Studios We recently cut the 7 inch viny single “Strongmen And Acrobats” for Singer Songwriter Laura Hocking one to look out for in the new year.
Laura Hocking was born in the North, educated in the Middle and moved to the South.
She sings freak pop blue vaudeville folk about love, stalking, female wrestling champions, forcible tattooing, theft, hypochondria and the notion that the best revenge is an unflattering portrait.
We at Sound Solution london recording studios are always pleased at this time of year, when we receive requests from girlfriends,boyfriends, wives and mothers, to have tracks cut onto dubplate for their sons, daughters, husbands and parents. The most interesting and fun request was made by Callum Sadler who wanted a 78rpm dubplate cut as a christmas present for his girlfriend who owns a turntable that only plays 78rpm records. This was a problem as our Scully lathe and pitch controller only work at 33 and 45rpm, also we dont own a 78rpm turntable but that will soon be rectified
Callum came to the studios armed with a 78 record of Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls Of Fire” with unidentifiable vocals because the pitch was so low, being played back at 45rpm. Callum had brought along 2 tracks he had recorded along with his lady earlier in the year and thought it would make a nice suprise, after some time messing around in logic trying to match the sound to the sound of a 78rpm record playing at 45rpm without satisfactory results. We found the formula using the plugin Speed by Wavemechanics in protools.
We then proceeded to cut 2 sides which we were unable to play back at 78rpm as we dont have a turntable that plays at 78rpm, i recieved an email from Callum later that night saying that it played back perfectly on a 78rpm turntable. So our first ever 78rpm dubplate was cut.
Barry Issac is a reggae artist who was born in Portland, Jamaica. He started recording songs in 1970 and his current record label is entitled Reggae On Top. In his current band which is called The Royal Kings, there are 5 members but in the future it could be 7 or more.
Barry Issac used to have other jobs before he became a reggae artists. some of them including an apprenticeship at an laboratories that tested incubators for babies and also a mechanic.
Some of Barry Issacs Inspirations and Role Models were mostly Rasta people and Marcus Garvey this was because of what he done that gave Black People equal rights.
He has been using Sound Solutions rehearsal studios for about 2 years now and hopefully this would increase as the years go by.
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