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WarzoneThe next Warzone Beat Battle is set for April 22-26th!
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Industry Live Shows! How to Get Em and Keep Em
Blowing Up from the Basement is a series of articles and resources written exclusively for the IllMuzik fam, designed to help the bedroom producer/artist increase their exposure and make industry contacts that will get his/her music heard. These articles will run bi-weekly or monthly and will... -
My Advice to Young Aspiring Artists....
Maaaan, I got the call yesterday about these young bucks who "got them fire 16's" and as usual I gave my advice, "Keep em writing", "Try to book them some talent shows to build up stage presence" and most importantly "school them on business side". But my connect puts the beat on, and these... -
Industry Do I Need A Manager?
Blowing Up from the Basement is a series of articles and resources written exclusively for the IllMuzik fam, designed to help the bedroom producer/artist increase their exposure and make industry contacts that will get his/her music heard. These articles will run bi-weekly or monthly and will... -
What's Poppin In Your Area This Weekend??
Maaaan, it's so much to do with so little time! Anyways, after a wiiild Thursday night out at Fast Eddie's Last Night over on King St. in Arlington, VA ---I'm all set for a big weekend. Friday ---in Baltimore they got a spot called Visions that plays reggae ALL NIGHT. They play a lotta...- shadeed
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What's Your Credit Card Debt from Music???
What's the deal illmuzik, I must have blacked out at Guitar Center and Best Buy during the month of June because today I was doing the bills for the month and between my 4-5 credit cards it dawned on me that I'm 6-7 g's in debt from upgrades and the "necessities" of any home studio. Stuff...- shadeed
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Industry Blowing Up From The Basement
Blowing Up from the Basement is a series of articles and resources written exclusively for the IllMuzik fam, designed to help the bedroom producer/artist increase their exposure and make industry contacts that will get his/her music heard. These articles will run bi-weekly or monthly and will... -
Sooo What are Your Current Projects????
What's goooood, I need threads like this because its good to see other people doin big things and it's also motivation to keep pushin with this music when you got a family, long hours @work, and car,house,boat,Visa payments to make ya feel me! As for me: (Right now) I'm working with a... -
MD/DC/VA What's Stopping Us From Blowin Up???
I'm always making my "rounds" to different spots/studios etc, networking w/ diff. singers/rappers/producers etc. with the overall plan of puttin it all together and making something major pop off. I was @ the Heritage Festival this weekend @ Camden Yards and Bossman performed and I'm...- shadeed
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Describe Your Best Production Work
I was reading this interview where Dr. Dre's right hand man basically was talking about this "vault" that Dre has that contains every single beat that he ever made, including all the tracks that didn't make the albums and experimental stuff too. He mentioned that the material that was in the... -
The Name is Shadeed.
Illmuzik is a top quality production site, I read thru the forums and if you use the search function properly, it's better than any manual because most of these guys on here post from experience and in layman's terms. A little bit about myself, I started out MC'ing ("professionally") while I...- shadeed
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Mbox and MPC crisis
My goal was to learn Protools since its in every studio and my experience with it will get me more work selling these tracks. This sunday I bought a M-box. I currently have MPC 2000 connected to my Mackie DFX 12 mixer. The production method I would like to use is: Make the beat... -
Help the rookie cop a mixer.
I'm in the process of buying a hardware mixer to connect up my MPC 2000 and guitar. I will then run the mixer into the Audiophile soundcard and maybe work w/ Fruity or something user friendly to get me started. Gimme some inputs and opinions on the hardware mixer that you're working with... -
Need the lowdown on Logic
I own a Apple computer, and what I've been hearing that the Logic Platinum series is for mac users only. But I think the 5.0 series is for PC users. I work primarily with MPC 2000 as my sequencer, so if Logic is a sequencer too, why would I need it? Somebody PLEASE set the facts straight for me... -
Help me advance my current set-up
I'm a do-it-yourself type mofo. I'm gonna list my equipment and what I wanna do and would appreciate if I could get some suggestions on taking my stuff to the next level. Equipment: MPC 2000, Roland JV 2080, Elec Guitar /Amp, Korg Karma Apple Cpu (no software currently)...