TONIGHT AT THE WHISKEY BAR, AUSTIN TX

D-Madness and Andrae Van Buren LIVE!!!!
Show starts at 9, but come early and stay late.
Whiskey Bar
303 West Fifth Street, Austin, TX 78701
(512) 481-8599;
Andrae Van Buren

D-Madness

THE CITY STOOD STILL WHEN WE WERE IN D-TOWN!!

Man there was so much great action this night in D-Town. Here are just a few of the pictures I took. I hope you like them.

Verbal Seed Tree and Oneself

Steve Austin Flexing

Dubya

Me & Bleed kicking it after the show.

My Top Dog Dewayne aka D-Madness

Mojo Family

Mojo

If you ever need a true musician, here is the man for you. Andrae Van Buren

Two of the best musicians you will ever see.

Mojo wit Bavu and Money Waters on stage together

Money Waters

Money Waters

Steve Nice

D-Madness

Voo

Nice receptive crowd

Money, Ol' Mane and Young Bleed

Money

Young Bleed

Ol' Mane and Bleed

Money Waters

Ol' Mane and Money


Dj Whiz T and Bah-Voo

Who are these home boys??? Voo and Poppa Voo

GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS!

The good news is that the road show on Wednesday night in Dallas was off the chain. I got some great pictures and made a lot of great contacts. Verbal Seed, Mojo and Money Kicked ass and of course Bavu always does his thing. D-madness is a mad man.
The Austin show was just ok in my opinion. The crowd was there and for the most part
I think they enjoyed the show. Which is what counts. There were just some things that prevented it from being a great show in my opinion. I have to say that when the bands eventually got on stage and played music, they were great. Now I think the concept of having 5 bands and 2 dj's was great, but maybe it was just way to many bands for the 5 hours that we had the venue booked for. Who knows, you live and you learn, but don't worry we will perfect the concept and come back stronger. Ok now for the bad news, my camera ran out of batteries and I got no pictures of the show. My camera running out of batteries was typical of some of the things that happened Friday night. Well any way this was a long week and weekend for me and so I need to get these pictures resized and posted up. So keep checking in for updates. I'll be posting up some info on the bands and the contacts I made. Thanks for reading.

Tony-C

"Livest Texas Rap Show" To Benefit Hurricane Victims

Antone's Friday September 16th, Come Join us as we try to do our part. The cover is only $5, but every penny over $5 we get will be donated toward aiding Hurricane Katrina victims. Donating are going to the real relief bbq, check out crowdcontrolrecords.com for more info. Supporters can also bring non-perishable food items.

Note: Bavu Blakes has younger and older relatives from New Orleans. Mojoe frontman Easy Lee is from New Orleans. Young Bleed is from Baton Rouge. All artists in the "Livest Texas Rap Show" and their associates are commited to supporting Katrina's victims. Keep an eye out for more updates on www.texasheater.blogspot.com

IT'S BEEN A MINUTE

It's been a while since I've put up any updates, so real quick here is what's going on. Well as most of you know I've been helping put together a show at Antone's, which is coming up this Friday! I just recently got the flyers and the posters donated to us from Z-MEDIA. They are a printing shop out of San Marcos. They have really great rates compared to kinko's and they word very closely with bands. So check them out and tell them Tony sent you. I promise they will hook you up. Contact Z-MEDIA AT 512-805-8400 and ask for Dan. So now I have to run around trying to hand out flyers and hang up posters. I'm going to post up the info on Fridays show again so that it's the first thing that everyone sees when they visit here.

ELEMENT7D DOING HIS THING

After seeing Element7d perform in Houston I became a fan. If you ever get a chance to check him out. DO IT. You won't be disappointed. Well here is a story that Joe Gross from the Austin American Statesman wrote about how Ele makes his beats. Well maybe I can get more info on Element and post it up for you guys. Thanks for reading. Enjoy.
http://www.austin360.com/xl/content/music/xl/2005/08/25beats.html

Hip-hop artists and others can produce high-quality sounds
By Joe Gross
August 25, 2005

Ask the rising Austin hip-hop artist Element, also known as "Ele," and he'll tell you: His home studio, essentially a desk in the living room of his South Austin apartment with a good microphone and some equipment, is held together by spit and baling wire.

Hip-hop artist Element is, well, in his element when he's in his living room. The rapper, whose real name is Deon Davis, pushes his equipment to its limit.

The studio monitors are run through one of those one-piece stereos you get in high school (it belongs to his wife, Brook, and yes, she's owned it since high school). His Dell Dimension 4100, which is running the popular production program Cubase, is missing its shell. There are external hard drives and one turntable for sampling. A Focusrite preamp and a Yamaha RS-7000 sampler/sequencer are both plugged in.

"People get into home recording because they don't have the money to go to a studio," the 23-year old rapper and producer (government name Deon Davis) says. "But then you realize you don't really have the money to keep up a studio. I need to do some upgrading. Right now, it's like there's a V-8 engine in a Mini Cooper. The wheels are gonna fall off any second."

And yet, he plays a track recorded on this rig that sounds completely professional: banging beat, smooth guitar lick, well-mixed ... the works. Then it starts cutting out and skipping.

"Let me run this another way so it puts less stress on the computer," Davis says, laughing. But the point is clear: If he can make beats that sound this dope on equipment that's falling apart, imagine what he could do with a few grand worth of new stuff.

Unlike rock bands, hip-hop has never needed much physical space to be produced: two turntables and a microphone, as the song goes. Now, hip-hop production is practically virtual.

"What people are setting up in their homes really are real studios," leading Austin rapper Bavu Blakes says. "If you've got your own space that you're already paying mortgage for, you might as well use it."

Finished tracks are produced in bedrooms and e-mailed to collaborators, who load them into their home studios, tweak them and e-mail them back.

"A lot of rappers will just get a sound card and a compressor in their laptop," Blakes says. "If you're on tour, you go to the hotel room, plug in, get the track, record your vocals in the computer, and send them back. You don't need to set up a session with a producer."

Tee Double is 32, so he's been collecting gear for far longer than Element. His home lab in his East Austin house includes an ASR-10 sampler, Akai MPC 200XL sampler, keyboards, Alesis ADAT, Teac reel to reel, Gemini turntable, Behringer Eurodesk analog mixer, live instruments and much more. "I'm a pawn shop freak," Tee (real name Terrany Johnson) says. He points out the ASR as his pride and joy. "Too many keyboards come with pre-set sounds. The ASR is blank; there's nothing on it. If you can make music on an ASR, you're a real producer."

Without a day job, this veteran of the Austin hip-hop scene works on beats full-time, working on dozens a week. "The best part about having a home studio? I can make a beat at 8 a.m. and let it play for hours while I think of what to do with it."

But more than anything else, home studios mean independence: As Johnson put it: "I just love being my own boss."