2011 Plans: Working With Others

Since finishing my thesis, projects have really begun to pick up. So here's what's going on so far for me in 2011:

- I have been working with a San Diego-based fashion company (or community?) called Mahal Style for a while now. They promote a positive and creative message through various means of design and have chosen my music to use for their many video spotlights. If you've been following me or them on Facebook then I'm sure you've seen my name tagged in some of their video uploads. What's different now though is that I will finally be able to devote more time to actually making music for them, rather than them having an older, slowly shrinking selection of songs to rummage through. They even want to do a video feature on me, which sounds fun. For this I will be trying to reproduce that "mellow" vibe I was once (and hopefully still am) so adept at.

- This guy Brett that I met quite some time ago and haven't seen in a while reached out to me recently to join this sort of art collective that he and his friends want to start. They've known me musically for a while and they're really nice people, so I don't see any problem meshing with them. I'm not exactly sure what everyone else's artistic level/direction or whatever is, but I think the point is mainly to just form a solid foundation of support. We might all meet up sometime next week to discuss matters, but it sounds like yet another good way to get exposure. Here I imagine myself having complete freedom to do whatever I want.

- And lastly (for now), my long time rapper friend Chris and I formed somewhat of a "band" with another friend of his who plays drums. I basically handle the electronic/dusty sounding drums and samples, the other guy plays along with me (or vice versa), and then Chris raps. We've only played twice together so far, but since I have so much unused music accumulated, we really have a lot to work with, especially with a third person present. And the last practice was more solidifying in terms of finding a unique sound and entering the beginning stages of writing actual songs (something I've never been good at with others -- but that's just because those past others weren't the right people). We're looking forward to actually playing some shows soon, which would be a new experience for me.


So other than a potential remix opportunity or two, working on my own solo material (which can be complimented by projects #1 and #2 above), or even doing a few songs here and there with other less committed friends of mine, it looks like these are the three big main projects I have going on for this summer.

For now, you can stay updated on what's going on with me via soundcloud and bandcamp, links below.
www.soundcloud.com/deadmoney
deadmoney.bandcamp.com