Wheoooo, FINALLY!!!! A site! New music! Stuff! Things! and….*boom! my own company? Yes! (De Medeiros, LLC) - more on that later. First off I gotta thank the De Medeiros staff and the hand-full of people who have given their time to make this possible. THANK YOU! As an independent artist I sometimes feel like I am facing my worst personal fears…alone, but then your friends and family come along and tell you to quit urinating on yourself. Not to get all mushy and stuff, but know that when you support myself or any De Medeiros product you are supporting a beating heart…not just a machine, a market, an industry, a genre, or some “head hancho” so far removed from the business he/she creates that people become products, numbers, revenue, etc. Nope, here your voice matters, it’s personal, and it carries far. You are the foundation - THANK YOU!

So let’s get into it! This is my new site; have a look around. You can thank Jairu for the face, Samy for the movement, and Melissa for the substance. To the right you will see some buttons - click on them, they are cool. I will be updating the blog/site weekly so be sure to check the lyrics section, exclusives…. eh, just check the whole thing. Sign up to leave comments. Give me a shout if you’d like to see more on this site or if you see anything outta wack. I get a lot of requests to explain the meaning of songs - if this is true for you, leave me a comment to tell me the song lyrics you’d like featured and I will do so.

On to the EP! So here it is! “THE ART OF BROKEN GLASS” EP!!!!!!!! What’s an EP? A short album made by short people. About 6 months ago I was doing my usual youtube surf while eating breakfast, and I ran across this video of a guy in his bedroom banging on his MPC. The video hadn’t been up that long, but it already had 300k views. It was “Boonie Mayfield” and yep…dude was real ill. REAL ILL! I saw the first video, and then went on to his youtube channel (I recommend doing so) to see more. The first thing that hit me about this dude was his energy, and I don’t mean that in a “glow-stick raver” way (shout out to D.J. Sasha). I mean it in an “early 90’s I don’t need an 808 drum kick to make you feel me” way. I mean you can see it in the video - his beats come alive! I mean anyone can grab a dope sample and put a beat to it, anyone can hit the 808 pad a couple times. It’s rare, however, when a producer can make a sampled beat move with the same energy as a live band. (I heard Boonie Mayfield doesn’t quantize a thing.  He just puts it in live- at least on these 5 tracks.) Check out this video!

See? Word! Dude is alive. So yeah, it turned out that Boonie was from my hometown! “The Springs!”…That was it, that was all I needed to know. I got a hold of Boonie, told him I wanted to work with him…and that’s what happened. I was in the middle of figuring out what was going on with my new album, “Friends Enemies Apples Apples,” and I was so frustrated with the business of it all that I had to write, I had to record, I had to remind myself why I do this. So, I grabbed 5 beats from Boonie and went to work.

We recorded this album without quantizing, without separating tracks, without whining, and without a whole lotta money.  We just did it for the love of it all. The sound is gritty, low-end heavy, dusty, un-polished - as a project like this should be. Have a look and listen to the album in the Merchandise section. If you like what you hear please lend your support by adding it to your cart! Vote using your dollar - “…why the bad guys gotta make all the money?”- Joseph Medeiros (my father).

THANK YOU!

14 April 2009 | 10:33 pm
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