hi to all of you extended puts family. my name is Mark james, i am a 22yr old producer/mc from the uk.i represent Bournmouth,Southampton and Portsmouth which is on the south coast. i want to tell my hip hop story....
ive been a puts fan since OST, up untill that point puts was unknown to me. i saw OST in the store for ages and though ill buy this, check it out and all.. little did i know that it would shape may path in life and inspire me in the right direction for my music. i had not started making hip hop at this time, i was just listening to it. me and my friends had no idea how to go about making it, computers, beats, equipment etc.. and also nobody to link up with or places to go where djs play hip hop.
that year i had moved to the city, and that when it took off for me. i met people with the knowlage and intrests in my projects. i worked hard from the ground up. i used a basic drum machine, old turntablesand caasio keybord. an old pc with a small microphone and ran it thought this PA system that was more loud and powerful than i needed. everything was akward but it all work. only a few took me seriosly, but i thought that cos i was the only kid on the block making beats while everbody else was just being a club DJ, that i would have the main spot.
year 2, i was working with mcs in the city. trying to make different beats to cater for their individual styles. the recording session went on for months untill i had made 2 eps. one was with an mc from London, and the other was with a duo from bristol area. i was getting these passed around amongst djs and promotors and rocking the open mic curcit.
in my third year of livin in the city, a lot of people worked their sparate ways, but some mcs came along and tried to steel my beats and take them to london. at this point i started taking on my lyrics more and really getting into writing. i started working with an mc and a dj who i had met first when i first came to portsmouth. we set up a little crew and got writting and we made the best hip hop ever in 6 months solid. in total we recorded 14 tracks which we narrowed it down to the best 8 to put on cd handouts. by now i was using an MPC with studio monitors. a mixer and a Korg triton keybord. i was digging in every where i could go to find records to sample. finding some of the best breaks that are untouched by anybody from http://www.the-breaks.com. but i dont get me wrong i still used classic breaks.
last week a friend of mine was a promoter in the area and he had a reagular friday night at a club. he herd the cd demo and gave us an hour slot to do our thing. it was so cool to get up on stage and do this gig to finish off what i had word so hard on. we blew the house up and people we going off. i took my MPC down and jumped on it in between tracks making crazy interludes.after the show people were saying it was a tight set an that we had just came out of nowhere, when other mcs and djs are more know in the city for performing.
ive now moved out of the city as my crew has gon to. we now write music through the internet back and fourth. im consentrating on my solo project and a full length album with my crew. Hopefullly we will be taking the new meterial to the stage again this time next year. ive got to establish a website for my music so people can get instant accsess, im rubbish with website hosting so if anybody got and advice?
if there is any other mc/djs/producers in the uk that want to make some hip hop with us get in touch
peace
to Thes and Dub K,
the show you did at portsmouth with the Go*Off was hot, thanks for that, also reading festival was a killer too, with the nes games on stage!
Mark James-new kid in town making hip hop for today
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Posts: 576Posted 20 years ago #mark james said: hi to all of you extended puts family. my name is Mark james, i am a 22yr old producer/mc from the uk.i represent Bournmouth,Southampton and Portsmouth which is on the south coast. i want to tell my hip hop story....
ive been a puts fan since OST, up untill that point puts was unknown to me. i saw OST in the store for ages and though ill buy this, check it out and all.. little did i know that it would shape may path in life and inspire me in the right direction for my music. i had not started making hip hop at this time, i was just listening to it. me and my friends had no idea how to go about making it, computers, beats, equipment etc.. and also nobody to link up with or places to go where djs play hip hop.
that year i had moved to the city, and that when it took off for me. i met people with the knowlage and intrests in my projects. i worked hard from the ground up. i used a basic drum machine, old turntablesand caasio keybord. an old pc with a small microphone and ran it thought this PA system that was more loud and powerful than i needed. everything was akward but it all work. only a few took me seriosly, but i thought that cos i was the only kid on the block making beats while everbody else was just being a club DJ, that i would have the main spot.
year 2, i was working with mcs in the city. trying to make different beats to cater for their individual styles. the recording session went on for months untill i had made 2 eps. one was with an mc from London, and the other was with a duo from bristol area. i was getting these passed around amongst djs and promotors and rocking the open mic curcit.
in my third year of livin in the city, a lot of people worked their sparate ways, but some mcs came along and tried to steel my beats and take them to london. at this point i started taking on my lyrics more and really getting into writing. i started working with an mc and a dj who i had met first when i first came to portsmouth. we set up a little crew and got writting and we made the best hip hop ever in 6 months solid. in total we recorded 14 tracks which we narrowed it down to the best 8 to put on cd handouts. by now i was using an MPC with studio monitors. a mixer and a Korg triton keybord. i was digging in every where i could go to find records to sample. finding some of the best breaks that are untouched by anybody from http://www.the-breaks.com. but i dont get me wrong i still used classic breaks.
last week a friend of mine was a promoter in the area and he had a reagular friday night at a club. he herd the cd demo and gave us an hour slot to do our thing. it was so cool to get up on stage and do this gig to finish off what i had word so hard on. we blew the house up and people we going off. i took my MPC down and jumped on it in between tracks making crazy interludes.after the show people were saying it was a tight set an that we had just came out of nowhere, when other mcs and djs are more know in the city for performing.
ive now moved out of the city as my crew has gon to. we now write music through the internet back and fourth. im consentrating on my solo project and a full length album with my crew. Hopefullly we will be taking the new meterial to the stage again this time next year. ive got to establish a website for my music so people can get instant accsess, im rubbish with website hosting so if anybody got and advice?
if there is any other mc/djs/producers in the uk that want to make some hip hop with us get in touch
peace
to Thes and Dub K,
the show you did at portsmouth with the Go*Off was hot, thanks for that, also reading festival was a killer too, with the nes games on stage!
That was a nice little read man
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Posts: 91Posted 20 years ago #thats the thing, i got to set up a website to you can here them -
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Posts: 576Posted 20 years ago #Well, If you want a really flashy website, best thing to do is pay someone or get some self-help guide from PC World.
But you could also be hosted by someone else who let's play you music. http://www.soundclick.com is good so is http://www.myspace.com.
Here's a couple examples of beat makers on the forum who did the same:
SimonSamoorye: http://www.myspace.com/awwyeah
Boneunit: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=342512
DJ Alibi: http://www.myspace.com/djalibirecordings
Rangaluk: http://www.myspace.com/restandrelaxation
Lookin' forward to hearing your sounds man!!! -
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Posts: 1,879Posted 20 years ago #Very Nice Mr. James, lookin' forward to hearin' your creations man! -
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Posts: 91Posted 20 years ago #got my sh!t up for you guys to check. hope you like
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=396971 -
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Posts: 576Posted 20 years ago #Yeah, liking that sound, we need more UK heads like you man. -
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Posts: 91Posted 20 years ago #thanks man ill be posting up some more tunes today -
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Posts: 91Posted 20 years ago #even they wont play for me, but you can download them. posted up more tunes today.
also check out "Cut headz", "Sunrise of the onslaught" and "lethal" which feature an mc from south london called Audio Hustler -
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Posts: 91Posted 20 years ago #the bristol duo was my mate "Bully" and another mc called "Starsky" who didnt have enough positive attitude to stick it out. he wanted to be an over night succsess we think.
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