Owner: Decibel NYC Recordings URL:http://decibelnyc.telldat.com Join Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:27:12 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Updated blog from the artists and staff of Decibel NYC Recordings, a house music label based in Harlem, NY. Site statistics:Click here
juno charting…. 2007-09-08 08:43:56 looks like Mista A’s “Mental Health Hotline” is moving up the charts on Juno&hellip
;cheers.
Start STRUTTING you STUFF! 2007-09-05 20:38:33 This summer was busy but for all the wrong reasons. that’s usually time for vacations, imposing family visiting the city, old folks dying, etc. the heat in new york didn’t make for any kind of creativity. lots of us around the office just laid around and binged on food, ice cream and other grown folks goodies. but work and production was never too far.
we are starting the end of summer real nice here with the release of Don Davenport’s debut on the label - and it’s the appropriate theme to get us back on track: STRUT. “Come over here and strut your stuff” - a line directly from the lyrics - penned and performed by Don. the official release date on Beatport is the 14th of September 2007. there are no less then 6 remixes coming on this package, from all the crew with the label (VB Heinze, Keith Just, Mista A, Lou Peoples and more).
In addition, Decibel NYC just completed the first music video to accompany one of our releases and yes, it is for ST Read more:Start
Chuck Love is featuring his mix… 2007-09-01 17:34:58 tonight, at club Rebel in nyc (251 West 30th Street, between 7th & 8th Ave.), Chuck
Love will be performing a hot set for the morning heat. during his burn he will be giving a first-time preview of his new remix for “Love Will Return” by Alison Crockett. the remix pack is due out by the holidays&hellip
; but his mix is here, now. be there promptly before 4:00 am for this first time listen… i know i will be there. filmed at 4!
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Mista A goes Mental… 2007-08-07 17:07:10 After a year of procrastinating like only a Mista A could do, a miraculous event transpired and it went a little something like this:
It all started with a hot and sunny 8 hours of driving, a pound of gelatinous confections and a few choice swear words for all those summer tourist drivers, then I finally made it to the big (and sour) apple, to finally put my new single to bed and reconnect with my peeps, Kevin and Cj in New York City.
Spanish Harlem, a six pack of Big Red and plenty watermelons were all I needed to get the juices cookin’. Under intense pressure and scrutiny, we got the single and the remix package for it wrapped up.
“Mental Health Hotline” is done and in the process I conjured up a little remix for the label’s newest superstar, Don Davenport. A saucy joint aptly titled “Strut“, which I think will slam all those fortunate to hear it on a dance floor.
I was totally blown away to the hear all the new-ies for the upcoming Fall and Winter Read more:hellip
fuze is crazy! 2007-07-20 14:04:28 we just got 2 sick remixes for “Mental Health Hotline” from our main dude in texas: Fuze!
he turned out a real hard swing rework that will please and then please some more. with a dark bassline and demented synthetics. “loco” is always welcome when you are travelling with this pack of loonies..
mental health hotline should be out very soon. with mixes from fuze, undah-dub and mista a, himself!
mista a is struttin it too! 2007-07-19 13:25:56 hailing from ft lauderdale…
mista a has turned in his off-the-hook throwback mix of don davenport’s up-coming “monsterpiece” called “STRUT“. the mix is called “switch vs. mista a remix”.
my original partner in crime is showing us why he is blowing up the circuits these days. meaty, thumpin beats with breakbeat-esque drops and transitions, while the vocal is sprinkled and scattered in all the right ways and places…work it out! work it out!
Do Me In Vinyl baby… 2007-07-07 19:14:00 it’s no secret that i am one of the hard-line dj’s who seriously miss spinning vinyls!
with the digital revolution, i effectively lost a good chunk of my passion for djing. don’t get me wrong: i have not lost my passion for the music and am surrounded by good (actually excellent) house music most of my days. and it’s the good kind.
however, as for the art of spinning those same tracks at a club for a crowd, my heart would really be in it if they were all in vinyl format! i miss the darn black lackered disc&hellip
; it was so tangible; so palpable… i miss touching, prodding, spinning up the vinyl under my steady guiding fingers. i miss that tactile feedback, that sensory response to the vibrations of the needle…
looking back at those wonderful nights spent working the bag of wax till the walls of the club would sweat, i am grateful for having had the chance (and still do occasionally) to “perform” with my bag of records. now before a Read more:Vinyl
Summer Upgrade 2007-06-30 19:08:27 We’ve spent the last month upgrading a lot of the hardware and software here at the label and the studio. first, we added a new laptop, running on Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn to start building an alternative DAW system not running on Windows. With the bloat of Vista and IE 7 (what a piece of crap!), we have been looking at another operating system to handle our production work. this linux laptop will join our in-house ubuntu 6.06 server on the office network. more on our experiences learning the ins and outs of Ardour, the open-source sequencer we just installed.
we’ve also just finished putting together a Windows 2000 video production server. the creative minds here have been talking for a while about producing, editing, distributing and streaming our home-made music videos to accompany some of our releases. this new server will serve as the test bed for this new media venture.
finally, we’ve reworked our network topography to better handle live music uploads since Read more:Summer
snocap is sellin it too.. 2007-06-12 17:02:07 more digital distribution from new digital distributor snocap.com, thanks to myspace.com - who now is pushing their new merchandise retail service.
now, everytime you check out our looooovely corner at www.myspace.com/decibelnyc you will have the option of direct purchase… just look at the box below the music player and get a big surprise…better yet, surprise us and buy something!
Check Out These new merchandise… 2007-06-10 19:39:22 in reality, we are testing the waters with these media files to see if you like them and want more of them. as with everything that involves artist and label promotion, we’ll try to satisfy any scratch that you may have for DECNY.
lately, a lot of the artists here have taken pleasure in walking around with their next-generation cell phones set with multi-tonal ringtones based on great loops from our catalog. the biggest culprit is the undah-dub. his t-mobile MDA has a different ringtone from the label catalog’s for every “category” in his phone book. it’s weird, but after a few days, everyone here at the label kinna knows what kind of people are blowing off his cell phones by the ringtones that blare constantly&hellip
; (“you stupid prick… tell me what to do… you stupid prick”, taken from VB Heinze’s “Stupid Prick” usually announces unpleasantness… you get the point).
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traxsource.com in the house 2007-06-06 08:49:05 just a word to let the world know that we, at Decibel NYC, have just added the famed Traxsource (www.traxsource.com) to our distribution partner network.
look for all our products and releases to be available there very soon.
1 out of 3 are SPIES… 2007-06-05 19:59:55 as we start the month of june, our new BI (that’s business intelligence) backend software is reaching it’s final stage of implementation. what that means is that we are now able to track in REAL TIME the performance of our each of our releases. which is selling the best per quarter, for the year&hellip
; down to the individual mix!
what all this beefed up web 2.0 backend stuff means in the long run is a better LIVE view that our people can use to know which release does best, needs promotion, where a particular artist does best, down to the region… all this mombo jumbo means that we want to know who does what and how and where so that we can always, at an instant, refocus or re-distribute our energies to a more effective and accurate marketing.
so, who is doing how so far? as of june 1st, Mad Cows’ SPIES has captured the number ONE spot with more then 30% of downloads worldwide since january 1st, 2007, with Alex Celler’s remix out-pacing the others 2 t
Main Site Spring Cleaning 2007-06-01 13:21:59 We have launched an interim update of our official web site (www.decibelnyc.com) to reflect a lot of the suggestions made by our users. The new interface provides a much bigger display area to avoid needless scrolling, a quick links section to quickly bookmark any of our internet properties or to navigate quickly between any of them. A lot of smaller updates, not necessarily obvious, have been woven into the new interface to allow us to scale easily and better server the needs of our fans.
If anything with the new design still leaves you scraching your heads, write your suggestions on a piece of paper and mail it in to us tomorrow! Naaaaah. Just contact us with all your worthy feedback…. (yahhh)
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Time to clean those pipes… 2007-05-21 13:17:13 Let’s start with numbers and rankings: Mad Cows‘ SPIES, released at the beginning of May 2007, is on track to surpass all our previous sales numbers of any release to date.
Alex Celler’s mix is by far the most in demand, specially for the groovy house crowd.
After a timid start, The Undah-Dub’s RISE UP is slowly gaining traction and we are seeing the numbers improve weekly. If you like the mixes, pass the information on to your fellow DJs and artists so that they can get acquainted with our catalog.
Onto what’s coming soon: the label office has been filled with the maniacal, twisted, dirty and neurotic sounds of the remixes for Mista A’s MENTAL HEALTH HOTLINE. Breeze surprised us all a week ago by dropping, unexpectedly, his in-progress remix of that track: sheer pandemonium! “Timmy, I told you about playing with those mad cows!” Mista A’s original is such an easily digestable number, while his breaks remix is chunky, rolling an Read more:hellip
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a little chart action from new york, not “no york”! 2007-05-18 13:25:22 mad cows are still workin it out on the dance floors. here is some chart action from nyc’s michael hades (top 10 - may 2007):
http://www.hadesmusic.com/HadesBooth.html
1. Welcome To No York feat. Breeze (All Mixes) - Mad Cows
2. Bodyshaker (All Mixes) - Austin Leeds
3. The March (All Mixes) - Ellis D.
4. I Feel Love (Original Edit) - Antoine Clamaran
5. Rotation (The Drums are Alive) (Therapy Full on Vocal Session) - Randy Friess
6. Let Me Set You Free (Original Mix) - Victor Calderone
7. House Is The Power feat. Felicia Ross (Funky Junction & Anthony Reale Tribal Beats) - Funky Junction
8. Dr. Drum - Antoine Clamaran
9. Gotta Have Funky House - Michael Hades
10. Spies (All Mixes) - Mad Cows
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In digital and on the radio… 2007-09-18 20:36:13 Late breaking news about one of the label’s owner and artist: The Undah-Dub officially begins is 4-hour weekly live radio show on Netmusique this Wednesday, September 19th, at 2:00 pm CMT and every Wednesday thereafter.
Expect The Undah-Dub to prominently feature some of the latest releases from the label and also some unreleased mixes that are locked tight in the vault. Show some love to Netmusique for always keeping it twisted and electrique on their radio show (they have some of the sickest lineup of electro dj’s spinning or featuring mixes there) and to our artist “Dub” for bringing it hard like the pink elephant in the room. So tune in every Wednesday and ride it out&hellip
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Massive update on the who’s who catalog… 2008-03-04 22:50:03 it may look like we’ve been on vacation for quite a while, but au contraire! actually, it’s been a bit of both.
most of the staff was allowed to drift during the holiday season in order to recharge their creative juices and come back refreshed and full of new ideas and new productions. on that front, [...] Read more:catalog
Tour our other properties 2008-03-04 09:02:37 if you like our blog, visit our other web properties to learn more and get to know us better.
In the Beginning video by Breeze 2008-02-25 22:37:08 here is a home-grown video
of “In The Beginning” by Breeze
, the new single released on our sister label Harlem Station Recordings. Visit the site to check out this latest video.
Here is a direct link to the video on myspace.
Philly Trippin’ 2008-01-24 19:24:54 this past week, Mista A (who released Mental Health Hotline recently on the label) moved to Philadelphia. he is the latest in a long trend of musicians and producers moving to the Philly
area.
our label mate Jody Vukas also relocated to the Philly suburbs with a new outlook on music and life. Philly [...] Read more:Trippin
IRIS Distribution contract still in the works 2008-01-14 21:08:06 we may have been a bit premature in the announcement of our new contract
agreement with IRIS Distribution in order to promote, market and distribute our products over different mass media channels all around the world. while the contract is a signed deal, getting up and ready with their distribution system is quite another [...]
Slutty Pooh 2008-03-13 20:19:36 this evening, at Studio 152 - our recording studio in the heart of washington heights in harlem, new york - Breeze was putting the final touches to Slutty Pooh, one of the songs from his much anticipated upcoming album “RISE“.
Scheduled for release before the summer 2008 and packing no less then 12 full length songs, [...]
Drink beer… Eat chocolate… 2008-03-25 19:35:13 Soo… it is almost here for the world to enjoy.
but in good spirit - we give you a chance to feature this hit early.
while we promo our supportive dj’s, club and radio.
we want to give our fans a little bit of early thanks by giving you a chance to get our latest and greatest before [...] Read more:Drink
Undah-Dub website massive update 2008-04-03 11:47:49 Can everyone smell the arrival of Spring? Here in Harlem, New York, the weather is still gray and wet at times, but the few days in the upper 50’s do inject a pep in every body’s steps and foster spring cleaning, updating and sprucing.
All the label’s artists are spending copious amounts of time putting new [...] Read more:website
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keith just…the album! 2008-04-08 12:32:15 with our pre-release campaign in full swing of the soon to be cult classic, “beer and chocolate”, available at beatport. we are super excited for the worldwide release of the single on May 13, 2008. it will feature all 5 mixes from keith,undah-dub and gaty lopez. with this in mind, it pleases [...]
all across the globe 2008-04-17 09:19:40 We pride ourselves on reaching a universal audience, by providing the world with plenty of great music. with this we do our very best to release some of the most intriquing, unique and experimental sonic journeys, just to keep shaking things up.
with everything moving so fast and up on the decibel nyc turf. we [...]
harlem station chart action 2008-04-30 17:29:34 our sister label Harlem Station Recordings is garning some play. here is a playlist from dj jd
Playlist for ” A Touch Of Soul” On SS Radio UK
Apr/ 16th -08
Hosted by: DJJD & Nica D.
1. Jersey maestros/ ft renee/ ” He So real ” - Promo
2. Janet Jackson /” Feed [...]
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