Archive for March 29, 2009
Chart update 3/29/09
Once again, my task list has exceeded the available clock cycles the past few weeks, and the chart updates are lagging. I just got them current this morning. Yay!
Not surprisingly, the amazing Carol Hahn is in the #1 position with her awesome new single, I Can Stop the Rain. I just love Carol’s work, and this new track is arguably her very best yet.
I’ve been spinning Sleeping Satellite, the latest from France’s Junior Caldera, for weeks. People love the track, and I’m surprised how many people remember Tanita Tikarim’s original. OceanLab (Above & Beyond) covered this as Satellite a few years ago to good effect, but I really love Caldera’s superb take on the song. Interestingly, Polydor Records have been promoting dance tracks very vigorously to DJs, and yet, the music isn’t for sale anywhere… Not Amazon, not iTunes, not any of the other “usual suspects” for digital music sales. I don’t get it.
Damien J. Carter and Damien Heck’s incredible Glacier in the Sun holds the #3 position. I just cannot get enough of this one (as I blogged last week, I believe). It’s an incredible track.
CAPP Records’ latest European import comes from Andrew Spencer (Zombie and To Be With You) and Lazard, and it’s a cover of 3 Doors Down’s track Here Without You. Lots of great mixes, and people really dig this track. It’s at #6.
Two more noteworthy tracks. At #9 is John Kano amazing I’m Done With the Pain, another track that like Glacier in the Sun has so much going for it, it’s gonna get played for a long time to come. And at #10, my buddy Mike Bordes (a great NYC DJ) with his new track Don’t Know What U Got with Angela Severiano, which plays well and has gotten a great reaction.
Enjoy…
In the studio
I am nearly always working on music in some way or another. But without a specific remix project in the queue, and a desire to perform a song myself, a couple of months ago I began the search for a song to work on. Originally, I was thinking of going the route of a 70s or 80s cover song, and I’ve been listening to a lot of music seeing what might work for me that’s not already been covered once or twice (or more) already.
I happened to come across a song that I really loved that isn’t a 70s or 80s track. While it’ll be a cover, the song is one that wasn’t a hit, and isn’t well known. For now, I’m going to keep it under wraps; it’s really not relevant for this series of blog posts anyway.
But part of that last sentence is key here: this series of blog posts. I decided it might be fun to document how this project unfolds, and I’ve created a new blog category for it. So to see all the posts in this series (for now, just this one), click “Production” under the categories heading here.
So late last week, I went into the studio to record the lead vocals for it. Across three days, I did a number of takes as I tried to figure out how I wanted to voice it, while sort of working through my own timidity. I ended-up on Thursday with a couple of consecutive takes that each have enough of what I want that after some cutting and blending of the two, resulted in a vocal track I can work with. I’m not sure it’s the final vocal I’ll use, but it’s sufficient to start building the rest of the song around.
At the moment, I have a simple percussion bed in-place, the vocal, and I’ve started work on some of the arrangement. So far, so good.
So here we go. Post #1. I have no idea how long it’s going to take to finish this project, but I will keep the blog current with progress reports. This should be fun… It’s a great song, and I’m looking forward to seeing where this project goes.
