Percieve – reclining the grind
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Outta my Hands video – the drawing board
Jan 20th
Park Road - the sky doesn't always look like that
I had my first sit down with Darwin Go this week about a video we’re doing for a new track you might have heard me do live if you’ve been to a gig in the last little bit, it’s called Outta my Hands. Darwin did a lot of the post production for the Whoa video, and also did the homie TK’s Liar Liar ft. Deach video recently.
I met Darwin at his work, Park Road productions…and man, that place is unreal – from the outside it looks like a 5 star japanese hotel, and from the inside… a gentlemans-by invite only-country club. It was opulent as fuck. I don’t really use that word often, but its justified as here.
The bro has a mean concept for the vid which we’re gonna get started on soon before we lose Welly’s something-like-summer weather, so we’re brainstorming up a couple of locations now. Its gonna be a smaller budget than Whoa, relying entirely on the cd/royalty money I’ve had stashed away fattening up slowly in shares (shout outs to Australia’s mining sector lol). So we also need to start planning any product placement/sponsorship we can pull to stretch that money out like the rubberband I keep it tucked in. If you’ve got any ideas lemme know! I’ll keep you updated with mine.
Baaaaalling!
Jan 18th
I obviously kept my expenses to a minimum October/November. I don’t think I can justify going into a bank to deposit this. Thanks anyway IRD…
On that note…I think I wrote a post on this back in www.percieve.co.nz version 1.0 but in case you didn’t read that one… if you’re rapping/making any sort of music with an intent to sell that music, if you’re paying for anything related to said musical pursuit… register yourself a company and claim that GST back! Meeting your crew to talk about album ideas? That’s a business lunch homie. Topping up the ride to drive out for a gig practise? That’s a business trip – keep the receipts!
Balance
Jan 17th
I wrote this post a long time ago, a really long time ago © 2pac/Dave Chappelle
In an interview for the bro Ben Walker a while back we were talking about motives behind music, or something along those lines, and I thought it was worth writing up – I would have done so then…cept I hadn’t got off my ass to snatch the site back from it’s online kidnappers yet.
This might make it a little easier to understand why it was so easy for me to disappear out of anything resembling the public eye last year (if that’s something you care about, read on – otherwise…you’re probably at the wrong spot anyway).
It’s not something I’d ever really thought about before (probably since I’m seldom introspective unless theres a nice beat with some soul samples playing), but we were talking about the difference between rapping-for-your-damn-self, and rapping for ears/speakers/IP-addresses. Because every young rapper probably builds themselves up with the goal of getting their shit out there, and being known on the block as the baddest MC etc, you’re sorta biased as to how mean that actually is when/if you get there, but over More >
Diggin for beats
Jan 15th
Was round at the homie Flowz’ (not really sure if I’m meant to put an S on the end of Flowz) pad yesterday having a listen through what he’s been working on lately and dropping off a track of mine he’s doing up a verse for.
#ShitIdidn’tKnow – Flowz has a diploma in audio engineering so has been mixing all his (draft) tracks himself and they’re sounding dope!
After the obligatory convo with an incarcerated scarface through the Rimataka phone system we got to going through some ridiculous beats he’s had on stash from Alphabethead …that dude is crazy with the sampling. Being the insane/genius turntablist that he is, you already know he’s gonna be equally as mental with the sampling and arrangements. I’m really looking forward to working with Flowz on one of those suckers I took home. Not sure what it will be turning up on, but it’ll be on something, and it’ll be mean (nothings been written for it yet so that’s based entirely on the beat alone!)
We sussed a couple other joints to work on too, stay tuned.
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Reclining the grind
Jan 12th
Yup I’m back with the blogging.
You may have noticed the change in title – just thought I’d clear that up first, I wouldn’t actually say I’ve been reclining, quite the opposite really – I’ve been on my grind hard… just not the rap grind.
A promotion at work I couldn’t turn down, and a jump up from part time to full time, has meant my pockets got fatter…but my hours in the day got thinner (see below illustrated apology if you were waiting for some shit).
After a few (dozen) half awake days at the work desk, and then the mixing desk, I think I’ve pretty much sussed a balance with work and music that I’m More >
Hello world!
Jan 11th
Back…sort of.
I’ll be working on the site for the next week or so getting it back to normal, minus the posts that were on here before (unless I can find a way to restore them without the damage done by the internet terrorists when the site went down).
I’ll post again once everythings sussed.
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