My Partner /My Brother And I Have Two Seperate Studios, We Work Together In Each Of Them As Often As Possible,And Network Thru High Speed DSL So We Can Work Simultaneously From Both Locations Also. My Brother Rob Is The Main Man On The Melodies He Has Been Playing Piano Since 7 Years Old Every Style,I Also Have Been Recording Him Via Old School Tape Recorders And Line Mics Since We Were Kids For Family That Wanted Tapes Etc. Of His Talents, He Was Good Even Then, So One Way Or Another We've Been Doing What We Do Almost All Our Lives. We Mix It Up, Sometimes I Play Some Keys And He Produces A Song Once In A While. I Usually Make Or Select The Hooks, Ususally I Produce And Program Everything, I Just Capture Riffs From Him Mostly, Then Tweak And Create Synthesizer Sounds And Patches From Scratch, Drum Machine Beats, Record Both The Midi And Audio ,Arrange Mix And Cut It All Up, Structure It Work The Loops Etc.
We Have Made Lots Of Commercial, Electro, Techno, Breakbeat, Industrial, Pop, Metal, Classical, R&B, Ballads, New Age, Hip Hop, Hardcore Breaks, Ambient, Breakbeat, Drum & Bass And House Style Club Songs For Years, And Played Quite A Few Parties Both Underground And In Commercial Clubs, We Have Both Worked With Singers, Reggae Rappers, Guitarists Individually And Had Seperate Projects During The Years Which Are All Recorded And In Our Archives.
Many Reasons We Did Not Push Our Music Much Due To Other Things In Our Lives That Seemed To Take Priority... Family, Relationships, Day Jobs, But We Have Started Working Together Again In The Last Year On What Ever We Feel Like, Not Trying To Fit Into A Specific Genre Per Se As We Did When Younger. We Have Thousands Of Songs, Just A Matter Of Uploading Them To The Site When It Looks The Way We Want. We Use Only The Best Keyboards, Analog Synths And High Quality Equipment.
Currently We Are Focusing On A Crossover/ Merger Of Original Styles That Encompass Old Bluesy Scales And Organs With Catchy Beats, Sixties Synths, Realistic Instruments Mixed With Analogs, Nice Hooks, And Occasionaly Some Of Our Earlier Influences.. Trance / Ambient / Spacey, Mystical Sequences, And Reggaeish grooves And Some House Pianos, And Analog Tweaked Out Synths Manage To Sneak Into The Songs, An Interesting New Look/Listen At Or To R&B And Pop Or Any Style Top 10 Songs / Hits.
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I Have To Add That Since Joining Myspace My Love For Electro/Trance/Progressive/D&B/ Has Resurfaced In A Big Way, So The Next Few Projects I Make Will Be In That Realm Again, I Knew I Couldnt Stay Away From My Roots For Long.
I Currently Have A Web Site That I Planned To Sell Many 8 to 32 Bar Loops And Riffs To Rappers And Singers, With Many Genres And Categories, But Everytime We Make A Beat With That In Mind We Seem To Create It Into A Whole Song !.
We Will Be Selling The Copyrighted Works Eventually, But Would Like To Produce And Remix Many Singers On Our Tracks, I've Already Got A Couple Of People Working On Some Ideas For Me (You Know Who You Are), The More The Better.
The Plan Was To Fill Top40productions.com With Hundreds Of Original Beats, Loops , Riffs, In Multitrack Format And Whole Mp3s And Wavs, Like Some Other Loop Sites Kind Of A Lease / Own For $20.00 A Track Instant Download etc. Where You Can Submit It To Labels Etc. After Contacting Us And Giving The Credits To Top40productions For The Track If Released Or Mechanically Reproduced, Or Released On Internet, And I May Do That Still For All The Rappers And Singers That Don't Have The Resources To Record In Studio, Or Buy The Equipment, But Just Need A Clean Song To Work With.
Actually Two Procrastinating Years With A Lot Of Personal Issues Going On With Us.
Currently The Page Is Being Reconstructed And Designed To Now Forget The $20.00 Loop Thing And Host Live Streaming Of Our Tracks, When The Singers Send Me Back Their Awesome Lyrics And Vocals We Jointly Will Release Them To I-tunes Etc.
Top40productions Is Our Global Umbrella Production Company And Label For Releasing Any Number Of Artists And Remixes Under Any Of Their Original Names Etc. And Or Created For That Purpose, I will Make Individual Web Sites For Each Artist, We Want To Make Many Styles All At Once, Its What We Always Did Anyway, So Now I Am Putting It Out There Now Finally, And This May Be Your Big Chance Too, The Beauty Of Being Indie !.
Aspiring Artists Who Need A Good Production To Sing On, Much Cheaper Than Timbaland! But Just As Good And With The Right Singer/s On Them And Tightened Up A Bit,They Could Be Big Hits.! (I could Charge For That, But Have Decided To Just Pick A Singer Or Two And Release Them Our Selves ) We Have Noticed That Our Latest Few Melodies And Beats Seem To Please A Wide Audiance And Age Group, Keep In Mind A Track Without A Singer Dubbed On it Yet Sounds Kind Of Empty So We Tend To Fill In The Blanks With More Keyboards And Instruments Etc. To Keep It Interesting, For A Vocalist We Can Lower The Volumes Of Certain Backer Tracks Or Eliminate Them And Restructure Everything Quite Easily, If It's Worth It. These Few Preview Tracks That Will Be Up On The Music Page Shortly Are Fairly User Friendly Tunes We Feel, Like A Blank Canvas For Vocals, I used To Fill Up Our Tracks With Samples Voices And Sounds From Movies Etc Now I Resist That Temptation To Leave Room For Vocals.
We Play And Make Songs For The Love Of It, But Money Is Always Good ! And I Know I Could Always Use More ! If You Want To Buy The Whole Song Any Of Them In Their Original Protools Seperated Track Format, Even The Midi Note Info So Keyboard Sounds Could Be Changed !, We Can Discuss That Too, But I Will Be Posting A Few Tracks Here Soon,In A lower Quality Format For Now Keep In Mind These Songs Can Be Shortened, Remixed , Edited And Provided In Seperate Protools Wav Files To The Right Candidates, They Have Not Been Over Produced As Yet, We May Have Left Out The Bridge In One Or Typical Radio Format In Some Just To Create A Flow For A Vocalist To Work With For Now, As We Are Aware That Without The Vocalist / Rapper In Studio With Us AT The Time Of Construction We Will Have To Make New Sections Or Rearange Parts To Suit The Lyrics, Or Maybe Not, Maybe You Will Like Them The Way They Are!.
When The Music Page Is Up Soon Listen To The Songs On The Yet To Be MySpace Music Page (Under Construction) Add Them To Your Myspace Page And Download Them.They Are With The Library Of Congress Copyrighted So I'm Not Worried, Until The Page Is Up Instead Of This Personal One, Message Me And I will Send You Some Original Mp3s Via E-Mail Right Now If You Consider Yourself A Singer Or Rapper Or Vocalist Whatever, Take the Mp3 To The Studio In Your Area To Record A Clean Seperate Vocal Track/s Or Home Record If Quality Is Good Enough And Send Back The Vocals Via Email Or Contact Me For The Ftp On My Site Which Can Allow Big Uploads Faster Than Email, If You Have No Resources You Could Just Video tape Or Record Your Lyrics On Your PC On Top Of The Mp3 To Give Us An Idea If It Would Work, Then We Could Figure Out What To Do From There, I Will Work With Them And Mix Or Remix Them On To Our songs And We Will Mutually Work Out A Deal,And If Good Enough We May Get It On the Radio, I Tunes, Or Rhapsody, Or At Least A Lot Of Internet Plays On Here And YouTube, And Get Discovered !
I Am Quite Interested In Selling Independantly Rather Than A Label, But Would Be Willing To Consider The Right Deal. If You Have And A+R Contacts Or Label Hook Ups That Would Be Great Too. Lets See What Everone Thinks And If Y'all Come Up With Any Cool Ass Lyrics Or Rhymes, Any Suggestions Or Feedback Are Welcome, We Have Always Been Our Own Worst Crytics Anyway.Thats Why We Have Always Made Music And Recorded It As A Hobby More So Than Anything ( Expensive Hobby Though, Always Want More Gear ), Mostly Only Friends Have Ever Heard Our Stuff, And A Few Gigs That Were Taken Well By The Crowds, But With Day Jobs To Uphold And Bills To Pay, Its Hard To Find Enough Time To Sit In Our Studios And Work On It Enough ! If Only We Had Everyday 24/7 To Produce And Record, And Pay The Bills That Way, I Would Be The Happiest Man Alive, We Can Bang Out A Hit A Day, Besides The Thousands Of Songs And Sequences Saved Over The Years That Would Be Worth Revisitng If We Ever Ran Out Of Ideas, Which Never Seems To Happen. The Latest Few Tunes I'll Put Here Are Easy Going Kinda Mellow Tracks, Not Our Usual Stuff, But I Think They Could Be Chart Worthy, We Can Hardkore It Up If Need Be, Or Simplify The Keyboard Routines As They Sound In The Last Few Years Worth Of Typical R&B Songs, I Play Simple Rhythmetic Keys Mostly Focused On "From Scratch" synthesizing Awesome Original Sounds, And Sonic Landscapes, Even On Sample Based Workstations, No Presets Here Ever !, My Brother Plays Very Musical Riffs, He Has A Grand Piano At His studio Also And Plays real Drums Also And Is Coming Along With The Guitar Nicely Also.
If You Want To Hear My Songs Made During My Rave/ Techno Breakeat Era I Have Made Some Bad Ass Booming Stuff, All Our Beats Have Good Thick Bass And Kicks We Were Making Music In The Era Of The 808 Bass Boom / Freestyle South Florida Nineties Stuff Too, I'd Like To See That Come Back In Some Shape Or Form Also, That Is Still An Influence I love. I Knew Some Day Techno House Would Cross Over Into Mainstream, I also Love Jungle , Drum And Bass, All That, At The Same Time Floyd, And So Many Styles Of Artists We Are Very Open Minded Musically And I Want To Incorporate That With Rap And R&B Also, Theres A Lot More To Come..
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