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MelloKite

Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth

About Me

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My Interests

Hiphop.Jazz.Space.Soul & fOnk.

I'd like to meet:

My Grandfather, Imhotep, Deng Ming-Dao, Malik Shabazz, Yoshua Ben Yosef, Miyamoto Musashi

Music:

Release #1: "The D.Huston Features" Late 2007 MelloMusicGroup....CodY Cartwright, aka D.huston, aka Mr. Yes I do run tha red lights, would like your attention. Along with production from Harvey Keitel-the infamous dIaleKt-aka sonny moments-OP-aka Opposite, Nate OOg- and biG brother Beats-aka "thanks 4 the advice". Numerous influences dot the i's and cross the t's as D takes you into his minds eye and explore the cycles of his life. Intensely reflective and astonishingly honest, get ready to go the full 360 degrees and enter the world of the Nobodies. a Check out D.Huston or, Lets chat. 520-405-2416.


Release #2: "G & D present: SomeOtherShip". Late 2007.MelloMusicGroup...Dudley Perkins has been the embodiement of music for more than a decade. Forget expecting him to be something you're used to. Light a dub to this and listen to the Hiphop blend with space, fOnk, and soul. Then Georgia Anne Muldrow laced the project with production that got Dre looking, and everybody asking, is she 23? makin' beats that march through the ethers like that? Newsweek said of her early album: "A Soul Revolution ... major label chops with indie sensibilities." Then we added the Cosmic AllStars to Mr. Dudley Perkins "OtherShip" space odyssey.


Release #3: "MelloMusicGroup Label Mix". Late 2007. featuring new music from Kietel Jr., Kenn Star, Black Milk, Rapper Pooh, Motion Man, DJ Rob Swift, Kev Brown, Oddisee, John Robinson, Invincible, Finale, Chuck Steaks, Nate William, Isaiah, Kool G Rap, LMNO, Miki Vale, Roc C, MED, Flying Lotus, J. Sands, Prince Po, Marietta Moore, Concept One, Ian Sugarman, G13...

Movies:

Loose Change, Bamboozled, The Last Sword is Drawn, Paid in Full, Layer Cake, Shogun Assassin, Collateral, Dead Man

Television:

The Wire... EDREYS" ink series for MelloMusicGroup 2007.


TOKIO's series for MelloMusicGroup 2007


MEAR ONE painting for MelloMusicGroup


Books:

Have worked w/...Jason Brown, Aurelie Sheehan, Dan Stolar, Adam Chiles, Influences: James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie, Dave Eggers, Deng Ming-Dao, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Honre de Balzac, ... Focus: Poetry, Short Stories, Philosophy, Metaphors, Similes, Word Play, Rants, Minimalism. Magazines: Wax Poetics, Juxtapoz, Drawing, Frank, Parabola, Paris Review...


Heroes:

My Father

My Blog

Life's Moving Fast

So recently I realized that life was moving fast. Faster. I mean like not months slipping by but years. The homie died years ago now, but still it seems like yesterday. Even the homies little homie...
Posted by MelloKite on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:17:00 PST

garden (G & D's spiritual direction)

Mello's Thoughts 5:4. Know life. The other day I was walking with my wife and we started looking at how palm trees grow. We noticed the little ones, and the ancient kings among them. Life is fasci...
Posted by MelloKite on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:10:00 PST

Words

So my life got hectic. This record thing turned serious and my educational company got waiting list busy. I've been grinding 7 days a week (seriously) for 4 months straight, working 7-10 hours per d...
Posted by MelloKite on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:51:00 PST

Note on my Life

I left Rag's 4 years ago and said I would never work for anybody else ever again. So far I've managed. I went to college and lived off loans while I worked on my writing. I've lived off family, Eba...
Posted by MelloKite on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:50:00 PST