"Always official" behind the scenes shoot at BLB studios

I had a few people come through for a session at BLB studios. This song was supposed to be recorded over a month ago, but with so many people on the joint had to accommodate every ones schedule.  Some people sent in verses via the net, and a few couldn't make it on that day as well.  The reason why I wanted (almost) everyone present during the session, was so that they could feed off of each other and that I could actually "produce" the track instead of just having people do their verse over the beat I made some time ago.  The session was a success, was actually able to start two songs, as well as build with everyone involved.  Dj Huggy and Deizel were both engineering the session and me and T-note had the cameras and lights going.  Some of us did double duty that day I was in control of the session as well as filming and taking pics and T-note did his verse and kept the cameras going as well.  Video coming soon, until then here are a few screen grabs (clips from the video).....all of the pics listed before were stills taken from video, everyone besides for the one taken of Huggy and Deizel.  I dumped the Video into the mac...then did my "magic" on them...(on a side note....if you use these pics the only thing I ask is that you give us our proper credit.)

Big Phill

T-Note

Vaig

Beedie

Divine Seven

Boka

Deizel and Huggy

DJ house shoes at the shadow lounge

I shot this at the shadow lounge some time ago.....instead of going for the usual djing/club clips ect...I went for the personal approach.  Everyone involved is more like family than friends, so I went with that aspect.  I also didn't realize that House shoes was coming back in this Friday, I did talk to him earlier this week on the phone and he said he was going to be coming through on "some last minute type ish"...but didn't realize he meant this friday.



DJ House shoes at the Shadow lounge from 33 1/3 Media on Vimeo.

screen grabs from "Such a lady" video shoot

 Here are a few screen grabs from the "such a lady" video shoot, the video will debut online Oct.22nd. Me and T-note shot this on the 7D and The GH1.  I directed the video based on Marcy's vision for the project.  I got a ton of other things I need to finish this weekend, so it should be a productive weekend.

In the lab Audio and Video

This Sunday have another video shoot, all female hip hop collaboration.  Should be interesting to say the least.


Working on what I would like to think of as the ultimate Posse cut.  The Beat has been sent out and everyone involved is loving the track....so far we have Beedie, J.sands (speaking of sands he just sent me a ultra-hot new joint), Boka, Charon Don and of course the Hi-Low fam: U-turn and T-note.  Going to film the ENTIRE process from start to finish going to use 3 cameras at a time.  I really wanted to make sure that people respect and understand the process......we are not making disposable music.

I (DJ BIG PHILL) w/be the Special Guest at Classic Material

I will be a special Guest at the upcoming "Classic Material" here in Pittsburgh.  I asked Smi about being on the next one and the theme I wanted to do....well I can let DJ selectah sum it up for you better than I can....below is the message he sent out via Facebook:

James Scoglietti Big Phill has been bugging me for years to track down reissues of some classic blaxploitation records via one of my distributors. Admittedly, I've lallygagged, and it's been a bit of a recurring joke every time we cross paths. So, when Phil approached SMI about doing a blaxploitation night at CM, I couldn't refuse. Blaxploitation movies have provided the backdrop for many a classic hip-hop track. If it wasn't for James Brown's contribution to the Black Caesar soundtrack "Blind Man Can See It", we would be stuck with the wack remix of "They Want EFX", not the the ill guitar loop that still drives folks bananas to this day. And who can forgot about Marvin Gaye lending "A Touch Of Jazz" to Jeff & The Fresh Prince courtesy of "T Plays It Cool" from the all Marvin "Trouble Man" soundtrack.

Blaxploitation flix's have provided countless hours of visual and audible entertainment over the years, tonight we will honor the best of the genre, complete with the hip-hop artists that freaked the samples + film clips on the big screen all night! Phil is a master at this genre, come check out the collection he has amassed over the years, alongside residents Selecta and SMI. Thanks for keeping Classic Material fresh and exciting as we move in to our fourth year of amazing parties. Next month Mr. Murray will be in the place to be for the "Most Beautifullest" edition of CM. Cheers!

Sent from my iPad


Don't miss it...I am going to show  a special video presentation that will be more than appropriate for the event

Pittsburgh Black Family Reunion 2010

I was contracted to take pics this year at the event.  I took over 1400 pics (not sure if I really needed to go that hard...) Here are just a few random (performance) pics from the event.....R&B star Bobby Valentino was the headliner for this family event.  It was held at Schenly park....and it is a huge park.  the event had vendors, activities for the kids, workshops as well as musical performances.  My only issue is that you can feel the effect of not having a Black/urban radio station anymore.  While this event drew a ton of people, there should have been a lot more.  The key here is: w/o the proper advertising it is nearly impossible to get the message to the people.  Print and web media is a part of the picture, but this is the area in which black radio shines, and has a leg-up on everybody.  Of course once Bobby Valentino hit the stage there were massive amount of people at the stage area....all in all a good event.

Bobby Valentino

Devine Seven

Jon Quest and  U-Turn

B Brixx

How did I miss this

For whatever reason I never saw this video posted...even though I gave the last "testimony"...and probably summed it up the best.