The HEAT is on....

So ive been feeling out of character recently but im BACK and I think I know what its been...(totally unmusic related..but its me..)

Last week, monday, I woke up, regular routine, brushed my teeth, then turned on the tap in the bath, to fill up my bucket for my morning bath.

SIDENOTE: For those of you wondering, im old skool, so a bath to me means filling up a medium sized bucket (the type you use to say wash your car with - obviously mine is specifically for the bathroom), rubbing soap (or dove foam bath) to a small net type thingy to gather the lather (lol), scrubbing my body then rinsing myself by scooping water from this medium sized bucket with a smaller bucket that goes inside it. I do this several times, with several refills of the main bucket, then get out....all that shower business cant be done because i dont have a shower (and probably wouldnt use it even if i did) and filling up the ENTIRE bath for a "bubble bath" is something i do on special occasions, probably AFTER ive had my bucket bath (dont like the idea of JAMMIN in my dirty bath water for a half hour!)

so anyway, back to the point, so i turn on the hot tap to fill up my bucket (approx 80% hot water and 20% cold water mix!) and the hot water is on some JOKE TING!!...its still hot as normal, but there is NOOO pressure so its just trickling out of the tap..all teasing me...trickle trickle trickle....PISSED!! plus the cold water is fine....

So i call the water company who tell me that they provide cold water to the house, as long as that is working, there side is fine so the problem must be internal to my house - call a plumber.

Now if you read my last post, you know how busy my life can get so I really havent got time to be calling and waiting for a plumber, nor has my brother who I live with...

So basically, for the past week, Ive had to resort to the DOUBLE ol skool style of filling up my bath bucket with boiled water from the kettle, and going on some mad one and a half bucket ration (initially use kettle water to fill bucket, boil kettle again then take in bath with me for the refill)

I swear this new two bucket routine has sent my life upside down and Ive been grumpy
all week (or more grumpy than normal) - i mean, i normal use one bucket, just to splash on myself to wake up and now my whole joints is rationed to TWO buckets....

ANYWAY, woke up this morning, to get the trickle started while i boil the kettle, and BEHOLD, the water pressure is BACK....i swear i used like TEN buckets and now I feel GOOD!! all singing in the car on the way to work and all sorts... I know I shoulve called the plumber ages ago but I aint got time...anyway, lord knows what fixed the hot water pressure, but its back...and im back too!!!

'Cisive

New kid on the writers block..(AND new EXCLUSIVE song)

need to vent so this is a long one...

For those of you that dont know me, im VERY busy in the week - i work a regular 9-5, i do a part time youth work job two evenings a week (no i aint got kids to feed, i actually like doing youth work - giving back to the community and all that! - plus I teach a music studio course and younger people have got an energy in a studio that is inspirational to me sometimes...) ...anyway, juggling two jobs, trying to maintain some sort of social life means that im hardly ever at home or if i am, normally after 10 pm. oh yea, i freelance quite a bit as well - my 9-5 is as an I.t network manager so I go around to other offices and stuff when required and do bits as well..so thats like two and a half jobs lol...

OH yea, ive got this whole music career to squeeze in as well aint I!! how do I do it??? well...basically, I dont sleep....a

no...really, I actually sleep on average about 5 hours a night and drop to sleep at 2-3am. The problem is, I never have been able to force music on myself - it feels SO unnatural to me to write a song at a specific time - I can go and produce a beat on call which is why I can film all that and make youtube videos but you probably notice, you never see me record the song straight away and thats because, i like to let the verses "come to me"...sometimes ill record straight after I produce the song, yes, but ive gotta be in that zone..alone...even without a camera in my hand...sounds corny but its true.

Actually, the only time i can "force" a verse on queue is when im in the studio with another artist but that feels more natural because we are just vibing and im bouncing off his or her energy...but with most of my solo stuff, the verses are in my head by the time i get in the studio to record.

ANYWAY...back to the point, so yea, normally I write FULL verses at some ungodly hour in the morning, with the light off, and my headphones on, straight after a verse has "come to me". OR I write random bits (like half a verse or even two lines) on my blackberry throughout the day then finish them off later...

This method still works out for me as verses "come to me" often (sometimes annoyingly when im trying to sleep and i have to wake up and write them) so since I been working with the producer Te1 (http://www.myspace.com/te1productions) on a joint album, he can give me a track on a sunday (our studio day) and by the next sunday, all the verses and the chorus of the song (amongst other random verses) wouldve "come to me" so we've been consistently recording on a weekly basis on that project, as well as me recording myself at my house on my own project.

recently though, ive got like 4 specific songs that I need to write to (two that te1 made and two that ive made recently - one of which called just wait - the making of that beat is in this blog somewhere).

This week though, ive written plenty of random bits and even one verse for two of the four songs - i even wrote a song i havent got a beat for yet! but nothing i need to finish, has been finished!....and now its friday night, ive actually got time on my hands and i would LIKE to be able to write and maybe even record something at home but nope...nothing...and I refuse to force it....its quite frustrating though...and ive got a feeling the songs are gonna come to me when im back in the thick of my busy-ness...thats always how it is...

So....im stuck, waiting for these 4 specific songs to "come to me"....so...if anyones seen/heard from "my 4 songs", tell them ive got a warm roof and hot food waiting, so they should come home!!

ANYWAY heres a song by my fellow musical spa, SHAX, called "making good music" and its sorta sums up everything i say - its only 2:31 or something so listen to it ALL to get the whole picture...

p.s you know the deal - press play below, if it stutters or dont play, pause for 10 seconds then unpause...

P.P.S there seems to be some kinda confusion - this song is ALL shax - I only recorded and mixed it for him - Shax produced, rapped AND sang on it!

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EXCLUSIVE SONG 4 YA!

Ok ok,

for my blog readers only, heres an EXCLUSIVE song - not even upped to my myspace yet (http://www.myspace.com/Incisive1 ) Its called nothing compares and for once, I didnt produce it - its produced by a talented producer called TE1 (http://www.myspace.com/te1productions) and I think it goes with what I was saying in my last post about nothing comparing to real music that hits you...enjoy

p.s The link for the song below this post, a little white bar - click it - if it does play or stutters, press pause, wait about 10 seconds, then unpause.

p.p.s - believe it or not, that is actually shax singing backing vocals on top of the track ("la la la nothing else can compare") so yea, shout out to shax!

'Cisive

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Still Moving

Sup people,

I know things have slightly quitened down but I just want to let you know that im STILL MOVING regardless!!! Just sorting the gameplan for my next moves.

I went to a showcase by a very talented Artist I know - Kadija Kamara (http://www.myspace.com/kadijakamara) - last night. Who with a full live band delivered I think 11 mindblowing songs - it was real inspirational to see her up on stage, with such a polished show, doing her thing - Hearing peoples songs is one thing but nothing compares to seeing someone live - u see their heart in the music and all sorts.

One of the songs she done was called "Waiting to see" (on her myspace) and its about her striving to reach her goals in the music industry. I think that song touched me the most because I can relate with the struggles and perservirance (is that how u spell it!?!?) she sings about and I stood there and it was almost like she was singing to/about me...when a song makes you feel that way, I think thats when music comes into its own...

So yea, big shout out to Kadija on her show and also, A shoutout to an artist - Nadine Marissa Charles (Link to her blog on the right of the page) who I met through myspace, kept in contact with on facebook, and after 2 years, met last night for the first time at the show - very weird meeting long time "internet friends" in person!!! - After a while you start to put them in a 2d dimension of just text and pictures - so seeing an internet friend in 3d, moving and talking - its nuts!! I found myself just looking at her thinking to myself, "you're actually a real person" lol...

So yea, make sure you check both of there myspaces and blogs respectively...

Nice 1

Patience maybe not so much a virtue?

Sup people,

You may or may not have seen Wileys new song with the same name as the song I was gonna put out - "Summertime". He's video has just come out and he is releasing it 14th October. I think that the situation is funny as he has chosen to do EXACTLY what I tried to avoid - release a summer video after the summer ship had sailed... (watch then read more below)




Im guessing he shot his video mid summer too (i heard the tune couple times in july/august) and only got it back now BUT decided not to be as patient as I am and release it regardless lol. I do like the tune though - the video is not very "summery" but im guessing he had the same problems as me - no sun in England to really plan and shoot a summer video so skipped the sunny concept and ran with something else. I can only sit back and see how his video does now - im guessing he'll re release it next summer or the stations will run it again next summer...its got me second guessing myself though - maybe I shouldve let my video out even if I did miss the summer...

Its hard to say really - even if i do release it next summer and it does well, still cant say that releasing it now wouldve messed that up - one of those "shoulda,woulda, coulda, maybe" things...dont worry...ima be up soon...