Worldwide Baby
Good evening (yes 2:45am feels like evening to me, ok, maybe late evening, but this is prime time for me). So, i took stock of my current indie projects and i was so struck by the diversity of projects and countries that i had to write about it. Here are the countries I'm either currently mixing projects from, or have just finished mixing projects from. United States, Canada, Columbia, Israel, South Africa, United Kingdom, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands, Japan, Wales, Germany, and Norway. No joke!!! This is all either current or finished within the last month.
I really love doing international work. It allows my ears to be pulled into so many musical directions and catch influences from all over the world, which always seems to keep things very fresh and very inspired even when i'm mixing seven daze a week. And honestly, all that diversity seems to cross from one genre to the next. I feel like the combination of influences and styles makes me a better all around mixer in every style.
Throughout my career my blessing and my curse has always been that i didn't want to get pigeonholed into one style of music. Now alot of people look at my credits and go "Oh he's a hip hop mixer, i wonder if he can mix anything else". It's easy to get caught up on the hip hop credits because i've got some big ones, and i truly love mixing hip hop. But if you look beyond that, you'll find i've worked on successfully charting artists in so many diverse genre's. Here's a sampling.........
Tarkan (Turkish pop star), Fey (latin pop star), Dawn Penn, Bounty Killa, Beenie Man, Mad Lion, Steely and Clevie, Shaggy, Coco Tea (all major Raggae artists and producers), CeCe, BeBe, and Vicki Wynans (Gospel - all separately) Peter Rauhofer, Jellybean Benitez, Razor n Guido, Johnny Vicious (Dance producers and remixers), David Byrne (from the Talking Heads, yeah, he'd let a "hip hop mixer" record and mix his record.....riiiiiiiight), and then there's the major pop artists...Boyzone, Robyn, Pink, Mariah Carey, Anastacia, M2M, Jody Watley, Simply Red, Nick Lachey, Baha Men and many more. On the rock side we have Soul Asylum, Lenny Kravitz, Beastie Boys, Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park), Trans Siberian Orchestra, Savatage, Maroon 5, David Byrne, and a slew of amazing indie rockers most of you haven't heard of........ I've even worked with Jazz greats George Benson and Michael Brecker to name a few, as well as timeless legends like Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross.
OK. anyone who actually made it thru that list and is still reading, i think you get the point. To me its all just music and i love it all. All you international folks, keep the music coming my way, I get new inspiration every day. And now, I must leave you and go mix another song from my Japanese project. I dont understant the lyrics, but its still loads of fun.
-Ken
I really love doing international work. It allows my ears to be pulled into so many musical directions and catch influences from all over the world, which always seems to keep things very fresh and very inspired even when i'm mixing seven daze a week. And honestly, all that diversity seems to cross from one genre to the next. I feel like the combination of influences and styles makes me a better all around mixer in every style.
Throughout my career my blessing and my curse has always been that i didn't want to get pigeonholed into one style of music. Now alot of people look at my credits and go "Oh he's a hip hop mixer, i wonder if he can mix anything else". It's easy to get caught up on the hip hop credits because i've got some big ones, and i truly love mixing hip hop. But if you look beyond that, you'll find i've worked on successfully charting artists in so many diverse genre's. Here's a sampling.........
Tarkan (Turkish pop star), Fey (latin pop star), Dawn Penn, Bounty Killa, Beenie Man, Mad Lion, Steely and Clevie, Shaggy, Coco Tea (all major Raggae artists and producers), CeCe, BeBe, and Vicki Wynans (Gospel - all separately) Peter Rauhofer, Jellybean Benitez, Razor n Guido, Johnny Vicious (Dance producers and remixers), David Byrne (from the Talking Heads, yeah, he'd let a "hip hop mixer" record and mix his record.....riiiiiiiight), and then there's the major pop artists...Boyzone, Robyn, Pink, Mariah Carey, Anastacia, M2M, Jody Watley, Simply Red, Nick Lachey, Baha Men and many more. On the rock side we have Soul Asylum, Lenny Kravitz, Beastie Boys, Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park), Trans Siberian Orchestra, Savatage, Maroon 5, David Byrne, and a slew of amazing indie rockers most of you haven't heard of........ I've even worked with Jazz greats George Benson and Michael Brecker to name a few, as well as timeless legends like Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross.
OK. anyone who actually made it thru that list and is still reading, i think you get the point. To me its all just music and i love it all. All you international folks, keep the music coming my way, I get new inspiration every day. And now, I must leave you and go mix another song from my Japanese project. I dont understant the lyrics, but its still loads of fun.
-Ken
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