"Pray"ing for Credit
3am Friday night. Yup, you guessed it. I'm mixing. I just finished a song from a super talented male R&B group named "Duval". You probably haven't heard them........ YET. I have a feeling you will. About to start another mix right now as i'm a bit behind on my workload, and if its ever a choice between sleeping and mixing, mixing usually wins until i pass out drooling on my gear (usually a nightly occurance). I feel so creative late at night. Its very hard to mix during the day, mostly because i perpetually have too many irons in the fire and I'm always juggling ten different things, the phone rings constantly, etc.... This has made me an incredibly efficient and productive multi-tasker, but late night is when i get very seriously focused on one thing, mixing (well, except when i'm blogging :-)
Anyway, this post was supposed to be about CeCe Wynans so let me get to it. I mixed the first single from her new album at this studio, a song called "Pray". the song was produced by an amazing production team called the Supaflya's (Adam Anders and Ras check em out at AndersMusic.com), and they did a tremendous job on the song, however, you'd never know it reading the credits. Turns out the credits read more like I produced it, i think the credit reads "Pray - Ken Lewis Edit Mix". though I definitely had creative input, it was as a mixer, not producer. The Supaflya's got stiffed, no credit whatsoever for all of their hard work. So, I just wanted anyone who see's it to know what the real deal is. I'm very proud to have mixed the song, but that was my only role in it. I'm currently mixing a French artist named Lola for these guys, and they have a bunch of pop mixes in the pipeline for me coming up soon. I think JoJo is one of them, and possibly Nick Lachey. My fingers are crossed. If i get those songs in my hands, I am going to MURDER those mixes (as i try to do with every mix for every client actually, but its always wonderful to know what your doing will end up on the radio being heard by millions of people). Anyway, as for me, back to the grind. The night is young only 3:22am, theres at least 2 or 3 hours left of mixing before the drool sets in.
-Ken
Anyway, this post was supposed to be about CeCe Wynans so let me get to it. I mixed the first single from her new album at this studio, a song called "Pray". the song was produced by an amazing production team called the Supaflya's (Adam Anders and Ras check em out at AndersMusic.com), and they did a tremendous job on the song, however, you'd never know it reading the credits. Turns out the credits read more like I produced it, i think the credit reads "Pray - Ken Lewis Edit Mix". though I definitely had creative input, it was as a mixer, not producer. The Supaflya's got stiffed, no credit whatsoever for all of their hard work. So, I just wanted anyone who see's it to know what the real deal is. I'm very proud to have mixed the song, but that was my only role in it. I'm currently mixing a French artist named Lola for these guys, and they have a bunch of pop mixes in the pipeline for me coming up soon. I think JoJo is one of them, and possibly Nick Lachey. My fingers are crossed. If i get those songs in my hands, I am going to MURDER those mixes (as i try to do with every mix for every client actually, but its always wonderful to know what your doing will end up on the radio being heard by millions of people). Anyway, as for me, back to the grind. The night is young only 3:22am, theres at least 2 or 3 hours left of mixing before the drool sets in.
-Ken
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