Making the Band Season Finale - "TAKE U THERE"!
So, the 2 hour Season finale of MTV's Making the Band was tonight. i think i got about 15 seconds total of camera time sitting on the couch in the background while Donnie Klang cut vocals to "Take U There". A couple weeks after that footage was shot, I mixed the song and it will be available on itunes on Tuesday, along with the debut album from "Day 26". I've heard the whole album, its amazing.
So, i seem to be on a nice roll right now. I just mixed Joe Budden's single yesterday (not Bad Boy related). I mixed all three first singles from Danity Kane, Day 26, and Donnie Klang, as well as 5 songs on each of the Danity Kane and Day 26 albums! I should be mixing some more of Donnie's record in the next week or two. Big huge thank you to super songwriter, super vocal producer Mary Brown. Mary and i have been good friends for over ten years, and she recommended to Bad Boy that they should bring me in as a mixer for MTB. Mary has been involved deeply with the MTB artists as a songwriter and vocal producer, having penned at least a half dozen songs for them and done a ton of great vocal production. My relationship with Bad Boy goes back to 1993 when i engineered many times for Puffy. I think the first time i ever engineered for Puffy was on Usher's first album. How's that for going back!!! I've also made a ton of records for Bad Boy over the years and also for Harve Pierre over the years, but i hadn't done anything for Bad Boy in a few years now. Out of sight, out of mind you know. When i walked thru the doors at Bad Boy for the mixes, it was like a reunion. Oh yeah, i used to work with Mario Winans all the time too. I swear, the stuff i've heard him producing lately i think puts him in league with Kanye, Just Blaze, Neptunes, etc... his musicality and sense of rhythm is amazing.
Let me reminisce for a moment on all of the Bad Boy artists I've worked with over the years as well as Bad Boy productions.... Faith Evans, Total, 112, Lil Cease, Lil Kim, Fuzzbubble, Mase, The Lox, Carl Thomas, Mario Winans, Shyne, Notorious BIG, Danity Kane, Day 26, Donnie Klang, Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Diddy, and many more i cant remember. Damn, thanks for the memories Bad Boy!
Anyway, sorry, i'm going on and on. Its just that the show finale is a culmination of ALOT of very hard work and very long hours and it feels good to sit and write about it all again after seeing it all come together. And on that note, I'm gonna go relax and enjoy the rest of my Easter Sunday. Goodnight.
-Ken Lewis
So, i seem to be on a nice roll right now. I just mixed Joe Budden's single yesterday (not Bad Boy related). I mixed all three first singles from Danity Kane, Day 26, and Donnie Klang, as well as 5 songs on each of the Danity Kane and Day 26 albums! I should be mixing some more of Donnie's record in the next week or two. Big huge thank you to super songwriter, super vocal producer Mary Brown. Mary and i have been good friends for over ten years, and she recommended to Bad Boy that they should bring me in as a mixer for MTB. Mary has been involved deeply with the MTB artists as a songwriter and vocal producer, having penned at least a half dozen songs for them and done a ton of great vocal production. My relationship with Bad Boy goes back to 1993 when i engineered many times for Puffy. I think the first time i ever engineered for Puffy was on Usher's first album. How's that for going back!!! I've also made a ton of records for Bad Boy over the years and also for Harve Pierre over the years, but i hadn't done anything for Bad Boy in a few years now. Out of sight, out of mind you know. When i walked thru the doors at Bad Boy for the mixes, it was like a reunion. Oh yeah, i used to work with Mario Winans all the time too. I swear, the stuff i've heard him producing lately i think puts him in league with Kanye, Just Blaze, Neptunes, etc... his musicality and sense of rhythm is amazing.
Let me reminisce for a moment on all of the Bad Boy artists I've worked with over the years as well as Bad Boy productions.... Faith Evans, Total, 112, Lil Cease, Lil Kim, Fuzzbubble, Mase, The Lox, Carl Thomas, Mario Winans, Shyne, Notorious BIG, Danity Kane, Day 26, Donnie Klang, Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Diddy, and many more i cant remember. Damn, thanks for the memories Bad Boy!
Anyway, sorry, i'm going on and on. Its just that the show finale is a culmination of ALOT of very hard work and very long hours and it feels good to sit and write about it all again after seeing it all come together. And on that note, I'm gonna go relax and enjoy the rest of my Easter Sunday. Goodnight.
-Ken Lewis
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