Nu Video .......... you heard me! A NEW VIDEO!!!

Posted by Shax / at 02:40 / / 1 comments

HEY HEY!!!!!

Finally, I have a video. As promised like 1 year ago.

This is "one half" of the regular jam sessions at the Botanical Gardens (either my bedroom, or Kaspar's House)

Hope you enjoy it:

1st half:



2nd half:



(the second half might not work - still uploadin')

Shax

Busy coz you wanna be, or coz u Have to be?

Posted by Shax / at 14:01 / / 0 comments

What's gwarnin people. Mr.Procrastinator here.

I'm callin myself this coz in about 2 weeks, the whole 'REGULAR' updatin process is gonna decline drastically. Uni is beginnin' and they ain't makin it easier with their mad timetables they be givin me. So I'm gonna be a bit distant for about a couple months until christmas.

But just as I'm typin this, I'm thinkin bout what I got told recently:

"Shakka, you aren't happy unless you're doin somethin'". Ain't gonna front, this is true. I can't sit down at home, and just watch tv for more than an hour (sometimes even half an hour), with the fear that time has gone and I've missed the chance to do something constructive. I've been told that it's bad because you don't focus when you really need to, like concentrate in a lecture, or talk on the phone to the missus (.... Huh, what did you sa...... Nah I was listenin to you. I weren't on facebook).

Others like keep-it-movin-CISIVE (myspace.com/incisive1 - "Nothing Else Compares" is a big tune), seems to be the same as me, but also seems focused on his " 'ish ". Never a scatter brains when it's time for studio.

Especially nowadays, it pays to be busy, when people be checkin your 'space an sayin:

"Ey bway! Where de nu chunes deh?!"

So my arm's been twisted to ask the question: Busy coz you wanna be, or coz u HAVE to be?

Shax

P.s: There should be a few nu videos of me in jammin, rehearsal, and studio sessions soon. So HAVE patience!!!!

Pourquoi - feedback

Posted by Shax / at 13:44 / / 0 comments

On my way to a Steel Pan meeting, and I see one of my friends down the road from where I live, just chillin' on his doorstep. And what would normally be a Hi and Bye, became me showin' him the latest tune I posted on the Myspace - Pourquoi.
Might have been expectin' me to play some RnB tune, I dunno. But after a few minutes he seemed to be enjoyin' it a lot. Givin' me some positive feedback on lyrical content an ting.

"The tune starts off slow at first, and then later on, I dunno (shakes shoulders), you feel the vibe a lot more ...."

(not even gonna lie, my head was the size of a Watermelon after he said this)

Don't really know why I'm postin' this, but sometimes I get skeptical of who I am playin' what to. Coz there are only certain heads who would go for a tune with a latin bass line, or congas, or something other than the BOOM-BOOM-click tunes.

Shout out to Mr.X for the good response. Helped to boost confidence BIG tyme.
(don't wanna go baitin' out his name, for privacy reasons of course)

myspace.com/shaxmusic - track 6: Pourqoui

Shax

New Music on Myspace

Posted by Shax / at 16:22 / / 0 comments

And yet ANOTHER POST!!!!!!!

myspace.com/shaxmusic

myspace.com/shaxmusic

myspace.com/shaxmusic

I"ve put some new songs on the Myspace. Some of you have heard them before. Thought I might as well seein' as a few heads asked for them.

Talk to Me, and Pourquoi are the new tracks. Both are kinda rough, and both are gonna be on the Foolishness Vol.1 EP, to be released in mid 200-someting.

Yeh, this has been goin on for some time now, lol. It's comin soon, I swear!

(thumbs up to A.C Layne, for the Weyoo beat - nothin but music baybeh)

myspace.com/shaxmusic

myspace.com/shaxmusic

myspace.com/shaxmusic

Shax

Mangrove Steel Band - a practise sesh

Posted by Shax / at 14:47 / / 0 comments

Another post. This time, of the Steel Band I played in during Summer 08 - Notting Hill's Mangrove.

The song we played: Thunder Coming. Arranged by Andre White.

For those who played with me ......... memories boy. Tight like fresh braces.



(I'm the one in the green - far left - head lakka Churchill Dog Doll)

Shax

First production with 'Cise

Posted by Shax / at 15:55 / / 0 comments

Good day, good day, good day.

I begin my blog with Incisive - a musician without whom I would be stuck in the world of procrastination - I'd be a lazy arse.

Here's the first joke studio session we had:

Yo-yo!

Posted by Shax / at 04:09 / / 0 comments

Not an actual yo-yo, but just a Hello-Yo.

About time I started this whole bloggin' experience innit?

Hello Incisive, DJ Discreet, Szjerdene, AC Layne (aka TE1).

More music, posts, videos soon.

Shax