Recorded in Mission Hill (Roxbury/Boston), MA on July 29th, 2011
Cooling out with my baby
Gettin it on
Gettin it in
How we like to do
Move like a roller coaster
So exciting
I like the way he turns me like the world
Through the stars we fly
Baby, will you get me high
I can’t help
The fact I always want more
Yeah you come through
You provide
Deep relaxation
For one and the same
For my body and my mind
Can’t nobody
Teach the way you do me right
Cant nobody
Can’t nobody
scat ad libs
I love my baby
and my baby loves me
I love my baby
and my baby loves me
Layin out with my baby
Gettin it on
Gettin it in
We stay in the mood
Retro Rocketing
Your tick tocking
my slow motion
I like the way he turns me like the world
Through the stars we fly
Baby, will you get me high
I can’t help
The fact I always want more
Yeah you come through
You provide
Deep relaxation
For one and the same
For my body and for my mind
I know that
Can’t nobody
Teach the way you do me right
Cant nobody
Can’t nobody
I love my baby
and my baby loves me
I love my baby
and my baby loves me
Here is a ReEdit of one of my favorite Animes, Blood + set to two songs, Covert Soldier and Opposing the System, available for download at soundcloud. The story is about a girl who doesn’t remember her past but becomes aware of her ability to win battles against evil enemies using the power of her blood. The visuals were edited and uploaded by youtube user, BoldlyUgly.
Some art gets me high. But the feeling is temporary and on the surface. Some art gets me high but the impression has permanence and goes deeper. And it impacts me on multiple levels of consciousness and awareness. I am affected and my perception becomes altered. The way I experience the world changes.
Learning how to write, we all had to practice and read. Since I’m on a journey making some sounds, I have to practice and listen.
Public Enemy and Bomb Squad producer, Hank Shocklee created the soundscape of one of my all time favorite tracks. “Self destruction-we’re headed for self destruction…” blasted Public Enemy out of my headphones while riding the bus from Lynn to Haymarket and back to stay with my dad’s family in Boston on the weekends. I had the Public Enemy single, “Self Destruction” cranked to 10. It fed me words that inspired and spoke the truth. The energy was thick. The music drowned out all the background noise.
Like some of you, I grew up watching MTV. When I watched it, they only had two reality tv shows. Brown Paper Bag was one of the videos that might play in a day. I saw the song performed live with live drums and upright bass. Roni Size and Reprezent at the old Axis on Lansdowne Street in Boston was my first live DnB concert experience. Check out the lyrics to the song.
“Step to the rhythm made out of brown paper, sounds entering of a different nature,
Rhythms get greater, And the rhythms they get greater, Yes another rough-a-tough
Four for the chaser, New configuration, New riff and New Structure
Built on the frame that’ll hold the room puncture, Tight
We wrap it up, it’s wrapped, tightly.”
Fast Forward to 2011;
“This right here, I swear will end too soon…” warned the melodic vocal of the UK’s Katy B on the Benga’s hit remix “Katy on a Mission” as it blared out the speakers in old Las Vegas, blocks from the Fremont Street Experience. I was at the 2 year anniversary of a Las Vegas Dubstep collective. It reminded me of the time i spent living in the Nevada. People from Sin City are really nice people. They go out of their way to help you feel welcome. And depending on your chances you can win big money playing Poker and Keno, or lose everything and end up walking from where you came or to the airport.
My first dubstep concert experience was a sub.mission event at Cervantes in Denver featuring Mala of Digital Mystikz and DJ Joe Nice. There were low and wobbly sub-bass frequencies giving hugs to frenetic ragga style hi hat riddims. Call it my baptism in Dubstep. The condition the music created was cozy but inspired me and all the others in the building to jump up and sweat until the morning. I gave him a CD of my first productions from Ableton Live. My tracks weren’t Dubstep but were other styles including hip hop, ambient, and some experimental tracks with B-More house.
This past August, I attended another huge Dubstep show. The headliners were Mrk1 of Virus Syndicate and Truth NZ. The music moved me from the moment I got to the venue until the melodies left my head. But then I went online and listened some more. Finding old releases that were now favorites, and new to me.
A few months later, I saw Mrk1 live again but this time with Virus Syndicate when they performed live in Denver with Ill Esha, credited as the first female to spin, sing, and mc at the same time.
Click the link below to read the Weekend Weapon report from the guys at BeatPortal.com. This weekend they share an interview with Mrk1 about some of his top Dubstep tunes.
[Link] @BeatportSean’s Weekend Weapon Report featuring music by Mrk1, Magnetic Man, Virus Syndicate, Nero, and Coki of Digital Mystikz beatportal.com
Also, you have 3 days left to cast your vote online for your favorite songs, DJ’s, artists, producers, and record labels at the dubstepforum.com awards 2011Click Here to Vote
Why did I put this together. Besides, not wanting to miss broadcasts, here are three reasons that I wanted to post them to the Asialakay.com blog to share with you.
1. So that you can Join me, and support our friends! Check out their upcoming and ongoing radio shows.
2. Street Team, Learn about some new stations that you can request music at.
3. Contact information in case you want to submit your own material to the station for airplay.
You know I love you’ so let’s keep growing and building the sound, movement, and energy. Peace!
Asia Lakay
P.S. All the shows are listed on this first page in Mountain Time, but here’s a link to an online timezone converter to give you the time locally. Link
“From a young age I had an emotional connection with music,” recalls singer, producer, audio engineer, and promoter Asia Lakay. “I knew that I wanted to be a singer when I was 5 but I was too shy to sing in front of anybody but my cousins. My classmates heard me singing on the schoolyard and they gave me a lot encouragement to sing in front of people other than my cousins. I had a girl group with my friends in junior high and we would practice harmonizing with each other after school.” Although the group broke up before the girls graduated high school. She kept singing for local musicals and for talent scholarships.
On when she decided to become a music producer, she says “when I graduated from high school at 17, while visiting Europe, I was introduced to wider varieties of Electronic music and I decided that I wanted to be a music producer. My friend had a recording studio in his house and showed me some of the basics of how to record at home. We recorded my first demo. When I returned to the U.S. I started recording with my Aunt at her home studio.” This helped her to reveal her greatest obstacle.
“The biggest obstacle I’ve faced while pursuing my dream was feeling unable to communicate my thoughts musically. When I was in a room with musicians and they were asking me questions about styles and tempos. It felt confusing and intimidating.” After working to overcome this hurdle by taking more theory classes, she started to get an idea of what she wanted to communicate. When asked about other personal issues she states, “I had a major surgery in 2006. That made it impossible to sing while I was in recovery. Even though it was a rough time mentally and physically, I was spiritually motivated to keep pushing and keep creating.”
