Rieces Pieces Interview in Double Take Magazine (Full Article Inside)
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iGrew up in Portmore, Jamaica
iWent to private school
iProduce music
Even though I'm fluent in MIDI, Arranging and Composing, my preferred language is plain English & Common Sense.
Questions? Need My Services? Got an Interesting Band or Project You Want Me to Check out? Email:
riecespieces@gmail.com
See the Cover Art & Read Lyrics to My Music
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And heres the Music Video for "Idiot" (Produced by Rieces Pieces & 100Akres) Video (Made by Rieces Pieces)
The two files below are a perfect example; The first mp3 is the original version of "Idiot" (if your curious it took about a month and a half and was Produced between 3 cities Tampa, San Antonio & Los Angeles to get to the final version.)
After I heard the demo of the rough demo of the 1st verse and hook of the song I put together a reference track and sent it to the artist with the full direction on how the song should sound once its completed. I wanted to combine the live drum elements of rock and the hard hitting elements of hip hop. Most attempts by hiphopers to try to crossover and sing Rock songs don't end well. More importantly, I wanted this song to sound as authentic as possible (Coming fresh off of a 2 year hiatus from music period, this was actually the first song produced since 2006. Funny story; (real quick I promise) the artist actually called me for 2 years str8 before I eventually answered and I just said you know what lets do this. I said if we're going to do this its got to be something different. Being in Texas afforded me the opportunity to both hide from the recession and also to get influenced by a lot of other genres I never listened to when I lived in Florida. But I digress lets get back into the production side here)
I had him record the first then the 2nd verse of the song this was done to a bare track with just drums and a basic idea of what I wanted the guitars to sound like (The fancy synths bass etc you hear at the end wasn't added until after all the vocals were recorded and I used some of the leftover adlibs (Na Na Na) to write the bridge). I also snuck a couple takes of myself singing it real low to thicken it up. Then I took my favorite line of the song "I told my girl that I cheated" and moved it to the end of the song and added the "sorry momma but I'm hitting the block tonight" at the end to complete the phrase. Then I went crazy with the synths, there were actually a lot more but I kno people get confused and I didn't want to throw too much out there. After spending a month with it I still felt like it had room to grow and with 100Akres' experience in these kind of projects I knew he was the man for the job. After he spent another 2 weeks with the song, He recommended we make some changes and added live bass and enlisted Craig Banks and Dale Jennings as the studio musicians on bass & lead guitar. Finally when we finished and looked back we were like "HOLY SHIT I THINK WE GOT SOME THING."
Special Thanks to Grammy Winning Mix Engineer Neal Pogue who did a phenomenal job on the mix and was always willing to lend his ear and offer feedback and words of advice on this project. Also check out some of 100Akres' other projects at http://music.100akres.com and his music blog http://www.freshnerd.com
Veteran Tastemaker and Behind the Scenes mover and shaker Tj Chapman of TJDJs one of the worlds top Urban record pools & manager of B.o.B. has cosigned Idiot. (If you dont know who B.o.B is you must be living under a rock. Click here & let to Eminem introduce u),
TJ Chapman proclaims on his blog;
"The more i listen to this, the more I like it. I think this can be a HIT RECORD!!!"
direct link can be found here; http://www.tjchapman.com/video-boy-wonder-idiot-this-can-be-a-big-song
other feedback can be found here on http://gossip.riecespieces.com
http://www.vladtv.com/video/12011/boy-wonder--idiot--made-by-rieces-pieces/
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Hey I wanted to introduce you to a song produced by me Rieces Pieces & 100Akres called Idiot the internet response over the last 2 weeks has everyone saying this same thing "this is a hot song that is definitely DIFFERENT" below are some of the highlights... if you like it download it, listen to it and pass it along or blog about it.
"Idiot" is mixed by Grammy Winning Engineer Neal Pogue & Mastered by Grammy Winning Mix Engineer Brian Gardner
For Interviews, pics or features on Rieces Pieces or 100Akres please email RiecesPieces@gmail.com with questions and whatever additional info you needIf you like the song please take a moment and Request Idiot Produced by Rieces Pieces & 100Akres at this link below to the 95.7 The Beat WBPT Online request form....
http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/7/stationplaylistrequest.asp?c_let=WBTP-FM
The infamous World Renowned and "Tampa's Most Connected DJ" DJ Ekin got his hands on Boy Wonder - Idiot and after hearing it first time LOVED it so much he immeadiately added it to the playlist. Special thanks goes out to DJ Ekin who was the first official Radio Station DJ cosign we recieved on this record and also the first to get behind the record when everyone else was scared to make a move.
Add him on Facebook; Facebook.com/DjEkin
Follow him on Twitter; @DJEkin
