All info 4 my album's release date, record release party, producers, SAMPLES of mixed tracks on my album, videos, pics, & much more. Here is what you all have been waiting for: A COMPREHENSIVE ALBUM/MUSIC UPDATE! Thank you for staying tuned - into the right frequencies.
Bringing this album to life has been a long journey met with numerous obstacles and challenges along the way. For many years, I was met with criticism, doubt, thievery, financial limitations, equipment limitations, limitations on knowledge of audio production, a weak support system from people in my community, and was just generally underestimated and most people had no faith in my creativity. Only after I moved to the west coast did that change.
There were a select few people that have believed in me from the beginning, none of them are on Steemit but I wanted to mention 3 of those people specifically. One is Ryan Elder aka Dolla5o. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=831264
This guy has teamed with me in hip-hop pretty much from Day 1. He has donated several instrumentals to me over the years (some of which will be on my upcoming album) and has helped me record vocals back in the early days. We even wrote a track together on one of his beats that has never been released. One day that will happen.
Additionally, Nasty Nate Hardee was the very first emcee I ever created lyrics with when I was much younger. Him and I had a bunch of crazy experiences in our early adult life, and we created many tracks together (most of which were lost when my PC was stolen unfortunately), and with Dolla5o as well. Bone-Thugz-n'-blunts back in the day crew.
Another person that has helped me immensely is Max Maichak, who owns and operates The Band Room (TBR) in Gainsville, VA. https://www.facebook.com/TBRrecording/
Max is responsible for recording 80-90% of my vocals on my debut album. Without him, it would have been very difficult to presently be this close to a release. He actually re-opened his studio after I moved to Oregon, everything I recorded there was when I flew back to VA to visit in 2014 and 2017.
The album The Hex Wrecker by @elamental will officially be released on the Summer Solstice (June 21st) 2018. The album we be available for FREE for EVERYONE on almost EVERY PLATFORM! Soundcloud, Dsound, itunes, spotify, all the other mainstream ones. I will also be manufacturing limited edition flash drives and vinyl albums that I will be using for contest prizes and gifts for certain people.
The record release party will be on Friday June 22nd 2018 in Portland, OR, the following evening after the album officially releases. It will be a house party and I will disclose the exact location when the event approaches. Yesterday, I invited Kinetic Emcees, Seth, Talilo Marfil, and RXM (Reaction) to perform at this event. I am awaiting official confirmations but I have not received any no's yet. There will also be a dj spinning Hip-Hop most of the night after the live performers are done, and a few select vendors and fire spinners will be out back.
My goal is to create a highly entertaining, memorable evening for everyone with good positive vibes. There will be conscious music played throughout the evening, and mainly I just want to make everyone in the area aware of this conscious music that has taken so much time, care, effort, and money to create, while expanding the wisdom of TRUTH!
Erin Miller aka Seth has guided me through the production process for this album. He has always gone above and beyond and out of his way to help me create and record music. He has also provided me with beats, shows, promotion, and all the connects I need to take my music to the next level. Erin has been most helpful in expanding my vision and helping me believe in all this again.
Check out Erin's band Subconscious Culture https://soundcloud.com/subconsciousculture
Jeanot Rolland is taking care of all the mixing and mastering for The Hex Wrecker. What he is doing with my music is unbelievable, and has exceeded all my expectations so far. Jeanot has quite the studio setup, one of the best ones I have ever experienced. Below are some pics of his studio along with a couple videos with Jeanot editing my music.
https://www.facebook.com/jlraudioproductions/
Chris "Cutter" Benson from Mineral, VA will be making a master disk and pressing some limited edition vinyls of The Hex Wrecker on his lathe. Pink Floyd's The Animal's master disk, along with a Led Zeppelin album's master disk was cut on the same lathe. Cutter is one of only nine record cutters with a working lathe left in the United States. He is one of only two on the east coast. If you ever need vinyl records cut please let me know and I can link you to him. His prices are very reasonable. Cutter is also one of the few people who has always believed in my music.
Cutter also holds kick-ass outdoor music events at his property that has become known as Bonfireland, near Lake Anna in Virginia. If your in the area during an event, it is definitely worth your time to check it out for a weekend. Come burn with the Bonfire Crew. https://www.facebook.com/B0NF1R3.CR3W/
Kenny Palurintano aka @kennyskitchen has been a persistent muse in my life who I really appreciate. Technically he is a muse's muse, since he seems to inspire those that inspire others. He has been a great friend and also supported my music in ways I never dreamed he would. @kennyskitchen has provided a fundraiser through Steemit where he and others have donated crypto to partially sponsor production costs for myself and a few other artists on the verge of releasing an album. I have already received over $300 usd through this sponsorship program Kenny has created.
He also introduced me to #anarchapulco & #anarchaforko this year in Mexico. I performed at a beach party when I was there, which lead to being invited to perform at the big Hip-Hop show next year in Acapulco. That means I could possibly open for members of Wu-Tang Clan if history repeats itself.
He also convinced me to dive strait into Steemit when we were in Mexico, and I haven't stopped swimming in this sea of authors since. Thank you Kenny, for being one of my strongest supporters and sources of inspiration. I will never stop wanting to eat your food! Delicious veganism.
I currently have two separate graphic designers (one is @dannyquest) working on digitizing this sketch I drew for my ELAmental emcee logo into a high resolution HD image. This will be the album cover art, and used for all my promotion including online, banners for shows, posters, patches, and eventually pins and organic fabric, plant dyed T-shirts. The main colors in the final design will be blue, black, and silver.
Thank you to everyone for your continued support. I will leave you with one more video sample of Jeanot mixing some magic. Don't forget, The Hex Wrecker debuts on the Summer Solstice - Thursday June 21, 2018. My record release party is the following day on Friday June 22. I will update here with another post when I have an event page up and fliers printed. Blessings my friends!
