Studio Album Site!!

[mangold]

i dont know about this batson fellow, what was wrong with lillywhite?

"i want to make an album unlike anything dmb has made before." I like the otha ones ho!

So do a lot of people. I dunno, I would get bored if they used the same producer for every album. Change is good.

some change is good. but lillywhite and dmb was a winning combo. you dont trade a player on a winning team. who has this guy worked with before

[GuitarGuy305]

"Mark's diverse discography includes working with several of the most critically and commercially acclaimed names in music including Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, Sting, 50 Cent, India Arie, Seal and more."

[i like tictacs]

the thing that lillywhite did amazingly, was mix, holy shit on a shingle, the mixes were perfect

[mangold]

"Mark's diverse discography includes working with several of the most critically and commercially acclaimed names in music including Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, Sting, 50 Cent, India Arie, Seal and more."

i dont like any of those bands (maroon 5 isnt horrible and sting has his good moments)

[mbgreen]

the thing that lillywhite did amazingly, was mix, holy shit on a shingle, the mixes were perfect

He just had the little nuances that made the albums great. Cellphone rings, ping pong games during jams...and the mixing was fantastic.

[GuitarGuy305]

"Mark's diverse discography includes working with several of the most critically and commercially acclaimed names in music including Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, Sting, 50 Cent, India Arie, Seal and more."

i dont like any of those bands (maroon 5 isnt horrible and sting has his good moments)

I feel the same way. I can only hope that with that diverse of a background, the new album will have a fresh new sound, even though I know a lot of fans are opposed to that. We do have to trust though that if a sound or song "isn't DMB" they won't record it that way. I know I wouldn't release a song that I wasn't 100% happy with. Then again, if I had DMB's paycheck....


Adam

[Dutch]

i hit this thread late but that i did not like that clip at all. i didnt like any of the music. and im pretty sure i heard a drum machine, and i think there was a part where dave sang something about riding his bike down to someoneshouse, and it didnt soun good. but ill keep my hopes up

[trippin6strings]

whatever is being played n sang in the second vid sounds really nice. maybe mellow is the word?

[Davy28]

since when is there a second video? I am still getting only one.

[trippin6strings]

? its in the thread below this one called 2nd video something or other, davespeek... uve posted in it...

[GSR]

Producer/arranger/songwriter Mark Batson is nothing if not on a roll. Fresh off multiple Grammy nominations for his work on Anthony Hamilton’s Comin’ From Where I’m From album, producing and co-writing seven songs on Seal’s multi-platinum Seal IV and writing and producing a track on Beyoncé’s Dangerously in Love , Batson has quickly become one of the industry’s most sought-after talents.

Not surprisingly, music has been a constant in the multi-talent’s life. “My brother Scott and I took classical piano lessons from the time we were five years old,” he says, “and by the time we were 10-12, we were playing African, Latin, Cuban music, rap and hip-hop, and in the church on Sundays.”

Growing up in the Brooklyn projects, he says, it was necessary to counterbalance musical prowess with a convincing street image. “Gang members would come up to my floor to listen what we were doing, and it might be Beethoven. That’s when I realized that music’s really a universal language.”

Eventually, Scott decided to teach music, but Mark continued to hone his writing and producing skills. By studying with producers like hip-hop icons Marley Marl and Eric B., Batson developed a style he describes as “figuring out what artists do and bringing out the best of them. I don’t have a personal sound; other producers have a trademark sound, and they get paid a lot of money to bring that sound to a record, but I adapt to what the artists need.”

The big breakthrough came with India.Arie’s Acoustic Soul album, which earned seven Grammy nominations on its way to double platinum. Soon after, artists like G-Unit (50 Cent’s backing crew, for whom Batson has done various mixtape compilations), Hamilton and Seal started calling: “I wrote 40 songs with Seal in a four month period, and he’s somebody who might write 10 songs every few years.”

Batson’s latest projects include work on Arie’s next album and a remix of Sting’s “Stolen Car” featuring Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am. Working so constantly has become second nature for him, he says. “It’s really a matter of finding the lane where the artists drive … and sometimes I have to drive really fast.”
http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/onthescen ... batson.asp

[gumbomadness]

Producer/arranger/songwriter Mark Batson is nothing if not on a roll. Fresh off multiple Grammy nominations for his work on Anthony Hamilton’s Comin’ From Where I’m From album, producing and co-writing seven songs on Seal’s multi-platinum Seal IV and writing and producing a track on Beyoncé’s Dangerously in Love , Batson has quickly become one of the industry’s most sought-after talents.

Not surprisingly, music has been a constant in the multi-talent’s life. “My brother Scott and I took classical piano lessons from the time we were five years old,” he says, “and by the time we were 10-12, we were playing African, Latin, Cuban music, rap and hip-hop, and in the church on Sundays.”

Growing up in the Brooklyn projects, he says, it was necessary to counterbalance musical prowess with a convincing street image. “Gang members would come up to my floor to listen what we were doing, and it might be Beethoven. That’s when I realized that music’s really a universal language.”

Eventually, Scott decided to teach music, but Mark continued to hone his writing and producing skills. By studying with producers like hip-hop icons Marley Marl and Eric B., Batson developed a style he describes as “figuring out what artists do and bringing out the best of them. I don’t have a personal sound; other producers have a trademark sound, and they get paid a lot of money to bring that sound to a record, but I adapt to what the artists need.”

The big breakthrough came with India.Arie’s Acoustic Soul album, which earned seven Grammy nominations on its way to double platinum. Soon after, artists like G-Unit (50 Cent’s backing crew, for whom Batson has done various mixtape compilations), Hamilton and Seal started calling: “I wrote 40 songs with Seal in a four month period, and he’s somebody who might write 10 songs every few years.”

Batson’s latest projects include work on Arie’s next album and a remix of Sting’s “Stolen Car” featuring Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am. Working so constantly has become second nature for him, he says. “It’s really a matter of finding the lane where the artists drive … and sometimes I have to drive really fast.”
http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/onthescen ... batson.asp

well done.

[GSR]

Just a little attempt at reassurance..

[mangold]

i trust them, but i have a feeling this album will be wuite different, whether ots better or worse then previous albums, it will still be better than most other music out there

[onid41]

I think this album is gonna be amazing, i heard it from an inside source