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Man In The Box - The Alice In Chains Story ┃ Documentary Hotney 3 Streams • 4 years ago

Seattle, Washington, 1984. A group of kids attending Shorewood High School formed a group called Sleze. And as the name suggests, they were a band of Motley Crue Wannabe’s mostly playing cover songs from some of the notable glam metal artists of the time. Sleze were looking for a singer and although Layne had already taken up playing the drums, his step-brother Ken Elmer thought he should audition so he spoke to the band's drummer to see if they would be interested.

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Layne Rutherford Staley was born on August 22nd, 1967 at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue to his father Phillip Blair Staley and mother Nancy Elizabeth Layne. They lived in Kirkland, a suburb East of Seattle. The pair had only been married 6 months prior, with Phil being 29 and Nancy was just 19 years old. Phil was a car salesman and Nancy was competing in Beauty Pageants.

Just a few years later, when Layne was only 7, his parents would divorce and Nancy would remarry in 1975 to Jim Elmer. This didn’t appear to affect Layne too much though as he would comment many years later “No deep dark secrets there”.

Layne was just like any other normal kid, he loved art and drawing and just doing what kids his age did. His love for music wouldn’t kick in for another few years, although he did attend his first big concert at the age of 8 years old when Elton John came to town and his new Step-Father Jim took him to the show.

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Metro Boomin: Top 5 Plugins, MPC Vs FL Studio, Producer Albums, 2017 Retirement, Mixing Tips, Faith Hotney 3 Streams • 4 years ago

Metro Boomin: Top 5 Plugins, MPC Vs Fl Studio, Producer Albums, 2017 Retirement, WATTBA, Faith, Etc

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Today we chopped it up with Super producer Metro Boomin about him learning MPC and its advantages over FL Studio. We talked about why he retired in 2017, His project with Big Sean, all the way back to 19 & Boomin. Metro Boomin Also broke down the story behind fans favorable songs like; Diamonds Dancing & Father Stretch My hands.

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00:00:00 - Credits, fictional characters, perfect Verzuz opponent, age cap, tools
00:11::37 - Top 5 plugins for Metro Boomin, on stage energy, Twitter screenshots
00:20:11 - Secretive producers with ego, “how to make Metro type beats” videos, Kontakt banks
00:24:00 - Metro on potential film career, scoring horror movies, MPC talk
00:38:35 - Intermission: Analog gear
00:42:40 - FL studios: do they sound different?, favorite FL, difference in sounds
00:49:40 - Timeless records, hiphop accessibility, producer competition, labels taking advantage of young producers
00:57:40 - Should producers take the lead, 2017 Metro run break, coming back to hiphop
01:03:42 - Brand value, exclusivity, strategically falling back
01:09:10 - Biased with some beats, in the studio every day, studio fails
01:19:20 - Playing mid beats first,
01:21:55 - Intermission 2: MPC hook TB up, booty and baby legs
01:23:20 - Playing music in strip clubs, BTS: processing songs, compressors, limiters
01:35:10 - Mixing is always different, locking in with upcoming artists, sending out loops
01:39:40 - Connecting with Ethan (the engineer), Boominati roster, Metro doesn’t want loops
01:45:00 - How to work with Metro, over-saturation
01:49:44 - OR/UR: Artificial intelligence (A.I.)
01:51:45 - OR/UR: Nexus VST in 2023
02:00:00 - MIDI packs, prioritizing money, is your heart in it?
02:05:00 - Switching sound from Cookup Vol. 1 to Savage Mode 2, what is Trap
02:12:40 - 19 and Boomin, dropping mixtapes as a producer, advice to younger self
02:19:50 - Burning out, video games
02:27:40 - Story behind Father Stretch my Hands
02:32:20 - Story behind Diamonds Dancing
02:35:50 - The value of Producergrind and other producer platforms
02:40:00 - Most fun collab, studio parties
02:47:10 - Importance of Faith in Metro Boomin’s career, Boominati controversy and conspiracy theories

Mazzy Star The Tragic Story Of The Band Behind Fade Into You, David Roback, Hope Sandoval Hotney 3 Streams • 4 years ago

Mazzy Star: The Tragic Story Behind the Band who wrote "Fade Into You".

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Mazzy Star was responsible for the early 90’s sleeper hit Fade Into You. Featuring David Roback, who wrote most of the band’s music, he was a talented multi-instrumentalist. He was joined by singer Hope Sandoval who wrote most of the band’s lyrics, the breathy vocalist with a haunting yet hopeful voice.

Their hit track was released on the band’s 1993 sop****re album “So Tonight That I Might See.” There was something pure about the band’s sound and their recording process. In a 2020 interview with Refinery 29, Sandoval said:

"I like to hang out in restaurants and cafés, eavesdrop on people's conversations and collect new stories. Then I go home and spend the evenings embellishing them."

Part of the band’s magic came from the soulmate-like connection between Roback and Sandoval. In a 2018 interview with Double J, Sandoval said that and i quote:
"Half the time we don’t even really need to speak to each other, we use telepathy." The pair was rumored to briefly be a couple around the time of recording their debut album, “She Hangs Brightly.”

The song Fade Into You became an anthem for lovelorn teenagers in the 90’s & Hollywood loved it too. The song was licensed to more than 30 movies and television shows & had artists like Ben Harper, Kelly Clarkson and Dinosaur Jr have all covered the song.

But before Roback became a musician he found himself in New York in the late 70’s wanting to become a painter telling the LA Times in 1990 “I went to New York mainly to be part of the art scene,”“But I gradually found myself getting more inspired by what was happening in music than in art. . . . People like Patti Smith and Television. I felt like a punk. That's the attitude I Iidentifid with, but when I picked up the guitar and started playing it, the music didn’t come out sounding punk. It was something else. . . ..” After brief stint in new york he would head back to Los Angeles.

Roback and Sandoval both started off in other bands before coming together to start Mazzy Star.

Roback went to UC Berkeley and started his band with his brother Steven called Unconscious with Susanna Hoffs, who would later be known for co-founding The Bangles. The two brothers started their next band, Rain Parade, in 1982, and they gained popularity in the L.A. indie scene.

The soft spoken Sandoval came from East LA where her parents worked in factory and she was the youngest of ten children. She would form the group Going Home while she was still in high school with frien d Sylvia Gomez in the early 80’s. Both women were big fans of Rain Parade, & they decided to make a bold move to get on their radar.

After a 1983 Rain Parade concert, Gomez snuck backstage to give David Roback a demo tape. At the time, Roback was under contract with Rough Trade records and Going Home was still unsigned, but doing gigs around LA. Upon hearing the demo, Roback offered to produce Going Home’s first album and play guitar on the record, but even to this day it has yet to be released.. It was also around this time that Rob

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Stormzy Revisits His Most Iconic Performances So Far | Behind The Curtain Hotney 3 Streams • 4 years ago

British Vogue invited Stormzy to chat with his stylist Melissa Holdbrook-Akposoe (Melissa’s Wardrobe) and review his most iconic performances so far: from Stormzy’s breakout track ‘Shut Up’ and the headline-making 2018 Brit Awards performance, to his recent hit ‘Mel Made Me Do It’ — a tribute to his long-term friend & stylist.

The pair discuss the outfits that he’s worn during his rise to fame, alongside Stormzy’s newfound appreciation for fashion. “It’s sick to see that as much as I’ve grown, there are still things that are exactly the same,” Stormzy says as he reflects back. “I started in a black tracksuit with all the mandem, but we’ve ended in a hot-pink suit with the mandem… The same people that were there from the beginning”. Watch the full episode of Behind The Curtain with Stormzy and Melissa Holdbrook-Akposoe, as they delve into 11 tentpole moments in Stormzy’s career so far.

#Stormzy #Vogue #Music #Rap #BritishRap #BritishVogue

00:00 - Stormzy: Mike Lowrey
01:09 - Stormzy: WickedSkengMan (Part 1)
02:00 - Stormzy: Know Me From
03:08 - Stormzy: Shut Up
04:21 - Stormzy: Gang Signs & Prayer
05:08 - Stormzy: Blinded By Your Grace (Brit Awards, 2018)
07:06 - Stormzy: Vossi Bop
07:58 - Stormzy: Know Me From (Glastonbury, 2019)
09:32 - Stormzy: Mel Made Me Do It
10:13 - Louis Theroux documentary
11:15 - Black Panther premiere

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Director
Emily McDonald

Director of Photography
Arthur Loveday

Editor
Lydia Bowden

Featuring
Stormzy
Melissa Holdbrook-Akposoe

Director of Creative Production
Minnie J Carver

Producer
Georgie Butz

Talent Booker
Deborah Ababio

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2nd Camera Operators
Michael Eshun-Mensah
Tom Byfield

1st Camera Assistant
Ali Baines

2nd Camera Assistants
Alexandra Crichton-Brannan
Ernie Griffiths

Gaffer
Sanjay Mistry

Sparks
Anna Brooks-Beckman
Eddie Cook

Sound Recordist
Jermaine Monero

Production Assistant
Anisa Kennar

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Stormzy’s Groomer
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Melissa’s Make-up Artist
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Melissa’s Hairstylist
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