Hey fans! This just in – big news! This site name is now on its own domain. You can now find this site at http://www.dj6i.com. You can still reach the site via the old URL but you should use the new one instead! But that’s not all! Very soon, the site will be getting a new layout that will be more modern and intuitive. Stay tuned! DJ6i Out!
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New Life, New studio
DJ6i is still alive and well although I would argue that I felt like I was mostly dead these past few months. Due to a series of unfortunate events, my life and my stability were sent through the wringer a few times and it has not been easy getting life back on track. But now, it seems that the fires have passed and as with any life changes, my creative muscles have been dreaming up lots of ideas but my studio space had been greatly reduced. Now, only a few days ago, I bought myself the biggest desk I have ever had. It is actually 2 “L desks patched together to make a “U”. Now I have the studio space to cook up more music.
Furthermore, I found Logic Pro 9 was available as an App Store purchase for $200… A far cry from the $700 I would have spent for retail. The best part? 25+ gb of new loops and instruments. Oh yeah! Helluva deal! Now if I could only get the time worked out so I can work on stuff!
More Music in the Works
Hello out there, I hope my friends are doing well. Unfortunately, I have not been contacted by anyone who likes my music so I can’t really give any ‘shout outs’. Anyhow, the DJ has had his creativity cap on the past few days and I have been working on some new things. I am still working on my newest track, the one that I still have not officially named, but I want to focus on making quality music so the progress has been slow going. Any DJ can grab a bunch of random things and lump them together and it might even sell a little… especially if I put a random female voice track using AutoTune… (Ok… sorry, personal gripe). However, I want to produce music that I am proud to stamp my name on so this next song will not be out until I have it 100% to my quality.
On the other hand, I started a new project recently. I have always loved classical music and one of the most powerful classic songs in my heart is Canon by Pachelbel… the chords in the song and the wonderful moving melody line. Because of that, I have started to create my own interpretation of the song which I lovingly refer to as “CanonBall”. Depending on the copyright guidelines, I may offer this as a downloadable song or I might make it a new song on my next EP. Either way, I hope to have that song available before too long. It is my hope that a modern, electronic spin on this amazing classic will expose the song to new audiences that it was not previously exposed to.
Until then, I want to thank you all again. I am now in the triple digits for profits on my music… that’s right… DJ6i has broken the $1.00 mark! As silly as it may sound, I cannot express how grateful I am that people would take a liking to the music I make and like it enough to pay for it! I am also thankful that it is still possible for an independent artist to make music without being influenced by big record labels. Keep the music independent and the rest of the world will find it!
DJ6i Out!
Downtime
It has been a few weeks since I have made any updates and so I feel it’s time to explain where I have been. It turns out that on Feb. 15 my family added a new member, our newborn baby boy. Since those days, my life has revolved around this child and keeping the bill money coming in and I have had little time to work on production. This is likely the way that things will be for at least another month or two because I normally work on my music at night when the rest of my family is asleep but for any of you that have a newborn, you know that there is no such thing as sleep for a while.
On the other side of this coin, I am trying to get more practice in on my musical instruments. I have been teaching myself more things on the guitar since it was my first love and I am teaching myself more musical styles on the piano so that I can produce even more great melodies. The down side is that these things take a lot of time and while I have my newborn still not sleeping through the night and the need to watch him for a few hours so my lovely wife can actually get some uninterrupted sleep… time is not exactly something I have a whole lot of currently.
But while you wait, there are a few things you guys can look forward to when I fully resume operations. First of all, I am almost done re-recording AngelSpun in Logic. If you have been following my production line, you will see that I created AngelSpun in LMMS and although it is a quality recording, it lacks the polished mixing that I only learned in Logic Pro. At the time I paused production, I was about 90% through the remastering. You can look forward to hearing AngelSpun like you have never heard it before.
Also, after a long amount of consideration, I have decided to drop DarkMind from my current song list. The song is certainly interesting but the quality of the production was very low and although I have tried to clean it up I simply can’t get it to sound as clean as I would like. Because of this, I am going to completely re-write the song in Logic and see if I can capture the same heavy sound without sacrificing quality. That being said, if you decide to download my EP when it comes out on iTunes or Amazon, you will not find that particular song on there. It will still be available on SoundCloud but only for listening, not for downloading.
DJ6i OUT!
Jam Times
I have been jamming with my friend Jim in our project, “No Money Down” this past weekend. We laid down two good jam tracks that you can now listen to on the “Associated Acts” page. It might actually be fun for some folks to hear some good ol’ electric guitar now and then on a site where I mostly display Electronica music. There is more to 6i Productions than just DJ6i after all!
It’s Promotion Time!
It’s amazing how far I have come in the past few months both with production ability and general popularity in my small corner of the world. I want to thank you for visiting my site and for your interest in my music. At this point, I am focusing my attention on promotion so that I can reach a larger user base. If you are one of my friends or listeners, then please check out the following ways you can help promote me!
1.) YouTube – I have a YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/6iprod where I am slowly posting my music as videos with basically my logo as the background and the song that is being played listed on the screen. Subscribe to my channel, add your favorite DJ6i song as a Favorite on your YouTube, etc.
2.) Facebook – Along the far left side of this website there is a FaceBook “badge” which connects to my 6i Productions FB page. Like me!
3.) SoundCloud – Visit the online streaming website SoundCloud and find my SoundCloud channel: http://www.soundcloud.com/6iprod and connect with me there!
I even have an LP that I will gladly send you if you would be interested! Contact Me and we’ll talk!
Thanks for following me and keep visiting my site for more updates as they arise.