Cold Chillin' Blog continued

Today I continued with the blog and just added stuff to it throughout the day.  I took some more materials home with me to review and also reviewed one of the Myachi agreements that David was working on - to let me see what their current projects are and such.  What's nice about this blog is I can upload information on a particular artist and then do some research on them for my own personal benefit as well.  David was speaking with Marley Marl, the "it" producer on the Cold Chillin' label, and so he let him know what I was working on and put me in touch with him.  I spoke with Marley briefly, but he gave me some ideas on what I should include in the blog, including the importance of this song catalog with hip hop today.  He's another resource to add to this blog list.

A little on Marley Marl: he was the first to introduce sampling into the hip hop scene, which has developed into an important part of both hip hop and mainstream music today.  Partnering with Cold Chillin' Records, Marley produced some of the foremost in hip hop names, including Roxanne Shante, Biz Markie, and Big Daddy Kane (during the Golden Age of hip hop).  Marley still produces music today, and released collaborative album with Craig G in 2008.

Cold Chillin' Blog

So today I really got to work typing up the press releases for the Cold Chillin' Records blog.  Previously I went through some of the marketing materials to familiarize myself with them, but now I'm getting down to work.  There was a main release about how the label came about, and then individual releases on the different artists.  I'm getting in touch with Tyrone Williams this week.  Tyrone is one of the founders of the label, and will be an asset to me in gathering information on the history of the label and it's importance in the industry.

David asked me to take him to the train station today since he had a meeting in the city with Charles with one of their big name clients.  The afternoon was free for me to work on my projects and also to continue with the Cold Chillin' music blog.

Sent the jumpdrive off to Tunesat today, and they're in the city so they'll receive it fairly quickly.  Today I spent working on my projects for Mr. Butcher's midterm checkpoint by doing some more reading from the music business text, researching online, and talking to David about different careers that are available to me.  He's working with me on my cover letter to direct it toward artist management, because that seems like the direction I want to go at this point.

Spent the day uploading to the FTP again - depending on the size of the file, it would take between 20-45 minutes PER upload.  It looked like the FTP wasn't holding the files, so I had to call Lara again to troubleshoot, she said she'd get back to me about it.  When I spoke to David about it later, he said we'd better just go with a jumpdrive (just under 8Gs of data).  I picked up a jumpdrive on my way home and we're going to send it out tomorrow.  FINALLY!

Tunesat CDs continued

Today I continued to work on the Tunesat CDs, since there are quite a few albums (totaling close to 300 songs) to send to them.  We wanted to send them off yesterday but it was taking longer than we anticipated.  When I emailed Lara from the company for the address, she suggested that I try the FTP (online file transfer) because they only accepted data discs and harddrives (which I thought I was making...).  So, instead of burning CDs, I spent the day uploading to FTP.

Over the weekend I worked on the tunsat data sheet, because I needed to include the file path code for each of the songs - so I had them divided up into separate album folders, and each cell would correspond to the the song title - like this:

MusicA/My Fav Band/My Fav Album/My Fav Song 30.wav

so that would correspond to:

CAK Tunesat/Biz Markie/Biz's Baddest Beats + Videos/07 Biz Is Goin' Off.wav

Today was spent working on burning CDs to send the songs to Tunesat.