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Services
Other than as a Performer and DJ my services are also available for hire on occasions in various other areas. You will not see a large list of previous clients; on the whole I do not advertise these services or go looking for work. Most of the jobs I have taken on have been the result of people seeing/hearing the work I have previously done (usually on my own projects) and asking me if I can do the same for them. Sometimes this will be people who are already clients for other services. If you do decide to use me for one of these tasks it is likely to be for one of 2 reasons: that you like what I do - the colours and mood that are present in both my musical and visual work, or that you have heard from someone else I have done work for that I take great effort to get into the head of the 'client' and have a bit of a knack for doing just that. I do not usually have a fixed rate for any of these jobs. Whether I take a job may depend on my enthusiasm for the project concerned, and this may also affect my price. However, for a job which stirs my interest my prices are likely to be below the 'going rate'.
Mastering Clients have included Jazzie B and Onyx Ashanti (SoulIISoul), Archangel Recordings, Kris Darang (for Notion magazine), Blackmarc Productions, BudaBless Productions. Whilst I usually prefer to meet the client first this can be done without, preferably from wav files or audio CD but in exceptional circumstances I have mastered from high quality mp3s, though I would not really recommend this for release
Remixing Clients have included Archangel Recordings - Kwali Lox and Phoenix Rose and at the time of writing I am working on 5 remixes for Martin Russell's (AfroCelt SoundSystem) new project with Dorothee Munyaneza
Co-Writing/Arranging/Production I have put these together as there are no firm dividing lines from one to another, and wherever it starts it usually proceeds through to the final product. By co-writing I am not talking about working with a writing 'partner' in the way I might within a band situation, but where, even if 95% of the creative work has come from me, the aim is entirely to produce something that the client feels is 'their' music, not mine. |
Web design
This one of course!
Graphic Design
CD Covers
Other artists: Complete, full-scale pdf samples of some of these covers may be provided on request |
Video editing/production This is a new area for me but immediately after doing my first video - for Orchid-Star's "Passion" - I was asked to edit and produce (from previously filmed footage) the video for the O.T.T. Band's "Don't Know" |
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