So I’m sitting here on my couch, with my laptop on my lap, and headphones on. This is how I’ve spent many a night working on music; often remixes for fun, new hip-hop beats, or Inspired Flight stuff. Side-note: I just realized typing this out that when I have my computer on my lap it’s living up to the “laptop” name! This is groundbreaking news!!!!!! So anywho, here I am, about to work on some music, and I am feeling compelled to write a little bloggity bloop to you Inspired Flight fans. Our album has been out for one month now, and the feedback we’ve been getting from listeners is so positive! I am so in love with music in every way; hopelessly pulled towards having to create it, both out of joy because its fun, and out of some deeper necessity I can’t put my finger on that makes me do it so I function well in this world and have peace with myself and all things. Whether the world is listening, or I’m stranded in isolation on a deserted island for the rest of my life, I will be making music until death stops me.
So the fact that people are listening to this Inspired Flight album, and getting a lot of joy out of it, and are excited about it, is such a beautiful, moving thing. I can’t really pinpoint how with words, but thank you for listening, for caring, and for reading this right now. It means so much to us to have people noticing and enjoying what we do. Inspired Flight is truly grateful. We have a lot of new stuff already in the works that I can’t wait to share with you all. Keep listening because we’re going to keep putting it out. Good night now. Sweet dreams. Don’t let the bedbugs bite. See you in the morning. Stop spooning me.
Chavez
P.S. Kobayashi got arrested today at a Hot Dog Eating contest that he wasn’t even competing in. WTF!? That is hilarious. We may have to do a remix out of that audio for our upcoming Hot Dog album slated for release in 2019.
We finally finished our debut album, We All Want To Fly! And we officially announce the winner and runner-up of the remix contest we had for It Always Takes, as a well as talk about our upcoming album-release show.
We decided to take a quick break from working on the album to give you the second installment of our video blog. In this episode, you can hear Michael McDonald’s super dope verse on our track, “We All Want To Fly”. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to use it on the album because we couldn’t get him to sing about anything other than taking it to the streets and being in the Doobie Brothers. The dude has soul though!
After many grueling hours, Chavez and I narrowed down all the dope remixes to the top 5:
It was one of the most difficult things we’ve ever had to do, but peep the video to find out who they are. Also, behold our brand new sound…it’s going to revolutionize how we all perceive music for years to come!
OpenOptics and I want to thank everyone who participated in our remix competition! If you haven’t checked out all of the remixes then please take the time to do so…..to at the very least browse through them. They are all good and some are really amazing. Now is the fun part for us to go through them and decide a winner, which won’t be easy to do. For everybody who took time to make a remix of our song, I can’t thank you enough. Inspired Flight puts so much time and love into the music we make, and to hear people take the stems from one of our favorite songs and turn them into something completely new, something we would have never created ourselves, is one of the most awesome feelings in the world. It’s hard to explain what it feels like to hear our music, and especially my own voice, twisted and remixed with love and passion by another artist. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for getting involved and remixing us. It’s times like these I can’t help but think of a timeless joke my great grandmother used to tell me in the swamps of Louisiana:
So a horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Why the long face?” And the horse replies, “Oh….i’m just going through some hard things.” The bartender stops what he’s doing and exclaims, “Oh my god! You can talk?!” And the horse says, “Hell yeah, I can talk. I just came in here to tell you I’ve been bumping Inspired Flight all day, everyday! That’s what’s up!” And the bartender says, “Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!”
So it’s the last day of 2009, and I’ve just got to write a post to kind of wrap up this year for Inspired Flight. We have put in a lot of hard work this year, gotten a lot more comfortable with what we do, and a lot better at it, did our first tour, are pretty fast now at setting up and tearing down our 20-billion-cable set-up, have a lot of new songs, have played some very cool shows, are nearly done with our debut album, have done some awesome networking, have a couple of animations and a music video lined up for songs off the new, upcoming album, are way better at fighting Mordor Orcs than we were a year ago, and we now are pretty good at ordering crazy cheeseburgers at Chili’s that nobody should ever eat……….ever. Thank you to everyone who has come out to our shows, listened to our EP, told other people about us, and just showed us love in any way during this year. It means a lot. And we are going to really need continued support and enthusiasm for this coming year. 2010 is going to be good. Very good. Very, very good. Did I mention it was going to be good?
So we’ve been working very hard on wrapping up our debut album, and one of the few things left to do is get good MCs on our songs that need rap. We already have Eligh from Living Legends locked down on two tracks, which is awesome! And he’s a super cool dude, which makes it all even more awesome. Last Thursday we fit in another piece of the puzzle, and it was one of the best days I’ve ever had in my life. Through a long chain of SUPER random events, and persistence, we got hooked up with Rugged Monk from the Black Knights, and he is now officially also on our debut album. So we’ve got the west coast Killer Bee, Wu-affiliate involved, which is great because we’ve been big fans of Wu-Tang since they came onto the scene. Some friends and I went up to LA and picked him up from his front door, took him here to Encinitas, chilled out all day, he wrote and recorded a really dope verse, we went out to a nice dinner, and then we dropped him off back home. What’s so cool about it is that the vibes couldn’t have been better throughout the experience, and Rugged Monk, like Eligh, is also a really cool dude. And he’s funny! We had a great time the whole day and a great verse came out of it, and this is very exciting for Inspired Flight. Unfortunately for you fans you will have to wait till our album drops sometime in March to hear it. But it’s all good baybeh baybeh! So now there are only two songs left that need rap; two more missing puzzle pieces, and if all goes to plan, these last two MCs are going to be big! So keep your fingers crossed for us, and I’ll let you know when we fit the last pieces into place. By the way, the puzzle we’re making is a huge picture of OpenOptics carrying a turntable in his mouth, and wearing a Quidditch robe from Hufflepuff. It looks really cool if you stand far back and take it all in. I think OpenOptics looks better in Slytherin colors, but he was obsessed with Hufflepuff’s badger symbol…….either way it’s amazing how strong his jaws are!
Ah yeah…the first post for the Inspired Flight blog! It’s been a long time in the making, but here we are. Here’s a little introduction to what we’re all about… Read the rest of this entry »
