MUDKIDS - 'Shades (I'm Fly)' Beta Base Video

Russ: "Alright, so you wanna get down for a bit?"

Tyler: "Yeah, sounds good."

Russ: "Grab your sunglasses outta the car."

Tyler: "huh?"

Russ: "Think I'm gonna shoot a video for 'Shades' while you're over here

Tyler: "Ah, man...I just shaved. I'd like to have a little scruff."

Russ: "I got you, man. C'mon, let's do this..."

Tyler: "Alright, then."

We did about five or six takes and here it is...the BETA BASE video for 'Shades (I'm Fly)'. I've been wanting to get ol' Elp-Mass some more facetime. I'm glad he got ready for his close-up.

Here's the new joint, y'all...

MUDKIDS - 'Shades (I'm Fly)' - recording vocals with SPStar

Here's the 'Kid getting the real vocal done. After the writing of the Song, the next logical step is to get into the studio, y'dig? Gotta hold of SPSTAR (Mudkids' main engineer/producer of my solo album, 'Lazarus') and shot over to Green Gloves' to get it done.

Here's another peek at our process...we get it done.




Peace, peace. Stay tuned to MUDKIDS TV and my blog, 'PREHENSILE TALES'. Lotsa good stuff happening over here.

...and don't forget, next Saturday...

ORANJE IS COMING!

Respect and Grace,

Rusty Redenbacher

MUDKIDS - 'Shades (I'm Fly)' and '8:50' posted @ MYSPACE.COM/MUDKIDS

Yo,

You can hit the title of the post and get right to it...or you can keep reading.

Straight from the studio and here it is for you.


Tyler (Elp-Mass) gave me a really nice batch of tracks to work with, kiddies. The guy is on top of his game. We are essentially finished with what we think is 'We Are Dynamic And People Like Us', but we see no reason in stopping while we are clicking so well. These two may make it or not. We'll see...

I posted a video of me writing the original draft of the tune, 'Shades (I'm Fly)' and even went so far as to make a quick video of myself recording the demo through my mixer into my CD burner. I was well aware that the sound quality wouldn't be up to par, but I did wanna share the process of how things get done when they have to.
(Peace, LT! get it done, man!)



I get a lotta emails from kids lamenting the fact that they don't have equipment or there they don't know anybody who does what they wanna do. Trust me; I am feeling you. I'm just letting you know that it doesn't take much and until you can get into a studio, record yourself by any means necessary. You don't hafta post it like I did, but those types of demos will end up being very helpful.


Anyway, if you did in fact sift through the hiss and thump to figure out where we were going, I felt like it was only right that I let you hear what we were working towards. What I am hipping you to with the whole 'Shades' experience is a how a Song goes from an idea to a concept to a Song, at least within our process.


'Shades (I'm Fly)' and '8:50 a.m.' were both recorded tonight. You are hearing them with fresh ears, just as we are. Hope you dig 'em. They're posted on the MUDKIDS page.


I hope you have enjoyed this little peek inside our world. Keep doing what you do, if it works for you.


Respect and Grace,

RR

MUDKIDS - 'Stop! (Don't Quit) (Rusty's West Coast Remix)

MUDKIDS - STOP! (DON'T QUIT) (RUSTY'S WEST COAST REMIX)



The track for this is something that I did with my friend, Benelmo. In the Summer of '04, I was interested in learning a bit about making beats and Ben was cool enough to sit and work with me. I have no musical training, other than whatever it was I received in school. Ben can play anything; so if I had an idea, Ben could play it if I could hum it. It ended up that I would actually play the parts and Ben and I would edit them. Ben would be cool and patient enough to let me tap out what I thought I heard in my head. We'd move things into different spots, trying all types of things stylistically and sonically. It was a lotta fun. i hope to make some more tracks with Ben asafp.



I figured there was no point in having these just sitting around, so SPStar and I got together today and knocked this out. I had been thinking of reinterpreting a Mudkids Song; here's what we did today.




Get at us, man...

MUDKIDS (Myspace)

LAZARUS (Myspace)

RUSTY REDENBACHER (Myspace)

MUDKIDS TV (Youtube)

It was HOT danna MUG today...Download 'Summer' by MUDKIDS HERE. MUDKIDS, LAZARUS, and RUSTY show updates.

Man....Indy...



That DYNAMIC Summer I have been telling people about is well on its way, if today's temperature was any indication.

I think some of what was going on today is what I was thinking about when I wrote this. It's been up on the Mudkids Myspace page for a while. I thought I would give you guys first dibs on the download.

MUDKIDS - 'Summer' from 'We Are Dynamic And People Like Us' (coming soon!)

Click the Song's title and feel the HEAT! Don't forget we will be playing a few shows for our Hometown People...

FRIDAY, JULY 13: LAZARUS is at the MELODY INN! After that I'll be shooting over to the TIP-TOP TAVERN to play a set of solo-material.



...and, of course, you can get with this or you can get with that...THURSDAY, JUNE 19 at SPIN NIGHTCLUB!