Past music endevours

My first serious effort at becoming a professional musician was after I left College. I had been producing hip hop for a little while and had collaborated with some great emcee's. I set out to make a demo CD of hip hop entirely written by me. Without using samples I was producing a new sound.

These tracks were part of my first attempts at rappin!

After not having any success with this demo CD, I put my efforts into the hip hop collaborations that I was involved with at the time. 'MP3' was one of them and we began gigging, we had some good responses, but I didn't feel entirely satisfied.

These are the MP3 tracks that I wrote the music for and produced.
When I moved to London, we weren't able to continue writing in the same way, Rick Hazzard and Mic Smiff, the other members of the group, continued writing some material. We are all still in touch and are likely to collaborate again.

I joined Red Light Go as a drummer in an attempt to get back into playing more musical based music, not that I wasn't feeling the hip hop, only that I felt that my skills wern't able to develop within that genre. I was with Red Light Go for almost a year, I left due to my situation (burning the candle at both ends) and dissatisfaction, I wasn't writing music and didn't feel that the band was truely great.

These versions of 3 songs written by Red Light Go were initially recorded at a session in a guys house as a demo. My brother, the guitarist, re-produced the tracks as the initial production wasn't up to standard. I re-recorded the drums for the 1st and 3rd track. Television was written whilst my brother and I were part of the group.

I moved to London in 2007, I really got back into writing music and sought to form a band to perform with. I actually ended up joining another band as a drummer, called Cloak & Dagger. As I had a bedroom studio setup, one of my main roles was recording and production engineer. Again after a year or so, surprise surprise I didn't feel that I was going in the direction that I wanted to!

After leaving C&D I sought to produce another demo, this time with the best of my latest  music. I spent some time researching what was recommended to do in my position. I looked into branding myself and chose a name Soul4t...I bought the domain name and designed some graphics for a CD.

Just before commiting to getting the CD's produced I had the opportunity to help build a recording studio in France. There I would be able to record professional quality and have time to spend on marketing my music. I set up a website to document the build: France Studio Build

The Studio Build was slow due to other parts of the house needing more urgent work and a general lack of focus and planning. When the studio was almost finished in March 2012, we were unexpectedly asked to leave. Luckily the in-laws were able to put us up so that we could stabalise ourselves.

The majority of my music recording equipment is still in storage, but after helping a friend set up a bedroom studio, I am finding ways to record music! I have just finished my first solo hiphop track for a few years: Listen Up. I have around 4 or 5 songs on the go, and look forward to finishing them. I'm also working with other musicians to get out performing, this time with songs which I've co-written or written myself. Lets get down to making great music!