Marie Digby shares her creative process about writing a song. She starts with some guitar chords she likes and off she goes. It’s almost like she’s freestyling off the what she’s feeling by combining her thoughts with the sounds coming off the guitar. It’s an interesting peek in to her song writing process.
Listen to some of the songs off her latest album “Breathing Underwater” including Avalanche and Feel.
How Marie Digby writes a song
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Recently, Ultra Records releases their latest installment of the popular annual compilation series Ultra Dance 11 mixed by DJ ENFERNO, who is one of the country’s most sought after and talented DJs. The compilation features radio and dance floor hits from Madonna , Lady GaGa, Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne, The Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Sean Kingston, P!nk, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, David Guetta, and more. Purchase your copy today on 
or at Amazon.
DJ Enferno will be performing in over 30 cities across the US and Canada for the Official Ultra Mix 11 CD Release Tour, featuring a two hour DJ set presented by Ultra Records & Moodswing360. Scheduled dates include major party venues from The Bank in Las Vegas, Mur.Mur at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, Shrine at MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, CT to 1Oak in New York City and Pangaea at The Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL. For Enferno, he views this tour as a natural progression in a consistently bourgeoning career. To see a complete list of tour dates, go here.
DJ Enferno was a relative unknown making waves with his groundbreaking Live Remix Project as well as taking the top prize in the 2003 DMC Championship when he was handpicked to be a part of Madonna’s 2008 -2009 “Sticky and Sweet World Tour.” It’s no wonder he was amongst the top ten in the DJ Times Magazine “America’s Best DJ Contest 2009.”
Ultra Dance 11 Video Megamix
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Check out DJ Enferno’s Live Remix Project – Promo Video
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Traphik surpassed 200k subscribers on YouTube. To celebrate, he does a freestyle flow with Sahtyre, who is on the same SwimTeam crew as dumbfoundead and lyraflip. We’ve been spoiled with GrindTime, which is spittin’ writtens like dumbfoundead vs tantrum. What do you think of this freestyle collabo? Frestyling is extremely hard to do.
Also check out Traphik on these tracks: Get Up, Bedrock – Asian American Remix, I Rock Onesies, Forever Remix, and Say Ahh.
Traphik x Sahtyre Freestyle
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Keep your eyes on former “So You Think You Can Dance Canada” contestant Thien-Linh Truong on America’s Best Dance Crew tonight as part of Blueprint Cru. They’re the first Canadian Cru on the show. Will Canada be the best Dance Cru? Here’s more about the crew:
This Canadian crew is out to storm the home of hip-hop and demonstrate a level of synchronicity never seen before. Being the first-ever foreign crew to compete on “ABDC,” Blueprint has a lot to prove. Their motto is “Precision, precision and precision.” Every move this crew does, they do as one, moving together. This dance crew is run like an army, training hard to look like one unit, to learn the origin of the move and then striving to perfect them. This perfectionist crew doesn’t believe in tricks and stunts, they believe in unified movements down to every minute detail.
Other dance crews to watch for are The Hype 5-0, Swagger Crew, and Static Noyze.
Blueprint Crew – ABDC auditions in New York
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Blueprint Cru interview
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MTV interview with Blueprint Cru
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It’s another collabo between Legaci and Summerbreeze. This time they do their rendition of Down by Jay Sean. Summerbreeze aka Amiel Maquilan is on fire with the acoustic guitar in the video. As usual, Legaci delivers another great performance. If you like this rendidtion, you can download it FREE here.
BTW – Their last collaboration Replay by Legaci x Summerbreeze has almost reached 1 million views.
Down by Legaci x Summerbreeze
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This is such a sad story and reinforces the need for Asian Americans to be bone marrow donors. (Also see Project Michelle, 1,000 Cranes for Hope, and Nick Glasgow.) Watch this heartbreaking video from Natalie’s younger sister’s perspective.
Natalie is 8yrs old and was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. (AML – acute myeloid leukemia) After 5 rounds of chemo, Natalie was in remission, but as of 1/19/10 her cancer returned. Her only chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant. Please register to donate. You could be the one to save her life. Go to dkmsamericas.org or hopefornatalie.com
The current odds for an ethnic minority patient, like Natalie to find a matching unrelated donor may be close to 1 in a million. This is the reason they are trying so hard to reach as many people in the Asian population as possible. The more Asians we get swabbed, the more likely Natalie will find her “Needle In A Hay-Stack” match. Please spread the word to get people interested in the fight to SAVE Natalie’s life.
Recently, Alyssa Milano sent a twitter message out about Natalie. See it here.
Hope for Natalie
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