One thing he learned at TCC was how to play guitar. A classmate named Kyree let him borrow hers one day, taught him a few chords, nothing fancy. He’d been secretly writing songs for a while by then, and the songs were nothing fancy either. Nothing vulgar, nothing sexual, nothing
worldly. At eighteen, the young man had given his life to Christ. Joined a Reformed church of his own choosing. He liked that the church’s music featured some piano, some percussion, a guitar, but “nothing crazy.” Liked that the songs were mostly hymns, instead of big productions. And he really liked Jesus. Took the Gospel seriously. So seriously that he threw away his favorite records when he got saved. Threw away Usher’s
Kendrick Lamar, Roddy Ricch, YG + More Invest In MixedByAli s EngineEars Published on:
May 6, 2021, 4:48 AM
Kendrick Lamar, Roddy Ricch and YG are among a number of artists, producers and label figures investing in TDE in-house engineer MixedByAli‘s EngineEars platform.
The music-making platform is designed to transform the way engineers, songwriters and producers run their businesses, with the company reaching a pre-seed goal of $1 million. Other investors include DJ Khaled, Russ, Mustard, Ella Mai, Bas, Kenny Beats, Smino, Masego, Cardo, Young Guru, Dreamville’s Ibrahim Hamad, XO’s La Mar Taylor, 10 Summers’ Meko Yohannes and indie label EQT.
MixedByAli wrote on Instagram, “For over two years I’ve been taking my time really understanding the real problems in my industry. From all of this research, what Ive realized is that the problem is there are minimal tools provided to audio engineers to set us up for success, and very little access for artists and labels to s
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EngineEars, a new startup that helps connect audio engineers with clients, said on Wednesday that it has raised $1M in a pre-seed funding round. The funding was led by Slauson & Co., and also included Kendrick Lamar, Roddy Ricch, Russ, Mustard, DJ Khaled, YG, Ella Mai, Bas, Smino, Masego, Cardogotwings, Young Guru, Kenny Beats, Ibrahim Hamad of Dreamville, La Mar Taylor of XO, Meko Yohannes of 10Summers, and indie-record label EQT. The company, led by Derek Ali, says it is developing a new technology platform for mixing engineers, handling every from acquiring clients through facilitating a mix and handling finances, scheduling of mixing time and streamlining of the mixing process, handling pricing negotiation, storing and archiving project files, and connecting those engineers with artists. Ali is an audio engineer; the company s other co-founder is Dan Maynard (COO), who the company said co-founded the Canadian Apparel Company, Noble Gentlemen Tra