Room Service @ Rodin presented by Head Nod Suite
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Live Beat Sets by Eddie Logix & Doc Illingsworth
Doors at 10pm
No Cover!!!
Rodin is located in Midtown, Detroit at 15 E. Kirby
[Flyer by Aaron Biggs]
Detroit hip hop/spoken word collective, Cold Men Young just released their new album titled, Y.S.B.A.F. (You Should Be a Fan). The album features production from myself, Jay Norm, The Olympicks, Doc Illingsworth, Black Beethoven, Apollo Brown, and Nameless as well as guest appearances by Pierre Anthony (Gorilla Funk Mob) and Rufio Jones (Detroit CYDI). Aside from my production duties (Manoogian Mansion & Ego Interlude), I also got to work very close with Cold Men Young on this project via studio recording, mixing, and mastering. Physical copies and an official record release show will be coming soon but for now, you can download the entire Y.S.B.A.F. album at a “name your price” rate HERE or with the player below.
Doc Illingsworth – Bread Winner
Brilliant! From the video to the rhyme scheme. I’ll let the vid do the rest of the talking. Cheers Doc!
Okay, our manager Hubert Sawyers may not know where all the dogs are at, but at least he is making sure some of them are safe. This Saturday, August 6th, Hubert and his wife, Eliza, are throwing a benefit for the Humane Society at the historic Whitney Mansion downtown. I could talk it up all day but my better judgement tells me that you’d rather hear it from the one and only Doc Illingsworth. You might be familiar with his video work from traveling with me an A. Biggs on the Field Trip Tour earlier this year.
If you are interested and want to attend check out their website and I’ll see you there. I shall leave you with another Illingsworth classic featuring his very own dog. Until next time.
You might recall Doc Illingsworth not only because he is one of the illest producers in Detroit right now, but also because he did a leg of the Field Trip Tour with me earlier this year.
Aside from doing a live PA set on many of the nights he also took a lot of video footage of performances and apparently of car rides as well. It’s possible that this video might only be funny to me, but if you knew me and A. Biggs you might be on the floor as well. Keep in mind that the music was not added in post. I like to listen to a lot of relaxing material in the ride between sets.
If you can’t find the humor in this one, I guarantee you’ll love all the other videos on Illingsworth’s Youtube Channel. I want to say he releases about one of these a week. And if you haven’t heard the music yet go to his bandcamp page already.
Hello all,
D. Allie here. My apologies as it’s been along time…I shouldn’t of left you….without a strong blog to step to. Meant to write you sooner but the days have been long and I haven’t been on the net long enough to write one. I don’t have a lot of time now so I’ll give you guys the broad strokes. If you want any specifics just hit the comments and I’ll chime in.
The tour has been a great experience so far. There have been ups and downs as with anything but me and the homie A. Biggs have persevered and adapted to the change ups well. It seems as if something has gone wrong on the technical side in every other city, but I’m starting to think it becomes a better show as we improvise around the bumps in the road. For instance, in Chi on Sat the microphones went out, but the space had great acoustics so I gathered everyone in a circle and performed my set from the middle of the circle with no microphone. My voice is still recovering but the energy was great.
For the first leg of the tour we had Doc Illingsworth along for the ride. He was a great travel mate and was able to open up every show with a live PA set where he showcased his beats (which you need to hear if you haven’t). This always provided a great base and got people in the mood to hear my music. He stopped off in the Chi so he will be missed as we embark on the rest of the tour. Here’s Doc doing his thing below.
The artists we have performed with in each city have been dope for the most part and I look forward to building with them in the future. Last night in River Falls was a great time as all the artists on the bill were on different tours and each of us were going to different towns the next night. Mad shouts go out to Duece Ellis and DJ Tiger. The stage show put on by these dudes is phenomenal, and they are on their heavy grind.
Shouts go out to Phrym8. Besides being dope in his own right he was the man who brought so many dope artists together last night. Check for him on the battle circuit as well. Believe he has a grindtime battle coming up in Denver soon.
Also rocked with Pseudo Slang. I’ve always heard a lot about these two gentlemen and it was a pleasure seeing them grace the stage. I get why I hear so much about them now.
Props to Ecid who I was thoroughly impressed by as well on the stage tip and after finding out he produces his own ish as well I was even more impressed.
I gotta get to the venue in Milwaukee and handle set up, sound check, etc. I will try to keep you updated as we travel more. I’m trying to stay up on my twitter game so feel free to follow in real time @dallie. Until next time.