EIGHTMETA X NFTS.TIPS CELEBRATE AFRICAN AMERICAN ART FOR JUNETEENTH
Juneteenth is the newest federal U.S. holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States, with increasing official recognition.
The custom Eight Meta island hosted NFTs.tips artists from around the globe that came together to support Juneteenth African American Art through art and performances. Please enjoy the recap of performances below or the entire show.
20210619 - Juneteenth in the metaverse / Eight Meta X NFTs.tips
Friday, May 28 - Defi App Conference features the top companies in the decentralized finance space. Decentralized finance (commonly referred to as DeFi) is a blockchain-based form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks to offer traditional financial instruments, and instead utilizes smart contracts on blockchains, the most common being Ethereum.
Over 20 panels, keynotes, and expert-led discussions throughout the ten-hour day. Including decentralized finance & DEX, research & defi, governance, privacy, community building, decentralized ID, stablecoin, taxes, investors & investing, daos, analytics, and much more.
Closing out the day-long experience are DJ Journey & Ravin Dave with live artistic audio and visual performance in the Eight Meta metaverse.
APRIL 24 – Global Music Festival is a weekly virtual music festival that takes place in a different location every couple of weeks. Fans and friends RSVP each week via Eventbrite for one of the limited numbers of spots available (due to bandwidth).
NFT art is hung throughout the venue each week by either performing artists or featured artists from the community such as the Ranch Dao and NFTs.tips.
Fans experimented with swapping avatars and branded custom merchandise. This is just the beginning.
On March 12, Vakseen, a 41-year-old digital artist based in California, accepted an 8 ETH bid (around $16,800 as of Monday) for the first of six editions of a digital painting featuring legendary basketball player Michael Jordan.
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The exhibition ran for two weeks.
Five different galleries held a total of 130 pieces of digital art.
On the closing day after a two-week show, DJ Journey & Ravin Dave hosted a live audience with dj performances inside the MetXR Virtual Gallery.
Streaming on All Major Platforms: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/scrd/feels-likeS.C.R.D. - Feels Like (Official Video) is that uncanny, slightly awkward m...
S.C.R.D. - Feels Like (Official Video) is that uncanny, slightly awkward moment, your roommate, sibling, parent, friend, lover or neighbor walks in on you while dancing by yourself, in headphones, in a common area, like a bodega or c-store.
This new S.C.R.D. record is a break from their norm, a step left into the electronic medium in collaboration with DJ Journey & LA Fashion Photographer, Catherine Asanov, who recently stated, "I still don't get it." Nonetheless, her collaborators are pumped and excited for this release.
"Even though we just dropped an album "The Adventures Of" in December, which is doing great on Spotify and iTunes, we felt it was necessary to keep the momentum going with a release every month. We've subtly hinted at electronic sounds on our record "Legal Weed," which features soloed synths singing like voices for an entire instrumental single and album joint.
Besides, the sound has shifted. Honestly, the hottest sounds today are like what we used to make in our bedroom back in 2013-2014. Super lo-fi, good production, but not much movement or depth, sonically, even though playlist curators are so "in-tune" with this new sound. We don't really like to follow trends. We know what's good and cool, but we kinda just do our own thing. Love it, hate it, honestly, we appreciate either which every way you want to judge it.
Regardless, we write for history, eternity, and contemporary entertainment, education, and documentary purposes. Some people call what we do a borderline parody. In these times, we all need something to laugh at, seriously. We think that everyone is taking themselves too seriously. We like to have fun, and want to bring that back, to help bring us all together. Just dance.
Los Angeles, California – December 25, 2020 – To say that the past year has been hard is an understatement. The pandemic managed to bring the whole world to a stand-still. At a time so bleak, artists pushed through to create and express in different mediums. S.C.R.D. is the perfect example of an artist who used a bleak situation to make a silver lining.
In a bid to help the world forget about 2020 and its disasters, the artists S.C.R.D. have put together an album, “The Adventures Of,” that has been five years in the making. A collection of talented and accomplished artists and collaborators used their environment and society as inspiration for the stories they tell in this album.
“The Adventures Of” is an album full of short stories in song format. The 14 tracks on the album represent fourteen different stories. When combined, the stories encompass the essence of the last five years and the socio-political climate that has persisted.
In short, the album tracks the changes in society, the artists’ own psychological mindset, and emotional changes. The perspectives of the artists have been distilled into fourteen short stories in musical form.
The release party for “The Adventures Of” is going to be different as it is happening via live stream. The virtual album release party is taking place at 9 pm E.S.T. on December 25, 2020, on the streaming platform Twitch. The virtual party ensures that people from all over the world are available to attend the party and hopefully forget about the year gone by for a little while.
Apart from the release party, the new album “The Adventures of” by S.C.R.D. is going to available on major streaming platforms as well as YouTube! For more on the artists and the new album, head on to the official website.
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About
S.C.R.D. is comprised of duo Sweet Chuck and Ravin Dave, whom the group is named after. They produce and release music under the independent label Trip Digital Music. The duo first met in 2013 and soon started to produce music together. They thrive off of collaborating with local musicians, friends, and fans who they say help drive their creativity to new heights.
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Mosh Pit is a song about identifying challenges and differences between individuals and their situations. The only remedy is the circle, the cipher aka the mosh pit, where problems are debated and solved.
While originally written and recorded between 2016-2018, we waited until the landscape was ripe and the context made sense for a record like this. This record is actually the third of a four record series that culminates next month but began on November 3 2016 with “Breaking News”, our first "‘political’ record, although written at the time from an independent, large picture perspective.
The second record of the series was “Art Bless America” which when written (2016) and released (2019) stood as a reminder of America’s greatness to an outsider. The video (2020), however, shifts lenses drawing a clear distinction between racism, oppression, resistance, and tyranny as captured through live footage over the spring and summer. Notwithstanding our original intent, this body of works was written before its time, in order to reflect these times.
Mosh Pit which was also written in the past, for the future, could not be published without comment on the current cultural context into which it would be released. As a group, we clearly stand against racism. For our promotion video, we decided to make that point clear. For the lyric video, we decided to let the lyrics speak for themselves.
Artist production duo, Sweet Chuck Ravin Dave writes, produces, and performs music, videos, and content under Trip Digital Music, and independent record label based in NYC/LA. The two met in Gramercy, New York City during the fall of 2013, and by 2014 began writing and recording at their 19th street studio along with Super Producer DJ Journey. S.C.R.D. is named after Sweet Chuck and Ravin Dave, the two principal members of the group. Together they infuse old skool beats, live instrumentation, and witty, humorous, and slightly satirically lewd lyrics to take fans on a journey through heartbreaks with an ebullience for life and the thirst for adventure. Their collaboration between each other thrives off co-collaborating with local musicians, friends, and fans they lure into their musical tsunami, which helps drive their artistic creativity to new heights.
ORANGE COUNTY, CA – Since the start of the year, LuMm came out the gates swinging with the release of his singles (Spotify) “JENGA, NOSEBLEEDS, and BLACK MAGIC (Ft. HIPPIE-C). To follow all of the great music he’s been releasing lately, LuMm is back at it again with a new song and visual titled Plan B (Ft. Rob Woods). Rob Woods is a Sacramento native which is definitely projected to be a fan favorite. The song Plan B gives listeners a look inside what’s really going on in today’s society and touches on topics such as police brutality, the impact that drugs have on today’s youth, and racism. All themes are in hopes of change for the better of tomorrow.
NEW YORK, NY - On Friday, June 8, 2018 - Singer / Songwriter Bella Saona officially released sixth single from her debut album “Parousia.,” along with five remixes on the six song The Hollow EP available on Spotify and iTunes. In April, 2017, released her first studio album titled, “Parousia,” meaning presence or arrival in vinyl and digital format. The album’s title is reflective of Bella’s Paraguyan and Brazilian descent.
The Hollow is a song about not falling under the constant spell of lies being casted over us by the media, society, and when it comes to love. Its a message about questioning the norm and not accepting things at face value. Being awake. Seeing past the mirage and the manipulation. Bella's music is a mix of dance, electronic, rock and intelligent pop. It is conscious music aimed at a global audience, with no defined age. The production of the Parousia record lasted 2 years. It was a collaboration with her producer and creative director, Victor Lau.
The Hollow Remixes were each a collaboration with other artists and producers which include Stacey Ayers, Andres Diaz, Er!c Lee, and Ravin Dave (S.C.R.D.). Each collaboration was a result of relationships fostered over years and experiences, and reflect the nature of those circumstances. Bella and Victor met Ravin Dave during the summer in 2013. Since then, they have collaborated on a couple of Bella’s live performances at Beatique, CBGB Festival and a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn block party.
Bella began her career at age 14, with performances at different festivals and clubs in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and the UK. In 2011 she joined the record label Ultra Records, one of the most popular and recognized in the genre of electronic music. During her early years as a solo artist she worked with major English producers such as Grammy Award-winning Sandy Vee , who released her single Nobody Loves Me and Bare Noize, British producers with whom she worked on her song Off With Their Heads. Furthermore, her hits Do it Again and Off With Their Heads were included in MTV reality shows and the NCIS Los Angeles television show. Bella received the New Now Next Award as a artist on the verge of fame by the prestigious LOGO television network. -- ❤
For access to tracks, interviews or questions please email Victor Lau - kapo.entertainment@gmail.com.
Back in 2009, while working as an intern for Rocafella Records, Nick Hews met Derik Lavers who had just finished Season 8 of American Idol. After becoming friends and a couple of small bedroom production projects, they both moved to LA, met DJ Journey and formed the Klick by 2015. Between December 9-10, 2015 the duo wrote and recorded Summertime at the legendary Skip Saylor Recording studio in Ensino, CA, with engineer Lester Mendoza.
Summertime is poppy, vibrant and clean fun, targeting the happy, go-lucky collegiate party-types. The Klick plans to release two more single recorded during the same time this year. Meanwhile, Nick Hews is currently finishing his solo debut album Matthew 17 expected to drop in the fall, and previously released a collab single with DEV, titled “Done That” last year.
TRIP DIGITAL is a rapidly expanding music, film & tech content development company that specializes in music production, songwriting, customized sound for film/tv, artist development, and audiovisual content for the entertainment industry. Trip Digital operates two studio offices in New York City and Los Angeles. Their seasoned artists & engineers have developed an innovative and sustainable approach to songwriting, music production, visual content and technology.
For access to tracks, interviews or questions please email: scrd@digital-galactic.com
NEW YORK, NY - Friday, May 18, 2018 - Gramercy production duo S.C.R.D. released their sixth studio single titled, “I’m in Love,” off of their forthcoming album expected to release in the fall. The duo once again delivered a fun, upbeat record for indie label Trip Digital. Released by Flourish $ Prosper Music Group and distributed by Empi.re Records, “I’m in Love” is available globally on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, Amazon, Shazam, and YouTube.
For this record, S.C.R.D. once again collaborated with Super Producer DJ Journey for the concept and composition. The recording of the record took place between 2016-2018 at Mindlab Studio in Los Angeles, CA and Shelter Island Sound Studios in New York, NY. This record captures the moments in life when we decide to pursue business and passion instead of a potential love interest. In other words, when we put a relationship on pause.
S.C.R.D. Artist production duo, Sweet Chuck Ravin Dave write, produce and perform music, videos and content under indie label Trip Digital, Inc. S.C.R.D. is named after Sweet Chuck and Ravin Dave, two characters based on principal members of the group, who met in Gramercy, New York City during the fall of 2013. By 2014 S.C.R.D. began writing and recording at the 19th street studio, along with Super Producer DJ Journey. S.C.R.D. infuses old skool beats, live instrumentation and witty, humorous and satirical lyrics that take fans on a journey through heartbreaks with an ebullience for life and the thirst for adventure. Their collaboration between each other, thrives off co-collaborating with local musicians, friends and fans they lure into their musical tsunami, which helps drive their artistic creativity to new heights.
For access to tracks, interviews or questions please email: scrd@digital-galactic.com
NEW YORK, NY - On Friday, May 11, 2018 - Brooklyn made, Queens saved Hip Hop artist DEV released his second studio single, “Games,” the first single to drop from his forthcoming album titled Arrogant Youth, expected later this year. Released by Flourish$Prosper Music Group and distributed by Empi.re, “Games” is available globally on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, Amazon, and YouTube.
Arrogant Youth is a project based on years of writing, rapping and learning the art and game. It’s a reflection on the current Hip Hop landscape from an educated perspective. Games is a hard 64 bar verse laid over a Super Producer DJ Journey beat. Recorded at Lounge Studios Vanilla Sky with engineer Joseph Angol, the record was mixed and mastered by Mikaelin ‘Blue’ BlueSpruce at Brown Sugar, and executive produced by S.C.R.D.
Artist, actor and security guard at one of Manhattan’s most prestigious hotels and nightlife hub, DEV spends his days writing and recording records based on his reflections of interactions with so many different types of people, and his own upbringing and studies of Hip Hop, while growing up in New York City. DEV’s first single release was a collab project in Fall 2017 with Nick Hews and DJ Journey, titled “Done That.”
The record HUSH is about not listening to the hype or the haters, that often talk in your ear and on social media. Kris Payne’s lyrics, flow and delivery are all a reflection on the senseless chatter and hate. Kris Payne is not your average rapper. His flow and lyrics will take you back in time, while his smooth, raw vocal delivery is poetic and wistfully visual. Kris often draws comparisons to the likes of the Notorious BIG, LL Cool J and Dr. Dre, which considering his childhood upbringing, and being a Leo with the same birthday as Chuck D and Professor Griff, may be an indication. Payne grew up in Brooklyn, and then moved out to Baldwin, Long Island for high school.
Kris worked his way into regular rotation on BET’s 106 & Park and then found himself in a cipher with Run DMC. Payne drew the attention of Public Enemy’s Chuck D and The Bomb Squad super producer Keith Shocklee, both local Roosevelt, Long Island natives. Kris invested the past five years into building trust, which led to his mentorship from Hip Hop legends and eventually projects with Common and Rakim. Most importantly, Kris made the transition from playground battle rapper to recording artist now is now poised to set the stage on fire.
TRIP DIGITAL is a rapidly expanding music, film & tech content development company that specializes in music production, songwriting, customized sound for film/tv, artist development, and audiovisual content for the entertainment industry. Trip Digital operates two studio offices in New York City and Los Angeles. Their seasoned artists & engineers have developed an innovative and sustainable approach to songwriting, music production, visual content and technology.
S.C.R.D. is excited to be part of the Trip Digital sound design team, partnered with Native Instruments' Sounds.com. Check out S.C.R.D. Sound Packs and others from Trip Digital with new releases weekly.
Featured Panel Judges: Grammy Award Winner - Buck 3000; Warner Brothers Records Director of A&R - Eric Mclellan; Columbia/Sony Music A&R - RJ Homola; Interview by Sakar Brown @SakarBrown / www.ShowBizSpotLight.com.
On June, 30th of 2015, we release our first single record, Someday. It took only a couple of months to write, record, produce, mix and master. Just starting out we had little choice but to self publish through either Tunecore or CD Baby. We chose Tunecore, and subsequently released four more since then till now, while working on finishing our first albums worth. Fast forward to 2018, and since then, we've secured a distribution deal in partnership with Flourish$Prosper Music Group, with distribution through Empi.re. In addition, we now also distribute sound packs designed for producers by Trip Digital artists, through Sounds.com, a Native Instruments powered "sample" site.
As a result, we've taken a new perspective on releasing music and are beta testing this new approach. Someday is a simple, old school, Hip Hop style record that features a number of recording artists who actually play live across the tracks and has multiple writers. In addition to accessing new distribution methods we decided to re-release this song in an unorthodox way, not using Tunecore. Instead, we leveraged our resources and access, in order to distribute over 109 different pieces, all monetizable units of content.
Here's the approach:
Through Stems.is we re-released the original release as a single with three tracks the album version, the radio version and the instrumental version. The net difference versus Tunecore was that this release cost us $49.99 less, 5% of net sound recording and publishing that results. Furthermore, Stems.is manages the distribution of royalties and publishing payments to each of the owners, writers and authors. As a result, Someday is available on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music, Deezer, and YouTube.
But then we took it a step further, and released our stems to the record as an EP by renaming the record as a "Remix Kit" and targeting producers, remixers and djs. The Someday (82 BPM KEY F) [REMIX KIT] features two vocal acapella, bass, piano, violin and drum stems, also available on Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Music, Deezer, and YouTube.
For the trifecta, we also released a 99 sound sample pack on Sounds.com as a "Producer Pack" that feature cuts of original drums, piano, violin and bass. The violin samples feature performing artist Marissa Licata (The Fugees, Alicia Keys, Wyclef) and the bass guitar samples feature James Genus (Herbie Hancock, SNL Band). Each sample is a high-resolution slice from the final studio mix, pre-mastered.
NEW YORK, NY - Friday, January 19, 2018 - Gramercy production duo S.C.R.D. released their highly anticipated, club-crossover jam, titled “Saturday Right,” featuring Sweet Chuck and A$ton Dollar$ trading bars on verses and hooks.
This hypnotic, melodic and catchy composition is tightly crafted by DJ Journey, with lowend support from American Jazz Bassist, James Genus (SNL/Herbie Hancock) who once again delivers his signature groovelines. Meanwhile, the whimsical rhythmic riffs of Daniel Picciotto’s Gibson guitar, playfully dance along the topline in the background. Both tease the melody and then prominently strut across the bridge before sweeping listeners back into a final chorus and breakdown.
This single release is the first collaboration between S.C.R.D. and A$ton Dollar$ who originally met after multiple back to back studio sessions over the past couple of years. Producer/Engineer Rich Ahee (Shelter Island Sound) was the common denominator and mutual engineer between the two groups. Eventually dots were linked and everyone came together to make this record.
While the record was conceived, written and recorded over a couple of days at Shelter Island Studio on April, 20th, 2016, the final record was actually mixed months later at Lounge Studios / Vanilla Sky, and didn’t get mastered until late last 2017 by Mikaelin ‘Blue’ BlueSpruce.
"From then, until now, many things have happened in our worlds’ and the world around us. And we’re just blessed to be able to make music that makes people feel something, and in this case it’s a warm, loving, family and friends vibe ‘n good times. Especially after last year, and just in time for the Spring and Summer!" - S.C.R.D.
Saturday Right is available across global retailers Amazon, Google Play, and across streaming platforms Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal. Saturday Right is a Hip Hop genre, danceable track that grooves at 105 BPM, with remixes expected during spring and summer, be released by Flourish$Prosper Music Group.
Artist production duo, Sweet Chuck Ravin Dave write, produce and perform music, videos and content under Trip Digital, Inc. The two met in Gramercy, New York City during the fall of 2013, and by 2014 began writing and recording at the 19th street studio.
On June 30, 2015 the duo released their first single titled “Someday.” Over the past two years S.C.R.D. have released four additional singles, two videos and have executive produced over twenty more records that will release in 2018. “Saturday Right” is the first release of 2018.
S.C.R.D. is named after Sweet Chuck and Ravin Dave, the two principal members of the group. Together they infuse old skool beats, live instrumentation and witty, humorous and slightly satirically lude lyrics to take fans on a journey through heartbreaks with an ebullience for life and the thirst for adventure. Their collaboration between each other, thrives off co-collaborating with local musicians, friends and fans they lure into their musical tsunami, which helps drive their artistic creativity to new heights.
A$TON DOLLAR$
Marlon Beaudouin (born July 17, 1986) better known by his stage name Young Aston/Aston Dollars, is an aspiring American Rap/R&B artist. Marlon was born to Haitian parents and raised in Hillside, Queens, N.Y. His first introduction to music was through piano instructions as a child. He also participated in musical activities at his church and school. In junior high school, he began writing his own music producing songs. During this time, Marlon was introduced to different artist in the business that inspired him and guided him into improving his musical projects.
Jeremy Gonzalez, aka “The Jerm”, introduced Marlon to different beats and techniques for improving his sound. James Williams, an old school producer, taught Marlon how to use words to add meaning and taste to his work. Aston has a very authentic way to his rhyming & singing. He is very versatile with concepts when it comes to his lyrics. Not only are his lyrics spectacular in the fact they are deep and at some points make you question facts about your own life, but also the fact he is obligated to getting his thoughts on paper shows his passion for the music. Passion that you yourself can feel when you sit back and actually listen, no do not listen HEAR what he is trying to portray.
The determination from this twenty five year old will shock you. The consistent hits, which pour from his mind is “remarkable” The way he portrays himself as a true Artist. Aston gets the party started wherever he is at. Today, at age 31, Marlon’s passion continues to grow as he spends his free time in the studio recording and producing songs such as What's My Name, Stripper Pole (SP.1) and Stripper Pole 2 (SP.2), in preparation for his upcoming album.
For access to tracks, interviews or questions please email: scrd@digital-galactic.com
