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noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Hey Whats up everyone i just wanted to let you kno that im gonna be updating this in the next couple of days with all new music and pics and video from alot of shows i been doing so bare with me..... but for now just got to my myspace at myspace.com/ambproductions for some new music and releases

Great News

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:33:00 +0000

I KNO ITS BEEN A MIN SINCE I UPDATED THE BLOG BUT HERE GO'S WHATS BEEN GOING ON

THE KID PUERTO ROC JUST GOT AN A&R POSITION AT ROCKBOY STREET RECORDS THE HOME OF DR.PERIOD AND M.O.P

SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NEW PROJECTS FROM THE ROCKBOY G'S COMING REAL SOON.. ITS THE NEXT COMING OF THE

M.O.P FAMILY

BEATS ARE UP AND FOR SALE

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:48:00 +0000

HEY WHATS UP EVERYONE
I WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT U CAN PURCHASE BEATS ON MY MYSPACE PAGE I HAVE POSTED THE
BEATS IN A PLAYER SO U CAN PICK AND CHOOSE I WILL BE SWITCHING THE BEATS EVERY WEEK SO THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW.....U CAN GO TO MY MYSPACE PAGE AT www.myspace.com/ambproductions

New THINGS Happening

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:17:00 +0000

So today was a good end to the week i was with EL DA SENSIE from the Artifacts crew and let me tell you that we layed down one of the best joints we did to date....

You guys will be able to hear some new material real soon we are almost done with the album a couple more joints and you guys will be happy

till next time peace out

HAPPY NEW YEAR

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

HEY HAPPY BEW YEAR EVERYONE I KNO ITS BEEN A MIN SINCE MY LAST BLOG BUT U KNO I BEEN BUSY RUNNING AROUND AND HAVING THINGS POP OFF FOR THE NEW YEAR

I JUST WANTED TO LET YA KNO THAT I WILL BE HAVING 2 ALBUMS DROPPING THIS YEAR AND WILL BE ON TOUR THROUGHT THE U.S.A AND EUROPE...

I HAVE BEEN ON THE SET LATLEY OF LYRICAL ROULETTE AND LET ME TELL YOU THE SHOW LOOKS REALLY DOPE NAH MEAN U GONNA HAVE TO STAY TUNED TO IT

BUT ILL BE POSTING MORE THINGS UP IN THE NEXT WEEK SO STAY TUNED

Big Shouts To Dj EVIL DEE

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:50:00 +0000

Evil Dee
Dec 4, 2007 – Features – by Kobi Annobil

December 1994: it is a Saturday and I’m listening to Tim Westwood’s show – shortly after Westwood’s descend from Capital Radio to Radio 1 – it is late and, yes, while it is illegal, I hit play and record on the tape deck. The first song that evening is mellow horns, Jeep-ready drums and laid back flow. It is everything you could ask for in a tune. I waited anxiously for the end of the song, hoping Westwood hadn’t shouted out the artists before he dropped the record. “That’s Black Moon, the hot remix of ‘I’ve Gotcha Open,’” he says. I saved my pocket money for three weeks after that night, £30 in total: £10 for the train fare up to London; £10 for the Whut? Thee Album; and £10 for Enta Da Stage.

Nearly thirteen years later, Evil Dee is reaching London properly, for the first time. Alongside his brother Mr. Walt, Evil Dee provided the musical backdrops for some of hip-hop’s best loved anthems. The rolling bass, the rugged beats and the jazzy flourishes on top made the Boot Camp Click one of the cornerstones of New York’s bid to bring hip-hop back to The Big Apple after Snoop and Dre had flown it out West for a while. And the formula that put them on top back in the early `90s hasn’t changed at all, despite the industry’s obsession with first week numbers and sales projections.

The Brooklyn born DJ and producer is in good spirits before his show. He has busy months ahead of him with the imminent recording of a new Black Moon album, a podcast that’s doing platinum numbers and the birth of a child. For the record, he has already decided the first drum machine Mini Dee will be using.

“Only cats I don’t see are the owners of Rawkus. They’re hiding. They disrespected hip-hop.”

Format: Working from the present and going back; you’ve just started your own podcast. What made you decide to do that?
Evil Dee: I was going to start putting mixtapes out again, because a lot of people keep requesting them. So I was getting ready to do that and the day I was going to buy all the new equipment, DJ Drama got arrested. When that happened I was about to invest a good $9000 to $10,000. When that happened I thought maybe I should chill for a sec and see how this turns out, because I didn’t want to buy all that equipment and then be stuck. So while I was doing that, my man DJ Crazy Bizarro was like ‘Yo, I’m doing this podcast you should do one.’ I was like ‘Nah, man.’

So one day he finally showed me his numbers. He said that all he did was put a picture up of me and him sitting on my stoop, kicking it on the cover of his podcast and he had mad people hitting him up like ‘Yo, where Evil Dee at? What’s up with him?’ So, that’s when I said, ‘Maybe I should make that happen’ and I just did it. Ten-thousand people hit the first podcast! I’m thinking, that’s kinda hot! Second podcast went up to 300,000. So I was like ‘This is crazy!’ Now, I’m on a million. I’m on my sixth podcast. And this is not a million altogether, it’s per show. So the podcast is like a new mixtape. So everybody can get a free taste of the flavor. A mixtape was a promotional item, anyway. Podcasts are the same thing, except now instead of you getting it at a store, you download it in your iPod for free. If you don’t have an iPod you just hit the page and press play.

Format: In terms of when you were getting a start in the production game, who influenced you?
Evil Dee: My brother and The Bomb Squad, 45 King – it was a combination of everything that was out at that time. That’s kind of how I got inspired. When you’re a DJ and you get two copies of a record and cut it up, you’re producing a version of the record. You might be a producer already. When you’re at a party, you’re producing that party. A lot of people don’t know that, but that’s what it is. All DJs are producers.

Format: What do you prefer: producing or deejaying?
Evil Dee: Right now, I’ll say DJing, but tomorrow I’ll say production. I have fun DJ-wise. When I’m at a party it’s about seeing people rocking to what I’m playing. Because I’m a DJ’s DJ, I’m not a fad DJ. What I do when I go into a party, I analyse how the party is going like ‘Alright, if I drop this record…’ I think as I play. A lot of DJs don’t do that. You’ll see me look at the crowd. That’s how you’re supposed to do things. I treat it like how a boxer would train. If I’m DJing with somebody, I study their style. I look up their stuff, see if they got anything on YouTube or whatever and I study it. And that’s what bugs people out. Even coming over [London], I kind of looked around, listened to BBC. It’s funny, `cause I listened to a couple of shows and I was like ‘OK, now that’s not really what’s going on over there.’ Just like in America; on your radio they only play a certain type of thing. What they want to hear. Also, one thing that I do know is that people hire me to be me. But at the same time I want see what you’re rocking so I can bounce off that.

Format: Serato or Vinyl?
Evil Dee: Vinyl! Who would prefer Serato? Serato’s good for convenience, but vinyl, all day. If it was up to me, I’d bring my ten crates worth, but I’m not trying to lose records along the way.

Format: Like the infamous crate of records that got lost on the way back from Japan?
Evil Dee: We bought $20,000 worth of records and tried to ship it home. Why did we do that? That was the last time I saw those records. That was two cases of records. We shipped three. One came through.

Format: You remember what records they were?
Evil Dee: Records that I’d never seen before. Some of them, I’ve never seen again. There was like alternate versions to records. In Japan, as a DJ, you’re going to find a lot of records. A lot of records you’ve never heard of before, so we went crazy. And then I was seeing all these jazz breaks. We bought way more funk and soul than hip-hop out there. But the fact remains, we shipped it home and it disappeared in customs. All the rap stuff was not that bad, but it was the funk and soul. I had records, I’d never seen, like James Brown’s Live At The Apollo – the Japanese version!

Format: It’s been 10 years since Soundbombing. Do you still see all the cats who were part of that?
Evil Dee: I see almost everybody. Talib, I always see him. Mos Def, Shabaam Shadeeq. RA The Rugged Man, I haven’t seen him in a minute, but you know once in a while. A lot of cats who were on that tape I see. The Artifacts, too. I see Tame One. I see them separately, because the group’s not together any more. I see almost everyone. Only cats I don’t see are the owners of Rawkus. They’re hiding. They disrespected hip-hop.

Format: Isn’t Rakus coming back out again with some new acts?
Evil Dee: But you don’t see those dudes.

“I think when Pro-Tools got introduced it made it convenient for a lot of suckers to get in the game.”

Format: As far as the music goes you’ve always stayed true to your initial formula. Were you surprised, given the current climate of hip-hop that Buckshot and Sean P’s albums have done so well?
Evil Dee: I’m not surprised, because there’s a want and need for what we do. There’s a want and a need for boom-bap. It’s like a girl – you see that she looks banging, you’re like ‘Yo, she’s dope!’ now, you’re going to mess with other girls, but you’re going to have that girl on your mind and if you can get her, you’re going to get her. That’s what it is. That’s hip-hop right now. We have a lot of fad music coming out. You know what happens with fads? They come and they go. No one’s making classics right now. Me and DJ Spinna just had this conversation this morning.

Format: If you could get any vocalist on a Beatminerz beat, who would you choose and why?
Evil Dee: If I could, Sly Stone, because he was just funky with it. I would like to do something with George Clinton. George Clinton over a Beatminerz track? Hip-hop-wise, Redman and Method Man.

Format: Besides the radio shows, you write as well, too. What was your best interview?
Evil Dee: Madlib. And it’s the illest story. Madlib doesn’t do interviews. If you notice when he does interviews it’s always with the same person?

Format: Egon from Stones Throw.
Evil Dee: Yeah, Egon does a lot of his interviews. What happened was a friend of mine had a magazine called Mugshot and she was like, ‘Yo, E. I’ve got an interview with Madlib and I don’t know what to ask him. Could you do it for me?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, alright.’ I told Madlib to meet me at this record store called A1 in New York. And as soon as I walk in he was like ‘Yo, I been dying to meet you!’ and that’s how the interview started. The respect was there. We sat down and talked about different techniques. There was a lot of stuff I didn’t put in the interview, because it was too deep, we were talking about recording techniques and we were talking about jazz music. Chemistry was there. That’s the best interview I did.

Format: If there’s one thing you miss about hip-hop in the `90s what would you say it is?
Evil Dee: Hard beats. Kanye’s trying it, but thank God we’ve got Premier. If I had it my way there would be a whole lot of things different. We’d still be rocking on tape. I wouldn’t have got on the Pro-Tools. There’s so many things, too many to mention. Basically, we’d be recording like back in the day. I think when Pro-Tools got introduced it made it convenient for a lot of suckers to get in the game. Now that dude who was the herb around the way has got Pro-Tools and he’s so hot. One of the problems with hip-hop, too, is that we have so many followers, we have no more leaders.

Format: So which drum machines are you feeling at the moment?
Evil Dee: SP-1200, Akai 950, MPC 2000 XL and then I use a lot of Pro-Tools plug-ins, the instruments, but don’t get it twisted, my beats are still my beats.

Format: Just focusing on Boot Camp Clik for a second, are you going to be producing tracks for the next Heltah Skeltah album?
Evil Dee: I really don’t know. I’ll be honest with you. That’s more of a Heltah Skeltah call, because they’ve got to be ready. As for a new Black Moon album we’re putting the elements together for it now. I started making beats for it. We’re going to Japan next week so we’ll have a meeting over there.

Format: What was the deal with the beat tapes you guys were putting out?
Evil Dee: You know what’s funny? I was cleaning out my house, because my moms just passed.

Format: Sorry to hear that.
Evil Dee: It’s cool. She’s in a better place. Cleaning out the house, I found demos that I’d done. It’s crazy she kept everything!

“…one thing that I will say: hip-hop has tried to hide Black Moon.”

Format: Are those the ones with you rhyming, back in the day?
Evil Dee: Yeah. I know my place! That’s why I don’t rhyme now. Although people said it was dope, I didn’t think it was. I had my own style and everything, but I just thought I did music better. As for the other tapes – let me tell you the truth about that. We did a bunch of remixes that never came out. I decided to leak it out. But in order to get it out, I disguised it as an instrumental album.

Format: How did you come to do the remix of D’Angelo’s “Brown Sugar?”

Evil Dee: That was because his manager at the time was real cool with us. I was the first one to play “Brown Sugar” on radio, period. So, when I did that. His manager, at the time, who ran Motown, was like ‘Yo, why don’t you do a remix for it?’ So that’s how that went down.

Format: How did you get Kool G Rap on it?
Evil Dee: What happened was, first we were going to use Rakim, but he was too busy. Then they were running around trying to get people and I was like ‘Yo, B. You manage G Rap, let’s get him.’ It was all in the family.

Format: You heard Funkmaster Flex’s July 4 `90s set, he was spinning as much of your music as he was the Wu.
Evil Dee: I heard it. You know what it is. And this is one thing that I will say: hip-hop has tried to hide Black Moon. We don’t get credit for what we’ve done. Who brought hip-hop back to the east coast, Black Moon! Wu-Tang, Nas, you could say Biggie, too. Not much else was hitting that hard. They try to erase Black Moon all the time. But the heads know, so I don’t mind. The proof’s in the pudding. Black Moon does a show and it sells out. Somebody bigger does a show and it doesn’t. That’s the proof right there.

Format: Can you finish the following sentence: Evil Dee is…
Evil Dee: On the mix! Come on, kick it!

More Info: http://www.myspace.com/djevildee

AN ARTICAL ON THE SP-1200 (FOR ALL PRODUCERS)

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:06:00 +0000

The Dirty Heartbeat of the Golden Age
Reminiscing on the SP-1200, the machine that defined New York hip-hop
by Ben Detrick

In the summer of 1987, E-mu Systems released the SP-1200, a drum machine and sampler designed for dance-music producers. An update of a previous model known as the SP-12, the souped-up edition allowed for the recording and manipulation of a 10.07-second sample with gritty 12-bit sound quality—now you could craft a complete instrumental on one portable machine.
Just as the Stradivarius or the Fender Stratocaster were standard-bearers by which other instruments were judged, the SP-1200 quickly became the tool of choice for East Coast beat-makers during rap's so-called "Golden Age," a period during the late '80s and early '90s, when sampling laws were still being meted out in courtrooms. Such artists as Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Gang Starr, Main Source, and the Notorious B.I.G. created classic joints over beats concocted on the SP-1200. The machine rose to such prominence that its strengths and weaknesses sculpted an entire era of music: The crunchy digitized drums, choppy segmented samples, and murky filtered basslines that characterize the vintage New York sound are all mechanisms of the machine.

Long ago toppled by more powerful equipment and computer-based production programs, the sampler continues to inspire enough cultish devotion that any prospective knob-twister still must shell out around $1,000 to go retro. We spoke with several of hip-hop's must celebrated veteran producers about their experiences with the SP-1200 over the last 20 years.

The Cast

Hank Shocklee Part of the Bomb Squad and producer for Public Enemy, Ice Cube, and Slick Rick.

Lord Finesse Producer for the Notorious B.I.G., Dr. Dre, and Big L.

Pete Rock Recording artist with CL Smooth and producer for Heavy D, Nas, Das EFX, and House of Pain.

Ski Producer for Jay-Z, Camp Lo, and Sporty Thievz.

The Learning Curve

Pete Rock When I first got the SP-1200—I think that was back in '87—I was going to sessions with my cousin Heavy D, and he was working with Marley Marl. I would just be looking around and looking at the stuff they had and looking at what he was doing. Eddie F had the drum machine, and he showed me how to work it. I basically studied the manual—read it beginning to end and learned it like that. I used it all day, every day. I never came outside—just woke up happy to have a piece of machinery that made music. I didn't give a damn about anything else once I got that drum machine.

Ski The strength of the SP was definitely the way the 12-bit sounded when you threw the sample or the snare or the kick in there—it just sounded so dirty. It was a definite, definite fucking plus with the machine. The limited sampling time made you become more creative. That's how a lot of producers learned how to chop the samples: We didn't have no time, so we had to figure out ways to stretch the sounds and make it all mesh together. We basically made musical collages just by chopping little bits and notes.

Hank Shocklee There's little tricks that were developed on it. For example, you got 12 seconds [10.07, according to the manufacturer] of sample time to divide amongst eight pads. So depending on how much you use on each pad, you decrease the amount of sample time that you have. You take a 33 1/3 record and play it on 45, and you cheat the system. [Another] aspect that we created is out of a mistake—one day I was playing "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" and it came out real muffled. I couldn't hear any of the high-end part of it. I found out that if you put the phono or quarter-inch jack halfway in, it filters the high frequency. Now I just got the bass part of the sample. I was like, "Oh, shit, this is the craziest thing on the planet!"

The Machine and the Masters

Lord Finesse They had me as a special guest on Stretch and Bobbito, one of the popular radio shows of the '90s. I thought it would be slick if I brought my 1200 down. A lot of producers did total beats with their 1200, and I think I did two or three, and one specifically was when I chopped up Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On." I chopped all around his voice using the 1200 and put an instrumental in the back. I played it over the air, and me and KRS-One freestyled over it. It was real slick.

Ski People said they never saw anyone work the SP as fast as me and Large Professor— not that it means anything. It's crazy. I can't explain it—it's like the shit is programmed in my brain. I worked with Jay-Z and did all of Reasonable Doubt on the SP-1200. For "Dead Presidents," everything was made on the SP, man: the whole sequence, the drum sounds, the Nas sample. The only thing that wasn't done on the SP was the sample, [but] I ran it through it to give it that sound.

Pete Rock Everything that you ever heard from me back in the day was the SP-1200. That machine made "Reminisce" ["They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"], "Straighten It Out," "Shut 'Em Down," "Jump Around." When I made "Reminisce"—I had friend of mine that passed away, and it was a shock to the community. I was kind of depressed when I made it. And to this day, I can't believe I made it through, the way I was feeling. I guess it was for my boy. When I found the record by Tom Scott, basically I just heard something incredible that touched me and made me cry. It had such a beautiful bassline, and I started with that first. I found some other sounds and then heard some sax in there and used that. Next thing you know, I have a beautiful beat made. When I mixed the song down, I had Charlie Brown from Leaders of the New School in the session with me, and we all just started crying.

An End of an Era

Pete Rock I used the MPC [a technologically superior sampler line first introduced in 1988] on Soul Survivor II. That was kind of the beginning of using it. I thought it had a thinner sound than the SP, but it had way more sample time—like three minutes. So, can't beat that. I got hundreds of beats on the SP-1200, but I like the MPC. I'm really starting to get in the midst of it now.

Hank Shocklee They've mastered the computer to the point it does things the SP-1200 can't do. [But] we would have better records today if people said, "Look, you've got five hours to make a record." The problem is that people got all day. They got all week. They got all month. They got all year. So thus, you in there second-guessing yourself. With the 1200, you can't second-guess yourself, man. You got 2.5 seconds a pad, man. . . . Till this day, nobody has understood and created a machine that can best it.

AND CHECK OUT SOME CLASSIC TRACKS THAT WHERE MADE ON A SP-1200

THE SHOW LASTNITE WAS CRAZY

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:03:00 +0000

SO LASTNITE WAS A GOOD NITE I WAS SUPPOSE TO JUDGE A BEAT BATTLE IN HARLEM BUT WE ENED UP DRIVING AROUND

FOREVER JUST TRYING TO FIND THE PLACE SO THAT WASN'T HAPPENING... SO I MAKE A COUPLE OF CALLS AND NOW IM AT A

A&R SUMMIT IN MIDTOWN MANHATTEN.THE A&R PANNEL WAS GOOD FOR ALL THE CATS LOOKING FOR A RECORD DEAL AND

WANTED TO GET THERE NETWORK ON THIS WAS THE PLACE FOR YOU. BUT I LIKE TO PARTY SO I BOUNCED FROM THERE

AND NOW WE AT THE EL DA SENSIE SHOW AT THE KNITTING FACTORY.... NOW THATS A SHOW ONE OF THE BEST IN THIS HIP HOP

SHIT...AND THATS A GOOD NITE ...

HERE GO SOME VIDEO FROM EL DA SENSEI IN CASE YOU DONT KNO

THE NEW PODCAST EPISODE CALLED "THE ART OF DIGGIN FT. DJ KAOS

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:54:00 +0000

YO WHATS GOOD AL OF YOU I KNO I AINT POAST ANYTHING IN A MIN BUT THINGS HAVE BEEN REAL BUSY OVER HERE IN DA STUDIO.

BUT AS YOU KNO I HAD TO BRING YOU THIS WEEKS PODCAST WHICH IS A LITTLE LATE DUE TO CRAZY STUDIO SESSIONS AND LONG HOURS. BUT THIS EPISODE I BRING YOU THE ART OF DIGGIN FROM MY BOY DJ KAOS(THE ARTIFACTS)

IF YA DONT KNO DJ KAOS IS FROM THE LEGENDARY HIP HOP GROUP CALLED THE ARTIFACTS AND HE IS ONE OF THE BEST ON THE 1 AND 2'S AND HE IS THE ONE THAT BROUGHT YOU THE ART OF DIGGIN VOL.1 THRU 10.....

SO ME AND HIM DECIDED TO MASH UP SOME OF THEM FROM VOL. 1 THRU 10 FOR YOU GUYS IN CASE U HAVE NEVER HEARD HIS TAPES YOU WILL GET THE WHOLE IDEA IF WHAT HE DOES...

SO YOU ASK WHAT IS THE ART OF DIGGIN????
WELL ITS A COLLECTION OF SAMPLES SOME YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD SOME MABEY YOU HAVEN'T BUT YOU WILL HEAR THE EXACT BREAKS USED IN YOUR FAVORITE RECORD AND BLENDED TO PERFECTION...

SO I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS WEEKS PODCAST AND YOU CAN CHECK OUT DJ KAOS ON MY MYSPACE PAGE HE IS IN MY TOP FRIENDS OR YOU CAN GO TO HIS SITE AT
http://www.myspace.com/kaosartofdiggin

BEATS ARE UP FOR SALE

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:05:00 +0000

HE WHATS UP YA I JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNO THAT BEATS ARE FOR SALE I WILL BE POSTING A 2 PLAYERS

ON MY MYSPACE PAGE SO YOU GUYS CAN PICK FROM.....IT HAS BEEN TAKING ME A MIN CAUSE I HAVE SO MANY TRACKS TO

LOOK THRU SO I CAN POST FEEL ME.

SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME BEATS FROM A CREDITABLE PRODUCER LOOK NO FURTHER,

I HAVE DONE TRACKS FOR CANIBUS,THE LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND,EL DA SENSEI,READY ROC(FROM GILLA HOUSE)

NUCCIE REYO, ETC...

I HAVE ALSO DJ'ED FOR MANY NOTABLE PEOPLE LIKE CANIBUS,K-SOLO,CRAIG G,TWISTA,DOITALL(LOTUG),KURRUPT AND MANY

SO JUST HIT ME UP IF U NEED A TRACK FOR YOUR MIXTAPE,ALBUM,DEMO, OR YOU NEED SOMEONE TO HOST UR MIXTAPES IM

AVAILABLE SO JUST HIT ME UP AIGHT...

PEACE PUERTO-ROC

THE NEW PODCAST EPISODE CALLED "THE BEATNUTS COLLECTION"

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:46:00 +0000

HEY WHATS UP YA I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNO THAT I HAVE DROPED A NEW PODCAST EPISODE TODAY CALLED

"THE BEATNUTS COLLECTION"

I JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNO WHAT I LIKE TO LISTEN FROM CERTAIN ARTIST SO I SAID WHY NOT START WITH THE
BEATNUTS..WHICH I THINK I OWN ALL THERE RECORDS SINCE THE EARLY DAYS AND NEVER STOPED GETTING THEM.....

SOME OF YOU MIGHT THINK WHY NOT DO A BEST OF CANIBUS SERIES FOR THE FIRST ONE OF THE SERIES?????
WELL THINK ABOUT IT I DJ FOR HIM SO THATS WHAT EVERYONE WILL THINK AND EXPECT SO WHY NOT GO LEFT FIELD ON THINGS AND DO THE FIRST SHOW FOR A CLASSIC HIP-HOP GROUP LIKE THE BEATNUTS...

FIRST OFF AS A PRODUCER THIS IS ONE GROUP I ALWAYS TRY TO BREAK DOWN THERE BEATS AND I FOUND MOST OF THE SAMPLES THEY USE IN THERE RECORD..I THINK IT WAS THE FUNKY SAMPLES AND BASSLINES LIKE THE ONE IN THIS VIDEO BELOW

THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS TO DATE WHEN I HEAR IT IT GETS ME AMPED UP TO GO BACK TO THE STUDIO AND MAKE THESE TRACKS FOR THE WORLD TO HEAR YA FEEL ME........

SO GO AND DOWNLOAD MY NEW PODCAST IF YOU HAVEN'T YET

YOU CAN VISIT MY MYSPACE PAGE AT www.myspce.com/ambproductions

click to here listen to "THE BEATNUTS COLLECTION"

THINGS ARE GOING WELL

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:33:00 +0000

WELL I WANT TO LET ALL OF YOU KNO THAT THE PODCAST THAT WE LAUNCHED ONLY 4 WEEKS AGO IS TAKING OFF LIKE

WE NEVER THOUGH IT WOULD. THINGS ARE LOOKING GREAT WE HAVE REACHED OVER 1,000 DOWNLOADS IN SUCH A SHORT

AMOUNT OF TIME....WE ARE WORKING ON AMB.TV AS WE SPEAK THE TREATMENT FOR IT IS BEING WRITTEN UP AS YOU READ

THIS.... SO THERE ARE LOT OF GOOD THINGS HAPPENING SO BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THE NEW ALBUM WITH DOITALL(LOTUG)

CALLED PLATANOS AND COLLARD GREENS COMING OUT WORLDWIDE REAL SOON SO STAY TUNED.....

AIGHT PEACE FOR NOW ..... PR

What a Show Lastnite....

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:53:00 +0000

So let me tell you bout yesterday the day started with a video shoot in manhatten with my peoples from The Book Camp Click

what up shucky....Everything there was cool i met alot of cool people and alot of bizness contacts and made my cameo in

the video.......So where wrapping things up there and i call El da Sensie and we end up going to the Brand Nubian show down at

the Knitting Factory in downtown manhatten.The backstage was filled with hip hop greats and i even ran into my boy Craig G

its always good seeing him and i see him all over the world...So im chillen and who walks in Courious Goerge and if ya dont kno

who he is you guys really need to think he was part of what we call the golden age.........And let me tell you when I went out to

see the show it was one of the best shows i been too in a while ya kno......

Kurious

Brand Nubian

SOME NEW UPDATES

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:23:00 +0000

HEY WHAS UP ITS ME PUERTO-ROC I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYS KNO SOME NEW THINGS...

FIRST OFF SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN ME DOING SOME LIVE FEEDS THESE LAST COUPLE DAYS

I HAVE JUST BEEN DOING SOME TEST RUNS ON THE WHOLE IDEA AND TO THOSE OF YOU THAT DID WATCH THANKS..

BUT YOU WILL BE GETTING SOME MORE INFO ON THAT IN THE COMING WEEKS....

AND I WANTED TO SAY THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADING THE NEW PODCAST.WE ARE GETTING ALOT

OF VIEWS AND ALOT OF GOOD COMMENTS SO WE ARE GONNA BRING YOU MORE GREAT SHOWS WITH FEATURED DJ'S

PRODUCERS AND MORE WELL ILL CHECK YALL OUT REAL SOON.........

PEACE PUERTO ROC

VIDEO OF PUERTO-ROC DOITALL AND ROUGA

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:44:00 +0000

HEY WHATS UP THIS WAS A QUCIK VIDEO WE SHOT IN DA STUDIO WHILE WE WHERE RECORDING MY ALBUM THIS

SONG FEATURES DOITALL OF THE LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUD AND ROUGA AND PRODUCED BY PUERTO ROC

BUT LET ME KNO WHAT YA THINK AIGHT PEACE

THE ESSENCE PT.3 FT. BIG D

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:20:00 +0000

YO YOU KNO HOW I DO ON THE PODCAST TIP SO SINCE THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING GOOD I THOUGHT I WOULD LET MY MANS

BIG D GET ON THE CUTS AND BRING YOU HIS FLAVOR FOR THIS WEEKS NEW PODCAST THAT IS COMING AT YOU.....MY BOY

BIG D HAS DJ'ED FOR SEAN P DONE CUTS FOR THE OUTSIDAZ PACEWON AND MANY OTHERS....... SO LET ME KNO WHAT YOU

THINK....

THERE ARE GONNA BE MORE FEATURED DJ'S IN THE WEEKS TO COME. I HAVE SOME SPECIAL SURPRISES FOR YOU PEOPLE

AROUND THE WORLD...SO JUST STAY TUNED AND CHECK BACK FOR NEW THINGS HAPPING HERE AIGHT....

JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEKS NEW PODCAST.....

PEACE PR

NEW LIVE FEED

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:43:00 +0000

SO CHECK IT OUT IM RECORDING LIVE FEEDS NOW OVER THE NET STRAIT FROM THE STUDIO TO YOU COMPUTER SCREEN

SO YOU CAN SEE EXCLUSIVE SESSIONS WITH HIP-HOP GREATS AS IT HAPPENS FROM THE BEAT SELECTION TO THE HOOK TO THE

SONG.THE FIRST FEED WAS TODAY AND WENT GREAT TO EVERYONE THAT WATRCHED THANKS A BUNCH. TO THOSE THAT

HAVN'T COME CHECK IT OUT IT NEW AND ITS AMB.TV

NEW THINGS COMING SOON.....

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:51:00 +0000

HEY WHATS UP YA ITS UR BOY PUERTO-ROC I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNO A FEW THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING THIS MONTH

WE ARE JUST BOUT TO WRAP UP THE DOITALL ALBUM SHIT IS SOUNDING CRAZY I CANT BELIEVE HOW THE ALBUM CAME OUT

YOU GUYS JUST GOTTA HEAR IT....

BUT I WILL BE DOWN AT THE KNITTING FACTORY IN MANHATTEN ON THE 25TH OF THIS MONTH JUDGING A BEAT BATTLE WITH

OTHER LEGENDARY PRODUCERS SO COME DOWN AND CHECK OUT THE EVENT THE ADDRESS FOR IT IS ON MY MYSPACE PAGE IF

ANYTHING.......

THE PODCAST EPISODES ARE COMING OUT GREAT THANK ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE SUBSCRIBED TO IT I APPREECIATE IT..BUT THE

NEW EPISODES IS WHERE ITS AT WE ARE GONNA HAVE SOME OF THE BEST DJ'S DOING EXCLUSIVE SHOWS FOR YOU SO STAY

TUNED FOR THAT AS WELL............

AND LAST BUT NO LEAST WE ARE GONNA BE BRINING YOU AMB.TV. LIVE FEEDS FROM EXCLUSIVE STUDIO SESSIONS THAT WE

HAVE.BUT WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU MORE INFO ONTHIS VERY SOON......

PEACE PR

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NEW SHOWS ILL BE AT THIS MONTH

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:01:00 +0000

HEY WHATS UP YA AS YOU KNO I BEEN REAL BUSY THESE DAYS WORKING ON ALOT OF THINGS BUT I WANTED TO LET YO GUYS

KNOW THAT I WAS HIT UP YESTERDAY TO JUDGE SOME BEAT BATTLES AT THE END OF THE MONTH I JUST SPOKE TO Q THE

PROFIT WHO IS THROWING ONE OF THE SHOWS AND ITS LOOKING LIKE IT CAN BE A CLASSIC NITE.......I ALSO TALKED TO THE

GOOD PEOPLE AT MTP AND ILL BE AT THE CHAPIONSHIPS COMING AT THE END OF THE MONTH... SO THERE WE GO WE GOT 2

GREAT SHOWS HAPPINGING THIS MONTH SO CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE DETAILS ON THESE SHOWS COMING UP AIGHT....
STAY TUNED FOR DATES AND LOCATIONS.....
..........PEACE...............PR

THE ESSENCE

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:19:00 +0000

SO THIS IS MY PODCAST I SAID WHY NOT DO ONE SINCE EVERYONE IS DOING THEM THESE DAYS YA KNO WELL

MINE IS CALLED THE ESSENCE PLAYING THE GREATEST HIP-HOP FROM YEARS WE LIKE TO CALL THE GOLDEN YEARS........

JUST CLICK BELOW AND SEE WHAT REAL-HOP SOUNDS LIKE

Click here to get your own player.

Puerto roc, Just Blaze, 9th wonder, Pete Rock and Doitall Du

noreply@blogger.com (AMB Productions) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:36:00 +0000

So check it out i ran into this video lastnite on you tube and decided to click on it and to find out i was the best studio session i ever been too i walked into bassline studios and who do i see 9th wonder and a few min later just blaze comes in and then Pete rock and im with doitall du(lords of the underground) so we all chillen doing music and the next thing you kno the ulimate Fight Night session began to happen Pete Rock vs. Just Blaze when of the best video game sessions i ever seen to date....check out the video and let me kno what you think.....peace pr