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RE: Community DirectorhitRECord is expanding so that our...

RE: Community Director

hitRECord is expanding so that our production company can meet the growth that's knocking at our door. One of the first orders of business is to take on some new staff.  I think we'd all agree that given the growth of the community, a Community Director is needed.  The Community Director will help curate the site, assist the community with daily support and to be a reliable line of communication between the company and the community. 

The candidate for this position was an easy choice.  Matt Conley has shown his commitment as a team player countless times and he has been ever so consistent with making and running the RE-REC collaboration for over a year now.  I'm happy to make him hitRECord's first Community Director!

As with everything on hitRECord, job roles and responsibilities will most definitely grow and become more defined with time and experience.  So with that said, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you hitREcord's new Community Director, Mr. Matt Conley! 

Thanks Again.

 J

CALLING ALL SINGERS / SONGWRITERS / VOCALISTS / HIP HOP...

CALLING ALL SINGERS / SONGWRITERS / VOCALISTS / HIP HOP ARTISTS!

You like Gorillaz, Deltron, Dr. Octagon, Handsome Boy Modeling School??

Get on this track produced by the legendary Dan The Automator!

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As you may or may not know - we are currently working with one of my favorite musicians/producers in music, Dan The Automator!

He took 30 to 40 pieces of hitRECord audio and made them into a seriously fantastic beat.  Now that beat needs to be made into a song - it needs vocals, your vocals!

So, who wants to jump on a track with Dan The Automator?

I really want to release the result on our next vinyl pressing.  It will be made into a killer music video, the possibilities are endless!

I can't wait to see what happens to it because I love where it's at right now - so let's hear it!

Thanks again.

J

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Contribute to the Collaboration here!

themadeshop: Idea of copyrighting the Copyright symbol is...

themadeshop: Idea of copyrighting the Copyright symbol is Copyright © 2012 The Made Shop

Will won the indie spirit award for writing 50/50.And Evan...

Will won the indie spirit award for writing 50/50.

And Evan wanted me to add, "if you see him, give him a humming BJ."

CALLING ALL VOCALISTS, LYRICISTS, SINGERS, RAPPERS & SPOKEN...

CALLING ALL VOCALISTS, LYRICISTS, SINGERS, RAPPERS & SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS!

Come work on a track with Dan The Automator and HITRECORD!

First — check out this track Automator cut from our RECords

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RE: Vocals for Automator's Collage Song (edit)

by The Automator

The Automator writes:

hey HITRECORD! Please contribute your creative skills to this song!

I made a beat with your great recommendations of HITRECORD audio tracks . It's pretty atmospheric with a lot room for vocals -  It has several sections with moodiness for you to be able to have fun with. All the keys are pretty consistent and there is a lot of movement within them so let's get in there and make something really special. 

Thanks!

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EINSTEIN 2012!schmoyoho:a fresh candidate came out of nowhere...

EINSTEIN 2012!

schmoyoho:

a fresh candidate came out of nowhere to win the GOP debate last night. a vote for Einstein is a vote for joy. and happiness and contentment and gaiety and mirth and delirium.

themadeshop:"…learning how to think really means learning how...

themadeshop:

"…learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience."

Calling all Writers, all Vocalists, all Visual Artists… Well,...

Calling all Writers, all Vocalists, all Visual Artists… Well, EVERYONE!

The REGULARITY #60 (02/22/12)

In this weeks Regularity I cover a damn good writing exercise in the collaboration Dialogue Tales.  

Dan The Automator and I request some vocals for the incredibly killer beat that Dan made just with HITRECORD audio records.

And I wanna shine a light on a big favorite and popular collaboration, Shadow Caste.  We have the concept and a bunch of great visuals and characters - let's start making some episodes out of it!

Thanks Again. 

J

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The Inner Ring

A commencement speech given by C. S. Lewis
edited by hitRECordJoe
original version here

The Inner Ring
By C. S. Lewis

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude, however unlikely the conclusion seems, that you have a taste for middle-aged moralising. I shall do my best to gratify it. And of course everyone knows what a middle-aged moralist of my type warns his juniors against. He warns them against the World, the Flesh, and the Devil. But one of this trio will be enough to deal with today. The Devil, I shall leave strictly alone.  As for the Flesh, you must be very abnormal young people if you do not know quite as much about it as I do. But on the World I think I have something to say.

You have almost certainly already met the phenomenon of an Inner Ring. You discovered one in your house at school before the end of the first term. And when you had climbed up to somewhere near it by the end of your second year, perhaps you discovered that within the ring there was a Ring yet more inner, which in its turn was the fringe of the great school Ring to which the house Rings were only satellites. It is even possible that the school ring was almost in touch with a Masters' Ring. You were beginning, in fact, to pierce through the skins of an onion. And here, too, at your University—shall I be wrong in assuming that at this very moment, invisible to me, there are several rings—independent systems or concentric rings—present in this room? And I can assure you that in whatever hospital, inn of court, diocese, school, business, or college you arrive after going down, you will find the Rings.

All this is rather obvious. I wonder whether you will say the same of my next step, which is this. I believe that in all men's lives at certain periods, and in many men's lives at all periods between infancy and extreme old age, one of the most dominant elements is the desire to be inside the local Ring and the terror of being left outside.

Often the desire conceals itself so well that we hardly recognize the pleasures of fruition. Men tell not only their wives but themselves that it is a hardship to stay late at the office or the school on some bit of important extra work which they have been let in for because they and So-and-so and the two others are the only people left in the place who really know how things are run. But it is not quite true. It is a terrible bore, of course, when old Fatty Smithson draws you aside and whispers, "Look here, we've got to get you in on this examination somehow" or "Charles and I saw at once that you've got to be on this committee." A terrible bore… ah, but how much more terrible if you were left out! It is tiring and unhealthy to lose your Saturday afternoons: but to have them free because you don't matter, that is much worse.

I must now make a distinction. I am not going to say that the existence of Inner Rings is an Evil. It is certainly unavoidable. There must be confidential discussions, and it is not only a bad thing.  It is, in itself, a good thing, that personal friendship should grow up between those who work together. It is necessary. But the desire which draws us into Inner Rings is another matter. A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous. Let Inner Rings be unavoidable and even an innocent feature of life, though certainly not a beautiful one; but what of our longing to enter them, our anguish when we are excluded, and the kind of pleasure we feel when we get in?

My main purpose in this address is simply to convince you that this desire is one of the great permanent mainsprings of human action. It is one of the factors which go to make up the world as we know it—this whole pell-mell of struggle, competition, confusion, graft, disappointment and advertisement, and if it is one of the permanent mainsprings then you may be quite sure of this. Unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire is going to be one of the chief motives of your life, from the first day on which you enter your profession until the day when you are too old to care. That will be the natural thing—the life that will come to you of its own accord. Any other kind of life, if you lead it, will be the result of conscious and continuous effort. If you do nothing about it, if you drift with the stream, you will in fact be an "inner ringer." I don't say you'll be a successful one; that's as may be. But whether by pining and moping outside Rings that you can never enter, or by passing triumphantly further and further in—one way or the other you will be that kind of man.

The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it. This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain.

And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that the secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it.

CALLING ALL VOCALISTS, LYRICISTS, SINGERS, RAPPERS & SPOKEN...

CALLING ALL VOCALISTS, LYRICISTS, SINGERS, RAPPERS & SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS!

I'm SO stoked about this project.  I've been a big fan of Automator's work for years - Deltron 3030, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Dr. Octagon… GORILLAZ!!!

Now Automator is collaborating with hitRECord on a song!  Check out what we've got cooking' up! :oD

First — check out this track Automator cut from our RECords

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RE: Vocals for Automator's Collage Song

by The Automator

The Automator writes:

hey HITRECORD! Please contribute your creative skills to this song!

I made a beat with your great recommendations of HITRECORD audio tracks . It's pretty atmospheric with a lot room for vocals -  It has several sections with moodiness for you to be able to have fun with. All the keys are pretty consistent and there is a lot of movement within them so let's get in there and make something really special. 

Thanks!

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Contribute to the Collaboration here!