Decibel NYC Recordings – Blog

Decibel NYC would like to welcome the newest addition in the retailer family. Everyone stand up for Digital-Tunes.net .  from the genius’ who brought you Soundcloud are keeping the ideas pumping with their latest family jewel.  if you are already a member of the cloud then you know the impact that they are having on the dance music and electronic circuit. Now with their digital music download service, they are treating us all just right. our first release on this store is our compilation “strongbox vol. 1″.  a collectin of catalog gems for your aural re-pleasure.  go explore the store and stop by our page and support your local electronic scene. we are happy to be a part of the new home!

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To celebrate and mark this upcoming 08 Summer season, we’ve decided to unleash into the wild for FREE two previously unreleased tracks from the label’s vault. Only a select few have had the pleasure to hear them.  Now you, the fans to DECNY, get to download and share these gems while they are available.

Don Davenport’s – Strut (Switch vs Mista A mix): A blended two-headed race of electro and hard-house, waving and weaving in and out in a perfect harmony of beats and a  pleasing cacophony of sounds.  It’s definitely a mash-up like no other, to pipe loud in your sets or in your digital players.

Mista A – Mental Health Hotline (Timmy’s mix):  If you thought the 9xSixXninex6 mix was insane, wait till you hear the result of locking Timmy inside the padded room for 7 days with nothing but a microphone, an old 4-track recorder and 4 samples, and absolutely nothing else.

All tracks are made available for download courtesy of KVYM.NET Online Radio. We thank them for their undying support and encourage you to pay them a visit.

These tracks are available only here on the Decibel NYC Recordings blog.  Tell your friends, pass on the address and encourage them to download a track and get some fresh wallpapers while here (wallpapers set 1 and set 2). Spread the love….

various artists – Nutz and Boltz [Decibel NYC] 

a serious collectible for all decibel nyc fans. 10 previously unreleased songs and remixes from the label’s catalog. Featuring selections from alison crockett, dj noxxer, keith just, don davenport, stereo and more. Also includes 2 brand new mixes from vladimir neuymin and the undah-dub.

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juno downloads

The new schedule of releases for Decibel NYC Recordings has been almost finalized. As always, some of the dates may fluctuate by a week or two as production problems inevitable arise. However, we are pretty confident that before the Fall 2008, you should definitely be able to get your hands on the following:

[jun 08] Nutz & Boltz – a compilation of previously unreleased tracks from some of the most popular releases to date, including stErEO’s remix of Boompty Bandits, a fresh remix of Rise Up and two remixes of Don Davenport’s Strut by Breeze and Mista A.
[jun 08] Vladimir Neuymin – Erase The F*cking System, including a remix by DJ Noxxer.
[aug 08] J-Deep – Charlie, I Don’t Want No High
[sep 08] The Undah-Dub – Upgrade – The Remixes, with productions by CRX, The Undah-Dub, Lou Peoples, Freddie Edmonds and more.

Stay tuned for more info as the dates of release get closer. For complete catalog details, visit our release page on our web site.

it may look like we’ve been on vacation for quite a while, but au contraire! actually, it’s been a bit of both.

most of the staff was allowed to drift during the holiday season in order to recharge their creative juices and come back refreshed and full of new ideas and new productions. on that front, the artists on this label did not dissappoint and that’s why we encourage and foster each and every bit of their deviant and twisted sides in order to capture all this creativity in sounds.

here’s what was released recently and almost quietly:
We Are Decibel NYC – VOL I – mixed by Orduna, featuring such label gems as Stupid Prick by VB Heinze, Mental Health Hotline by Mista A and Mad Cows‘ Spies. it’s a bang-up-side-your-head hour schooling of what this label is about; in sounds and in beats.

already a popular download on Beatport, expect a special deluxe edition package with additional mixes and media features to be available soon from our upcoming digital download service.

two sets of remix packages were also released recently: Rise Up – The Remixes with special treatment by vladimir neuymin and dj noxxer and Spies – The Remixes with reworks by dj noxxer and breeze. visit the label’s web site for more details or purchase your copies directly from Beatport or any one of our other distributors.

this past week, Mista A (who released Mental Health Hotline recently on the label) moved to Philadelphia. he is the latest in a long trend of musicians and producers moving to the Philly area.

our label mate Jody Vukas also relocated to the Philly suburbs with a new outlook on music and life. Philly must be where it’s at these days.

Here is what a few minutes of an impromptu production session looked like when we recently visited Mista A in his new lair….

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looks like Mista A‘s “Mental Health Hotline” is moving up the charts on Juno…cheers.

This summer was busy but for all the wrong reasons. that’s usually time for vacations, imposing family visiting the city, old folks dying, etc. the heat in new york didn’t make for any kind of creativity. lots of us around the office just laid around and binged on food, ice cream and other grown folks goodies. but work and production was never too far.

we are starting the end of summer real nice here with the release of Don Davenport‘s debut on the label – and it’s the appropriate theme to get us back on track: STRUT. “Come over here and strut your stuff” – a line directly from the lyrics – penned and performed by Don. the official release date on Beatport is the 14th of September 2007. there are no less then 6 remixes coming on this package, from all the crew with the label (VB Heinze, Keith Just, Mista A, Lou Peoples and more).

In addition, Decibel NYC just completed the first music video to accompany one of our releases and yes, it is for STRUT. directed and edited by Chris Ohps – an up-and-coming video producer in harlem, nyc – the video is raw, simple and is just our first test into the video medium. Mr. Ohps was telling us that with the arrival of powerful computers and laptops and software such as Ulead Video Studio and Sony Vegas Pro, even bedroom directors can get in the game. we gave him a chance when he said he wanted to do the video and this is what we got back. we must admit that we are EXTREMELY pleased with the final product. judge for yourself… use the comments section to leave us your thoughts on the video.

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After a year of procrastinating like only a Mista A could do, a miraculous event transpired and it went a little something like this:

It all started with a hot and sunny 8 hours of driving, a pound of gelatinous confections and a few choice swear words for all those summer tourist drivers, then I finally made it to the big (and sour) apple, to finally put my new single to bed and reconnect with my peeps, Kevin and Cj in New York City.

Spanish Harlem, a six pack of Big Red and plenty watermelons were all I needed to get the juices cookin’. Under intense pressure and scrutiny, we got the single and the remix package for it wrapped up.

“Mental Health Hotline” is done and in the process I conjured up a little remix for the label’s newest superstar, Don Davenport. A saucy joint aptly titled “Strut“, which I think will slam all those fortunate to hear it on a dance floor.

I was totally blown away to the hear all the new-ies for the upcoming Fall and Winter release calendar and all I can say is: wear suspenders and slide up your depends because you will be moist!

So thanks to my family in NYC for keeping it cute and giving me new weapons for the masses, I left an automatic slayer for them to fire off at there discretion……so Catch it!

Mista A

we just got 2 sick remixes for “Mental Health Hotline” from our main dude in texas: Fuze!

he turned out a real hard swing rework that will please and then please some more. with a dark bassline and demented synthetics. “loco” is always welcome when you are travelling with this pack of loonies..

mental health hotline should be out very soon. with mixes from fuze, undah-dub and mista a, himself!