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Just wanted to announce that my two tracks, “What You Are Doing Is Not Good (instrumental) and the version with the words (part of a sermon) are in the process of being signed to PWM records! Woot! For more info check out:
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I bought my SXSW Music Badge this week after a lengthy discussion with my wife about it and after getting the time off from work approved. I will be attending the SXSW Music portion of the event and look forward to the many music panels. I hope to meet some cool electronic music producers and DJ’s there as well.
Tuesday night at about 8:10 p.m. one of my songs played on Power FM a local Austin Christian music station. It was pretty cool. Too bad I missed them playing it but totally awesome they took a chance on Christian techno music. I hope this tread continues.
I released the album on September 26th and it took 3 to 4 months which is the normal turn around to get the music up on iTunes but it is finally there. Check it out.
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My daughter was born last week on December 14th at 7:30 a.m. at St. David’s hospital. She weighed in at 7 pounds and 5 oz.
Here are some pictures of her:
This week when I checked the mail I received back a package that I had sent to Germany two months earlier! I had sent a CD to Bernhard who is an artist in Germany who I did a remix for and I put it on my latest CD “Keeping It Salty” I had checked with him several times and he said he had not received it. So eventually I sent him another CD to a different address and he received that one. So it’s fun that I sent a package all the way across the globe to Germany and now I have it back here.
This CD never made it to Bernhard
This morning I participated in our church’s Hands on Housing project. We went to a house in East Austin and fixed up things on it like coating the outside of the house with a fresh coat of paint, replacing siding on the house and some of us went inside and hung some new ceiling panels on top of the existing ceiling in effect giving it a “new ceiling.” It was fun because I got to play with power tools. This time it was primarily using a drill. So we measured the ceiling panels and cut them out and then drilled them onto the existing wood ceiling. Part of the old ceiling was falling out. I used my strong arm muscles to hold up the ceiling panels and they definitely got a workout. It always feels good to help someone else out and get a workout at the same time. Something satisfied about it. So hope you all are having a great weekend too! God Bless.
Click here to download the track Undignified (DJ Salty Flavor Remix)
Track 1 from my new CD, “Keeping It Salty” is called Undignified (Remix). The vocals on this one are by Sterling Allen. Sterling had been the worship leader at Bethany United Methodist Church a couple of years ago and I had the chance to work with him while I was working there also. We sat down one afternoon in the Sanctuary and he sang this song, I recorded it and this is what I came up with. The original version of it is by Matt Redman.
Sterling comments on the CD here:
“DJ Salty Flavor has done it again with this great album of remixes and dance music! His music is clearly put together with the hope of enjoyment by all who listen. Anyone looking for club style music with clean content should go immediately to this cd.” –Sterling M. Allen, A&M United Methodist Church College Station, Texas
This weekend was a busy one. Saturday morning a group of my friends and I did a 2 mile walk for Alzheimer’s disease which took about 45 minutes. After that we went home and had lunch and then I went to go DJ a special needs ministry dance at Bethany United Methodist Church from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. It was a dress-up Halloween kind of dance and it was fun to see the costumes of the attendees. I played a lot of fun Halloween music, including Thriller, Ghostbusters, People Purple Eater, and Monster Mash along with a lot of classic fun songs like Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Boot Scooting Boogie, and The Chicken Dance. It was a fun 2 hours of dance music and was the highlight of my weekend.
In addition, I had to work that night starting at 10:30 p.m. You might be wondering what do you go into work at 10:30 p.m. for. Well I went in to work to tear down a sound system that we had setup for a band for the National Black Forum for Public Administrators that night. Apparently somebody had conflicting information because we were told the band was done at 10:30 p.m. but when we got there the band was not done. They played till 10:45 p.m. and took a 45 minute break and then proceeded to play again at 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. People were leaving and were wishing us a good night and my boss commented well it’s really too late to have a good night it’s kind of like a good morning. So needless to say we ended up packing up the sound system and drove it back to City Hall and didn’t get done until 2:45 a.m. in the morning. What a night!
Sunday morning I went to church at Bethany United Methodist Church and came home for lunch. After lunch Christy (my wife) and I had some re-organizing to do. We reorganized and reallocated some closet space to make room for the new baby due in December. That involved throwing some old stuff away and going through some old things. We got ride of some junk, I am going to make a run to Salvation army tomorrow and we moved some other things around.
I then took a nap and then we went over to Christy’s Dad to have spagetti and meatballs for dinner. Now I am home and I am posting a blog about it. Hope you all had a great weekend too.
