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#SuperBowl #weekend hang in #Houston with some of my favorite people in H Town! It will be a grand reunion of old friends and new ones...my longtime Sister who is my favorite singer who freestyles like nothing you have ever heard over EVERYTHING...#KarinaNistal will perform with her band (!!), Kool B (big shout to the Earthwire.net crew!) will host along with tunes by one of Houston's finest DJs #SoleTickler (Dion Seasar). This will be a party you do NOT want to miss if you are in town for the big game, #football fans (and #partypeople because I never went to the game when I traveled to Super Bowl Weekend). The Satellite Bar // Houston, TX Book DJ Freedom for your next event: [email protected] #BookMe #superbowlweekend#partytime #goodmusic #goodfriends#getaway #specialevent #Texas#dailyupdates #livemusic #housemusic#partymusic
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Life isn't complicated but people can be. Just be yourself and the rest will happen. I don't have all the answers but I know me and don't lie to myself. I may lie to you though. You can start with my example. Do what you can with what you have. Keep your circle small and tight. That goes for family, friends, your neighbors, spiritual connectors, business tastemakers. There can be several circles that expand out from your inner but your inner is the most important one. I have learned the hard way what happens when you allow the wrong people into your cipher. Over the years the wrong people have worn all kinds of faces. They were from all 5 of the circles I mentioned. This year just began and #2017 (2017) already feels like a long overdue classic. I haven't had a classic since I met my wife (although we have had legendary years all along). While I am not a fan of "kissing and telling" I share here because there are a lot of people looking at what I post, listening to the music I play and hearing me speak over global airwaves. Just know that I will be me through it all...that is why you are reading this and why you will come back. I just hope when you return you are a little better than how this post found you. ((UPDATED POST-EXCLUSIVE TO THIS SITE ONLY)) When all of the above was written it was a premonition for what has been happening all around me. In my life and in the world outside of it, I am experiencing the best and most interesting of times. The business of music continues to generate new opportunities for people who have no musical talent but have the hustle needed to be successful-that at the end of the day is all you need to make it, if you go by who is successful at times. The business of life requires you to have just as much hustle and even more so at times, creative flow to get to your goals. There is nothing that cannot be accomplished if you put your mind to it. I am living proof. I haven't been through everything or seen it all but I have seen enough to know this fragile thing called life is no joke...but you have to find the humor in the math (I didn't originate that last part but it stays with me; one of my Brothers said it to me back in 1996). What can you offer this life and more importantly the people in it? "This life" as I refer to it is a reference to YOU; the people in it are the people all around you. What are doing for yourself and what are you doing for your community? "Community" can be family, friends, co-workers, business partners, spiritual connectors, community organizers and/or the future of you (your children)? If you don't have any children...where then does the legacy of you continue? How does the dream of you continue? What are you going to do to bring the rest of you and what you represent to fruition? If not through my children then the seeds of my knowledge, wisdom and understanding will break bread for the minds, inspiration and physical assets of all the human families on the planet. As Sean Connery said in "The Untouchables" to Kevin Costner's character, "what are you prepared to do?" After a bit of resistance in a clearly less than confident response, Connery remixes his question: "and then what?" Do you have a plan? And if that doesn't work...do you have a plan B? What if that doesn't work? Learn how to have a plan but stay flexible so you can keep your plan relevant. It can NEVER become stale or obsolete. Until soon...look for more gems and jewels on my radio show segment "Community Square" during certain mix shows I produce for Urban Movement Radio. Get it on Tune In (the app) or directly from the website. My schedule is updated daily via my INSTAGRAM page. Go there for the latest, come here for the depth of my posts. Love and peace, DJ Freedom (([email protected])) #bookthisartist #getonboard#goodmusic #stayintune#DJFreedomLives #Socialife#transitioning #staywoke #focused#humblepie #livingthedream#todaysmath #SoulMassive with
DJ Freedom! Every Tuesday I share with you a. my mixshow on UMR b. Artist tributes: UMR c. top 10 SM singles d. rsmf | nyc (a) "Soul Massive" on UrbanMovementRadio.com Sat, Jan 28, 4-6pm est. Theme within the theme will be split into 4 parts: rnb, neo-soul, party oriented rnb and old school rnb. (b) DJ Driven Artist Tributes | Winter 2017 01.04. Mary J. Bilge 01.11. Sade 01.25. Aaliyah 02.08. Bob Marley 02.22. Erykah Badu 03.15. Chaka Khan (c) Top 10 Soul Massive Singles 10. Dyna Edyne "Diamond In The Rough" (DJ Freedom's Old School Reflowed) 09. Glancy Kelly "Ex-Girlfriend" (DJ Freedom's R&B Mix) 08. Honesty "Wanna Give You Everything" (DJ Freedom's Soul ReWork) 07. Flowers "11/4" (DJ Freedom's Old School Flow) 06. Rihanna "Same Ol' Mistakes" (DJ Freedom's Soul ReWork) 05. Nuwamba "Unusual" (DJ Freedom's Soul ReWork) 04. Tamara Bubble "Just Say No" (DJ Freedom's R&B Party Mix) 03. PARTYNEXTDOOR Feat Erykah Badu & SZA "Come & See Me" (DJ Freedom's R&B Mix) 02. Solange Feat Common & Styles P "Cranes In The Sky" (DJ Freedom's Exclusive Soul Ride) 01. Yuna Feat Usher "Crush" (DJ Freedom's R&B Mix) (d) #GoHear (event) "Rhythm & Soul Music Festival | NYC" Coming to NYC, this event will feature top indie and underground artists from NYC and beyond. Genres include rnb, neo-soul, old school rnb, hip-hop soul, soulful house and conscious reggae. Venues and lineups will be presented in future posts of both "Soul Massive" and #GoHear RSMF | NYC on Wednesdays. If you have any questions or would like to submit content for this post: [email protected] To book DJ Freedom: [email protected] #soulful #rnb #neosoul#undergroundsoul #hiphopsoul#acidjazz #nujazz #rnbass #rsmf #NYC#musicfestival #mixshow #MixTape #StayInTune with DJ Freedom!
Today is the third day of a new month and year. It feels good to be here. It is a day I look at and reflect on myself, my family, and the world around me. 2016 was a year I cleaned house. Got my ducks in order and refined my cipher of people, places and things around me. It seems like it was a coincidence that I did that and went through what I did...so I can stand tall here and now. Moving forward I am going to exclusively be booked as a DJ through Premiere Booking Agency. You can contact them here: booking@premierebookingagency This month's online show schedule with Urban Movement Radio has changed: Wed, 01.04.17.4-6p est "Classic Pitch Workout" ...encore show from Sat Sat, 01.14.17.4-6p est "Hip Hop Lives 3.0" Sat, 1.21.17.4-6p est "House Massive" Sat 1.28.17.4-6p est "Soul Massive" All of my shows will appear on my website Wednesdays, 7pm est. If you don't see them then it is because I am booked but will post them later...but you can always send me an email: [email protected] and I will add you to my weekly e-blast! For those of you interested in hearing me spin live you can check me out at the following events: "Experience Miami" in South Beach. This will be a series of parties, pop ups and live broadcasts. Get my mixes when you come by as well as merch and more! May 7-13, 2017 "NYC Int'l Dance Week" Update on this event is I am working with several promoters in NYC to host events inside their parties. I will add opening sets of myself and DJs I work with, as well as demos by dance crews/teams/companies who will be in town for Dance Parade. July 1 & 2, 2017 "Rhythm & Soul Music Festival: NYC" After failed attempts to do this event at venues in New Orleans (and an investor who just wasn't there) Cam doing this event in NYC. I will spin each day and some of the singers, hip hop artists and DJs I work with will join me. For bookings, get with my new family in business and music!! [email protected]. #bookingagency #DJFreedomLives#UrbanMovementRadio #rnb #hiphop #stayintune with DJ Freedom...where music matters!!
We have all heard (hopefully you have) about the Grammy award nominees. In case you haven't some of the controversy is around Beyoncé getting 9 nominations (that means she will be there...because as Kanye explained artists only show up when they are going to win....so I suppose he will be there also). Other artists who were nominated include one of my favorites in soulful R&B Anthony Hamilton (with Shirley Caesar) as well as another favorite Jill Scott and Flume. Sia, Ariana Grande, Adele and Rihanna all have noms as well as Justin Bieber, Ziggy Marley, Kaskade and Prince (for "best engineered album"). I am happy for everyone getting nominated. But the politics I don't like is how an artist can be nominated in the same category for 2 songs. With all of the talented singers, rappers, DJs, remixes and entertainers out here I don't get how these things happen. This year I will not gripe and complain like a lot of us do when watching the 3+ hour showcase take place; I will join the Recording Academy and make my vote count...because you have to be in it, right? Originally I was going to select my choices for who I think would win. After giving it some thought I am good with what many of do each year: watch the show, hope some of our favorites win...but most importantly, enjoy the mash up performances they have become known for. Make a stop by my site each day for updates on what is happening in music...but don't expect any controversy; I am IN the business of music also. ;) #tuneintuesday #goodmusic #Grammy#musicawards #rnb #rap #dance #remix#popvocal #urban #bestalbum#bestsong #reggae #Latin #bestvocal#performance #mixtogo#DJFreedomLives #donnasummer is among the 120 Degrees Of Music (legendary artists)! 1 year ago a mix aired on UrbanMovementRadio.com featuring all of Donna Summer's biggest dance hits. The mix was 2 hours and is regarded by many DJs and tastemakers as one of the best I have done.
LaDonna Adrian Gaines was born December 31, 1948 and returned to the essence May 17, 2012. She is regarded as the Queen Of Disco, known to some as the First Lady of Love and wore a variety of hats in entertainment: singer, songwriter (she wrote all her songs), actress and painter. Donna Summer won 5 Grammy awards, was the first artist to have 3 consecutive double albums reach #1 on Billboard's album charts and has sold over 140 million albums making her one of the best selling artists of all time! Donna Summer has 32 hit singles on the Hot 100 IN HER LIFETIME, with 14 reaching the top 10. She posthumously was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013. Get the mix here in its original form: https://m.mixcloud.com/djfreedomlives/dj-freedoms-house-massive-celebrate-donna-summer-sat-01-09-16/ Get the mix in an edited form just below this post. As always stay in touch and #stayintune#superstar #legendary #queenofdisco#housemassive #disco #goodmusic certified #mixtogoawards and #120degreesofmusic certified #DJFreedomLives #cassablanca#discohouse #firstlady #StayInTune with DJ Freedom where #goodmusic prevails!
Say what you want about Beyonce, but her accolades are self explanatory. She made more than anyone else from touring alone ($256,084,556), More video plays than just about everyone (over 2 billion), More Grammy nominations than anyone...you get the idea. She employs DJs on her tour; she sold out Wembly Stadium in London July 2 & 3 with the help of DJ Magnum; sold out Citi Field in Queens, NYC with DJ Khaled June 7 and 8; and with DJ Scratch in Chicago May 27-28. That will kill any noise about her keeping her ears to the streets...and the clubs. My Brother in music told me he was fortunate enough to get his team to be blessed by a spot on Bae's "Lemonade" album...and there wasn't a DJ or radio station that could avoid at least one song from Beyoncé this year...try as some claimed they did/would. She of course made a supreme dent with her performance during the halftime show at last year's Super Bowl-and the surprise release of "Lemonade" with a full length visual of every song caused not only fans' jaws to drop but Kanye West to run his jibs: the visual album is a concept he claims to have given Beyoncé a few years ago (proof positive in his little known "Run Away" mini movie). Controversy will follow our Sister as it is what comes along when you are at the top of the game. Jay Z has been low key to much of the formation but Bae's sister Solange managed to squeeze out a superior than most album that sports visuals in her videos that prove earthy unlike Beyoncé giving us the glitz. My choice to give Beyoncé R&B Artist of 2016 did not come easy and you may be surprised to find out it was NOT based on all the accolades. I based it on my own features of her newest album on many of my radio shows, submissions by DJs to radio and club for at least 4 singles and my realization that Beyoncé has solidified her place in black music as an artist who can cross over without selling short her creative output. #Beyoncé #Bae #lemonade #bestof2016#mixtogo #DJFreedomLives#UrbanMovementRadio #dance #touring#stageshow #boxscore #citifield#ontheroad #sorrynotsorry#sheiswhosheis #famegame #club#top40 #socialife is all about what is going on in our community!
The goal is highlight things that affect our world as they pertain to music. I came across this flyer and thought what a great idea! A concert the same day as Donald Trump's inauguration with big name artists who donate their time and talent for one common cause. Turns out to not be a concert at all but rather an idea for it. But this flyer/poster has been circulating around the internet all week and many will not fact check like I will; you will never see me post gossip or trash talk. No time for that! The Freedom Concert as a concept would include John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, and the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton. But the flyer lists no location, and its accuracy has been debunked by Scopes, which notes that even though a concert promoter said he was planning a Freedom Concert, the show "has not been officially announced, no major celebrities have agreed to perform, and image showing a flyer from the event is fake." When I contacted a booking agent I know to get insight to an artist they work with who is featured on the flyer, they told me it has no weight and they need to be careful. I am all for "speaking things into existence," but this took time to construct...and can cause fallout-and the point of it will be lost due to improper strategy implementation. In other words they messed up. More to come! #freedomconcert #fake #actualfacts only #goodmusic and #positivevibes are the thing #livemusic #neveradullmoment#liveauthentic #nobs #rockshow#stayintune #Woodstock #2017 #dyverseko is the
second artist to be signed to Mix To Go Music! ((The first by the way is DJ Freedom.)) Dyverse KO is an upcoming recording artist who has been on the scene independently for a few years. My meeting with her originally was to book an event at her space, TW (Tech World) Painting With Friends. It is located in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, by the way. When we meet in 2014 it was to discuss a single release of one dance song that I would produce featuring her vocals. It wasn't to be...not yet. A few months ago in October we met again and discussed the possibility of working together and the rest is history: we are going to put in work and come up with original dance songs and remixes. No time will be wasted as #2017 kicks off with a hot new dance single in January! Additional singles will follow in March and by May an EP. We'll heat up the summer with a full album and mini tour. Updates on my progress with Dyverse KO will go on my site and various social pages every Friday exclusively (this is going up Monday because it was already up this past Friday in a shorter "article"). I will also add another bit about Dyverse KO in my post on Tuesdays about Mix To Go Music, my record label, which produces my radio shows every Saturday. Go to the tab to hear them or click here. #goodmusic is why I do this...so stay in touch and as always #stayintune 🎵🎵🎧🎤 #dance #club #top40 #housemusic#Rnb #newyear #newmusic#tropicalhouse #samba #reggaeton#crossover #freshface #stayintune with DJ Freedom!
...in 2017, we are doing away with buttons on phones. At least, this will be the case for the new Samsung Galaxy 8. It has been a while since I have dropped my cell in the toilet, a cup of my favorite green tea with honey or the glass of a drink of an unsuspecting patron at a club I may be spinning. But the features are everything a social tastemaker needs to make a mountain out of a molehill. Not to mention the ugly recall of the Samsung Note 7 which crashed and burned last year...embarassing for such a respected line of devices. I have never owned any of the Note phones but was considering the 7; something said wait for the regular Galaxy 7 to come down before switching. Now I am definitely going to wait for the Samsung Galaxy 8. Maybe. Watch for more "TechKnow" articles every Thursday. #greentea #liveauthentic #mixtogo #wetphone #samsung8 #galaxyquest #techtime |
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