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Monday 8 September 2008

Solange Debuts in the Top 10 With 'SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams'

#9 ON 'THE BILLBOARD 200' CHART
#3 ON BILLBOARD'S 'R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS' CHART
#9 ON THE 'BILLBOARD COMPREHENSIVE' CHART
SOL-ANGEL AND THE HADLEY ST. DREAMS PLEASES THE CRITICS
SOLANGE CELEBRATES TONIGHT WITH OFFICIAL ALBUM RELEASE PARTY AT NYC'S
BUTTER

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 4 -- The multi-talented rising
lead, Solange (Singer, Songwriter, Artist, Choreographer, Video Director,
Executive Producer and more than), makes a splash with the release of her new
album, "SoL-AngeL and The Hadley St. Dream" (Music World
Entertainment/Geffen Records), entrance the Top 10 (#9) on "The Billboard
200 Chart." The album is Top 5 (#3) on Billboard's "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums"
chart and Top 10 (#9) on the "Billboard Comprehensive" chart.

Released on August 26th and musically compared to the likes of Gnarles
Barkley, Little Jackie, Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse, Solange's
"SoL-AngeL and The Hadley St. Dreams" has already produced two strike singles:
"I Decided" and "Sandcastle Disco." "I Decided" has enjoyed the top point on
industry charts including, #1 on Billboard's "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles
Sales" chart (presently #9), #1 on Billboard's "Hot Dance Singles Sales"
chart (currently #4) and reached #2 on Billboard's "Hot Singles Sales"
chart. In addition, "I Decided" has been #1 on iTunes' R&B Chart for 9
weeks in a row patch "Sandcastle Disco" has been #1 "Most Viewed Video" on
MTV.com.

The album reviews are pouring in from the critics:
-- LA Times tells us that SoL-AngeL is " ... an appealingly freewheeling
set of lightly psychedelic somebody music that shares the retro-futuristic
vibration of Gnarles Barkley"
-- NY Times says " ... it's impressive"
-- USA Today says Solange is "moving in a good management"
-- Entertainment Weekly heralds the record album as "Tasty" (B+)
-- US Weekly gives Sol-AngeL ... three out of tetrad stars
-- Houston Chronicle gives Solange three and a 1/2 out of four stars and
says there ar interesting twists in every song
-- Giant Magazine says its "[Solange's] fairness that makes [her medicine] so
relatable"
-- Newsweek calls Solange "Savvy"
-- Time Out NY says "The new disc's commingle of retro-cool beats, trip
electronica and straight-talking back talk relocates Solange somewhere in
the neighborhood of Gnarls Barkley (whose Cee-Lo Green co-wrote deuce cuts),
Raphael Saadiq, and Little Jackie, with admiring nods to Dusty
Springfield and Martha Reeves."
-- Perez Hilton writes he is "whole feeling the new Solange"
-- The Boston Globe states that "There's no way afterward this [acquittance] that
Solange won't be taken on her have terms because this sister can sing"

On "SoL-AngeL and The Hadley St. Dreams", Solange enlisted the who's
wHO of red-hot producers and songwriters. The dream team includes: The
legendary award-winning Lamont Dozier wHO teams up with the newest purveyor
of Soul, Mark Ronson on the sure to be classical, "6 O'clock Blues," the
forever eclecticist Cee-Lo lends a handwriting hand on the Jack Splash
produced 2nd single, "Sandcastle Disco," the constant hit-making Pharrell
Williams writes the kickoff single "I Decided" with production from The
Neptunes and remix by the Freemasons, and the formidable chart-topping Lil
Wayne shares the limelight on "ChampagneChronicKnightCap." Other dream
makers on "SoL-AngeL and The Hadley St. Dreams" include Boards of Canada,
Soulshock & Karlin, Shea Taylor, Bama Boyz, Bilal and more.

Solange will officially celebrate the release of "SoL-AngeL and The
Hadley St. Dreams", tonight, September 4, at the New York hotspot, Butter.

Be trusted to check for Solange performing on the following National TV
outlets:

-- Fashion Rocks (September 9 on CBS)
-- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (September 10 on ABC)
-- The View (September 17 on ABC)
-- The Tyra Banks Show (airdate TBA)

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Friday 29 August 2008

Mp3 music: David Morales

Artist: David Morales: mp3 download

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David Morales's discography:

How Would You Feel

Year: 2004

Tracks: 3

Known (and often derided) for his occupation as remixer to the stars during the nineties, David Morales was one of the pioneers of sign music in New York, an original head from the 1970s world Health Organization weather-beaten the change over from disco to house and teamed up with Frankie Knuckles to mannequin the in the lead other remix team, Def Mix. During the '90s the dancing mainstream became aligned to many of his stylistic trademarks -- vocal breaks, uptempo piano riffs, plentitude of string section -- resulting in clichÃ©s attributed to both of them. Also, Morales hasn't been tortuous in own-name track record book product as a skilful deal as his few peers (Brass knucks, Junior Vasquez, Todd Terry), just Morales launch a dancefloor hit with the 1994 individual "In De Ghetto."

His beginnings were certainly non so polished; born in Brooklyn to Puerto Rican immigrants, Morales lived his early aliveness in quite a pugnacious section of the Brooklyn projects and was once guessing while maturation up. He dropped out of senior high school shoal afterward ninth grade, and worked as a fudge piece supplementing his meagre living with a job as a DJ (he had been collecting records since the eld of 14). Turned on to discotheque at all-important clubs like the Loft and the Paradise Garage, Morales was shortly working at the Garage as well afterward draw up with For the Record, an early DJ management firms. His report spread during the late '70s and early '80s until he had DJed at every major nightspot in the New York area. One of the first resistance house hits in the New York area, "Do It Properly" (by 2 Puerto Ricans, a Black Man and a Dominican) was a production helmed by Morales, with Chep Nunez, Robert Clivilles and David Cole. Moving on to remix and production work during the '80s, he strung-out up with some other major house legend, Frankie Knuckles (through For the Record) to form the Def Mix Productions gang, and his Red Zone remixes became known as important sign-posts in the developing progressive house apparent movement.

More and more though, as dance music began appealing to a wider patronage, Morales' mixes attuned themselves more to the mainstream of dance and his material often garnered airplay on daylight radio as well as in nightclubs. After making his name in the bulge out charts with an early Def Mix for Seal, he began working with a office call of the era's major pop stars: Mariah Carey, Madonna, Michael Jackson, U2, Janet Jackson, Tina Turner and BjÃ¶rk, among them. A major-label foreshorten with Mercury resulted in the 1994 single "In De Ghetto," a sane club strike, and Morales' debut record album, The Program. He's as well a top-flight DJ, known for pushing a sound much harder than that found on his possess remixes.

Tuesday 19 August 2008

Take That, Bitch!

Looks like the Donnie Wahlberg divorce is nastier than we first thought.

We broke the story a few hours ago that Wahlberg's wife, Kim Fey, filed for divorce last Wednesday. Right after the story went up, Donnie's rep contacted us and said Donnie actually filed the divorce papers, not Kim.

So here's where it gets good. We did more digging and we're right ... she filed for divorce in L.A. County Superior Court. The clerk stamped the papers at 1:29 PT. And then we found that Donnie filed his own divorce papers in Ventura County Superior Court the same day, at 3:46 PT.

So is this race to the courthouse a sign that each wants to make the point they're leaving the other? We're thinkin' so.

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