::: Ominous Red presents SERIAL - A Concept Album :::

[ominousred]

I go by the name Ominous Red. I am hitting up all the forums on my blog roll spreading the work about my independent project that I just finished. I just finished a concept album I have been working on for about a month now. You can preview all the songs through Youtube. The videos have the lyrics to all the songs. I produced all of the tracks myself so it is kinda rough but if you are a fan of Lodeck, Aesop Rock, Nas, Jay-Z or Gangstarr, then I think you will like this project.

106: Box of Pine
[youtube]B2gZCqsUxdk[/youtube]

107: Uniform
[youtube]XK1izyuNDlM[/youtube]

108: Anita Baker
[youtube]mPNeEYeCCjw[/youtube]

109: Common Ground
[youtube]ySdIPgEj7Wg[/youtube]

110: Cold Cases
[youtube]NuXXHtIJQQ0[/youtube]

111: One Man Army
[youtube]tSV0oYa_rVU[/youtube]

112: Killer's Killer
[youtube]wUC5GKCpsGQ[/youtube]

113: Believer
[youtube]EJ-1aZqlsLg[/youtube]

114: The Father
[youtube]IV8q9eukfO4[/youtube]

115: The Son
[youtube]B_FmPboYalU[/youtube]

116: The Ghost
[youtube]HjZ198EY8qA[/youtube]

117: Lack of Oxygen
[youtube]SWISznXkxvM[/youtube]

118: Red Handed
[youtube]wOdGh2qJlp0[/youtube]

119: Prestige
[youtube]iGobJIPEs4w[/youtube]

120: Be This Way
[youtube]pfGyFs2CdSU[/youtube]


It is available for download right now on Reverb and will be available on iTunes. If you want a physical disc, you get it directly from me. I would love some support if you guys are feeling the work.

http://www.reverbnation.com/ominousred

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ominous-Red-Present ... 335b4be142

The saving grace of the project is the concept. The audio, beats and vocal performance and treatment could have been way better. But I was fighting against cost and limited resources as far as equipment and conditions like not being able to use samples which ultimately sand bagged the project but I had to move forward no matter what.

Trust me... if I had the chance to just ghost write and clear samples, I would have been okay with putting this in the hands of people with more talent or who were better equipped than I am but that was not an option for me.


People will miss the concept because:

They aren't old enough to recognize what I am referencing lyrically.

They won't ever hear the concept because they don't like the music (sound & style)


And that is where the visuals of the lyrics come in. Everywhere you see text marked with blood or written in red is a nod to a particular artist. Most real heads can see what I was doing. I took their work and created something out of it which is the metaphor. A cop is tracking killers only to end up a killer. Just like we as fans, track our favorite emcees just to eventually become emcees ourselves. So this album was sort of like an explanation of what I like in Hip Hop as far as all the artists I pay tribute to.

When I finish my website, it will kinda explain it all a little better and hopefully enhance the experience of the music.

I got that idea from Aesop Rock. When he dropped Fast Cars, he included a book that had all his work in it so I could read a long and it helped me understand his work a little better because I could better digest what he was saying.

Even though I love this project, I am completely aware of the fact that it is not up to par as far as quality goes. There are not a lot of people who want to hear an audio book in the form of a rap album, which is basically what I did.

My next project will be completely different because it will not be restrained by the concept and I write songs with the focus on style and sound instead of being confined by the concept.

[LogiK]

Interesting..

[ominousred]

Its a little different but I think it is def interesting. It aint ride music, more like mind music.

-- Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:12 pm --

Korg on the iPad? I can't wait to see an MPC on this thing...

http://vimeo.com/10663363

[Borat]

Word.

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[ominousred]

I just finished a Snoop Remix for the Indaba Contest if yall are interested...

http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/18038

[Borat]

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[Lawgix]

if DJ catches this hes gonna delete it haha

[QwarterZ]

Damn.......there's a shitload of stuff in here

I think I'll peep it after work...

[ominousred]

How is this SPAM?

This is the Producer's Lounge right? I am a producer. I produced, wrote and performed all the tracks. Last time I checked, SPAM was unsolicited advertisements for shit that had nothing to do with the community it was posted in. I find it kinda funny someone who claims to be a SUPREME LYRICIST calls a concept album focused on lyrical content SPAM.

-- Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:11 pm --

Somebody explain to me why this doesn't belong here or what rule I am breaking?

[QwarterZ]

lulz

[ominousred]

Ohh wait, I see. I'm fukn retarded. So I put it in the wrong place and they they moved it to the audio producer section. My bad.

[drunken jesus]

How is this SPAM?

This is the Producer's Lounge right? I am a producer. I produced, wrote and performed all the tracks. Last time I checked, SPAM was unsolicited advertisements for shit that had nothing to do with the community it was posted in. I find it kinda funny someone who claims to be a SUPREME LYRICIST calls a concept album focused on lyrical content SPAM.

-- Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:11 pm --

Somebody explain to me why this doesn't belong here or what rule I am breaking?

it isn't spam you posted music you did which is perfectly fine imo i just take nazi-esque positions on people who randomly spam their shitty $19.99 beat sites and shitty rap forums and various other forms of shittery dunno why ppl were assuming i'd take issue with this

probably should've posted it in the creation chamber for future reference tracks go there this section is mainly for just beats

[ominousred]

[youtube]pQ1kv89MsqY[/youtube]

This will be downloadable as soon as I can get the website updated. Instrumental also...

-- Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:36 pm --

Construction:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPslhX6aBk[/video]

Explanation:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO9x0t3zdB8[/video]

Working:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51m-6-K1_o[/video]

-- Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:23 pm --

Something I thought was def worth passing on... It is about artists getting exploited....

http://www.vladtv.com/video/31227/yung- ... by-labels/

-- Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:40 am --

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