Ryan, je t'aime !

Ryan TEDDER... Il fait partie de ces gars dont on se dit "il est jeune, il fait de la bonne musique : c'est aussi lui la relève".


Ryanounet il est trop fort, entre autre parce que :

• OneRepublic - Apologize (numéro 1 mondial)
  
• OneRepublic - Stop And Stare
• OneRepublic - Say (All I Need)
• OneRepublic - Tyrant
• OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud
• Jm'arrête là pour OneRepublic, jvous conseille vraiment tout l'album "Dreaming Out Loud", qui est pour moi avec "Viva La Vida" de COLDPLAY l'un des deux délices pop/rock majeurs de 2008.
• Leona LEWIS - Bleeding Love (numéro 1 mondial - meilleure vente 2007 en Angleterre)
• ...
  

C'est Timbaland qui le repère, en 2002 et le fait bosser avec des artistes made in Mosley, bien qu'on ne le découvre vraiment que fin 2007 - début 2008 en tant que chanteur et leader de OneRepublic. Mais au delà des magnifiques textes et compos qu'il signe pour le groupe, Ryan continue à travailler pour et avec d'autres artistes.

La liste de ses collaborations est impressionnante : Timbaland et Leona LEWIS (pour qui il prépare d'autres pépites) donc, mais aussi Lemar, les BackStreet Boys, Jennifer HUDSON, Ludacris, t.A.T.u, Tupac, Esmée DENTERS (la protégée de Justin TIMBERLAKE) ou encore Natasha BEDINGFIELD. Et encore j'en ai squizzé les 2 tiers.

Rien que sur ces derniers mois, il a écrit et composé pour les récents/futurs albums de Rihanna, Chris DAUGHTRY, Hilary DUFF, Mario, Whitney HOUSTON, Beyoncé, Kelly CLARKSON et Jordin SPARKS.

Arrêtons nous justement sur les trois dernières.

• BEYONCÉ - Halo
  Titre à la base prévu pour figurer sur le 2ème album de Leona LEWIS (j'adorerais entendre Leona l'interpréter d'ailleurs), c'est le 3ème single de "I am... Sasha Fierce".
  
  
• KELLY CLARKSON - Already Gone
  Cette ballade pop/rock a quant à elle été éditée sur le dernier album de Kelly CLARKSON : "All I Ever Wanted". On y retrouve le style Tedder : les envolées vocales, le piano, le sens de la mélodie, les percus, les choeurs et les effets d'écho sur les voix...
  Bien dommage par contre que le titre soit un "Halo" bis. La mélodie est exactement la même. J'ai été vraiment déçu à la 1ère écoute mais ce titre reste excellent.
  
  
• JORDIN SPARKS - Battlefield
  Enfin, Ryan est aussi derrière le retour de Jordin SPARKS ! Vous connaissez pas ? Mais si, un tout ptit peu. C'est la fille qui s'égosillait contre une fenêtre y'a un an... Mais siiiiiii, à l'époque où Chris BROWN tapait plus sur un piano que sur Rihanna !! Rooh, regardez.
  Bref, la sympathique Jordin SPARKS prépare un nouvel album, et son 1er single est une production Ryanounet ! Battlefield est certainement un disque d'or de plus qu'il pourra utiliser en cale-porte chez lui (quand on a passé la centaine de babioles dorées on s'en fout je pense).

Clairement, je suis fan. Ryan, continue comme ça je t'en prie, ta musique c'est vraiment du bon pour les oreilles.

LeftRightLeftRightLeft : Jour-J !

On est le 15 mai ! Alors on clique là, on met son mail, on télécharge et on écoute !

Et on peut aussi dire "Youpi !". On peut.

Ne m'appelez surtout pas "Comédie Musicale" !

Mozart a lancé la mode, OBISPO s'y est engouffré et maintenant c'est StarMania...

Ils comptent nous faire le coup de l'Opéra Rock à chaque fois ?

Nigerian Gangster remix of Roc Boys spotlight on Epic Fu.com

Shouts out to the Epic Fu video blog for showing love to MikeLoveNotWar & the Roc Boys remix (3:05 mark of the video) Download the entire Nigerian Gangster project (320k) including the Roc Boys remix here

MikeLoveNotWar-The Interview (via Martini & Jopparelli)

Big up to Marty at Music Selections. He hit me last year about an interview and we finally cleared our schedules and knocked it out. Thanks for the love.

MikeLoveNotWar-The Interview

The Night 2Pac Died-V100 Friday Night Flava 9/13/96

The most important radio show I've ever done. The most memorable. The most controversial. Like the Hot 102 shows, I thought I'd never find the tapes but you never know what you'll come across rummaging thru the garage.

You could say at the time I didn't understand the largeness of the situation. Other than Eazy-Z, no major hip hop artist had died up to that point. Everybody on the paintings with Pac (Big, Aaliyah, Left Eye, Jam Master Jay) died after that fateful Friday night so there was no precedent. I remember thinking, "all this for Pac?" We had already done a top 10 2Pac songs in hour 2 and people wanted more. Today you would have an entire show of music dedicated to an artists memory, but then? You were either for Pac or for B.I.G. and I was definitely riding with B.I.G. in the whole east vs. west thing. Not saying you wanted a man to die, but live by the sword, die by the sword was my attitude. 2Pac just brought out that kind of emotion in you. You either rode with him 100% or were against him 100%.

There is no revisionist history on this show like you would hear in dedication shows today. Its all raw emotions on how we and the listeners felt at that time

After the show V-100 was deluged with calls and complaints from angry listeners the entire weekend. And hearing the show and hindsight being 20/20 I can totally understand why I had to make an apology the following Friday night for some of the remarks I made on the show (even after I say at the end of the show how I'm not apologizing for the things I said). We pissed off people that night and even received a death threat or two, so by the end of the show I was defiant & didn't give a fuck. I even said some things on-air that made my co-host KeKe quit the show afterwards.

Like Aaliyah after him, I didn't know how big Pac was till after he died. On Friday The 13th 1996 I learned.

This show is dedicated to my Flava Crew. Scott "Scotty G" Gunderson in DC, Kenyatta "KeKe" Taylor in NY, and The Midwest Mixer Dr. B in Milwaukee. We made Milwaukee radio history. We were a mixshow that was on once a week for 4 hours and we made more buzz than an entire on-air staff. And we gave them a show to talk about for years to come and for that and I thank you all.

This is the entire 4 hour show.

Hour I

From the top, what still impresses me to this day is how well produced the show is. From the Strick promo that starts the show, to voice messages about Pac's death, to the show intro, to soundbytes from the movie Juice, everything is on point. Shows don't get much tighter than this and I'll take the credit for that. A lot of prep went into this in a short amout of time





Hour II

We kick off the 2Pac top 10 & get Scotty G's and KeKe's thoughts on Pac's life & death. They keep it real & pull no punches. Their words are a testament to how people were really split down the middle on the whole Pac/BIG beef & how the world was where you could speak your mind before everything became ultra politically correct.



Hour III

We finish the 2Pac top 10 & get Doc B's opinion on 2Pac and his legacy plus play a few more promos, songs & Pac cuts.

Hour IV

By now the weight of the callers is starting to get to me & the crew and I'm getting a lil pissed, but we keep it movin & we finish the show off with a few more Pac songs and a mini Booty mix by Dr. B who had been on the wheels the entire show

The Lost Mixes: Fresh G live on Hot 102 WLUM Milwaukee-November 1993

I found a tape in the garage that geeked me up to new levels of geektivity. I had been looking for my old mixes from Hot 102 for awhile but wasnt having any luck. Seems I was using the tapes for airchecks when I got the job on 'GCI and may have recorded over all the mixshows. 

I was wrong. I found the tapes!

Every Friday & Saturday we used to have a boombox in the studio and I would record the mixes from the radio so they could have that live feel. No Serato, No Tricks, No Computer editing program. 2 turntables live in studio

I present them you you now...



Fresh G Live on Hot 102 WLUM Milwaukee Pt. 1

Fresh G Live on Hot 102 WLUM Milwaukee Pt. 2