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When I first showed up at a studio in atlanta, I saw this nice escalade truck.  I though it was the studio owners, but instead it belonged to a well known producer who lives in Atlanta.

His name is Drummer Boy , Christopher Gholson.  He recently moved to Atlanta in 2004 , which is about the same time I moved to Atlanta. I guess I’m starting to see the trend personally of Atlanta, sorta being that musical mecca to go to. Though I haven’t benefited from it the way I want to. Back to drummerboy.

He’s produced plenty of hits that you hear on the radio, that have been played repeatedly through the day, and from what I saw at the studio, he has no intention of slowing down. Either that Cadilac is  paid for, or maybe he’s lookin to get his Lambo. I don’t know, lol.
I’m just on the outside looking in.

If you go to his website: http://www.drum-squad.com/ . You will quickly recognize the music he has produced.

To me, 90% of his tracks are of the southern style production. Theres just about a 808 snare mixed with Clap in every track.  A quick attacking 808 kick , accompanied by low base notes which can also be easily achieved with the Dillie Base VST plugin.

I took a look at his rig to see if there was anything secret that I needed to get a hold of for myself.  I saw a Roland Fantom.  A white synthesizer, Access Virus TI2 Polar Integrated Modeling Synth. Which goes for about $3000.00. It’s a very pretty synthesizer and I imagine it has tons of features for costing that much. I also saw a MPC400, and also a mac computer most likely running Logic.

I felt pretty confident that I could pull off any sound with in that rig, with the massive sample and plugin library I have, but the only difference is the practice in my engineer and mixing of the beats. There is a sound there, a sheen, that I’m still working on achieving myself. I don’t think its a production issue. Synths and samples are easy to achieve. The art of mixing it, is another thing.  In which I have some more things to learn. I honestly think the information is out there, and I intend to find it. It’s mostly kept secret. Which I understand, I don’t go telling everything I had to struggle to learn on youtube, because they didn’t struggle like I did to find out.   On the other hand, I don’t feel credible to even give advise on that, because I have only landed one placement back in 2004. I’m still trying to get to my next one some how.  Which is what I should be working on.

I also ask myself… Will smoking weed give me a hit? It’s a trend I’m seeing in a lot of producers around here in the A.   I kid.

Well, I’ve learned alot observing him. I wish Drummer Boy the best and I hope to have a success of my own , similar to his one day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uHgF4-HeI

Normally when you would search the name Bangladesh, you would would get info about a country in south Asia, but this isn’t the Bangladesh I am talking about today.

I am talking about Shondre Crawford, or better known as Bangladesh in the urban music industry.  According to wikipedia, he was originally born in Des Moinse, Iowa. According to wikipedia, he started producing in 1998, but didn’t get his big break till 2000 on the hit single ,”Whats your fantasy” made popularly known by the artist Ludacris.