Posts Tagged ‘ajm’

Back from vacay… and I’m sorry!

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Yea yea yea, it’s been awhile since I blogged up in here; something I was constantly reminded about the past few weeks from everyone with the random texts and e-mails.. “UPDATE YOUR SITE ALREADY!!!” “YOU SAID YOU’D UPDATE IT YESTERDAY” etc.

My bad. I have no excuse.

So I’ll leave it at that haha

But back to the music tip… I’ve done a few gigs the past couple of weeks, most notably “Bringing It Back” and “Fresh Kicks.” “Bringing It Back” at Cusina Lounge was a special one to me, in the sense that it was my first time performing at Bathurst & Wilson, a predominantly Filipino community of Toronto that I often neglect since I am from the East (Scartown stand up!)… But yea, it was all love, my peoples came down, and I know my brother/roommate UGN Son was definitely happy with the turnout that night. “Fresh Kicks” was dope also since, I dunno how, but, I managed to perform with a sore throat and I killed it. To my fellow artists out there, you know those nights where you’re just on stage and hitting every cue, feeling cocky as fuck because you’ve never heard yourself sound better? Yup, that was it at “Fresh Kicks.” Big ups to MPz (Vinsane & Brandnew) for putting me on that night and big ups to Famous, KDB, Krhyme Syndicate, A-Status, and all the other artists in the house that night.

As far as my album… As I mentioned above, I’ve had a sore throat that just won’t go away. I can’t record in this state so the album has been pushed back. But my loss is your gain since I’ve been taking this opportunity to just keep writing and writing.. meaning, the album keeps getting new tracks and tracks.

I also spent the past month on vacation in Las Vegas!!! I left my heart there (Tim and Jervy knows where!!!) and I’m just in love with the West Coast now. The palm trees, the cloudless skies, the friendly people, the atmosphere. Damn, it’s enough to make me go back on the reg… Actually, hell yea, I’m going back in November. Maybe I can win back all the money I lost from playing craps and roulette.

Regarding the updates of this website… I know I said I’d be updating with a feature every Sunday, but I’ve found that there’s so much prep work I have to do with my album that I can’t find the time to go interview the people I wanted, write the music reviews, etc. So as of now, all Sunday features will be postponed until my album is released. Sorry, but that’s how it goes.

Anyway, here’s the flyers to the two shows I didn’t get to put up:

back kicks

Also, here’s a pic of me with UGN Son and D-Pryde on TV after I performed at the Mabuhay festival:

tv

Anyway, I’ll be updating more regularly, but not the Sunday features… just me writing the realest shit I ever wrote!

PEACE

FenaxiZ & The Jump Off 1 on Minerva TV

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Just another quick update!

Along with the rest of the artists from the first Jump Off, I was shown on FTV (Channel 606 on Rogers) as they featured highlights from the event and interviewed my main man UGN Son. Here’s the footage:

And I’m still working on getting footage from two weeks ago when FTV interviewed me, AJM, and D-Pryde.  But for now, just enjoy what’s up there!

ONE,

FenaxiZ

Pre-Jump Off 2 and Loungin’ around the past few days

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Whatttttup everyone? It’s July 04, 2009, as in, the day history will be made at JUMP OFF II. Honestly, me, AJM, and UGN Son have gathered the ILLEST, FRESHEST, and FINEST of the Filipino hip-hop community here in the T.O to gather at M-Studio tonight in a show of unity and support for eachother’s movements.

So, only question is, why aren’t you going?

For now, I’m just about to leave my crib and pick the homie R. Scribe up. We gonna hit up my homegirl Ashley’s BBQ first, but after we gotta head out to Sauga for rehearsals, soundcheck, and set up. Hope to see y’all there! (at Jump Off 2 haha, not the BBQ, unless Ash doesn’t mind the extra guests!!!)

Also, just thought I’d share some more behind the scenes clips of what I’m up to outside the music. Thursday night I linked up with my old Scarborough crew and brought along the Jamestown boys too as we hit up DJ Mensa’s regularly scheduled Thursday night at Octapus Lounge. Cheeeck it out:

damn right open 'til forever

damn right open 'til forever

Also a vid of us just walkin around from Jamestown to College st:

I don’t know about them, but I had a good night! (despite me getting a parking ticket.)

Also linked with the FSA crew on Friday and we hit up the Michael Jackson tribute at Parkdale Drink. We really wanted to reach since we missed out on the ManifesTO MJ tribute at Dundas Square last week, and I gotta say, Big Jacks and Royale did not disappoint. “Rock With You,” “Billie Jean,” “ABC,” etc. Sheeeeit. I can go on and on.

Here’s me playing with Tim’s cookie monster hat while we waited for the MJ tunes:

NOM NOM NOM

NOM NOM NOM

Anyway, let me get serious for a minute. As I said the purpose of this blog was to document the process of making my third album. So I got in touch with the homie August Rigo yesterday and we had a really brief talk, but all in all, I’m gonna start pushing the first single “Queen feat. August Rigo” hella hard over the next few weeks. So, if you haven’t heard the track yet, check it out below:

This week I gotta create the promo flyers, design the logo in Adobe Illustrator and apply it to some shirts and business cards. I got an upcoming photoshoot for the album jacket pics and I gotta start working on an Electronic Press Kit. All in due time… As far as the album itself, all songs are written, but I’m missing some session files so I gotta holla @ the homie producer Tyme One and DJ Incise for those, plus I gotta get my home studio gear set up. Just bought an Mbox 2 Pro so I think I’m good?

Anyways… peace and blessings as usual,

FENAXIZ

FenaxiZ, AJM, & D-Pryde on TV

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Over the weekend, I was on FTV (Channel 606 on Rogers) with the homies AJM and D-Pryde.

I’m working on getting the footage to throw up on YouTube but for now here’s a sneak peak of us on set:

FenaxiZ, AJM, & D-Pryde on FTV

FenaxiZ, AJM, & D-Pryde on FTV

We then grabbed some eats at a trippy kebab house which looked like a wedding hall:

AJM, FenaxiZ, & D-Pryde getting their grub on

AJM, FenaxiZ, & D-Pryde getting their grub on

We were each seperately interviewed, but all three of us were there for the main purpose of promoting our show on July 4th. Peace to Gino and Anne for being cool hosts and I hope to be on the show again!

Oh ya, one last thing. R.I.P Michael Jackson. Here’s me and UGN at M-Studio’s Michael Jackson tribute night just chilling at the bar:

FenaxiZ & UGN

FenaxiZ & UGN