Grey Granite performs “Not A Robot” @ Radio Radio

Pixelated Laser Face Bass Monster

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TURN IT ON MUSIC VIDEO

Directed/Edited by
Nathan Karamanski

Camera/Sound
Jeremiah D. Nickerson

An experimental performance film conceived 1 hour before a concert at The Historic Melody Inn, Downtown Indianapolis.

Here Comes the Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster!!

Grey Granite and El Carnicero’s journey to Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster continues with second single “Turn It On” featuring Oreo Jones:

Picking up where “Not A Robot” left off, Grey Granite and El Carnicero roll out their second singe from Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster “Turn It On” featuring Heavy Gunner Oreo Jones. “Turn It On” is a pure party jam with a bouncy beat and psychedelic synths that compels the listener to have a good time and dance. Both Grey and Oreo bring their spit game on this one. Grey is at home rhyming about his love of High Life, women and parties. And Oreo doesn’t care because he “ain’t got no underwear.” Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster is coming this summer!

Over the past couple of years, Grey Granite has consistently distinguished himself from other vocalists by perpetually reinventing his style and jumping on anything that catches his interest. Starting with his legendary Amplifies the Killers project to his recent immaculate album Lust Poisons Pride, Grey has been one of the few artists in the Midwest to successfully go left and follow his sonic dreams. His creativity has recently garnered the support of Kick Kick Snare, Ruby Hornet, Loyal KNG, Noise Porn, Nuvo, and Musical Family Tree and several other media outlets. Now with his partner J. Brookinz, the duo have launched Heavy Gun Recordings and are beginning the next portion of their journey.

The man behind the crazy production on PLFBM is the one an only El Carnicero. El Carnicero aka the Butcher aka Aaron Berg has been solidifying his name as master of heavy bass for the past several years. In the mid 2000s as grime was making it’s way across the Atlantic to the States, El Carnicero teamed up with Philly based producers Starkey and Dev79 to form the now infamous Slit Jockey Records. In the past, the Butcher has produced tracks for Doodlebug of Digable Planets, Warrior Queen, and RikoDan of the Roll Deep Crew. Beyond his recent work with Grey, Aaron is currently working on a new project with New York rapper Elucid entitled CapricornOne.

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Tell ‘Em

Zap Town Interview with Danielle Look

DL: This is some form of a concept album, would you agree?
GG: No. Not at all.
JB: I thought it was.
GG: What’s the concept?
JB: (laughs) I’m waitin’ on you to tell me.
DL: So maybe you’re not trying to tell a specific story through a series of songs, but rather guide the listener through a range of emotions?
GG: (looking at the floor, scratching his head) Yea. It’s like, in talking with a dude he’ll tell me about some shit going on in his life. And I’m like “Damn. This story needs to be told.” The songs aren’t about any one person in particular, but really just feelings we can all connect to.

Photos By:  Kayla Houssian

Read More Here

http://www.zaptownmag.com/2010/04/grey-granite-j-brookinz-present-lust-poisons-pride

Colorful Mask Video

“Colorful Mask” Grey Granite ft Alpha Live produced by J. Brookinz

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http://iqentertainment.net/lpp/GreyGranite-ColorfulMaskRemixftAlpha.mp3

Grey Granite and J. Brookinz drop FREEMix of “Colorful Mask” featuring alpha.live:

In February, Grey Granite and J. Brookinz unveiled their foray into electropop, Lust Poisons Pride, and garnered quite a bit of attention from media outlets such as: Sound Verite, Loyal KNG, The Musical Family Tree, Bringing Down the Band, Metromix Indianapolis, and Nuvo. Carrying on from the album’s initial success, the Heavy Gun duo has teamed up with the almighty emcee, alpha.live, for a remix of “Colorful Mask” from LPP.  This is the first time that these three have collaborated since the infamous original version of “The Bar”.  To make the release even sweeter, Heavy Gun Recordings is giving it to you for FREE!

Artwork by Ryan Pelaez and Donald Burlock.

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Underneath It All

Thank You BTAM

Btam in the studio looking a porn

The first song I recorded for Lust Poisons Pride was Lay You Down. For years I have been recording hip hop songs in the closet of one of my closest friends BTAM and for years he was living in the same very comfortable apartment. But, when the time came to record the first song on LPP he had moved out of that apartment and back in with his Mom and Pops to save some money and it was always a full house over there. I would go over to this his extremely cramp room  pretty late at night after work and record in his closet while he worked the boards aka Pro Tools and a Mini Mac.

 When I went into the booth aka closet that night with a way crazy ass beat that I made (ps I am not suppose to play the role of producer that’s brookinz job) and even more way crazy lyrics and singing I was really unsure if he would take me serious and record me. There have been MANY fights in the studio and I didn’t expect any different this time especially. Sometimes Btam doesn’t get what I am trying to do until its all done. Sometimes I don’t get that what I’m doing doesn’t work until its all done and exhausted Btam say, “I told you so”. This time I was pretty unsure of how things would go…

 For weeks I had the song Lay You Down stuck in my head, and it played over and over and over and I’m not taking about how it would and should sound when I had it all done. I was hearing a fully finished mixed and mastered song. I wasn’t sure if I could get Btam to go along with me far enough to get to that point or if I would get shot down with the opening hum of “I wanna Lay You Down…” I remember saying, “Btam just trust me on this one, its going to be different- way different”. And he was down- To my surprise he was into it!

 Shortly after that song was recorded Btam moved out and into his own place and things ran smoothly. Btam put in really late hours recording the songs on Lust Poisons Pride. Some songs he would have to record more than once, if I didn’t like the way something came out I would go back in and do it over. Btam has a really good ear and he’s a technical genius when it comes to audio. I really wish I could pay him what he deserves for the work he has put in on Lust Poisons Pride. One day- SOON.

 SIDENOTE: We recoded another song that night called “All Clear” that didn’t make the cut. In fact we recorded it several times and it got cut seconds before we sent the final version to the distributor.

Thank You Btam, Lust Poisons Pride would not have been made without you.

Listening Wind

Lust Poisons Pride 03 Inspiration
Kinda Slow, Kinda Out There, Kinda Dark Songs that brought me to places where I found my self making Lust Poisons Pride

What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes

 

Download Link:
http://iqentertainment.net/lpp/OffSafetyStems.zip

Not of This World

Thank you Tyler Bowman

I recorded Colorful Mask to a beat by a producer named ComDot but, I was suppose to rap on the beat- NOT sing (I just do what the music tells me…) So,  I had a song that I really felt needed to be on the album but it didn’t have a beat. I thought this would be an easy fix (in my head) I thought J. Brookinz would be able to create the music for this song no prob! Well, time kept ticking and J. Brookinz was busy working on other projects and when the time came to turn the album into the distribution company we still didn’t have Colorful Mask! The two days before we needed to turn it in I finally got J. Brookinz to open the file and listen to the song. He immediately said I can make a beat out of this! He told me that I was singing it in a certain harmonic pattern that would be better played out with a guitar. We had been (well… he had been) mixing down the songs for like two days so thought (I still think) he just didn’t want to do it… Brookinz was like just put it on the next album. I was like HELL NO. And, we fought for like 30 minutes about it. Brookinz told me to call Tyler.

photo by Grey Granite taken at The Road video shoot

ENTER Tyler Bowman

I meet Tyler on the set of The Road video shoot, his good friend Nate asked him to help be a second shooter that day. He told me in was in a few bands so I said we should link up and work on some things, we did but never finished anything (YET). Anyway I sent an emergency call in and Tyler was 100% down to work on the song the next morning. Side Note: Tyler is the bass player in a badass band called Pravada. I showed up at 11am with a laptop and my M-Audio box. He plugged in his bass up right there in the living room of his pops house, listened to the accapella and he started to play along with the melody of my voice. I am sure he has never been under that type of, on the spot pressure to produce music like that but he came through! Tyler, cool as always said “I hope that works man…”

photo by Grey Granite

Thanks Tyler, you really helped make Lust Poisons Pride what it needed to be.

Show Me How to Live /// LPP Acapellas

Producers, Dee Jays, & Music Makers

Here are the Acapellas for Lust Poisons Pride
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photo by Grey Granite at dj OhBeOne's house

Teenage Song

 

 

 

photo by Polina Osherov

Teenage Song Lyrics

I never been here but don’t tell me the way
I’ve got this thing in my heart telling me to stay

I never been here but don’t tell me to Stay
I’ve got this thing in my heart talking me away

Don’t know me all know is my name
Things are not the same
Things are not the same

I’m going to walk this road I chose

Chose

Chose

I’m going to walk this road I

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

This week sees the release of Grey Granite’s “Lust Poisons Pride” on iTunes.
Grey has been steadily making an impact on Indy’s scene as a performer, tastemaker and blogger. “Lust Poisons Pride” is a great step forward — from the opening buzz of “Off Safety” to the undeniably sleazy bounce of “Lay You Down,” you know this album is different from anything that’s been released from this city.

Grey has established his own lane. His music skips and jumps from genre to genre effortlessly. Nothing feels forced; I’d even say that Grey and J. Brookinz have fully found their sound with “LPP.”

The year-plus they spent working on this album is evident. Brookinz’ production is stellar. The sonic palette he chose gave Grey the space he needed to create an album that could change a lot more minds about what Indy’s music scene is capable of doing.

There’s also a streaming link available on Soundcloud for “Lust Poisons Pride.” Get that, man!

Backspin with Rusty Redenbacher
Special to Metromix
February 25, 2010
Rusty Redenbacher hosts “The Rock Block” at 4 p.m. weekdays on Indy’s Music Channel.

Crystalised

 Liesl Bethany Defines the songs of Lust Poisons Pride through Photography

Off Safety

The Road

Teenage Song