I made a video for the cute little song I made when I was in Wilcannia last year with Sarah from Shopfront. Working from Wilcannia Central School and Wings Drop In Centre, I helped about 10 kids aged 8 to 14 write their own verses and the chorus. All the video footage was recorded while we weren’t recording vocals! The beat is Teach Me How To Dougie by Cali Swag District.
- Levins
Every Monday in 2010 Heaps Decent ran a music class for the students at Key College. Key College is an independent high school in Redfern funded by Youth Off The Streets. We’ve been been working with Key College since 2008 and every year we get to make a selection of great new tracks with some talented young people.
Last year we set up a great program where, over a school term, Nina helped each student at Key write, produce and record their own song in the style of their choice. Some students wrote rap songs, complete with their own self-produced beats while others created new styles of club music with their productions.
You can listen to all of the awesome, original songs on our Soundcloud page or listen to them below in this great mix that Nina put together.
Key College Tracks 2010 Mix by Heaps Decent
The first school term of 2011 is just a few weeks away and Heaps Decent is excited to get back in the Key College studio, meet this year’s new students and make some new music!
FREE DOWNLOAD: THE ASTON SHUFFLE’S REMIX OF ‘LATE NIGHT’
It’s day 2 of our remix a day frenzy! Yesterday we gave away the super funky Toni Toni Lee remix of ‘Miimali Gang Stars’. Today we’re gonna take the tempo up a bit….
This is the remix that the lovely fellas The Aston Shuffle did of another Detours and Destinations track, ‘Late Night’, by the girls over at Miimali Aborginal Youth Services. This once chilled out Nina Las Vegas produced tune has been turned into a fast steppin’ synthy monster of a club hit! We think this might be the first Aston Shuffle song that you can actually shuffle to!
Download this MONSTER from the Soundcloud link above and come back tomorrow for our final Detours & Destinations remix, Pablo Calamari’s remix of ‘We’re Going To Lomandra’!
Best believe you’ll be hearing all these remixes and more tomorrow night at our HEAPS DECENT SPRING PARTY! Make sure you buy your tickets HERE.
Hey! Have you heard our new song with A-Trak Anywhere But Here yet?
It’s been featured on dozens of blogs in the last two weeks, thanks to our friends at Biz3 for hooking most of these up! Thanks to all the blogs who wrote about us too.
Those of you who haven’t picked the track up yet can do so FOR FREE at one of the 500 blogs below…
HYPE MACHINE
DISCO BELLE
MIKEY BLOOM
MUZIC
HYPETRAK
DITTED
ELECTRORASH
STEREOBAIT
KICK KICK SNARE
SHAPED NOTES
HAIDO
THE DAILEY BLEND
BANGKOK RADIO
DONE WAITING
SHEENA BEASTON
GIGA CRATE
HOT BISCUITS
FULL UP AND WAITING
Member of the Heaps Decent Crew Wax Motif, one of the producers that played an instrumental role in our Detours and Destinations project, has been busy with his own production! Check out some of his killer tunes here and keep an eye out for some fresh tunes coming out real soon!
Here’s the finished product from our star Paige Lagettie - “Don’t Look Down”! Thanks again to all involved in this great project for the NSW Reconciliation Council, especially Paige and Adam Bozzetto
You can download the tune here
Here’s a new mixtape from Heaps Decent crew member Adam Bozzetto including a bunch of his original tunes! HEAPS of goodness to sink your teeth into.
Adam Bozzetto’s New Mixtape! Lots of my own unreleased songs
Download (tracklist also in download)
Tracks with a * have been edited from original
1. Mr. Flash, Motorcycle Bot
2. Breakbot, Baby I’m Yours
3. Laberge, You Won’t Regret
4. Treasure Fingers, What Am I Supposed To Do
5. Adam Bozzetto, I Want To Be With Two
6. Hatiras & K.I.D, Don’t Stop *
7. Adam Bozzetto, Get Away
8. Kris Baha, Down *
9. Voodoo Chilli, Love Songs
10. Kill The Noise, Perfect Combinaion *
11. Adam Bozzetto, Hear Music
12. Highway, High Powered Boys
13. Fan Out, Surkin *
14. Strip Steve, Dancin’ (Ian Pooley Remix) *
15. Monarchy, The Phoenix Alive (Hot City Remix) *
16. Mouveau Yorican, Boriqua (Harvard Bass Remix) *
17. MJ Cole, Volcano Riddim
18. Delphic, Halcyon (L-vis 1990 Remix)
19. Jesse Rose, (Where Were You) Last Night
20. Uffie, MCs Can Kiss (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)
21.The Martin Brothers, Duck Face *
22. Boy 8-Bit, The Keep
23. Oliver $, Ihope
24. Jan Driver, Tellyfoam
25. Schlachthofbronx, Tulum (BeatauCue Remix) *
26. Bart B More, Romane (Para One Remix)
27. Congorock, Babylon feat. Mr Lexx
28. Mustard Pimp, Paper
29. Sweet Sweet Lies, The Day I Changed (Reset! Remix) *
30. DJ Zinc, Wile Out feat Ms Dynamite
31. HiJack VS Santiago & Bushido, Puttin It Down
32. Boys Noize, Sweet Light (Boris Dlugosch Remix) *
33. Boys Noize & Erol Alkan, Lemonade
34. Priors, What You Need (Grum Remix)
35. Catz ‘n Dogz, Something Will Come Out
Heaps Decent spent the day recording with Paige Lagettie last week. Paige wrote “Don’t Look Down”, the song that won the Schools Reconciliation Challenge run by the New South Wales Reconciliation Council this year.
The song you can hear was produced by Adam Bozzetto for Heaps Decent. You’ll be able to hear the finished song later this week, we’re really proud of Paige for making it sound so great!
Thanks to Paige and her Dad for coming to record with us, to Gadigal for providing us with somewhere to record, to Ben for engineering, to Adam Bozzetto for the great beat and to Julian and Leanne from NSW Reconciliation Council for putting the awesome project together!
Left to right: Jacob (DJ Jay Tee), Diplo, Naomi (MC Nay), Maya, Joel (Weno) and Santana.
Here’s something we didn’t post last week, which is stupid because it’s super cool.
When The Last Kinection came into the Gadigal Studios for a session with Diplo, Joel (Weno) brought the whole family in.
Music is obviously in their blood, as it turns out Maya (pictured second from the right) is a rapper like her dad. Apparently the session was private, as Maya took to the mic alone in Joel’s studio and free-styled for about 15 minutes.
Listen to Maya’s track ‘Dance’ (originally Fat Joe’s ‘Make It Rain’) and love it as much as we do!
‘SMASH A KANGAROO’ AVAILABLE ON ITUNES
‘Smash A Kangaroo’ - the first official Heaps Decent track, produced by Diplo and featuring the kids from the Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre - is now available on iTunes!! You can preview the song on our Myspace page, if you like it, please BUY IT! All proceeds will go straight back into Heaps Decent so we can continue with amazing projects and make some more amazing music!!
