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IMB
PRODUCTIONS ABOUT IMB OVERVIEW
These
tracks were originally for production deal purposes, and most
have not been heard outside of industry studio walls, until
now, on our Volume 1 & 2 audio CD’s. Those tracks,
plus our newer tracks, are now available to you in a PROTOOLS
fully tracked out PTS file. The new Royalty Free Volume disks,
which are 2 TRACK stereo files, are for use on DVD,commercial
projects, multimedia projects, or simply for those of you
who may not have the access to expensive studios but still
want to “put it down” the best way that you know
how…
The royalty
free CD Volume Beats and the single Professional
Beats Pro Tools files are Royalty free with non-exclusive
licensing. This means you are purchasing the permission to
use the songs at a discounted price for your own use, but
the ownership of the song is not exclusive to you the buyer.
So, their may be others who will purchase that same song for
their particular use. The Exclusive Pro Tools
tracks are available in the Industry Beats
column of the website, at my current production price. This
means that the particular song belongs to only you, upon purchase,
and it will not be re sold by IMB Productions after that point.
IMB PRODUCTIONS ABOUT IMB HISTORY
The name
IMB came about around 1998. I had just got my first drum machine,
a Boss 660, and was running an older version of Cakewalk with
a Casio keyboard. Back then I didn't even really know what
MIDI was and what it did; but with the help of my older brother
Guille, I was making what resembled some Heat. I wasn't a
new comer to music. At that time, I was a freshman in college,
and had been reading and playing music for years. Since the
sixth grade I had played the bass through a music scholarship
for a small school and church in the Heart of East Oakland
Ca.
While playing the bass back in high school, it wouldn't be
surprising to hear me practicing the bass line to Too Short's
"Freaky Tales" or Digital Underground's "Humpty
Dance". If you was from The Town back then, you couldn't
help but remember those bass lines; as you could here it bumpin
from any old school Box Chev 10 blocks before the car even
reached where you was at. These younger cats don't even know
what a Zapco is! But back to 1998. I had made my first instrumental
CD with about 13 tracks. I brought it to work that next day
and was bumpin it in parking lot
wit two 15's in the trunk. One of my folks from work walked
up to me like, " Playa, that's you, you made that? That
s--t is tight, I didn't know you made beats!" That's
when I replied to him with, "Yea, I MAKE BEATS."
Ever since then
IMB... I - MAKE - BEATS
is the motto.
Fast forward
through college where I learned how to engineer music and
work Protools on a Mackie board. I realized I didn't like
sampling music. It felt too easy. That's around the time Puffy
made a fortune selling other peoples old hits. I said F--k
that, if i'm gonna do it, I'm gonna play all my own s - -t.
I wanted a Guitar sample, so I did what any real producer
would have done. I paid a crack head to play the rift for
me for 2 dollars. Nah, Nah, just playin... I went to Music
Unlimited and bought a guitar, and taught my self how to play
it. I taught myself how to play the piano. I'm not saying
that I was Stevie Wonder on the keys, or Jimmy Hendrix on
the axe, but on a 4 to 8 bar loop, I did my thing!
In 2003, I got the opportunity to become the chief sound engineer
for Legendary brother and sister management team, Atron Gregory
and Lena Holiday Coleman. If you don't know who these people
are, you might remember a young rapper they discovered and
managed for years, named TUPAC SHAKUR. Equity
Entertainment is their new company, and that's where the majority
of the beats that you will hear on this web site were created;
at TNT Recording Studios in Richmond Ca.
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