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<strong>HI EVERYONE, <br /><br />JUST WISHING ALL OF YOU A HAPPY AND SAFE LABOR DAY WEEKEND.<br /><br />AND IF YOU GET A MINUTE, I´M BACK AT THE TOP THIS MONTH IN THE CONTEST AT OURSTAGE. I WAS #1 ALL WEEK, AND JUST DROPPED TO #3 YESTERDAY. THE SEMI FINALS END TONIGHT, AND THE FINALS START IMEDDIATELY AFTER. <br /><br />IF YOU HAVE SOME TIME, I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. <br /><br />HOPE YOU´RE ALL DOING WELL. <br /><br />ALL THE BEST,<br />DICARLO</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ourstage.com/banner/1/UJXZQNUCNGKL"><img style="border: medium none; width: 280px; height: 300px;" src="http://www.ourstage.com/banner/image/1/UJXZQNUCNGKL.jpg" alt="ALL SYSTEMS DOWN, by DICARLO Featuring ANTHONY BAGGETTE on OurStage" /></a>
<p><strong>HI EVERYONE, </strong></p>
<p><strong>I KNOW I HAVEN´T BEEN AROUND HERE MUCH, BUT I´M STILL VERY HAPPY TO SEE IMS BACK UP AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<img src="images/smilies/face-grin.png" border="0" alt="grin" title="grin" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>I´VE BEEN REALLY BUSY MIXING AND MASTER A LOT OF CD`S FOR ARTISTS IN THE USA, FOR UPCOMING CD RELEASES, PLUS DOING A LOT OF LIVE CONCERTS AT SUMMER FESTIVALS HERE IN BERLIN, AND AROUND GERMANY. I´VE BEEN HAVING A BLAST DOING BOTH. </strong></p>
<p><strong>I´LL BE HAVING A SPECIAL OFFER ON CD MASTERING FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, WHERE YOU CAN SAVE $157.00 TO OVER $200.00 OFF THE NORMAL PRICE, BUT I´LL POST A BLOG ABOUT THAT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE. </strong></p>
<p><strong>I´M JUST GLAD TO SEE IMS IS STILL STANDING STRONG, AND THAT ALL MY FRIENDS STILL HAVE A HOME FOR THEIR MUSIC!!!!!!<img src="images/smilies/face-grin.png" border="0" alt="grin" title="grin" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>MAKES ME VERY HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<img src="images/smilies/face-grin.png" border="0" alt="grin" title="grin" /></strong></p>
<p><strong><br />HOPE YOU´RE ALL HAVING A GREAT SUMMER. </strong></p>
<p><strong>ALL THE BEST,</strong></p>
<p><strong>DICARLO</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hi Everyone, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It´s been a while. 
I received a lot of new comments, and messages, and finally got around to replying to them today. I also uploaded a brand new song called "ETHNOLOGY". It´s very different than most of my other tracks, it´s Ethnic. Actually, it´s Multi-Genre and could be classified as Soundtrack, New Age, World, Club/Dance, or Ambient/Chill. It´s only on one other site at the moment, and has been doing very well over there. I hope you will enjoy it. The main theme of the song is "World Peace Through Music". </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There´s been a lot of new stuff happening. I´ve totally upgraded my home studio, so that I don´t always have to go to the big studio all the time to do work for my clients. I can now work at home a lot more. I still do the mastering in the big studio with the Tube Tech compressor, Master EQ´s, and other goodies, but I´m doing a lot more mixing work at home, and my clients have been very satisfied. I totally upgraded my home studio, and bought an iMAC 24, 2,93 GHZ, 8 GB RAM, 2TB Hard Drive, and am running both LOGIC 8 and Pro Tools. Also added an Apogee Ensemble sound card, and the SSL Duende Mini 32 Studio, with 32 channels with all the SSL plugins including Channel Strip EQ´s, Buss Compressor, Vocal Strip, Drum Strip, X EQ, and X Compressor. I basically took a large portion of the money I made with my Online Mixing and Mastering business, and invested it, instead of giving it to the Taxman. 
These are all major improvements, and the SSL Duende sounds a lot like a real SSL board. I also like the Neve UAD 2 Nevana, and it may be next on my list, but it´s a PCI card, and there are no PCI card slots in the iMAC 24, so I´ll have to buy an external one, and they seem to be very expensive. But, I´m planing on adding the Neve UAD 2 Nevana as well, because it´s also great, and has it´s own distintive sound. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I won 2 song contests on another site last year, and received 2 gift certicates worth $200.00 on Amazon. They have an Instrument section on Amazon, and I decided to buy a Digital Recorder. I spent 2-3 month researching ALL the recorders available, reading reviews from magazines, users, and listening to samples of all the different machines. I chose the Olympus LS-10, which was $304.00=224.00 € on Amazon. I sent the Gift Cards to a friend of mine in New York, and had him buy the recorder with his credit card, and ship it over to me in Berlin, Germany. He had owed me some money, and in the end, since the I´d won the $200.00 gift certificates, I only paid about 120.00 Euro for the recorder. It costs 399.00 Euro here in Germany. IT`S AWESOME!!!!!!!!! The only recorder that might be slightly better, is the SONY PCM 50. But it´s a lot bigger, heavier, only records 16 or 24 bit WAV, (No MP3) and costs $499.00 on Amazon, 599.00 Euro here in Germany. The Olympus records in 96khz/24 bit, 96khz/16 bit, 88.2khz/24 bit, 88.2khz/16 bit, 48khz/24 bit, 48khz/16 bit, 44.1khz/24, 44.1khz/16 bit, and in MP3 from 360, 256, and 128 kbps, has great buit in mics, and is slightly bigger than a cell phone, so you can carry with you all the time. I did some recording at a Jam Session the same day I got it, without even reading the manual, and the recordings were great. I can take a 24 bit recording, and master it, and you´d think it was recorded with top studio gear. It´s very good. And the MP3 recording is pefect for recording reheaersals, where you just need to learn parts, and don´t need a 24 bit WAV file. I must sound like an Olympus salesman, but check it out, it´s an amazing little machine. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, hope you´re all doing well. Check out my new tune, and tell me what you think. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">All the best, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">DICARLO</span></p>
<p><strong>HEY, JUST WANTED TO WISH ALL MY FELLOW AMERICANS HERE A HAPPY AND SAFE MEMORIAL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="images/smilies/face-grin.png" border="0" alt="grin" title="grin" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>SORRY I HAVEN´T BEEN AROUND MUCH, BUT WE LOST A GREAT BASS PLAYER AND GOOD FRIEND RECENTLY, AND HAVE HAD TO BREAK IN A NEW GUY, WHICH MEANT A LOT OF REHEARSALS FOR THE GIGS AND FESTIVALS WE´VE BEEN DOING EVERY WEEKEND. AND NOW THIS NEW GUY IS GOING ON TOUR WITH A MAJOR ACT HERE IN GERMANY, SO THAT MEANS FINDING ANOTHER GUY TO DO THE GIGS IN JUNE-JULY-AUGUST. I´VE ALSO BEEN DOING A LOT OF MIXES AND MASTERS FOR ARTISTS ON MY SPACE. THE HIP HOP ARTIST DUTTY DEVISIOSO JUST SENT ME ANOTHER 3 SONGS TO MIX AND MASTER THIS WEEK, AND BEFORE THAT I HAD DONE 18 OTHER SONGS FOR HIM. HIS CD WILL BE COMING OUT IN THE NEXT MONTHS AND IT´S REALLY GOOD. I´VE ALSO MET A FANTASTIC FEMALE SINGER-SONGWRITER THAT HAS A DEAL WITH SONY/REDD AND WARNER CHAPPEL PUBLISHING, THAT WANTS TO COLLAB WITH ME, AND HAVE ME DO REMIXES OF SOME OF HER EXISTING SONGS. HER NAME IS LA MENGA KAFI, AND SHE´S ALSO ON MY SPACE AS WELL.. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, I HAVEN´T HAD A WHOLE LOT OF TIME LATELY.</strong></p>
<p><strong>ALSO, I´VE DONE IT AGAIN, I´M IN THE THE QUARTER FINALS AT OURSTAGE AGAIN, BUT IN 2 GENRES THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D<br />MY "DICARLO BEATS & SONG SNIPPETS" ARE #5 IN THE DJ BEATS GENRE, AND "ATHENA´S WISH" IS #5 IN THE ROCK INSTRUMENTAL GENRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D</strong></p>
<p><strong>THE JUDGING FOR THE QUARTER FINALS STOPS ON MAY 29. </strong></p>
<p><strong>SEMI FINALS START ON MAY 29 </strong></p>
<p><strong>AND THE FINALS ARE ON MAY 31. THE #1 PRIZE IS $5,000. <br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>AS USUAL, MY SONGS ARE ALWAYS STRONG ENOUGH TO REACH THE QUARTER AND SEMI FINALS, AND IT´S HAPPENED 3 TIMES IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS, SO I NEED ALL THE VOTES I CAN GET!!!!!!!! <br /><br />SO IF YOU GOT SOME SPARE TIME, I´D APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT. :D<br />www.ourstage.com</strong></p>
<p><strong>AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I HAD A FRIEND ASK ME TO VOTE FOR HIM ON ANOTHER SITE CALLED www.musicnation.com, AND SINCE I HAD TO REGISTER TO VOTE, I DECIDED TO MAKE A PAGE THERE, AND ENDED UP ENTERING A CONTEST SPONSORED BY SPIN MAGAZINE AND HENNESSEY. I JOINED THERE 6 DAYS AGO, WAS #447 IN THE CONTEST, AND TODAY I´M #53!!!!!! 1ST PRIZE IS A RECORD DEAL WITH SIGNAL/EPIC (SONY). I DOUBT I´LL WIN, BECAUSE THERE´S SOME VERY TALENTED ARTISTS ON THE SITE, AND SOME EVEN HAVE TOTALLY PROFESSIONAL MTV LIKE VIDEOS. A LOT OF YOUNG NEW INDIE ARTISTS HUNGRY TO GET A DEAL. LOL TO BE HONEST, I´M QUITE SURPRISED AT THE SUCCESS I´VE HAD SO FAR. BUT THE REAL HEAD ON HEAD BATTLES START LATER, AND I DON´T KNOW HOW WELL I´LL DO AGAINST THE PRO VIDEOS, ETC. MANY OF YOU HERE HAVE SEEN THE VIDEO OF MARGOT MC DONALD. WELL, THERE´S A MILLION MARGOT MC DONALDS, AND YOUNG BANDS WITH THE SAME QUALITY MUSIC AND PRO VIDEOS OUT THERE TRYING TO MAKE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES. IT´S PRETTY SCARY TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. LOL<br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>ANYWAY, I HOPE ALL OF YOU ARE STAYING HEALTHY AND DOING WELL. HAVE A GREAT MEMORIAL DAY!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />PEACE, <br />DICARLO</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I WILL BE PERFORMING WITH MFA KERA & MIKE RUSSEL BAND ON THE AFRICAN STAGE.</span>WE WILL BE DEDICATING THIS CONCERT TO THE LATE EARL BOSTIC, OUR BASS PLAYER, WHO PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY ON TUESDAY. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS GIG.<span style="font-size: x-small;">SEE FESTIVAL LINK: http://www.karneval-berlin.de/de/kalender.26.html</span></span></p>
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JUST WANTED TO WISH ALL OF YOU A HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
ALL THE BEST.
PEACE,
DICARLO
"AGELESS" IS MY ONE AND ONLY NEW AGE TRACK.
IT WAS CREATED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WHEN A GIRLFRIEND/SINGER CAME OVER WITH SEVERAL CD`S SHE HAD PICKED UP AT THE MIDEM (MUSIC INDUSTRY MEETING) IN FRANCE.
ONE OF THE CD`S WAS A NEW COMPILATION CD FEATURING MANY DIFFERENT NEW AGE ARTISTS.
AFTER LISTENING TO THE WHOLE CD, I SAID; "I COULD WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT"!!! :D
SHE WANTED TO GO TO A CLUB, BUT I DECIDED TO STAY HOME, AND 4 HOURS LATER, WHEN SHE RETURNED FROM THE CLUB "AGELESS" WAS FINISHED.:D
I HAD COMPOSED THIS WHOLE TRACK IN 4 HOURS USING JUST MY ALESIS QS-8 KEYBOARD AND YAMAHA RM 1X SEQUENCER. :D
THIS SONG FEATURES 9 PERCUSSION TRACKS FROM AFRICAN, EAST INDIAN, AND ASIAN DRUMS. LOTS OF COUNTERPOINT, AND VERY BEAUTIFUL GUITAR AND ANGELIC CHOIR MELODIES.
MUSIC FOR FLOATING, FLYING, OR DREAMING. VERY RELAXING THE WAY NEW AGE MUSIC SHOULD BE.
ENJOY. :D
ADDED; I`D LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS TO ROB GRANT, AND WISH HIM A SPEEDY RECOVERY!!!!! :D
