July has been a very busy month at SLM and what better way to spend a summer then producing a bunch of fresh projects.  Here’s a short recap of some of the projects I’ve been working on over the last month.

Toronto Pop/Electro artist Thane came back into the sub level studios this month to record his follow up single to last summer’s smash “London Town”. We’re currently working on his second club track and so far the demo sounds amazing! When Thane comes to me to produce his songs he brings in the song completely written with chords/melody/lyrics I then produce, arrange, record, mix and master the entire song. Watch out for Thane’s new single “Diamonds in the Rain” coming soon. 

I recently finished one single for up and coming Pop/Dance artist Lolatronica. She is an independent artist living in Niagara, Ontario. The process we use to create her songs is slightly different from the “traditional way” of building songs (not that there is one). Since she lives in Niagara, it would be hard for her to come all the way down to Toronto just to record her rough ideas so the system we developed for creating songs is that she will record a very rough vocal from her home on her laptop and send it to me via email. I load up the vocal in Ableton, listen carefully to her lyrics and melody and start the musical foundation. From there an instrumental is born and she then comes into the studio to track all the vocals. The end result….remarkable! Her newest single “Boys with the Cash” is complete and will be available for Free Promo Download soon so watch out! She is also looking to release two more songs this summer produced by yours truly.

I produced a beat for Toronto Urban/Pop Singer/Writer Young A-Boateng last month. After taking the beat home and listening to it vigilantly, he came back to me early this month with the entire song (lyrics, melody) written to the beat I produced for him. Over the month of July I’ve been recording the vocals and producing the song as well as mixing it. His single “Won’t Let You Go” will be available for promo soon. Young is currently working towards finishing an EP that will be out later this year.