This is probably a little redundant…

…and stupid. But if you’ve got Facebook, become a fan of Professor Kliq? I mean. I dunno. It’s fun. So please. I’ll love you, not that I don’t already.

The Reappraisal

Perhaps it’s a tad obvious, but sometimes it seems like an agonizing step back to look at the big picture is in order. Sometimes something will catalyze it, sometimes it will just boil over and catch up… such has been the last few weeks. However, with a new look comes a new walk.

So here’s the deal. To deliberately stay true to CC and to play by its (and everyone else’s) rules, I’m going to make a CC-exclusive compilation of all my clean tracks (that is, tracks that have no traceable samples). There are plenty, some of which had to be slightly retouched. There will also be an unreleased “Guns Blazin” b-side attached to it as well as new album artwork and a whole new delivery. I’ll start from scratch with all of the original mastered tracks and then mix them in a cohesive, digestable fashion to make it so that the album can be listened to front to back in a story-telling manner like “Scientific Method, Vol.2″.

Otherwise, things are going well, albeit a tad stressful. Still working on that Glide remix and also started a new track. My buddy Patrick hooked us up with a gig playing at Kingpin in West Chicago on August 1st at 7pm. $7.00 at the door, 21+… if only this were in the city! It’s a great club, though. It should be good, we just need a lot of people to come.

We’ll be perfecting the set, dropping some new stuff and in new ways. Come check it out if you… live… in the area.

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It Finally Caught Up

To anyone looking at this who was curious as to why all of my work is down from Jamendo, here’s why:

You all know that I use samples… I don’t really try to hide it. It’s not as shameless as a lot of hip-hop artists can be today, but they’re still there – about as shameless as Fatboy Slim, The Dust Brothers, Beck, any one of my heroes. This music wasn’t made with the idea that it was going to be sold or put on a mass market. However, that seems to have changed. I’m going to have to start being very careful now, especially with the success I’ve garnered from Jamendo, the success that Jamendo has garnered for itself, and how quickly things can happen over the internet these days. The full albums will be made available through other sources and not under the CC license. I’ll be putting together a compilation of “clean” tracks, that is, without obvious samples, and then put it back up on Jamendo with a description explaining why this happened.

Patrick Haour from Jamendo brought it to my attention today, and while it was a tad upsetting at first, I’d much rather hear it from him than someone at a massive label or a lawyer.

So don’t panic. Everything should be alright. I’ll keep you folks updated. Thanks again for the all the support.

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