Kompleks Konversations “Do They Really Want that Old ‘Thang’ Back? Post-Pandemic Policy”

We’ve recently been working on audio post for 8 episodes of Kompleks Konversations Season 2. This season of Konversations features some really interesting perspectives in regards to conducting business during the pandemic. Give their channel a follow - you will learn something!

Fighting with love for social, economic and environmental justice for all Durham residents. Durham City Council Member DeDreana Freeman sits down with Tobias Rose to discuss how it felt to govern the City of Durham during a pandemic. They look to the future by discussing the long-term effects of the pandemic on cities and predicting what Durham will look like in 2040. Freeman also provides insight into her personal journey in politics and hopes for the Durham community she represents.

Konversations is a business podcast hosted by Kompleks Principal and Creative Director Tobias Rose featuring special guests on a variety of topics. From entrepreneurship to leadership and everything in between, we discuss a different subject during each Konversation. Season 2 of Konversations explores “The New Economy” that has resulted from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Follow Konversations:
https://komplekscreative.com/konversations-podcast/
https://www.instagram.com/konversations_
https://twitter.com/Konversations_

Black Wall Street's SpeakEasy '21 (Vol. 2)

Black Wall Street: SpeakEasy is a political awareness program to raise awareness about public policy in Durham, NC. In collaboration with the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and Kompleks Creative, the inaugural SpeakEasy event will consist of a political forum with 2021 city council and mayoral candidates.

It was a pleasure to assist the team with the audio post production.

Mary Massie Band / Friday October 22nd

The Mary Massie Band is performing an early show today at Eastside Local (at 6pm). For those of you who may not know, the Mary Massie Band is basically made up of the members of Hardcore Lounge - but a different feel & fronted by Mary. They’ve been working hard on the material & I’m looking forward to getting in the studio and tracking these guys very soon.

This will be their first performance since the “before time” & it’s outside, so slap a mask on your face and come out...

**sidenote — I will forever have a soft spot for that Eastland logo

Black Wall Street's SpeakEasy '21 (Vol. 1)

It was an honor to be on the team & help Black Wall Street, The Durham Chamber of Commerce & Kompleks Creative wrap-up the audio for SpeakEasy ‘21.

Black Wall Street: SpeakEasy is a political awareness program to raise awareness about public policy in Durham, NC. In collaboration with the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and Kompleks Creative, the inaugural SpeakEasy event will consist of a political forum with 2021 city council and mayoral candidates.

Illmind BLAP:CAM 029 @ Asylum Digital

We hosted I!!mind in the studio a few weeks back for his Pass the Aux production workshop. It went well, was informative & everyone had a great time!!!
Here are some highlights from the evening via the Blap-cam....

Special thanks to Roger Cooper for assisting on this date.

"Don't Disrespect" LATruth feat. Snoop Dogg & KZ

We had a blast working on this record w/ LATruth (yeah the viral-video-Facebook-guy), the one & only Snoop-motherfucking-DOGG & KZ on "Don't Disrespect".
You can catch it on Spotify here.  

Rapper LATRUTH link up with KZ & Rapper SNOOP DOGG and drop a monster hit for the streets. This is one of the biggest hip hop records of 2017 stay tuned for more from these talented artist.

Reverb Fest 5 / April 29th!!!

We're really excited to be set-up (doing our pop-up Diggers Delight vinyl-records-thing) out @ The Neighborhood Theater this Saturday night for Reverb Fest 5!!! If any of you that really know me, you know that I am all about vinyl. I've been collecting since like '84 & have amassed a pretty thorough collection over the years (if I may say so myself).
The lineup this year looks amazing, there's some really awesome bands here with some great records out - I can't wait to see everyone!!!

The times, venue & tix info is below...

Pabst Blue Ribbon Presents: Reverb Fest 5

@ Lunchbox Records
Cookout & Milkshake Social
All Ages
5:00 LeAnna Eden & The Garden Of 
5:45 Tape Waves (Charleston, SC)
6:30 Infinity Crush (Wilmington / Joy Void) 

@ Neighborhood Theatre
All Ages
7:00 Sarah Shook & The Disarmers (Chapel Hill / Bloodshot)
7:45 Christina Schneider's Jepeto Solutions (Atlanta, GA / OSR Tapes)
8:30 JMSN (Eastpointe, MI / White Room)
9:30 of Montreal (Athens, GA / Polyvinyl)

@ Snug Harbor 
18+
10:30 Blame the Youth (Charlotte)
11:15 Hectorina (Charlotte)
12:00 Boulevards (Durham / Captured Tracks)

@ The Station
18+
10:00 Alright (Charlotte / Self Aware)
10:45 MyBrother MySister (Columbia, SC / Self Aware)
11:30 Paint Fumes (Charlotte / Get Hip)
12:15 The Coathangers (Atlanta, GA / Suicide Squeeze)

Vendors:
Abari Game Bar
Diggers Delight
Sprinkles
Carlos Dogs
The Oddboy Collective

*** TICKETS ***
Reverb Fest Pass (ALL venues/shows)
$20 ADV // $25 DOS
http://ticketf.ly/2mPnaci

Tickets for Snug Harbor ONLY:
$10 adv/$10 dos
http://snugharbor.tunestub.com/event.cfm?id=259542&cart

Tickets for The Station ONLY:
$10 adv/$12 dos
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2931266

Note about Lunchbox Records show: A cover charge will be collected at the door from those who don't have festival passes.

Spotify Playlist: http://sptfy.com/1ooC
Instagram: @reverbfest5
Twitter: @ReverbFestCLT
Artwork by Nicholas Holman

***You can keep up w/ Diggers Delight & what we're doing around town on Facebook, Instagram & diggersdelightvinyl.com

A New Site, Some News, Etc...

Soooooooo. 
What's good!

It's been a long while since we've made any posts to asylumdigital.com. There's a reason (a pretty dumb reason), but it is the reason nonetheless...
Here we go - the previous site was built in Wordpress, evidently there was a plug-in that fell out of update & I was locked out of the login section of the site, smh. So the last website post was in February 2015. I tried & tried to sort out the issue, & with no help from Wordpress, we had to completely scrap the site & start over from scratch. Obviously, there is a 2 year gap in our discography, etc, so I'll be working to fill in those gaps (as well as tightening up any loose ends around the site). I really just wanted to get it back up & properly running immediately.

I dig the new layout, I think that it is clean (plus it's responsive now, so that's much better) - drop us a line & tell us what you think!

Ths is old news to some, but since I wasn't able to update the site (I guess that I should at least write it)... At the top of 2016 we moved to South Charlotte. We jumped right in to working on some awesome records in the new space & I can't wait for you to hear these sounds. The new rooms are awesome & the work has been better than ever - Seriously!!!

We're also planning some workshop events & open houses in the very near future that we're very excited about (more news about that coming very soon). 

Anyway, enjoy the new asylumdigital.com & I promise that it will be regularly updated this time!

See ya soon /// let's make some noise.