Monday, September 22, 2008

The Movement Fam US Invasion - Week 1 UPDATE! Oh and NEW MIXTAPES OUT NOW!

What is good my people?

Well, we've been in the US for around a week now and I gotta say, we're freakin' loving it. So far, we've managed to hit up San Francisco/Oakland, Seattle and Atlanta, and the folks here have been nothing less than hospitable, welcoming and hilarious.

It's been about 4 years since Bekah and I have been in the US and it's not a hell of a lot different to what I remember it to be. The liquor stores are fun as hell, everything's big, not everyone is as ignorant as you would expect and they are most definitely spoiled for choice. After being here only a week, it feels like months. I think that's a good thing. Either way, I have a strong feeling that we may need to relocate to this fine country to really make our music happen. It's just a matter of which city...

I know a lot of y'all have hit us up and tuned into our radio appearances thus far, we appreciate that. We've had so much support from so many people, I really wanna shout out my man DJ Hyphen in Seattle (keep working on them handstand push ups!), my peoples The Understudies Crew out in Oakland/Bay Area (Foss, Cobb, Jeremy, all the crew, and of course Vlad!!), my man Jermiside in ATL (watch out for them raccoons!) and my muthafuckin' homeboy and Movement Fam representative DJ Grain out here in Atlanta, where I'm writing this from. Also, huge shouts to Kevin Nottingham from www.kevinnottingham.com and Travis Glave from www.wydublog.com, both cats have shown unwavering support of our music and I can't thank them enough.

Aight, here's a bunch of links from the last week or so since both The Soul Movement Volume 2 and World Domi-NoTiOn have been released:

Cee, Bekah and Notion's appearance on DJ Hyphen and J. Moore's Sunday Sound Sessions in Seattle

Cee & Bekah's download on The Audacity of Dope blog

Notion's download on The Audacity of Dope blog

The Movement Fam article on Kevin Nottingham.com

World Domi-NoTiOn download link on Kevin Nottingham.com

The Soul Movement Volume 2 download link on Kevin Nottingham

Cee & Bekah article and download on Wake Your Daughter Up! blog

The Soul Movement Volume 2 download - GroundUpHipHop.com

World Domi-NoTiOn download - GroundUpHipHop.com

The Soul Movement Volume 2 download - PlanetUrban.com.au

World Domi-NoTiOn download - PlanetUrban.com.au

Also, in conjunction with www.kevinnottingham.com, we're running a remix competition for ALL producers out there! Check out the link below, download the mixtapes and acapellas, and submit your remixes - the best of which will go on an official combined mixtape release, getting you MAJOR exposure around the world, plus we definitely hope to network and link with many of the folks who submit remixes. We're really excited about this, so let's get it going!

The Movement Fam Remix competition

Thanks again for everyone's support, much love, blessings, all of that good stuff. Hit us up with comments, thoughts, porn, anything.

We'll keep y'all updated on the happs here, plus we'll have video blogs from the trip up real soon on our Movement Fam YouTube Channel.

Stay real.

Cee & Bekah.

Friday, September 12, 2008

International Assault starts tomorrow...

Ahhhh shiiiiit...it's here. And it's on.

Three quarters of The Movement Fam (Cee, Bekah and Notion) are off to the good old US of A, Canada and New Zealand this weekend to begin their mini-tour/networking trip/shopping expedition/radio tour/catch up sessions/piss up of North America and NZ. Oh yes. It's been 4 stressful months of preparing, pulling our hair out over mixtapes, spending of too much scrilla and hernia's, but it was all worth it.

We'll be keeping y'all regularly updated here on www.ceeandbekah.com of our movements (pardon the pun), the happenings, the highs, the lows, etc. We also aim to do video blogs on www.youtube.com/movementfam. Hopefully we aren't too caught up in the cheap beer to do so.

Aight, so here's all the info for the radio spots we have locked in thus far. We'll update if there's any changes or additions:

Saturday 13th September


Show/Station:
The G.O.D. Hour, Liberation Radio 104.1FM, Oaklank/Berkeley with Citizen
Time: 4pm-8pm Saturdays WST (9am-1pm Sunday 14th Sept Melbourne time)
Stream: Yes, at http://www.berkeleyliberationradio.org/whowe or the GODCast at www.WYDUblog.com.
Details:
Station has gone bankrupt; will now be the GODCast on www.WYDUblog.com.

Sunday 14th September

Show/Station: Sunday Night Sound Session, KUBE FM 93.9 with DJ Hyphen
Time: 10.45pm – 12.15am Sundays WST (3.45pm – 5.15pm Monday 15th Sept Melbourne time)
Stream: Yes, www.kube93.com.
Details: Major radio station in Seattle (equivalent of Nova FM).

Saturday 20th September

Show/Station: The Edutainment Hip Hop Show, 90.3 The Rock WUTK FM, Knoxville, Tennessee, with BT and Drop Knowledge
Time: 9pm – 12 midnight Saturdays EST (11am-1pm Sunday 21st Sept Melbourne time)
Stream: Yes, www.wutkradio.com.
Details: Phone interview, most likely.

Thursday 2nd October

Show/Station: Sound Junction w/Great Scott, CHRY 105.5 FM, Toronto, Ontario
Time:
12 midnight to 2am Thursday night/Friday morning (2pm-4pm Friday 3rd Oct Melbourne time)
Stream: Yes, www.yorku.ca/chry

Monday 6th October

Show/Station: Backroad Radio w/Big Jacks, CHRY 105.5 FM, Toronto, Ontario
Time: 6pm-8pm Mondays (8am – 10am Tuesday 7th Oct Melbourne time)
Stream: Yes, www.yorku.ca/chry

Thursday 16th October
Show/Station: True School Hip Hop show on 95bFM, Auckland, NZ
Time: 9pm-11pm Thursdays (7pm-9pm Thursday 16th Oct Melbourne time)
Stream: Yes, www.95bfm.co.nz

So check us out if you can! They should be a lot of fun.

Aight, now for some promo. My man Kevin Nottingham out at www.kevinnottingham.com has gone and smashed his site with Movement Fam updates this week. He hit the people with a leak of two tracks from each mixtape, as well as a full article on the fam.

Cee & Bekah leak

Notion leak


The Movement Fam article

Look out as on Monday 15th September 2008, both 'The Soul Movement Volume 2' and 'World Domi-NoTiOn' will be released online officially, via the following sites:

Kevin Nottingham
GroundUp Hip Hop
Planet Urban

So make sure you cop that! We also will have hard copies for sale once we get back from the trip (in late October/early November), and we now have Cee & Bekah tshirts for sale! $25 each, we have a bunch of colours - tees for guys, singlets for the ladies. You can't get through summer without one. Or three.

One more thing. My man Johnny Karim, who directed/edited/filmed our 'Melbourne City' video, has also finished up his edit of our 'The Soul Movement Vol. 1' launch show at Playground @ Seven back in March. Check it out!

Part 1



Part 2



Thanks fam! Stay with us, there's too much happening with us right now to not pay attention. It'll change your life. Seriously. Well, sorta. Kinda. Maybe. I dunno.

Scream at ya people!

Cee & Bekah.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

'Melbourne City' video on www.kevinnottingham.com

What's good my people?

First up, Happy Fathers Day to the dads out thurrr. Hope you're neckin' some brews and lappin' up the pressies while you can. lol.

Secondly, big ups to the homeboy Kevin Nottingham at his This Is Hip Hop blog for shouting out The Movement Fam only a day after releasing the 'Melbourne City' video was released online!

Check out The Movement Fam on www.kevinnottingham.com, leave a comment and take a peek around the rest of the site - it's brilliant.

Also, keep checking through Kev's site in the coming months for exclusive leaked tracks from both Cee & Bekah and Notion's upcoming mixtapes, as well as interviews and a remix competition for the beatmakers out there.

Gonna be large. Large, I tells ya.

Blessings,

Cee & Bekah.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Cee & Bekah - Melbourne City video clip online NOW!

Hey fam,

The video for 'Melbourne City' is online!!!

www.youtube.com/movementfam



Directed and edited by the homie John Karim. Hit us with some comments!!

This is our YouTube channel, check back regularly over the next month for our video blogs from our international trip.

Much love,
Cee & Bekah.

Monday, September 1, 2008

The Movement Fam - mixtape covers...

Yes, yes, what the funk is good?

It's Spring! Hell yeah! And we all made it the entire winter without getting sick (touch wood, no homo). Hope y'all are excited coz the sun has been poking it's head out of the clouds recently, so relief from the cold is on the way...

Been a minute, and through mad stress getting these mixtapes done and pressed on time for our overseas trip, organising the tshirts, artwork, PC dramas and deaths in the family, we're still at it and it's all coming together.

We do have some serious news with regard to Cee & Bekah and a major opportunity that has come our way in the last couple of weeks, although we're holding off on dropping the news just yet. For now, we'll say that there's a big chance y'all will be hearing a lot more from Cee & Bekah in the very near future.

The main reason for this post is that we are releasing the artwork for the first two mixtapes to drop from the camp since making it official as The Movement Fam. Notion's long awaited World Domi-NoTiOn mixtape and Cee & Bekah's follow up The Soul Movement Volume 2 have been completed and are currently being pressed in a short run especially for the overseas trip/tour in September and October.

Both covers, along with the Notion logo and Movement Fam logo, have been designed by the homie KidEight outta the UK (click his name to peep his MySpace page with some of his other designs, dude is a beast, no homo).

First up, here's Notion's joint:

Notion - World Domi-NoTiOn

And here's Cee & Bekah's cover:

Cee & Bekah - The Soul Movement Volume 2

We're mad happy with 'em. These two are the special pre-release international editions that we've put together strictly for the folks in the USA, Canada and New Zealand. The Australian crew will get their edition as soon as we get back.

We'll update y'all on the official release dates and locations for download of the mixtapes as soon as it's verified.

Oh and my man Kevin Nottingham at www.kevinnottingham.com is featuring us in the very near future, doing feature articles, downloading of the mixtapes AND, for y'all budding producers out there, an official remix competition where beatmakers can download 10 acapellas from each mixtape and submit remixes of the songs, and the best of each will be compiled onto a special release mixtape that we'll drop at the end of the comp. Very exciting stuff!!

We leave for the trip in mid September, so there will be more updates for those who wanna listen in to our radio interviews via the net.

Thanks for the love! And watch this space, there's a lot happening with the Fam right now...

Scream at ya people!

Cee & Bekah.