Yes yes...it's update time again. Weekly updates were damn near impossible as we were moving around, so fortnightly it is.
Aight so after the last update, we left y'all in Toronto. Things went real well in the T-Dot, with another radio spot, studio sessions with Miss Jessica Kaya (what up, Jessie?) and a lot of sightseeing (Niagara Falls, CN Tower, etc). The photo shoot unfortunately didn't come through due to time constraints, but now that we have the contacts, we'll most def hit it up next time.
The last night in TO was amazing. My man Craig and Ally decided to get all stupid and cop some wigs and ridiculous outfits for our last night on the town, so all of us were looking amazingingly stupid and had a wicked night. Shout outs to the dancing man at Mod Club. You're a genius, bro.
So our last stop in North America was LA. Last time Bekah and I hit the town up, we didn't really enjoy ourselves. This time was a different story. We hired ourselves a lil Chevy Impala to take us around town, and being such a huge place, we would have been fucked without it. We had some meetings with Wayne Fernandez, the man who ran the WKD radio spot in Melbourne that I grew up listening to, so to dine with Wayne and his mate Rod was a blessing, thanks guys! We also linked with my man Tunji from Inverse, who hooked us up plenty at the Interscope promo room, and cooked a mean BBQ out at his girl's crib in Venice. Shouts to the Sour Diesel, which left us fully operational the next day lol.
It was hella sad leaving North America, but New Zealand was calling. After a long ass flight, we soldiered on and stayed up all day for our radio spot that night with DJ Penfold, which went really well. We also linked with my man Kebrasca from Mai FM, which should be a great relationship for both of us. We got some time to take in the sights of Auckland, it's a beautiful city, and we wish we could have been able to stay a bit longer. Much love to Mat and Debz for taking us everywhere, and shouts to Lish, Bronson, Cilla and Donna!
So a couple days back we arrived back home in Melbourne to 30 degree weather! Fuckin' booooooom!! Of course, that didn't last but we're happy to be home and have a shitload of work to do.
Just a reminder, producers, keep submitting remixes for our competition on www.kevinnottingham.com, there's still just under 2 months left to go. We'll have a couple projects good to go in the next few months, as well a Movement Fam blog on a well known Hip Hop site, which we'll be releasing in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for that.
The Movement Fam and Notion blog pages are almost good to go, so we'll be launching those very shortly, and the Cee & Bekah blog will become more specific to us and more personal, as with Notion's blog, while the Movement Fam blog (ran by DJ Grain) will contain all the news and goings on for the crew.
Much love to everyone, and keep checking our YouTube channel for the video blogs from the trip, coming soon!!
Blessings,
Cee & Bekah.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Movement Fam on The G.O.D.cast (Oakland, CA)!
What up, fam?
I'm writing to you at like 4am from Toronto, hella tired but it's time to handle business, regardless of what the clock says.
Just wanted to let y'all know that the G.O.D.cast edition that we featured on with our good mates Citizen and Cobb (and the greater Understudies crew) out in Oakland, California is finally online and good to go!
You can download The G.O.D.cast Vol. 2 right now for free (just click on the words, man!).
Huge shouts to Citizen and Fly Cobb for having us on the show and being most gracious hosts out in Oaktown. Of course, shouts to Vlad for his hospitality and my mans Jeremy for the recording time.
Please check this out and support real music, real people, real shit.
Holla,
Cee.
I'm writing to you at like 4am from Toronto, hella tired but it's time to handle business, regardless of what the clock says.
Just wanted to let y'all know that the G.O.D.cast edition that we featured on with our good mates Citizen and Cobb (and the greater Understudies crew) out in Oakland, California is finally online and good to go!
You can download The G.O.D.cast Vol. 2 right now for free (just click on the words, man!).
Huge shouts to Citizen and Fly Cobb for having us on the show and being most gracious hosts out in Oaktown. Of course, shouts to Vlad for his hospitality and my mans Jeremy for the recording time.
Please check this out and support real music, real people, real shit.
Holla,
Cee.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
The Movement Fam US Invasion - Weeks 2-3 UPDATE!
Yes yes yes yes! What the funk is crackalackin'??
My apologies for the late update from the past couple weeks, we've had intermittent net access, and to be honest, we've just been too busy and having too good of a time. But I'm actually sitting in the room in Toronto on a Saturday night, a cold ass Saturday mind you, with the Nuit Blanche festival going on outside and instead of joining the festivities, I'm blogging. That either makes me an extremely dedicated young man or a right goose.
Anyway, since we were in ATL, a lotta thangs have been happening. Atlanta was amazing, we had such a great time, and straight after the laid back south was the hectic New York city. Aside from the turbulence on the small ass plane, everything with beautiful touching down at JFK. We had been graced with amazing weather the whole time but all that came to an abrupt halt when the east coast turned the waterworks on for us the entire time. Word to rain.
So the first night in NYC was straight to the hostel, then off to Libation for the last night in a series of club evening ran by Danny Castro of Lyricist Lounge fame. Our very good friend Eternia (what up Silky?? Click on her name to check out her site) hooked us up VIP to see DJ Tony Touch do his thang, and other cats such as Ju Ju from the Beatnuts and Sway were in the building. Aside from the tourist attractions, we had a couple important meetings with some label and radio folks out there which will hopefully grow into a very mutually beneficial relationships. Loved it, and would love to live there...even after my ATL rant.
Next up was T-DOT!!! Our second home. It's beautiful to be back here, seriously. No other city thus far has excited me to be in as much as Toronto. We missed this place so damn much, I truly think this is where we need to be. The love that has been extended here (mostly through Eternia's wonderful friends) is mindblowing. We've already done two major radio spots, dished out mixtapes to influential folks, had a couple great meetings, caught up with friends, done semi nudie runs down Queen St at 2am...still got photo shoots and studio sessions to come. Massive shouts to Great Scott and DJ O-Nonymos from Sound Junction, Theo 3 and DJ Serious from Styalistik Endeavours, Big Jacks, Dave, DJ Grouch and please do yourselves a favour and check out Big It Up, a Canadian owned hat company which has the most amazing headgear I have ever seen. Dameion (CEO/President) is one of the most sincere and spiritual people we have had the pleasure of meeting, and The Movement Fam will be continuing strong supporters of Big It Up.
Also, check out Notion's article on WYDU blog, massive shouts to Trav. Producers, keep it moving on the remix competition on www.kevinnottingham.com, we've had a fair few submissions thus far and it's all sounding pretty damn dope. Exciting shit.
That's about it for now. We'll be in Los Angeles by the end of the week, then off to Auckland, New Zealand before returning to MEL.
Scream at ya peoples, thanks again for all your support, we got a lot in store for 2008/2009 so it can't stop, won't stop, fuck stopping.
Cee & Bekah.
My apologies for the late update from the past couple weeks, we've had intermittent net access, and to be honest, we've just been too busy and having too good of a time. But I'm actually sitting in the room in Toronto on a Saturday night, a cold ass Saturday mind you, with the Nuit Blanche festival going on outside and instead of joining the festivities, I'm blogging. That either makes me an extremely dedicated young man or a right goose.
Anyway, since we were in ATL, a lotta thangs have been happening. Atlanta was amazing, we had such a great time, and straight after the laid back south was the hectic New York city. Aside from the turbulence on the small ass plane, everything with beautiful touching down at JFK. We had been graced with amazing weather the whole time but all that came to an abrupt halt when the east coast turned the waterworks on for us the entire time. Word to rain.
So the first night in NYC was straight to the hostel, then off to Libation for the last night in a series of club evening ran by Danny Castro of Lyricist Lounge fame. Our very good friend Eternia (what up Silky?? Click on her name to check out her site) hooked us up VIP to see DJ Tony Touch do his thang, and other cats such as Ju Ju from the Beatnuts and Sway were in the building. Aside from the tourist attractions, we had a couple important meetings with some label and radio folks out there which will hopefully grow into a very mutually beneficial relationships. Loved it, and would love to live there...even after my ATL rant.
Next up was T-DOT!!! Our second home. It's beautiful to be back here, seriously. No other city thus far has excited me to be in as much as Toronto. We missed this place so damn much, I truly think this is where we need to be. The love that has been extended here (mostly through Eternia's wonderful friends) is mindblowing. We've already done two major radio spots, dished out mixtapes to influential folks, had a couple great meetings, caught up with friends, done semi nudie runs down Queen St at 2am...still got photo shoots and studio sessions to come. Massive shouts to Great Scott and DJ O-Nonymos from Sound Junction, Theo 3 and DJ Serious from Styalistik Endeavours, Big Jacks, Dave, DJ Grouch and please do yourselves a favour and check out Big It Up, a Canadian owned hat company which has the most amazing headgear I have ever seen. Dameion (CEO/President) is one of the most sincere and spiritual people we have had the pleasure of meeting, and The Movement Fam will be continuing strong supporters of Big It Up.
Also, check out Notion's article on WYDU blog, massive shouts to Trav. Producers, keep it moving on the remix competition on www.kevinnottingham.com, we've had a fair few submissions thus far and it's all sounding pretty damn dope. Exciting shit.
That's about it for now. We'll be in Los Angeles by the end of the week, then off to Auckland, New Zealand before returning to MEL.
Scream at ya peoples, thanks again for all your support, we got a lot in store for 2008/2009 so it can't stop, won't stop, fuck stopping.
Cee & Bekah.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
And here's Cee & Bekah's cover:
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.
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:
And here's Cee & Bekah's cover:
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.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Cee & Bekah on The G.O.D. Hour Godcast (San Francisco)!
What's good family?
Aight, as we're preparing for The Movement Fam's (minus Gunny) US/Canada/NZ trip in 5 weeks, our folks over in San Francisco (Oakland/Berkeley to be exact), Citizen and the crew, have just dropped their debut podcast. Their radio show, The G.O.D. Hour based in Oakland, on Liberation 104.1FM has been doing big business and it was about time to get their 'cast on.
The Godcast Vol. 1 features local (Bay area), classic and independent Hip Hop, and they decided to feature our track 'Cuban Sunset' from The Soul Movement Vol. 1.
Y'all can download The Godcast Vol. 1 by clicking on the word, and y'all can peep the tracklisting in the blog post. You can also check out my man Citizen's MySpace page.
Also, while we're here, The Soul Movement Vol. 2 and World Domi-Notion and being finalised this week and will be all pressed by the end of the month. Finally!!! We're also getting some incredibly dope Cee & Bekah tees for the blokes and singlets for the ladies.
We'll keep y'all posted on release dates and if anyone wants to pre-order copies, scream at us.
Much love,
Cee & Bekah.
Aight, as we're preparing for The Movement Fam's (minus Gunny) US/Canada/NZ trip in 5 weeks, our folks over in San Francisco (Oakland/Berkeley to be exact), Citizen and the crew, have just dropped their debut podcast. Their radio show, The G.O.D. Hour based in Oakland, on Liberation 104.1FM has been doing big business and it was about time to get their 'cast on.
The Godcast Vol. 1 features local (Bay area), classic and independent Hip Hop, and they decided to feature our track 'Cuban Sunset' from The Soul Movement Vol. 1.
Y'all can download The Godcast Vol. 1 by clicking on the word, and y'all can peep the tracklisting in the blog post. You can also check out my man Citizen's MySpace page.
Also, while we're here, The Soul Movement Vol. 2 and World Domi-Notion and being finalised this week and will be all pressed by the end of the month. Finally!!! We're also getting some incredibly dope Cee & Bekah tees for the blokes and singlets for the ladies.
We'll keep y'all posted on release dates and if anyone wants to pre-order copies, scream at us.
Much love,
Cee & Bekah.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Movement Fam - July 2008 updates
Damn, it's been a hot hot minute...how is all our peoples?
We haven't checked in for a couple months now, shit's been maaaaaad hectic with the Fam for the last couple months. I don't even know where to start lol. Everyone has been working mad hard on their respective projects and various other exciting developments, which I'm finna share with you...right now.
Cee & Bekah
We've been working mad mad hard lately, finalising all the tracks for The Soul Movement Vol 2. It's all sounding really solid, a great progression from Vol. 1. Notion has been engineering his ass off on these joints, making them sound incredible, so we're happy people. We couldn't believe how many songs we'd done - there was a pool of around 45-50 tracks just for Vol 2! So as it seems, Vol 3 is pretty much done, just need to finalise as many tracks as possible to see what will make it, and the rest will be ready for The Movement Fam mixtape series.
The EP is sounding good, but we've been holding off recording for it too much til we get a proper recording booth. No bullshit for this project! Not that the mixtapes have come out bad, we just wanna be extra fresh with the EP. The kid Jase (Obese Records) will be mixing the project so we're excited to work with him. We're currently working with a gang of producers and international guests, which we won't mention just yet as we have no idea how this will all pan out.
We've also been working with a bunch of MC's from around the world - Blest 2 from Greece (see below), GNZ from Brazil, BT from Knoxville, TN, Jermiside from Cincinnati, OH (but relocated to Atlanta, GA) and Arte Y Lenguaje (Colombia). The Soul de la Tierra project is about to kick off, which is Ehiyel (Arte Y Lenguaje) and Cee & Bekah - a combination of Spanish, English, Soul, Hip Hop, Latin and Salsa. Very unique, very interesting. We'll keep you posted on that.
Cee's been working with a bunch of cats from here, including newcomer Spec T, Flam-A-Bull and Purpose, while Bekah is about to head to the ADL to lay down vocals for Purpose's upcoming debut album - which should be amazing.
Oh, and the "Melbourne City" video is on it's way! It won't be long, I'm told...I'll keep you posted.
We've been locked away in the lab for the past couple months so we haven't rocked any shows, and we may not for the next few months until the Vol 2 launch...check The Movement Fam section for the reason...
Notion
Ya boy Notion has been on his grizzy! Not only has he been finalising his World Domi-Notion mixtape, he's been mixing and engineering both his project and Cee & Bekah's mixtape. I dunno how he found time to do all that while working nightshift, but he handles his damn biz. Everything is sounding perfect thanks to Notion right now...
Aside from his mixtape about to drop (his first since his debut It's My Turn... in 2006), Notion has been finalising his net-only mixtape On The Corner of Notion & 9th, a collection of all the 9th Wonder beats Notion has rocked over the years, as well as some exclusive joints. He's also preparing for his debut video clip for "Don't You See" (produced by Durban Poison) and been working on his production chops. Oh, and working on his debut album. Damn. He gets busy!
Tommy Gunnz
GUNNZ!!!!!!! Big Gunnz has recently become a fully fledged lawyer - congratulations brother! So aside from keeping those pesky graf writers off our streets (jokes!), Gunnz has been penning classics. Classics, I tells ya. Tommy features on both Cee & Bekah's and Notion's latest projects, but there's much more in the works. Gunnz will feature more predominantly on the upcoming projects from The Movement Fam, and he's slowly working on his debut mixtape Garden State Warrior, of which production will step up significantly very soon. Stay tuned, this dude is the future.
The Movement Fam
Well, the Fam has been busy as a collective. We'll announce now that Cee & Bekah and Notion will be traveling to the US, Canada and New Zealand in September and October this year to rock some shows, appear on College radio, get some studio sessions going and have their photo shoot for the EP and albums. So aside from rushing the two mixtapes out before September, the crew has been mad hectic organising this trip. Everyone is real excited and can't wait to take their music to the good folks in North America and NZ.
Also, The Movement Fam mixtape series won't be far away now, as the output gets higher and higher from the crew, we need an outlet - and this is the best way to do it! We'll keep y'all posted on that. Make sure you check The Movement Fam Myspace page!
Projects
Alright. The Fam has been featured on a bunch of new releases from all around Australia and the world in the last few months, so it's time to spread the word...
First up, young MC Flam-A-Bull, hailing from North Vic, has held down Cee & Bekah on multiple occasions. His mixtape The Dawning featured a collab with Cee called "Damage Is Done", a nice lil political joint. Peep the cover below and click on it to get to the kid's MySpace page.
Also, Flam also recently dropped the first in his new mixtape series Oz Hip Hop Part 1, featuring the cream of Oz Hip Hop on one mixtape. Cee & Bekah got some love with our joint "The Charts', one of the most popular bangers from The Soul Movement Vol 1. Click on the cover below to visit the MySpace page.
The homie Blest 2, straight outta Athens, Greece, has been putting in mad work in the competitive Athens Hip Hop scene. We've been working with him a fair bit, as his flow in Greek is comparable to some of the dopest in English (even though I have no idea what the dude is saying lol). We cut a track called "One Day At A Time" over the Non Phixion classic "Say Goodbye To Yesterday", which made it on his latest album Εγχειρίδιο Αναγνώρισης Aγίων (which translates to "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints"). Click on the cover to visit his site and cop the album (beware, it's mostly in Greek so you may need a translator lol).
Finally, the muthafuckin' kid GMC is FINALLY releasing his debut mixtape, Three Letter Mixtape: Vol G. This has gotta be one of the most anticipated releases out of Australia this year, and Notion and myself got the opportunity to rock a joint with dude for the project. "Vato Freestyle (Change Coming)" is a banger aimed at the so-called 'veterans' of the scene fucking up Hip Hop. If you're in Melbourne, make sure you get down to the launch on Saturday 9th August at Playground @ Seven. Should be fiiiyyyahhhhh! Click on the cover to check out the sexy mufucka's MySpace.
Well that was long enough, methinks. Thanks once again for everyone's support, it's much appreciated. Come hit us up at our MySpace and Facebook pages, and we'll have the fresh music from the new mixtapes up really really soon.
Much love people,
Cee & Bekah.
We haven't checked in for a couple months now, shit's been maaaaaad hectic with the Fam for the last couple months. I don't even know where to start lol. Everyone has been working mad hard on their respective projects and various other exciting developments, which I'm finna share with you...right now.
Cee & Bekah
We've been working mad mad hard lately, finalising all the tracks for The Soul Movement Vol 2. It's all sounding really solid, a great progression from Vol. 1. Notion has been engineering his ass off on these joints, making them sound incredible, so we're happy people. We couldn't believe how many songs we'd done - there was a pool of around 45-50 tracks just for Vol 2! So as it seems, Vol 3 is pretty much done, just need to finalise as many tracks as possible to see what will make it, and the rest will be ready for The Movement Fam mixtape series.
The EP is sounding good, but we've been holding off recording for it too much til we get a proper recording booth. No bullshit for this project! Not that the mixtapes have come out bad, we just wanna be extra fresh with the EP. The kid Jase (Obese Records) will be mixing the project so we're excited to work with him. We're currently working with a gang of producers and international guests, which we won't mention just yet as we have no idea how this will all pan out.
We've also been working with a bunch of MC's from around the world - Blest 2 from Greece (see below), GNZ from Brazil, BT from Knoxville, TN, Jermiside from Cincinnati, OH (but relocated to Atlanta, GA) and Arte Y Lenguaje (Colombia). The Soul de la Tierra project is about to kick off, which is Ehiyel (Arte Y Lenguaje) and Cee & Bekah - a combination of Spanish, English, Soul, Hip Hop, Latin and Salsa. Very unique, very interesting. We'll keep you posted on that.
Cee's been working with a bunch of cats from here, including newcomer Spec T, Flam-A-Bull and Purpose, while Bekah is about to head to the ADL to lay down vocals for Purpose's upcoming debut album - which should be amazing.
Oh, and the "Melbourne City" video is on it's way! It won't be long, I'm told...I'll keep you posted.
We've been locked away in the lab for the past couple months so we haven't rocked any shows, and we may not for the next few months until the Vol 2 launch...check The Movement Fam section for the reason...
Notion
Ya boy Notion has been on his grizzy! Not only has he been finalising his World Domi-Notion mixtape, he's been mixing and engineering both his project and Cee & Bekah's mixtape. I dunno how he found time to do all that while working nightshift, but he handles his damn biz. Everything is sounding perfect thanks to Notion right now...
Aside from his mixtape about to drop (his first since his debut It's My Turn... in 2006), Notion has been finalising his net-only mixtape On The Corner of Notion & 9th, a collection of all the 9th Wonder beats Notion has rocked over the years, as well as some exclusive joints. He's also preparing for his debut video clip for "Don't You See" (produced by Durban Poison) and been working on his production chops. Oh, and working on his debut album. Damn. He gets busy!
Tommy Gunnz
GUNNZ!!!!!!! Big Gunnz has recently become a fully fledged lawyer - congratulations brother! So aside from keeping those pesky graf writers off our streets (jokes!), Gunnz has been penning classics. Classics, I tells ya. Tommy features on both Cee & Bekah's and Notion's latest projects, but there's much more in the works. Gunnz will feature more predominantly on the upcoming projects from The Movement Fam, and he's slowly working on his debut mixtape Garden State Warrior, of which production will step up significantly very soon. Stay tuned, this dude is the future.
The Movement Fam
Well, the Fam has been busy as a collective. We'll announce now that Cee & Bekah and Notion will be traveling to the US, Canada and New Zealand in September and October this year to rock some shows, appear on College radio, get some studio sessions going and have their photo shoot for the EP and albums. So aside from rushing the two mixtapes out before September, the crew has been mad hectic organising this trip. Everyone is real excited and can't wait to take their music to the good folks in North America and NZ.
Also, The Movement Fam mixtape series won't be far away now, as the output gets higher and higher from the crew, we need an outlet - and this is the best way to do it! We'll keep y'all posted on that. Make sure you check The Movement Fam Myspace page!
Projects
Alright. The Fam has been featured on a bunch of new releases from all around Australia and the world in the last few months, so it's time to spread the word...
First up, young MC Flam-A-Bull, hailing from North Vic, has held down Cee & Bekah on multiple occasions. His mixtape The Dawning featured a collab with Cee called "Damage Is Done", a nice lil political joint. Peep the cover below and click on it to get to the kid's MySpace page.
Also, Flam also recently dropped the first in his new mixtape series Oz Hip Hop Part 1, featuring the cream of Oz Hip Hop on one mixtape. Cee & Bekah got some love with our joint "The Charts', one of the most popular bangers from The Soul Movement Vol 1. Click on the cover below to visit the MySpace page.
The homie Blest 2, straight outta Athens, Greece, has been putting in mad work in the competitive Athens Hip Hop scene. We've been working with him a fair bit, as his flow in Greek is comparable to some of the dopest in English (even though I have no idea what the dude is saying lol). We cut a track called "One Day At A Time" over the Non Phixion classic "Say Goodbye To Yesterday", which made it on his latest album Εγχειρίδιο Αναγνώρισης Aγίων (which translates to "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints"). Click on the cover to visit his site and cop the album (beware, it's mostly in Greek so you may need a translator lol).
Finally, the muthafuckin' kid GMC is FINALLY releasing his debut mixtape, Three Letter Mixtape: Vol G. This has gotta be one of the most anticipated releases out of Australia this year, and Notion and myself got the opportunity to rock a joint with dude for the project. "Vato Freestyle (Change Coming)" is a banger aimed at the so-called 'veterans' of the scene fucking up Hip Hop. If you're in Melbourne, make sure you get down to the launch on Saturday 9th August at Playground @ Seven. Should be fiiiyyyahhhhh! Click on the cover to check out the sexy mufucka's MySpace.
Well that was long enough, methinks. Thanks once again for everyone's support, it's much appreciated. Come hit us up at our MySpace and Facebook pages, and we'll have the fresh music from the new mixtapes up really really soon.
Much love people,
Cee & Bekah.
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