Where Does the Name ‘SilencioBarnes’ Come From?
I’m often asked where does the name SilencioBarnes come from and I always wanted to write a post that I could direct people who want a full explanation to (is that pretentious?) – Anywho, it’s no big mystery. However, to understand the name you must understand a coupla things first: What’s In a Name? Really? [...]
Child of Kings
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Child of Kings is actually the last track I finished for my Track Every Other Day Challenge – It’s short and quick like the others in that series and it’s done over a Three-Six Mafia beat I found in one of these instrumental collections of mines. It’s one song that I was actually really proud [...]
Been Spittin
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So, I was getting ready to try recording something for the first time in like…half a year. Just wanted to do a quick track to see how it sounds in this new room…but then it dawned on me that I never posted the last coupla tracks I did several months ago. So I figured I’d [...]
General Updates 11/05/2010
This post is for those of you that wonder what has been going on with me :) If you are wondering why there hasn’t been any new blog posts for a while, or why I suddenly stopped in the middle of my Track Every-Other-Day challenge, or why I haven’t mentioned NaNoWriMo…well, here are some answers. [...]
Car Windows – Track Challenge 04
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This is the fourth track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” -It was due last night and I actually finished it in time somewhat, just didn’t get a chance to post it here till today – It’s called “Car Windows” and I admit that it came out a bit sloppy and slurred, I [...]
So Me
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So Me by SilencioBarnes (both Produced by Big B) Ask my little cousins and my grandmama…I was saying I’m Me waaaaaay before you heard it from Lil Weezy:)) I recorded this a while ago, but I didn’t want to post it because there were so many artifacts in the recording…a LOT of em (pops, clicks, [...]
Fade to Gray – Track Challenge 03
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This is the third track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” – This one was actually somewhat on time – I posted it on facebook but didn’t make the blog post at the time :) It’s called “Fade to Black” – I liked where I was going with it. I may come back [...]
Nufadem – Track Challenge 02
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This is the second track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” – yup, once again, it was due yesterday :)) Please don’t laugh at my faux-Caribbean chant :)) Don’t take these tracks too seriously. These are just practice words. Another person is doing this challenge along with me – my young dude AR [...]
Silk – Track Challenge 01
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Silk by SB This is the first track of my “A Track Every Other Day Challenge” – yea, it was due yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to post it up. Figured I’d use these tracks to experiment. This is me attempting a quicker flow…I stumble a bit. Oddly, now that I got it [...]
These Skillz
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These Skillz – Yea, it was just for fun :) Beat by Big B of course – He’ll probably remix it after I send him the vocals ;) I’ll add the acappella and more info later. The problem with questions is sometimes they lie The problem with torture is, sometimes they die Be careful with [...]
Acappellas
Nope, I don’t want to get into the proper spelling of the word acappella :)) Read this for an explanation: http://www.singers.com/a-cappella.html These are some of my acappellas, from many of the tracks that I’ve released online. As I’ve stated elsewhere, the reason why I do this is so that YOU can use them for whatever [...]
Prevail
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Update 09/04/10 – Big B created a remix of Prevail a while ago, but I’m just now getting around to posting it. The track can be can listened to and downloaded for free from my reverbnation widget below:) About Prevail A friend of mines listened to the beat and suggested I attempt an uplifting song. [...]
