Saturday, September 19, 2009

CAPP Records Press Release

Release Title: OHSHA KAI – I Can’t Wait
Label: CAPP Records
Promo Type: Digital
While some in the dance music industry might bemoan dance cover songs, there’s no questioning their extreme popularity with the music buying public. Some of CAPP’s most commercially-successful and lasting releases continue to be popular songs from the 1980’s, reinterpreted with a fresh dance vibe. And coming this fall is an all-new compilation consisting of covers from some of the dance industry’s most beloved performers, including Pepper MaShay (whose Freeway of Love was just released as a single), Carol Hahn, Jacinta, Raquela, Dare 2B Dif’rnt, Ernest Kohl, and others, including perennial CAPP artists like Rikah, Fab, Cary August, DJ Cobra and more!
And now, we’re pleased to announce the pre-release of a song to appear on the new compilation, a great new take on I Can’t Wait (originally from Nu Shooz), by none other than dance songstress Ohsha Kai!
From her humble beginnings just a few short years ago (auditioning in her native Philadelphia for industry veterans Ron Hirsh, Harry Towers and Paulie D.), Kai has scored a pair of Billboard dance hits. Her track Free Your Mind hit #6 on the Club Chart, spending over three months in the normally quick-changing chart. And her second release, Out of My Mind, also hit the Top 10. After being raised in a home filled with the sounds of gospel greats like Vickey Winans and Shirley Ceasar, perhaps it was inevitable that Ohsha Kai would find her way to the spotlight!
"I was tremendously excited to be a part of the project," Kai says of the moment CAPP president Dom Toulon asked if she’d be interested in participating. "Dom suggested I Can’t Wait, and I knew right away that it’d be a great song to honor with a dance cover."
If you "can’t wait," download your digital promotional copy of I Can’t Wait today! Download links accompany this press release, or will be provided to working DJ’s on request.
As always, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT, and all the best from San Francisco!
The CAPP Records Team
contact@capprecords.com
Dom Toulon Harry Towers Loren Chidez
Wes Bryant-King Radi Tamimi Brian Howe
Michael Oliva Greg / Distinctive Promotions

Friday, September 18, 2009

I's done composed myself now

So I've since calmed my nerves; especially since a friend informed my I was actin' crazy...
Anyway, a bit more progress with "I Can't Wait":

- got my first dance Radio add:) (DMX Music- hiya Randy S: we don't really know each other, but I like to dream of knowing fab people)

- hit the charts on iDanceRadio.fm

Like a lot of people, I've left Myspace for dead...I mean, I literally forgotten about it's existence. But a lil jog of the memory brought me back to my page and there waiting for me was an unopened message from a new UK label (Disport Records) asking me to drop vocal for a dub to be included on their first project release! WELL,...... my career can most certainly use a UK B-shot for sho'!! I was happy to oblige. I'll keep ya posted on that one too...One thing you'll get to know about me: I'm fascinated with everything Europe. I mean, duh...I'm an American aren't I?

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Freakout

Ok, sooooooo, ummm I'm freaking out a bit...Ok, more than a bit, lol.

I'm so used to "the nightclub" world where things move at the speed of ...well, the speed of the tracks we put out (135 beats per min). Seems radio doesn't move quite as quickly and I'm just kind of wondering what's up with "I Can't Wait"??? (how fitting the title in this moment) I'm sure my freakout is premature but SO WHAT! I'm neurotic; which you'll learn to love, btw. What can I say?
Anyway, yeah so, I haven't heard very much at this point...gulp!
I've been googling my lil fingers off and I have found some exciting tidbits; a few good reviews, my first dance radio add (yay, idanceradio.fm!!), some record chart "top pick" placements, a spot on a house compilation along with some maj' labe' artist like Pitbull, Mariah, Black Eyed Peas, Cascada, Lady Gaga..and ME????"I Can't Wait- Ohsha Kai vs Nu Shooz"! Whaaa??? HOLLA!!
Well DAMN! I guess now that I'm writing all this, I'm starting to feel a lil' better:)..ooops. How embarrassing;}
I guess things are just moving at the appropriate pace, I'm just an eager lil thang!


Thank goodness for blogging. It puts shit in perspective, ya know.
I feel pressure this time around because I've been under the radar for quite a while; really before I could even get my career started good, ya know what I mean? So, I have high hopes for this track and and high needs. Let me keep it real. So, It's driving me crazy not knowINg WHAT HAPPENING!!! In dance club world, a track could be on the Billboard breakout charts by now!!! UGH!...(ok, breath Ohsha) I'll just light some candles and chill and put out the good track vybes to the universe...aaahhhhh..there. That should do it:)

In the meantime, back on the Philly (soon to be Atlanta) Ranch..I have a major project in the works that I will spill one droplette at a time in future blogs;)
Well my beautiful bloggies, smootches till next time...("smootches",...that's "diva talk", hehehe)