Odd Year

Been too quite lately on the music front and thought today would be a good day to get a little more vocal.

What I’ve been up to:

Been working on new remixes for several different artists

Working on new tracks for my Drop and Solo project

Working on two remixes for a track I did with Coury Palermo called “Headline”

Working on  a couple tracks I did with Caitlyn Hessell

And finishing a 3 song ep with Robert Fierro for an as yet untitled collaboration, from which produced todays sneak peak.  We were going for an 80′s synth vibe, dark but poppy.

Stare (featuring Robert Fierro)

* The image above is from the very talented Ruben Martinez

Odd Year just won the Weezer remix competition!   I am sooo stoked, can’t believe I got first place!  So you’re probably asking what does that mean?  Well, let me tell you what I won:

1) Included on an upcoming Weezer release

2) The remix will also be included on their myspace page

And most importantly:

3) The winner will collaborate with Rivers Cuomo to create a new song!  – how cool is that?

Weezer – Love is the Answer (Odd Year Remix) by oddyear

Just finished a new remix of Roisin Murphy’s “Mamma’s Place” and really could use your help to move my remix to the top of the pack. All it takes is a simple vote here:

So I have a few tracks currently climbing Hype Machine with the help of a post by Thejackplug.com and hyptrak.com.    Up on the site are two remixes, Imogen Heaps – The Song That Never Was (Odd Year Remix) & Coury Palermo’s cover of Eurythmic’s “Here Comes the Rain Again (Odd Year Remix)”.   Also posted is a track off my new project, Drop and Solo (aka Drolo) called, “Never Saw It Coming”.  I’ve teamed up with the very talented Will Curry (aka Drop).   Go check them out and if you can drop a little love on them by clicking the heart shaped icon on hypem.com.   We should would appreciate it!

We are currently on the “popular” tab, on pages 2 and 4

Uploaded my remix for the Weezer contest.  The winner gets a chance to produce a track with Rivers Cuomo (lead singer/writer for Weezer), how cool is that?  Here’s to hoping I at least land in the top 10!

Coury Palermo has just released his first EP, “boxsideoutV.1″  And to promote his new EP, we are giving away this remix for free.  This song, originally a song by the Eurythmics, is great to listen to at all times of the day.

or if you prefer soundcloud, you can click this link

So I thought I would drop this little nugget, even though it’s still very rough, in fact I just wrote it so i’m just handing out the chorus of this track.   I have some lyrics written, I’m sure when I”m done the lyrics will probably change but this is what I have thus far:

Chorus:

Deliver Me
From Descend
We’ve Come So Far
For This To End
There Was A Time
When We Were Friends
How Could You
How Could You

Odd Year – Deliver Me

So… whatcha think?

This is the latest collaboration for Odd Year which features the talents of Brian Hazard of Color Theory. Brian is a singer songwriter, producer, and keyboardist that has been on tear as of late. His song, “If It’s My Time to Go” (from his latest full length, “The Thought Chapter“) won the Grand Prize in the electronic category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

You can hear more great music from Color Theory here.

Feel free to “heart” the song on thesixtyone.com as well, it would be appreciated!

Got a new demo up on thesixtyone.com that features the fabulous voice of Caitlyn Hessell, check her myspace and listen to some of her acoustic styled tunes here.

We have several new tunes brewing, and will be uploaded some more demos to thesixtyone.com.

Finished a new remix of Mark Nicholas – Measure of Pleasure that you can here on the Odd Year Myspace page here.    Once he uploads the track to sixtyone.com, i’ll post the player on this site as well.

I gave this particular track a Soft Cell / Electro club vibe, at least that was the aim — you can be the judge if I actually hit the target.   This track can be found on Mark’s album called, “Duchess 33“.