Sunday, September 23, 2012

#FullCanvas #Sammies

Waddup ya'll One love and blessings to the fam. Self here still in the field with Live Manikins pursuing this dream. We had a lot of great shows with our 9 piece collective, gathering this many members on the same wave length has been a blessing. From having Marc (drummer) Jupiter (Keyboardist) Josh (Guitar) Andrew (Bass) DJ Rated R (Turntablist) Runt Rock (Emcee) Self (Emcee) JRockit (Emcee/singer) Flavius (Emcee) to form this group is a journey. Opening new expressions and levels of music. Hip Hop is what we all came together on yet the heavy influences from Rock, Jazz, Blues, House, etc. Well I am here dropping some gems on what we have for you coming up. We celebrated the past, word up and we all lived and floated. Now is for the cloud 9 of the future, in other words the new high.
From the City of Trees aka Sacramento aka The Capital, aka West Coast (dubs up) we have been nominated for the Sacramento Music Awards. It is called "The Sammies." The Sacramento Music Awards (Sammies) are here and the VOTING HAS STARTED. Now the award show is OCTOBER 12, 2012 at ACE OF SPADES, during this time we will need your support to make the event as big as possible. WE HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST HIP HOP/RAP & for ARTIST OF THE YEAR. Along with that our DJ RATED R (LiveManikins/Sleeprockers/Heiro Emporium) was nominated FOR TURNTABLIST & DEEJAY. Even DJ Rated R's crew SLEEPROCKERS was nominated FOR RELEASE OF THE YEAR for "Machine Language" w/ Tajai of Hieroglyphics. Now this is when WE NEED FAM TO VOTE VOTE VOTE. We need to keep this going and this time it is really simple to vote. Just go to ••• www.Sammies.com ••• and login with the facebook and bam! you in!! Much Love and shout out to all ya'll for the support, because of you we are able to live, create, and build and that's real talk. Word to motha yo that is all love. Lets do this! one love and LM #FullCanvas

Monday, May 14, 2012

1st quarter - #FullCanvas

Peace and waddup! Well the first quarter of 2012 has came to a close and it has been one hell of a run so far. With the expansion of our live experience by adding a full back-line (shout out Erin, Mark, Jeff and Jupiter) and our experimental shows, we have been having a blast. Bringing you our album #FullCanvas in the most visual/musical way has been our mission. Let's recap some of the events that has come to pass. #420
We were apart of a 420 show and teamed up with www.saccannmove.org to present this show along with the Arden Park Roots. This show took place at Harlows. Here is a little snippet from the Sacramento News and Review about this show:
"It’s Midtown’s premier 4/20 party. There will be tunes from Sleeprockers, Live Manikins and Arden Park Roots at this Friday-night celebration at Harlow’s. Selekta Lou will be deejaying all day, and there will be art and dancing, of course. The first 100 people in the door get prizes and gifts. High holidays, indeed. It starts at 4:20 p.m. and goes all night. This is also a good place to find and sign the Committee for Safe Patient Access to Regulated Cannabis ballot-measure petition to bring medical-cannabis dispensaries back to Sacramento County. Harlow’s, 2708 J Street; 4:20 p.m.; $24 for an all-day pass, $12 for Arden Park Roots; 21 and over; www.harlows.com; www.saccannmove.org"
- To summarize this show, it was a blast and here is a clip of our song Saturday complete with a horn section brought by our homie Anthony Coleman Live Manikins - Saturday
#RecordStoreDay - April 21st live at Dimple Records
Shout out to Van at Dimple Records on inviting us out to rock with ARG x Sleeprockers and DJ Los on record store day. We bbq'd like some real men and rocked music. Here are some flicks from the event.

#Simplistic Big Band takes Harlow's stage Sunday x Live Manikins
Speaking on our friend Anthony (who brought the horns), he invited us out to do a rendition of our song "These Days" backed by a 23 piece band which was amazing. Read more here: #Simplistic

#Sleeprockers x #Hieroglyphics live at CSUS

- Want to give a shoutout to Sleeprockers for inviting us out to perform our song #Diskjock off of #FullCanvas with them. It was dope and we were glad to share the stage with Heiro, Task1ne and of course the Sleeprockers!


#Capital performance. Yes you heard right. We performed at the Marijuana March that was at the Capital May 5th. This march was for better reform on marijuana regulations and we were proud to be apart of this.



#FullCanvas - We thank you for your continued support through the first quarter of 2012. We have been working hard presenting our dreams and ambitions to you and we appreciate the feedback, love, good looks, and daps along the way. #Respect and #FullCanvas

Sunday, February 5, 2012

2012 and beyond. Live Manikins

Peace and One Love. or shall we say

Waddup!

Respect and salutations to all of you. #FullCanvas is what we are rocking with and 2012 as we are getting acquainted with seems to be developing that picture. Strokes with each verse creating a sound that is an unison with our life. #FullCanvas, and yes that pound was intended so #punintended

A lot has been going on within the HQ of Live Manikins. If you haven't copped the album yet, we advise you to taste it. It is up for download through Apple iTunes and for the heads CDBaby. Allow the album to grow and build with your everyday and then, understand #FullCanvas

#PSA: First Music Video
*clears throat* Now we shot out to Expressions college to film our first music video of the album. The reasoning behind choosing this song is we need a starting point to re-introduce ourselves. Vibe is raw straight from the low end, head nod cosigning that "I ain't playing the background" yet expressing that illness. (#Definition: cool, slick, phatness) Here is a little behind the scene:

Live Manikins - iPhone: Behind the scenes vibin

Live Manikins - iPhone: Flavioso


#DJRatedR - Sleeprockers: Hieroglyphics


Now if ya'll have not been in the know about what is going on with the man who talks with his hands DJ Rated R, his Sleeprockers crew has been #elavatin. If you have not yet peep there facebook yet it is: SleeprockersFBkickit Anyways, after you hit that spot if you didn't see the recent release it was Tajai's Mixtape titled #MachineLanguage. Ain't going to lie we have been talkin our album a lot but this mixtape #MachineLanguage is ill! (#Definition: cool, slick, phatness) peep the vid:

Sleeprockers x Tajai:Machine Language

#WOrdup

Want to give a shout out to you all who has been getting down with us. Much respect because when it comes to what we do, it is all or nothin, hip hop and we keep it#1Hunid (#Definition: 100 percent)

#FullCanvas


Slide #FullCanvas to the locals!!!!