The Lab

NEWS

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  Debut Album from Field Lab

  Field Lab Entertainment brings to you, the Hip-Hop/R&B group, Field Lab and their debut album Welcome to The Lab. This album is a Hip-Hop based album with R&B infused in to the majority of it’s songs. The group integrates newer Hip-Hop with some of the past Hip-Hop and R&B elements, to give a new flavor. Most songs are a mix of both genre’s but some songs are pure Hip-Hop. Jackson tha Lyrasist, aka JtL is responsible for the majority of the production while DK, aka David Kirst & JAV helped produce as well. JtL & Number 5 rap throughout the album while DK & JtL sprinkle a bit of R&B flavor in to the music. JAV & DJ AK also laced some of the songs with the classic touches of vinyl scratching & transforms, using the time tested Technic wheels of steel.

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  How It All Began…

  In 2009, I got the itch to learn how to produce music. I noticed mainstream Hip-Hop, R&B and Pop were missing some of the musicality that I had grown up appreciating and I wanted a newer version of that sound. With computer software and technology being what it is today, it has lowered the cost of building a studio for many musicians, DIY producers & engineers. After I bought my first Akai MPK25 and learned to use it, I quickly upgraded to an MPK49 and the collection of equipment and software continued to grow. I learned that being a musician does not mean you know how to produce a song & record someone performing it. I also learned that after you learn how to produce & record a song, it’s not radio ready until it’s been engineered. So after tallying all the equipment and software and learning the technical end of it all, I then had to learn to engineer. To learn this skill, I furthered my education at Sweetwater Sound under the instruction of Mark Hornsby, and learned to mix & engineer so I could complete the picture and know how to take a song from the idea phase, all the way to the radio.

  Over the years of learning and honing my craft, I decided in order to put music out in to the mainstream the way I envisioned, how any artist envisions, I would need a record label to go along with the studio. After enlisting the help of an entertainment attorney and explaining my complete vision to him, he advised that I start a publishing company in addition to the studio and record label, to fully reap the benefits of all my efforts and for those who I would be recording. So after years of learning and being advised, I bring to you Field Lab Studios, Field Lab Publishing, and Field Lab Entertainment.

  Thanks for reading,

  ~JtL aka Jackson tha Lyrasist