Set Backs & Milestones: The Rizes & Falls

PART 39:  Mini Biography, Vol.16: The Conclusion, Pt.7

Like I said,  This series will be a wrap with a couple more entries, this entry is getting down the wire... Freeze Flame is hitting 2011 with a running start, if you don't already know what's going on.  In the Final entry, I will also list numerous links associated with our webpages and youtube channels, twitter, etc... 

Don't worry, you won't go home empty handed, or broken hearted.

The Autobiography of Freeze Flame:

Vol. 15: 2000 & BEYOND, The Rize & Grind Era Pt.7

2009, was one of the more productive years to date for Freeze Flame Productions. By year's end Red Brown had come into contact with a Native organization that encouraged him to put forth an application for a grant, in order the grow the business further....

This was a much longer process than first anticipated... Their first discussions in November 2009, lead to meetings and busines plan consultations over the following months. During this process vision changed and grew, business plan forcasts were very reasonable, encouragement and support were very strong...

Freeze Flame & Third World Council may have been one and the same, but the significance of each name floursihed as its own from day one....

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On New Year's Eve, Red was among friends at the time, they had all had a rough year and were looking forward to what was to come in 2010... these topics discussed sparked an idea in Red, and inspired he took to his blog... something he had started without a focus, now it was there....

Over the next couple days, remembering what he and his friends had talked about, he decided to write a review of 2009, both his personal & business adventures to put it in context.

In January 2010, Red wrote "Happy New Year 2010: 2009 Review" From this single entry on his blog, Red had just opened a mental block that had been eating away for some time...

"..2009...," became the introduction to the 15 part series that detailed the entire decade following Red graduating High School.... and later became known as: "Decade of Development," Red was able to bang out the entire series in less than 2 months... It was all still very fresh.

Although, the new series detailed much of his recent life and choices over the previous ten years, there was much smaller details that were occasionally overlooked in order to cut down the size of some stories... And maybe leave room for expansion later on.

After the series was complete, it almost felt as if a weight were lifted and Red found room in his mind to take on new projects, and make things happen again...

It was time, as February came to a close, Red's business Partner Jae Spillz had been able to wrap of another project, The M.O.B. Mixtape series, so in March 2010 they put together some resources and released "TO THE BILLBOARD," The Third CD in the series and finally some more material to work with...

Even though the recording never really stopped, the guys were still very frustrated with their progress and getting a studio built, a few ideas were floated around, and they looked into a commercial space to get that project up and running, but the budget just wasn't there at the level they would have liked...

Around this same time, Red had been thinking of a follow up to the first blog series, and had come up with an idea, but not a starting point... He wanted to take it back to where it all began... but where was that exactly...

He knew the new series wouldn't flow as easily as the first, but he had an idea of how to get through that hurdle, so he began writing again. March was a busy month, one entry got completed, this entry would be the outline/intro to the whole series... it layed the whole foundations to what the series came to be known "Set backs & Milestones: The Rizes & Falls."

"Set Backs.." for Red was a personal mission now, it all stemmed back to that New Year's Eve conversation that had sparked something inside him, a need to tell his story, something that had been sitting dormant for years, but was always building...

"Decade..." was the story of Red's turn around many success' that brought him to this point, "Set Backs..." on the other hand would be a much more detailed telling of events that sent him to his bottom, (Rock bottom) as some may say.

Red never in his life figured it that way... and this new series was about to explain all that, how everything that happens in life, no matter how messed up or negative, can be flipped and used to create such a positve force in one's life that there will be no stopping it...

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It was nearing summer, Jae had already made a move with his family to a new home, with hopes that the new apartment would be a productive environment muscially... It was such a life altering move, however, that it created more problems than it solved... Acoustically & Personally, the apartment slowly became a problem in itself.... a major portion of the music needed to be redone, vocals inparticular...

Red & Jae had previously discussed it, but now the idea of bringing to two studios into one common place made more sesnse than ever. They decided to combine the equipment and make everything happen in the same place for the first time, this began a summer of production... Beat making each day, as well as recording on a regular steady pace... the tunes began to pile up...

D.E.U.C.E., had been working on putting together his own little production area as well, however, his focuses were shifting too... He had started shooting videos earlier that year, and was able to upgrade his equipment and editing software... Things were really starting to take shape...

Red had been dealing with the grant agency for over six months, trying to get things rolling... meeting after meeting, and more consulations over his business plan.... all these thing were very helpful, but it seemed as if there was no forward motion...

Red went on a roll in July, contributing to his blog series and getting a lot of business accomplished in the process, he thought no body knew what he was doing... unaware that people, his friends, even knew he had a blog going this hard. Red took it back so far, that he had to detail the beginning of the beginning, this lead to the series becoming much longer than earlier anticipated...

The series, became multiple series, within the main series... this allowed for quite a lot of exploration and an idea that the business was its own entity within Red's life...

Due to the schedule of the studio, Red's free time was limited, but he was ok with that... As the news spread that the studio was open for business... Freeze Flame/ Third World Council started coming together again, regular sessions on a weekly basis at minimum, new artists and more project started coming together...

It was sometime during this period where, Red was re-introduced to some old neighborhood friends that had been doing roughly the same thing for some time... an artist by the name of Am/Fm or Aem Efem came into the picture... he had been doing performances for a long time, and had some trouble with a past record deal... So when he stepped into the booth at the Freeze Flame/Third World Studio he was very productive with his time..

There was a couple times, even with only a couple hours to work with, he was able to get 3-4 tracks finished, although he was usually only recording vocals because he came prepard with his own beats made... studio time was productive.

A photography, Red had known for many years also got involved. At first she was Am/Fm's acting manager, consulting with Red over business plans and other issues...

She was already putting together flyers and things related to his performances at a local venue... hidden deep inside Kensington Market, in order to attract more of a supportive audience as apposed to critics....

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As summer began to wind down, and the weather got bad, and gas prices started to rise again, the studio outside the city was becoming cost ineffecient, luckily, Jae's father recently retired had started tearing up this home's garage and started building a studio...

The goal was to have it done by the end of the winter, but he was on such a roll that the goal became to get it done before new years...

By the time, December rolled around... all that needed to be done was the floor. It took a few weeks, he wanted hard wood floor.... By Christmas time, Red, Jae & Duece had moved all the equipment into the studio and had it up and running by the time New Year's Eve even started...

Now equipped with a sound proof booth, and a high def LCD screen. Freeze Flame/Third World Council was an opperational Recording studio, Music Publisher, Video/film Production company with a photographer with in house production and a talent roster that could rival many labels...

The Business Plan Freeze Flame had, listed a variety of pricing that was very reasonable, for services of all types... 2010, went out with a bang.... a couple music videos in the can...

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