Freeze Flame Productions Inc

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Set Backs & Milestones: The Rizes & Falls

PART 40:  Mini Biography, Vol.17: The Conclusion, Pt.8

Who would have thought A conclusion would take a series in itself.  Almost a year and half in the making, this blog series has come to an end, with a future in sight of itself... This should should bring everybody up to date with life as we see and know it at present.

In this 40 Part series, I, Red Brown, have detailed many aspects of my Personal & Professional life(lives), this has been an interesting project of reflection for me, and it has definitely made me grow even further beyond the many Set Backs I have endured through the years, and strive to maintain the Milestones that have made me who I am today... 

I will leave the contact info at the bottom of this entry, along with our Twitter, Facebook, Youtube info as well... 

@freezeflameinc or www.twitter.com/freezeflameinc
@capitali2tha
@officialjspillz

Facebook.com/Redbrown2010


There is so many, but BE ON THE LOOKOUT for more coming soon at: 











The Autobiography of Freeze Flame:
Vol. 16: 2000 & BEYOND, The Rize & Grind Era Pt.8


2010 was an even more eventful year than 2009, aside from Red's new project, his blog... The Company, now referred to as Freeze Flame Inc/Third World Council L.L.P. Was beginning to gain momentum...

In January alone, Freeze Flame had began networking more, and come across a local Radio show that promoted Pinoy Hip Hop in Canada, and after a chance meeting, a couple shows were organized and of course Mike Swift & J-Hon were present, Jae Spillz, D.E.U.C.E., and I.L.L.A.H. All performed... This sparked some interest...

As Red began to wrap up his first blog series, and Jae wrapped up the M.O.B. Mixtape Series, there was a breath of new life in both, as artist recruitment was beginning to form as well, Thanks to D.E.U.C.E., and I.L.L.A.H. of Saga Touch recorded material began to pile up, and D.E.U.C.E. Began to explore his vision in other media, film and video production in particular...

Jae also had been introduced to a Classical artist/composer/conductor, etc... by the name of Vasil, who just happened to have to albums completed and ready to be sold and Distributed. This was a way, Red thought, to expand Freeze Flame repertoire and possibly help out a talented artist with little knowledge or resources within the industry...

It was some time in the Spring or early Summer, when Jae Spillz, D.E.U.C.E., and I.L.L.A.H. Went for a road trip down to Washington D.C. To record with some fellow MC's from the area... In a single weekend, the roughly six man crew half from Toronto, half from D.C. Were able to record and entire album, or Mixtape CD complete with some of the funniest skits, some may never hear.

Back catalogue had been sitting for some time as well, Jae had an album already finished that needed some final touches, when he suffered a computer failure... all was recovered. Jae Spillz & Kenjhons, long awaited Def Concept self titled album also sat shelved awaiting a new life...

With I.L.L.A.H. & D.E.U.C.E. Both with solo Mixtape ventures under construction, 2010 was looking fairly productive, and all the preparation was a lead up to what came next.....

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As 2010 came to a close, artist and beat-maker, Am/Fm was also attempting to finish up two long awaited albums, a couple videos were stored on camera, waiting to be editing and released upon the world...

2011 came in with an idea, shoot a video... that was the plan. Jae Spillz & I.L.L.A.H. Had done a couple tracks together and decided to shoot a split video showcasing each of their distinct styles... After a long, cold day of shooting video footage it was time to head back to the studio to get the editing done...

D.E.U.C.E. Was able to get a few projects ready to be released before he left Toronto and headed overseas to the Philippines to continue what he had started...

Although, previously attempting to get the missing accessories, Red & Jae were diligent to continue the trend and get some music videos ready while D.E.U.C.E. Was overseas...

Red needed to find a battery charger for an older HD mini Cam that Jae had been storing for a time... after that... It was time. Red & Jae started shooting/editing & Releasing videos on a pace that made the competition look... lazy?

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Meanwhile, Red actively trying to finish his blog series, spent the New Years Eve that followed that inspirational night at the end of 2009, writing and writing trying to find a conclusion that would fit....

As he kept at it, however, Red realized that it was only the beginning of something much bigger than just music and life...

With so many project underway at the end of 2010, Red began to wonder how would the end of 2011 look... In the first 5 months of 2011 Freeze Flame/Third World Council had already released approximately 20 music video productions, with more in line and waiting...

Jae, Red and their associates agreed that 2011 was the year of Tha FLOOD!!

As it happens, The company is now working on getting a DVD produced and yet another album is being recorded as this blog series "Set Backs & Milestones," comes to the conclusion of the Rize & Grind Era and enters A NEW ERA... in Entertainment...



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RANDY FREESE, Managing Director
C/o
FREEZE-FLAME Productions INC
"Music, Entertainment & Bookkeeping Services"
#40 - 1110 Finch Avenue West, Suite 1222
North York, ON
M3J 3M2

BBM PIN:  30543D90
Cell/Voice mail: 416-697-1737
E:  FFPINC@GMAIL.COM

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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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Set Backs & Milestones: The Rizes & Falls

PART 38:  Mini Biography, Vol.15: The Conclusion, Pt.6

Looking forward to a real ending?  I have bad news for you, unfortunately.... Freeze Flame is not going to go away, however, we will be wrapping up this series within the next few entries.  My apologies if this news disappoints you, but its time.  Like I said, it really won't be the real end, just the end of this story.  By the time this series come to a close, everything will be up to date, more or less.

Look forward to more news, more entries about we are doing now, and Be On The Look Out for our Dvd project entitled "Tha FLOOD," I, Red Brown, along with the rest of the Freeze Flame/Third World Council FAM will be dropping regular updates on your favourite social media sites, and other places if you know where to look.


The Autobiography of Freeze Flame:

Vol. 14: 2000 & BEYOND, The Rize & Grind Era Pt.6




Progress for Freeze Flame was slow but steady through the end of 2007 and into 2008... The main idea was to develop a brand, build a studio and become self reliant for the most part...

By this time Red Brown & Jae Spillz had two seperate fully operational studios that were able to do different things, recording and vocals were accomplished with Jae's equipment, and Red had the ability to create some beats with his, but with some technical difficulties at times it wasn't very consistent...

It was in 2008, when the Freeze Flame roster of talent started to grow, first with an idea, then with some real effort on behalf of everybody involved. Freeze Flame Productions Inc was about to become a full blown Record label with Music Publishing capabilities as well, which meant potential Royalties and sales and shows whenever possible...

Red looked into registering the label with SOCAN, it was a slow process, and had to be done through mail for the most part, First he needed to register himself as an artist, in order to be able to register the company as a publisher....

After doing that, each artist needed to be signed to a publishing contract and submit their own paperwork in order to be fully registered in order to receive any royalties...

This was the bullk of the time taken in 2008... It wasn't until late July 2008, when Red suffered a serious injury that took him out of the workforce for a time.... He shattered both elbows in a workplace, due to a fall...

Red, although in much pain and dealing with the legal issues related to the injury, saw this as somewhat of a blessing in disguise... Freeze Flame Productions Inc and newly formed Third World Council Music Group/Publishing began to take shape... Jae Spillz and his brother D.E.U.C.E. were instrumental forces in the process, introducing Red to other artists that came into the fold, I.L.L.A.H. From a group called Saga Touch was the next artist to step up.

Also, introducing Red to the rest of the Saga Touch camp... And shortly after Red's Injury Mike Swift came to town to record among other things... During a recording session, Red had left on a Web cam to record what had been happening in the studio area...

At the time, the studio consisted of a space in Jae's Basement, it worked but thinking ahead Red thought they needed a space that was a professional work space, so they could both record the roster talent, and charge for the service of recording other outside their camp...

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It was 2009, when Red had already been unemployed for about 6 months and during an exhaustive job search in the middle of an economic meltdown, he found some rejuvenation...


His focus lead him back inevitably to Music and his company. It was around this time that he began working for himself, through his company. He tapped into an under utilized skill he had only been using to keep track of his own company, Bookkeeping.

This allowed Red to make money for the company. In turn, allowing the company to increase its revenue and stay relevant. It was all in preparation for the long term plans....

It was in the early months of 2009 that Red's paperwork was finally completed. Freeze Flame Productions Inc/Third World Council was now a Music Publisher as well as an operating record label, now it was time to get the roster talent's paperwork in order as well... proving more challenging than origanally thought.

Building up the studio took time, longer than anyone wanted it to, but it was a challenging task getting all the equipment needed and making an area sound proof, with little or no budget... Meanwhile, D.E.U.C.E., was working on parallel projects. He had started shoot some videos... Something that should have started much earlier....

After being introduced to Mike Swift and the movement he was creating with his business partners, To The Billboard & Konektado DVD magazine.... Red had so many ideas that paralleled those and could be considered to be affiliates...

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