SOUL LOGISTICS RADIO ®: Hood News

Dear DOUG,

Congratulations! As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from GarageBand.com members, "Gift Of Gab " remix "" will be Hip Hop Track of the Week at GarageBand.com.

For 7 days starting on Monday, the 9th of July, 2007 (PST) "Gift Of Gab " remix "" will be featured on our site! It will also be featured in our special hiphop Track of the Week podcast, but only if your song is marked as downloadable!

To make the most of your time in the spotlight, please upload your best photo of Doug Evans to GarageBand.com. Your image should be square and at least 250x250 pixels.

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Best wishes from all at GarageBand.com and keep up the great work!

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An Intelligent Query: Can I get JUST ONE?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 10) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes BUSH and the American Establishment for COMMITTING, not just perpetuating, violence against ALL the human families of the earth?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 9) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the racially biased "drug war" incarcerates African American youth at much higher rates than their white counterparts and gives them more time for committing the same crimes?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 8) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the WEALTHY white-male supremacist who run the "music industry" and controls the propagation of destructive images? Targeting rappers is NOT targeting the "music industry!" Rappers are laborers in the industry of music; they manufacture the products that their company demands of them. Rappers are like models in a cigarette advertisement that most often don't even smoke cigarettes, but for want of work, they'll promote the harmful tobacco products!

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 7) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes black "pastors" who sell their flock to politicians who DO NOT represent the interest of the Black Community?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 6) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the CIA/Reagan-Bush administrations deliberate flooding of the Black Community with cocaine from Central/South America to finance a covert war in Nicaragua?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 5) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that demands reparations for this Genocidal crime against humanity?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 4) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the inadequate education in our communities that has left a substantial amount of black youth unable to read on a fourth grade level after 12 years of school. Inefficient administrators and superintendents. Not to mention horrible teachers who can not be fired?

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 3) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes Big Time black media moguls like Kathy Hughes, Bob Johnson, and the black woman who presides as president of BET for their participation in the dissemination, propagation and perpetuation of negative images that "degrade women" and "perpetuate violence."

Can I get just ONE billboard (not 2) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the lack of financial transparency in the black churches in America who fleece their poor urban and middle-class black families of tithes and offerings that never find their way back into the community to aid the very people the church is set up to support?

Can I get just ONE billboard (just 1) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the rich white-male supremacist patriarchy in which we are embedded for its shaping and maintaining of anti-black behavior in all of its life sustaining institutions be they private or public?

JUST ONE!

Wise Intelligent

Thanks for your submission! I'm digging "homebase"

I will be adding it to June 12th 's playlist.

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Review - "Soul Logistics Radio":
We don't get a lot of mixtapes these days. And to be completely honest with you, I think I know why. Mixtapes are very difficult to make well. In most situations, you have a bunch of producers handling the bulk of the beatmaking, and like twenty emcees taking turns flowing over the various tracks. This often causes a lack of consistency and continuity within an album because either:

A.) the producers try too hard to make individual tracks to fit the vocal talents of each of the featured emcees, thus succeeding only in creating a jumbled mess of music, or

B.) the producers stick to their own creative directions, and only a couple of the emcees end up sounding good over beats they have had little to no creative input with.

However, every once in a while, I'll come across a mixtape that seems to do both successfully. Doug Evan's "Soul Logistics Radio" is the most recent example. This album experiments with a wide range of production, handled by maybe ten individual producers, yet maintains a great sense of continuity. It also features many different emcees, most wielding their own individual styles and flows, yet all seem to fit near-perfectly with the song on which they've been featured. And as I mentioned earlier, that's difficult to do well in most any scenario.

The Soul Logistics crew does a great job creating a twenty-plus track album that, while consisting of a countless number of individual artists, still manages to push a similar direction and stance to the listener. The sounds range from old-school to overwhelmingly soulful, and provide a great example of what can be done with a mixture of hip-hop, soul and R&B elements.

"Soul Logistics Radio" is an enjoyable listen that definitely raises an eyebrow or two, and should serve as an effective prelude to the solo projects of all artists involved. I recommend checking it out. Peace.

------------------------------------------------- Hip Hop Linguistics

It's gonig down !!! Soul Logistics is the special guest for Codine / Selena Storm in Jarratt, VA 4:00 - 8:00 @ Club Paradise ..

Soul Logistics are a hip-hop coalition out of Virginia founded by Doug Evans, who some may remember as a member of the group Bu Bonic Plague. Evans is about to stir things up just a bit more with Soul Logistic Radio, which is one-part mix tape, one part compilation. Subtitled Giving Inspiration Plus Information. They say they want to "bring back substance and creativity back to the music world". Not just hip-hop, but the music world. Do they do this? Indeed.

One common theme running in and out of the tracks is the fight against ethnic and social injustice, or simply wanting respect without going through the stereotypical loopholes that were in existence for centuries long before any of us were born. You'll hear this in tracks such as "Take A Chance", "Ghetto's Lost", and "Give Peace A Chance". What you'll also hear is a nice blend of hip-hop and soul, and neither is watered down. A lot of times you'll hear rappers trying to crossover a bit with singers who can't sing, and it fails miserably. With this group, they cover both sides equally with the kind of attention to detail that one would be able to detect on similar projects of the past.

The only song that I didn't quite get into was "Power Of Word", vocalized by someone who goes by the name of Human. The song is about the power of words, and yet the pace seems to stutter a bit, and fails in its effectiveness. The album closer, "Tha Cronkite!!!", which features Doug Evans along with Link Haze and Spec, establishes what this crew is about, but I would have preferred a better vocal mix. A better final mix could turn it into something with a much bigger impact.

Soul Logistic describes a collective and perhaps a mindstate, and a necessary revision of what hip-hop has become.
by John Book from musicforamerica.org

3/17/07 Soul Logistics '' LIVE '' on 91.3 WVST

@ the Dixies down town Petersburg March 2

LIVE @ THE F.O.P LOUNGE in Perersburg , Contributions to benefit John Harper Jr, Na'Tyah Hazer , Mark Banks Feb. 2, 2007 10:00 until 1:00

Soul Logistics will be preforming @ The Tropical Soul Lounge Feb. 23

EVERYBODY! PLEASE REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! THIS IS SERIOUS!






AFRIKA BAMBAATA & THE ZULU NATION

10 POINT MEDIA REFORM PLATFORM

We the people of the planet Earth want:


1.

A balance on the airwaves of old school, new school and contemporary music.


2.

More variety of musical genres, artists and content on the radio stations.


3.

Radio station directors, programmers and D-Jays to be held accountable for what is played on their radio stations.


4.

The FCC to do more to regulate the radio stations which continue to play negative songs with violent/sexual content during times when children and minors are most likely to be listening---daytime, before and after school.


5.

Radio stations to reflect more diverse cultural and political views of the community and not the commercial interests of the big multi-media corporations.


6.

A certain amount of time dedicated to local news, important events, issues and concerns that affect the communities in which the radio stations are supposed to serve.


7.

A certain amount of time dedicated to local artists who put out quality music in their regions.


8.

A break-up of the monopoly of the air wave band frequencies- No big corporation should be allowed to own/control several different radio stations under different names.


9.

A balance on the video stations---more positive images of women and the urban experience which are free of the stereotypical images that assault the minds of our youth.


10.

Use the radio, video and any other form of communication to educate, enlighten and entertain and not to control, exploit and manipulate the masses.

Doug and the boys going to rock New Years Eve in Richmond VA

IFI Music has chosen “Doug Evans" as their “Artist of the Week" for the week of 11-18-06. We have also chosen his song “Better Days” as our choice pick. We invite you to stop by the IFI Music Website:

http://www.ifimusic.org/IFI_Music_Artist_of_the_Wee.html

and check out his highlight! We look forward to hearing more from “Doug Evans” in the future.

IFI Music Board of Directors!

Better Days earn Garageband.com Track Of the Day

Now you can hear Doug @ I A C MUSIC a new web site for independent artist !!!

be on the look out for the '' Soul Logistics Radio '' cd coming soon ..

holla @ Doug Evans on Myspace.com/doryfunk

you now can hear Doug on www.betarecords.com/dougevans and email him devans@betarecords.com

Now you can buy Soul Cinema @ cdbaby.com and Towerrecords.com !!!

Congratulations are in order !! Your song did a bang up job in round 4 of the Active Contest, and held its own against some stiff competition. It's been reviewed by folks all over the world, been subject to raw, unfiltered scrutiny from people you don't even know .... and guess what?... they like it !!!. Your song made it to the upper echelon of its genre, and will now move on to the next level to battle it out with its peers in round 5

Rock on,
Ivy,
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