Two of Russ Castella’s remixes can be found on the new Danielle Bollinger CD single titled You’ll Always Have Me. Released under EsNtion Records out everywhere including iTunes.

Danielle Bollinger - You'll Always Have Me (Russ Castella Remix)

Russ Castella says he thought it was better for him to do the ballad remixes of this song instead of club/dance. “It’s a beautiful song, there are going to be plenty of dance remixes on this record, so I’ll try a different approach.”

Tracklist:

01. Junior Vasquez Radio Edit
02. Russ Castella’s Ballad
03. Chico’s Radio
04. Mike Rizzo Global Radio
05. Russ Castella’s Piano
06. M2 Radio
07. Junior Vasquez Club Mix
08. Mike Rizzo Global Club Mix
09. Chico’s Club Mix
10. M2 Dub Mix
11. Junior Vasquez Extended Mix
12. Orginal 8 Bar Intro
13. Rod Corrillo’s Rub A-Dub-Dub

Dang this track brings back so many memories, but anyway this was made for Ashley Tisdale when she was just about to sign with Warner. She was on Disney at the time, so I came up with this “Disneyish” beat. I honestly like this track alot. Ashley hated it. Oh well, her stupid album flopped anyway.

Ashley Tisdale

This song went through countless of demo singers before I gave it to O’so Krispie and she did an excellent job on it. We demoed up the song but decided not to release it. It’s a really good track though. I’ll post the one with the vocal later. Created on Fruity Loops. “The Slave Project” tracks were the last songs I created on Fruity Loops I think before switching over to Logic Pro. Haven’t used FL since

I was in Philadelphia at the time when she recorded in Atlanta. After 6 hours of recording she gives me a call and says

“OMG I just finished recording. The song sounds awesome! But…”
“But…”
“I sang it in a different key… Like it doesn’t match.”
“WHY THE F*** DID YOU SING IT IN THE WRONG KEY???”
“I dunno…Should I re-record it?”
“YA THINK???!!!”

hahahaha good times!

O'so Krispie

One day I decided to message Jeffree Star saying “lets do a track, take a listen to this…” This chick gets flooded with comments and emails but to my surprise, she replied saying “This is hot sh*t let’s record.” We throw emails back and forth between her, her manager, and I planning stuff… But then they both disappear LOL Dude seriously 2005 was definitely not my good year!

“Like That” was originally made for Ciara back in ‘04, it sounded more Lil Jonnish though. (Read about it here). But that fell through as well. However, “Like That” ended up being my biggest “Rejected beat” money maker in 2006-08 getting crap load of TV placements from independent movies to MTV.

PS: Jefree Star is a cunt

Jeffree Star

Another failing attempt with Def Jam in 2005. There was a new artist they just signed. I don’t remember the name but they were looking for southern type of beat. Recorded the song. Def Jam ended up dropping him. Project gone into pooper. Fun fun.

“Lost In Translation” was produced in summer 2005 sometime. Used my usual Fruity Loops & 3OSC. Also, I think this is the first track that I used Absynth on. The percussion that you hear in the background that sounds like a bongo drum is actually a synth. lol

Song didn’t go anywhere. Shopped it to Def Jam only I think, got rejected…boo hoo.

The mother of all failures. This song literally went through 20 different artists from G Unit to Def Jam to Koch to Interscope and finally ended up in the trash can a year later. This was a never ending battle. Created on Fruity Loops, used Edirol Orchestral Synthesizer (one of the best string synth ever)

G Unit