“Let’s have some fun… Tweet me your questions about anything and I’ll answer back. 1 word questions ONLY or I won’t answer :)”

http://www.twitter.com/russcastella

Britney Spears - Dirty Girl

Rumors continue to spread about Britney Spears’ next album which is supposed to hit Spring 2010. Russ Castella tweets:

“the new britney track is called “dirty girl” and its gonna be realllllyyyyy dirty”

more info to come soon….

Coast 2 Coast Vol 88

1.AZ - No Strings (Prod. By Baby Paul aka BpZy
2.Drake - Juice
3.Fabolous - Salute
4.T.I. Feat Bun B - All The Time
5.AZ Feat. Rell - You Know (Prod By Baby Paul aka BpZy & Jimi Kendrixx)
6.Fabolous - Lullaby
7.Ludacris - OG’s Theme (Detox Demo)
8.Twista & Tech N9ne - Problems
9.Drake - The Winner (Prod By Tha Bizness)
10.AZ Feat. Tony Sunshine - Talkin Gangsta
11.Jusmula - Coast 2 Coast Freestyle
12.Freeway Feat. Young Chris - All The Cities
13.Gorilla Pits Feat The Jacka - Keep Pushin
14.Cory Gunz - Let’s Move It
15.AZ Feat. Consequence - Heavy In Da Game
16.ALIWOOD Ft. ShowKase & Glasses Malone - Ya Girls Eyes
17.Lil Wayne - Prom Queen (Russ Castella Piano Remix)
18.Tamppa Feat. RnB & Sha Stimuli - City Walk
19.Trel Mack - Bigger Than Life
20.M.EAZY - Get Mines
21.TruExact - Gotta Be Me
22.JAE-O - Aint Like Me (www.dwerecords.net)
23.Josh Clemons - White Boy Clothes
24.Commercial- Coast 2 Coast Convention - NYC - August 22nd
25.Tone Trump - I Am Back Freestyle
26.AZ - Outro

Russ Castella stated in the recent interview that he expects a gloomy future for the music industry.

“…musicians will make less and less with each year especially in the urban market. There will be no more flamboyant artists’ spending and they will count every dime. Most already do. Extremely expensive music videos will eventually fade out. I’d say an average urban music video costs around $50,000 for a known artist and it will drop to about $10K-20K within a year or two. This will significantly drop the quality of music and presentation. Majors will try to hire more cheaper producers as all of them will fight for harder for that buck which means they will do it for pennies or even free…”

As to a question of “What will save the industry?” Russ replied,

“Recorded Music today is two dimensional. I’m not talking about live performances but more as recorded music itself. It’s getting boring. There has to be a new physical medium..a new way to present the music. I dunno, like a pill where you swallow it and you feel the music…literally. Imagine like feeling the drums through your body…I dunno something like that. You can’t download that **** on the internet for free. It’s physical.

At the beginning, vinyl sold because it was a brand new thing, 8 tracks sold because they sounded better than vinyl, tapes sold because it sounded better than 8 tracks, CDs sold because they sounded better than tapes…ok now what? Need that next hot thing that will make it sound better than CD…”

Russ also mentioned,

Some a****le is going to come up with a software that can emulate any artists’ voice. Or like autotune change your voice to anyone else’s voice. When that happens, I’m getting the cracked version online and start making me some Justin Timberlake hits. He is too lazy to get in the studio so I’ll take the matters to my own hands.”

Russ Castella’s wikipedia was just updated with the following statement:

Russ Castella is currently heavily involved in managing a singing career of Irene Nelson. He has remixed her debut single “Sunrise” which is distributed by Universal Music Group. The remix features Lil Wayne.[4]
REFERENCE: http://www.jiskha.com/download/display_product.cgi?id=1246495061

Irene Nelson

This statement hasn’t been confirmed by Russ or Irene at this time. More info on Irene Nelson

Britney Spears - Circus (Russ Castella Remix) Ringtone

Russ Castella’s “Circus” Remix is currently the most downloaded MP3 on Mp3int.com

Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (Russ Castella Remix)

BBQChickenRobot.com posts Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow Remixes including Russ Castella’s Remix.

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