What has now become a classic Shinichi tune '8Letters' is back with remixes by Starkillers, Kamisshake, Cedric Cervais, Nick Terranova and others... Exlusively available from Beatport '8 Letters' is back and in new form. You can find the Kamisshake remix featured in Ives DJ mix for Paul Van Dyk's Vonyc radio show.
This release features 9 remixes of varying styles that were gathered from a remix contest on Sony's Acid Planet website. An Oko Tek remix was also commissioned to polish of this massive release. You can get these remixes as dIgital only downloads available exclusively on Beatport and Itunes.
After three years of work on this gem of an album Jette Kelly and myself have finally gotten the record finished. We have received a dozen or so reviews from some great mags that you can read over at jette-ives.com. I'll be releasing several singles from the album over the course of the year on my label OVARemixed. You can listen to and read about In the Deep at jette-ives.com or OVA Records. You can also purchase it on Itunes or on cd at Amazon and CdBaby.com.
The first single from Ives's In Love & Light album Charcoal Love which features the vocalist Laura Burhenn makes its debut with nine unique remixes. Noel Sanger brings his talents with an electro trance anthem and Drew Bongiorno banks it with an electro prog mix. You will find an Enoesque ambient mix from Ives and two luscious downtempo mixes from Tad Hutchinson. You can get these remixes as dIgital only downloads available exclusively on Beatport and Itunes.
I'm a little late announcing my newest album on holmesives.com, but I want to tell you about it. In Love & Light is my most accomplished, deeply inspired work to date.It is very different from my other projects in that it features twelve songs in five languages, ten artists, and is more acoustic than many of my other recordings. Vocalists include Likeness to Lily's Susan Oetgen, DC's own beloved chanteuse Laura Burhenn, Dierdra duBois of Six Degrees Records, Real World Studio's Sophie Moleta, and Lou Lou of Thievery Corporation. Instrumentalists Bauback Yeganeh, Amy Domingues, Rex Riddem play spanish guitar, cello, and percussion, (respectively). I do hope you pick up a copy for yourself or for a friend who may need to hear this healing music.
For the next 42 days a remix contest will be held at Acid Planet for a new track off of the Jette-Ives album 'In the Deep'. Prizes will be awarded to the top winners and your mixes will be featured on site, OVA Records and Jette-Ives.com. Anyone is welcome to remix and we look forward to hearing all the submissions. You will find the contest details here
It is finally time to release a mix cd of my remixes and original dance tunes. It will be featuring 'Eros', 8 Letters, The Future, and remixes like Seroya's, Only Your Love, Bebel Gilberto's Aganjou, Jorane's I Feel Love, Sophie & ives' Awaken and some exclusive unreleased mixes that are still in the works. I really look forward to letting my fans get access to my dance mixes which have only been available on vinyl but now you will be able to get them mixed on cd. Stay tuned for the release date.
After having heard Seroya's new album "Eat the Flowers" which I mastered a month ago I had to remix her song "Talk to Me". There was a hook in there that I thought would go over really well on the dance floor. The remix has some similarities to '8 Letters' and to KOT's 'I Want You' but it also stretches into places I had yet to explore. This remix is catchy but in good ways, it is epic but you can mix out early if you don't want the whole 9 minute adventure, regardless it never stops giving you the groove so you can swing it all the way through.
Charcoal Love is track one off of In Love & Light and it features Laura Burhenn on vocals. This diamond of a tune is sure to touch you again and again. I will be giving it a slight electro feel and Noel will be giving it his big room touch and Dru is delivering a House Electro driver that is sure to get the hips swaying. There is also an ambient remix in the works. Should be a heavenly package when it's done.
Got a great set of remixes coming at you shortly. There is a house mix by Ives with some sweet trancey elements drizzled on top then a pure electro mix from Jpunch and a solid I mean solid progressive epic by Array. There are also some chill mixes delivered by TaRd ba$$ and Tad Hutchinson and an ambient mix by Scott Folgelgren. All mixes are available through Beatport and Itunes.
This album was the most difficult album for me to mix and master as it included so much live organic instrumentation and vocal work. It has taken a solid two months to mix and master the dozen pieces on the album but it is well worth it. The album should be ready third week in November and you will be able to get it through OVA Records. I do believe this may be the most beautiful album I've ever conceived.
Yes Jette Kelly and I have decided to tackle Chris Isaak's Wicked Game. I thought it impossible as it is such a beautiful compelling song how could we bring anything to it or anyone for that matter. But my affinity for the song was enough to inspire this recreation and Jette laid down some gorgeous vocals that I think even Chris Issak would be impressed by. I will have a taste for you in the audio section soon. www.jette-ives.com
The long awaited album featuring Sophie Moleta and Holmes Ives finally comes to your ears. It has been many moons in the making and it is a relief to finally have it finished. It is most certainly music from the heart and you can read more about it at OVA Records and you can pick up at CD Baby, Amazon or at the Itunes Music Store. Hope you enjoy it!
I may be getting ahead of myself on this one but I couldn't help it. I love this tune and it needs to be on the dance floor. You can hear a taste of the original on Jette-Ives' myspace page. Already Sharam is bangin out. I will be working up a dub and Delphi will be crafting a mix so look for this one early '06 it will be a rather unique release but you'll have to hear it to see what I mean.
In the studio mixing and mastering Sophie & Ives' "Untie Me". I had to crank out one more mix for this album, an instrumental, to give a pause on the powerful addictive nature of Sophie's voice. I am sure that you will fall under her spell as well. Other than that is well on it's way to being completed and the mastering and final mixing and taking place. A very challenging album to mix as there are so many layers of tweaked churning synths and finding a space for all of them while still leaving room for our Sophie. I will find a way.....
view the invite I will be performing live with Jette-Ives in Washington DC at DC Nine. This will be our first show with the full band, Jette Kelly on vocals, Matt Lewis on bass and Danny Tait on drums and myself on the keys and laptop. We will try to get some video shots of the show and post them. You can learn more about my Jette-Ives project at www.jette-ives.com.
View the invite It is finally time to unleash this beast. With remixes from?Mark Knight & Martijn Ten Velden, Richard Earnshaw and Tommyboy. This release is getting great reviews and mad support from Dj's worldwide. You can order it from the Yoshop I will be performing live at Andalu with Avalon Frost, this is a rare treat so make it if you can!!!!
Koch Records have commissioned me to re-groove four Beatles classics. That is a dream come true for me. I grew up loving the beatles from a young age starting with there catchy pop songs and graduating to there more experimental twisted compositions. I will be working with some of bands to tackle this. Jette-Ives will regroove Eleanor Rigby and I Want You, as Signs we will do Strawberry Fields and with Azade Abi and Avalon Frost we will tackle Come together. All mixes will be available on Itunes and pretty much every music store worldwide.
I will be performing live with my band Jette-Ives at the Butterfly building in West Virginia. This is our debut show and there will be many more to come. Look for us in the US and in Europe in /05 and '06. Our album 'In the Deep' will be releasing in Jan '06 so stay tuned you will be hearing allot about this project.