Cardiff by the Sea, California
29 Years Old
Lyricist, Producer, DJ

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BIOGRAPHY

Progress is a poet in the true sense of the word, driven by his passion for constant self betterment, social and political advance, and sonic creativity. As a performing emcee/rapper he spent 6 years melding his style and his stage presence with his band eLeMeN.O.P. (The Element Of Progression). His experience in the band helped him forge a well educated sense on how to create, execute, perform and record music. While he was creating live Hip-Hop sounds influenced by rock, funk and experimental music, he was also recording with producers from all walks of life. The only natural next step was for him to start producing himself. In September of 2006 Progress and his wife decided to move To Southern California from their home in Atlanta, Georgia. This decision was reluctantly made despite the local success of eLeMeN.O.P, and his close proximity to family and friends. Sacrificing all he held dear, he chose to look at this move as an opportunity to extend his band’s network and to take on the task of covering the lyrical and the musical fronts on his own. For the past two years Progress has made a diverse solution settled somewhere between the sound of Daft Punk and the Beastie Boys, but with a message and style of delivery all his own. His lyrics are charged with spiritual poetry and a passion for social change. His music is fused with funky rhythms and danceable leading synth lines and arpeggios. Due to the digital age and slow decaying music industry, we are led into a time of independent artists who believe and convey theirs beliefs unhindered from labels and executives. Progress welcomes this change in hope that his audience will relate to a more personable and unfiltered type of musician, question is, will you?

LEVEL

semi-pro

DAY JOB

Retail Manager

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG CUTS

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,