Wow what a couple years

Wow, seriously though. I figured writing one of these would be a good experience and frankly, its one of those "everybody is doing it" situations.... Why not allow the world into my personal life, thoughts, experiences and ideas?

I'm going to sum up the past couple years really quickly and from now on I will update this blog regularly so all of you can check in on my touring and plain old life...

2002 - 2004. I recorded a lot of music. Most of which was not very good at all and lacked serious production +mixing and overall goodness. Lots of singing though... drunk singing, which was fun.

2005 was a dull year. I started doing shows and released my first pressed cd "Five To Nine" that i recorded between 2002 and 2005. The cd was an experience, it sucked though. Basically had no recording experiences, no mixing experience, and all the words I wanted to say minus the skill to properly present it. At the end of 2005 I recorded "My Hip Hop" though featuring Lex and that was probably my first real hip hop song that got any recognition. I based that as my starting point.

2006 was incredibly busy music wise... I started a group project called "livin large" with chilliwack rapper Logical (the project was released but eventually haulted due to, shit I dont even know why) We toured around vancouver, and Vancouver island. Highlight of that tour was probably the strip-hop show in nanaimo. I won't go into details, but lets just say an island-crack-head visited our hotel suite and definitley provided some entertaining.. (no not what your thinking she was old enough to be our grandmother!) I also spent a majority of the summer of 2006 performing alongside Moka Only and eventually recorded a track with him. that was definitley a great experience. 2006 was my busiest year of promoting shows as well. Business was picking up. At the end of 2006 Lex and I started our group "Violative Cause".

2007, I stopped promoting and started focusing on my music and career within music. We released the first Violative Cause cd "Just Movement". We filmed a few indy music videos and toured BC and evnetually over to eastern europe. I got a indy dealio set up with the homies in Vienna, Austria "Boombokkz Recordz" to release a solo Lenny Diko album sometime in 2008 in europe.. Ive been working on it the past few months its really going to be an amazing record. We also just finished the new Violative Cause cd "The World Is Ours" and are about to start touring again... Violative Cause's business picked up, We started working with an agent "BigNote Music Inc", an a&r manager "Abaca Entertainment", and some serious management. We also acquired our full on producer DJ Redworm who has been a friend for a few years now... We're just about to release the cd, tour a bit and then hit the studio to record our third album... Then its off to europe for a couple months on tour...

Anyways my fingers are hurtin like a biatch... I'm gonna top this ish now. Enjoy that read keep checking back! The next update should be later this week after we play out at a highschool Thursday night. Nothin like getting paid to rock a set in front of 500 screaming 16 year olds!

peace and respects
lenny