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Tha Alkaholiks - Last Call
One of the Dopest Performances of 2006 No Doubt!

FNOM would like to give a very special THANK YOU to                                    Tha Alkaholiks for being one of the illest and most influential Hip Hop                groups since 1993! A BIG Thank you to Jeru The Damaja for                          delivering the real every time, to Wildchild for making i$h raw and to                Special Ed for keeping it live, live, live!

And to the local flavor: Thank you to Al Valient for shining per                        usual on the MPC, to DJ KNS for keepen the headz nodden,                           to The Fresh Air Fund for representen and to Mayday for maken                       em bounce!

Also Big Up to Counterpoint Garments and Paul GNU for showen                        so much Love!!

Watch out for a Live CD of Tha Last Call available soon!!

FNOM presents...THA ALKAHOLIKS 'The Last Call Tour' Friday, March 24, 2006

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Hosted by Special Ed, with live performances by Jeru tha Damaja, Wildchild of the LootPack, Mayday, Butta Verses & Al Valient @ Revolution, 200 W. Broward Blvd Ft.Lauderdale. 21+ show. Doors open @ 8pm. Advanced $23.50 or $25 @ Door

Don't Miss Tha Liks' final tour!!! Another FNOM event!!! A 3% handling charge has been added on to each ticket. Sorry no refunds.

FNOM Recs debuts in URB Magazine

The January/February 2006 edition of streetwise URB Magazine has the latest review of Producer AL VALIENT's EP Five WorldWide (Hip Hop 12" Review Section)

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Five WorldWide is available in MP3 or Vinyl at our Warehouse!

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Known for his weekly appearance on the local internet broadcast Krib TV (FNOM Worldwide), Miami’s Al Valient, aka DJ Vee, is a veteran on the turntables. He gains inspiration from rock, hip-hop and downtempo music, to create a world of his own. Whether you like rhyming or instrumentals, his new EP, Five WorldWide, delivers. Tracks like “Driven” are laid back and encompass a “lounge vibe.” Others, like “Put My Shh…,” are more upbeat with a funk vibe.

Valient showed true wizardry by creating and mastering the EP on the Akai MPC 2000 sound station. The classic machine has been used by hip-hop and other genres of producers for years. Valient brings to the technology a little modern ingenuity and a vast collection of vinyl.

Five WorldWide features lyrical appearances by international emcees Pete Philly of Amsterdam and Indio of Germany. Valient Makes everal appearances rhyming on the album as well.

Al Valient drops cuts on Krib TV Saturdays at 7 p.m. For more information on Al Valient and other FNOM Recordings artists, visit www.FNOMrecordings.com.

Volume 2...Feat. Capadonna & Killah Priest, Akon, Al Valient, Ugly Duckling and Soulflower is hot off the presses. Go to www.Mixtape.com for details.

In an effort to join the relief for Hurricane Katrina victims, FNOM will be matching the $0.99 cost of every FNOM track that is downloaded from www.wombmusic.com and donating it directly to the Red Cross. Even if you don't give this way, please find a way to help out a bit.

Watch out for the Urban Entertainment Conference 2005! Film, Music and Fashion come together with all star panels and industry parties! www.UrbanEntertainers.com

Tiptoeing along with cinematic flourish and blunted swagger, Al Valient's debut EP is smart, subtle, and shifty. A native of El Salvador, Valient is something of a nomadic producer who's worked in Germany and Central America but currently calls Miami home. For the past couple of years, he's been a fixture of Internet radio stations the Womb and the Krib, where his mixing skills were flaunted online way before they were on wax. Five Worldwide is his official coming-out on local label FNOM.

The album's five tracks span a range of styles, showing Valient's versatility behind the MPC 2000, the digital sampler/sequencer that's his sole music-making machine. Low-key instrumentals like "Most They Fall" and "Driven" pulse with looming drama, sonic snapshots that yield overall sensations of color and vibe and more than head-noddable hooks. Dutch MC Pete Philly weighs in with infectious bombast on "Put My Shhh..." in Five's most bump-friendly track, his accented rasp falling somewhere between Method Man and Lyrics Born. The other vocal track, "Sounds n' Stylz," is a midtempo battle number skipping on a funky guitar line and crackling break. The album's bonus track (I guess Six Worldwide didn't sound right) is also a highlight, a pass-the-mic session done over elegant piano samples, recorded live in a Hamburg studio. If there's a language barrier here, it's trampled by a bevy of witty MCs that come out swinging in English and Spanish, the perfect mirror to Valient's own international ethos. [more]

AL VALIENT
Live In Store Performance of “Five WorldWide” @ Uncle Sam's Music

Check out VALIENT’s turntable skills and catch a live MPC performance of his EP for FREE this Saturday, July 30th from 3 – 4 PM at UNCLE SAM'S Fort Lauderdale record store! 4580 N. University Drive, Ft. Laud. 33351 - (954) 742-2466. KRIB.TV will also be filming for a global broadcast!

AL VALIENT of FNOM Recordings, perceived as one of the most promising up and coming producers in the music industry, is often compared to MPC 2000 enthusiasts Prefuse 73 and DJ Shadow for his choppy and innovative production style. VALIENT recently released his premier EP “Five WorldWide”, blessed on the BBC and currently infecting college radio stations.

The EP, skillfully crafted on an MPC 2000, is truly WorldWide as the album was conceptualized in Central America, recorded in Europe and manufactured in the US. International artists like Pete Philly (Epitaph Europe) from Amsterdam and Indio from Germany met up with VALIENT in Hamburg, Germany to lace the tracks.

Even if your DJ was Jesus, you couldn't f**k with these kids - Courtesy of Jose Terrier

Must mention: Kool Herc, the X-men, the Beat Junkies, the Invisible Skratch Piklez...

For all collaborators or would be collaborators, this is a reminder that FNOM also runs studio sessions specializing in arranging, programming and all pre production work. Located across the street from MOCA, adjacent to the recording district FNOM Recordings' studios has successfully created demos and master recordings alike. Check samples at Listen Up . Contact Us for information on rates and packages.

FNOM Recordings Closes Out the 2005 M3 Summit/WMC Week with A Smash Grammy Award Winning Reunion

First and foremost we would like to thank the Digable Planets for choosing Miami to give their first US performance since their Reunion!

We started out lovely on Saturday night at the M3 Sunset Session, the perfect tropical setting for a surreal teaser performance by none other than the Digable Planets, where they definitely let yall know they were back and sicker this year. Thanks to the whole M3 staff for making it happen.

On Sunday night I/O was PACKED! Love to everyone who showed their support, and especially for your patience as we know the lines were out of control! But FNOM made sure everyone was taken care of, starting the show later than expected. Big up to AL VALIENT who tore it up on the 1's & 2's, giving a dope live performance of his latest release "Five WorldWide" on the MPC 2000. Thanks to FANTAB, SOULFLOWER and BIG BROOKLYN RED for all giving stellar performances. Respect to TOM LA ROC who kept everyone vibing throughout the night. And what can we say but thank you to the DIGABLE PLANETS who came out and blessed the MIA beautifully with a full live concert...and just when you thought it couldn't get any better setting it off with an incredible encore! Peace, Love & Respect to Ceeknowledge, Butterfly & Ladybug Mecca, collectively known as the Digable Planets, true Hip Hop pioneers!

FNOM Recordings presents...DIGABLE PLANETS ReBirth of Cool Reunion Concert 2005 - Miami, FL US

If ya'll checked out our side column THE REEL...you know that we kept you updated on the DP's latest moves throughout Europe. They took that classic New York Hip Hop across the Atlantic and rocked it with Mobb Deep in Copenhagan and Mos Def in one of our favorite cities, Amsterdam.

Now they full circle, back in the US and FNOM is proud to present THE DIGABLE PLANETS REBIRTH OF COOL CONCERT in Miami, US on Sun. March 27, 2005 at I/O Lounge.

Also, you can visit www.m3summit.com & www.wmcon.com for to get details on what else is going on the week of March 22-27, 2005

SEE OUR FULL COLOR AD FOR CONCERT DETAILS IN THE WMC/M3 SUMMIT GUIDE IN MIAMI NEW TIMES!

Check out the latest article in this weeks City Link Magazine for its cover feature on The Womb and how FNOM was there to help launch KRIB.TV. In the issue you can see the face of FNOM's elusive president, Jennifer Burbank.

With much anticipation we’re proud to announce the official release date for the Five WorldWide EP. The first 500 orders will receive a dope FNOM white tee for just U$1.

Release Party venue to be announced. For early guest list reservations hit up info@FNOMrecordings.com.

The entire Five WorldWide EP will also be digitally distributed through www.WombMusic.com and www.KRIB.TV In the meantime, download the first two releases Sounds‘N Styles ft. Indio and Driven for 99 Cents a piece, Listen Up for the snippets.

We’d like to thank everyone involved in the first season of 'WorldWide' for making it such a FNOM-enal Success!

From making Elephant Man blush to getting the real low from Dirtbag, capturing rare Tego Calderon footage and getting exclusive coverage of The Hip Hop and R&B Billboard Awards…you’ve seen it all through our eyes. Not to mention you’ve witnessed some of the dopest showcases from some of the illest independent EMCEES out there.

This season’s going to be off the richter! We’re steppin it up in 2005 with the WMC Hip Hop showcases, hot fashion, exciting live events by your favorites and more surprises! If you haven’t had the chance to check us yet, dare you say this to be true, be sure to log onto www.KRIB.TV and catch 'WorldWide' every Saturday from 6-8PM ET/18:00 –20:00.

If you think you got the skills to showcase, prove it…send us a demo, or if you have videos that you want to get played hit up the hostess with the mostess Jennifer B. at Jennifer@Krib.TV And of course we always appreciate your love and feedback, whether it be good or bad!

NEW FNOM Recordings HEADQUARTERS 2005

We’re moven on up, to the North Side. That’s right the FNOM Headquarters has relocated to a bigger and better location for 2005! We are currently offering special reduced rates on studio time. For information on booking studio time, music production or our Instructional DJ Classes – Scratchin 101 & Beat Blending 101 Contact Us

MOVIE SCORES & INSTRUMENTALS AVAILABLE!

WORLDWIDE. Okay, so we know that everybody and their uncle’s got a website so it’s only fair that you ask just what makes FNOM so different?

Well how about the fact that from this one site we can deliver groundbreaking WORLDWIDE talent from the rawest Cats through audio downloads, deliver straight up reviews on just about anything you can imagine, and give you chances to win FREE ish like CDs, vinyl and hard to find merchandise.

Come on get to know FNOM, first drink’s on us (uh don’t take that literally). Head over to About Us to find out what FNOM’s all about and why we keep our ear to the streets around the world. Stop in at WorldWide to meet our multi-talented collaborators who are sure to make you wonder why you never bothered to look beyond the comforts of Uncle Sam for hot music. Then you gotta make sure that you check Listen Up to hear them represent and do their thing.

Pass by our Review section to agree or disagree with FNOM’s opinions on new music releases, performances, books, music equipment and more. Browse through the Warehouse, our on line store, to cop original wax, full download rights and other sought after FNOM goods. And if we don’t got it, check our Linx to see who does.

Something about FNOM rubbing you the wrong way, need more info on an artist or booking or you just wanna get at us to show us love, Contact Us and give us 24 hours to get back.

Once again, welcome, sit back, relax and kick your shoes because we’re about to take you on a journey through the undergrounds across the continents.