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Miss Laidlaw
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Welcome to Female Beatmakers.
Profile Information
- Relationship Status:
- It's Complicated, With Myself
- I live:
- In Bow situated in London
- I am a
- Producer, Singer, Songwriter, Rapper, Lyricist, DJ, Backing Vocalist, Promoter
- About Me:
Miss Laidlaw also known as the ‘The Beatmaking Housewife’ is an up and coming music producer, songwriter, and vocal arranger from London, England. Currently residing in the East of London, Miss Laidlaw’s makes music in a number of genres from Drum and Bass to Hip-Hop to Jazz to Lounge. A jack of all trades and surely a master to anything that she puts her fingers on. Miss Laidlaw:
‘everything I do is through the feelings that I need to express at the time. So I skip between genres, depending on heart rate, mood, melodies , inspiration etc, anything can be a factor. ’
Miss Laidlaw’s obsession with music was no accident. Her mother a singer and her father a producer and record label owner, fed her addiction of everything musical and soul felt.Miss Laidlaw’s adventure started by scratching every piece of vinyl her mother had, through constant repetition. Teena Marie, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Stephanie Mills, Donald Byrd, Simply Red and Dennis Brown where the artist who would regularly get played.
Every Christmas her mother would buy her a piece of musical equipment, which she would practice on endlessly. Her father would introduce her to the world of analogue recordings and reel to reel’s and taught her how to structure her first tracks.It was only a matter of time before her love became her addiction and she was soon, rapping, singing, writing her own songs, performing on stage and in clubs and later on in her life took up beatmaking as a way to silence those melodic ghosts in her head .
Miss Laidlaw:
‘I was writing songs and rap lyrics and didn’t have instrumentals to rap over. The whole producing world was not alien to me. So I saved up money and practiced making beats. For a while I had become this critical being, that was not entirely happy with the sound that I was creating. But eventually that habitual thinking began to fade the more confident I had become in my style. '
Currently Miss Laidlaw is working on a number of music projects with artists around the world. As well as running her own motivational music website www.femalebeatmakers.com Her debut album ‘The Beatmaking Housewife’ is set to hit stores at end of 2008.
- Influences:
- Amy Winehouse, Bjork, D'angelo, Dwele, Hard Fi, Sterephonics, Prince, Teena Marie, Budge, PhilHarmoneek (or)Questra, Fanatix, Billy Holiday, Minni Ripperton, Sia, Miles Davis, T.S Monk, Stevie Wonder, Roxy Music, Sting, Tori Amos, Curtis Mayfield, The Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron, Miss Laidlaw, Tom Browne, Dennis Brown, Herbie Hancock, Roya Ayres, ToTo, James Brown, Wu tang, Lost Boys, Biggie, Nas, Common, Little Brother, Talib, Omar, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Slum Village, Rick James, Big Noyd, Earth Wind and Fire, Brand New Heavies, Timberland, Madlib, Oddisee, Busta Rhymes, Lisa Stansfield, Jamie Cullum, Ty, Jlive, Jamiroquai, Zero 7, Portishead, Oasis, Sade, Tranqill, Bilal, Mary J Blige, SWV, Jon B, Chico Debarge, Hall and Oates, Yes, Mister Mister, Blondie, Michael Jackson, Jimmi Hendricks, Outcast, Paul weller, Maxwell, Madonna, Music Soulchild, Dionne Warwick, Beverley Craven, Anita Baker, Commodores, Ella Fitzgerald, Luther Vandross, Morcheeba, Madonna, Kate Bush, Courtney Pine, Black Milk, Aretha Franklin.Spyro Grya, Idris Mohammed, Ahmed Jamal, 4 Hero, Dave Burbeck, Vanessa Freeman
- 5 Words to Describe My Style:
- Soulful, down tempo, groovy, off key, relaxing
- Website:
- http://www.myspace.com/laidlawmusic
- What can I bring to this forum:
- Beat Programme, General Information
- What do I need support in:
- Mixing Skills, Everything
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How to get the best out of promoting your MySpace Page
I've noticed that on my page i tend to get allot of views and thought that i would share some tips on how to generate genuine attention to your page.
The name: The name of your page has to be something striking. I have "Meet Miss Laidlaw, The Beatmaking Houswife" which to me is enough to generate curiosity. A name is which is unusual, witty, funny, or sometimes downright rude draws attention .
The Photo: The photo does not have to be of booty shaking women or breast all…
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Calling all female producer/ Beatmakers 5 Replies
I'm making a top 5 female beatmakers video on youtube and I was hoping you ladies would be interested in participating. I have already done one that featured the guys and it has been a pretty big h...
Started by beatnik8. Last reply by "LotusFlower" 4 Nov.
Producers/DJ's.. Listen up because your MP3's are now contraband!!! 2 Replies
swiped from johnbook's blog: • If you are a producer and/or DJ who travels, and are someone who works with digital files, best you upload your files to a file sharing website or your own FTP befor...
Tagged: us, border, evil, laptop, seize
Started by Nekaybaaw. Last reply by Lady Tha ProducHer 12 Aug.
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Lotusx
Ima have fun here.. x
Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your wonderful network of talented, extraordinary people.
Peace Love and Laughter
Many Blessings
Makeba
Yeah you got back to me twice.
I heard about your gig through Justin 'self taught beats' and I mailed you via myspace.
Is this your site?
Keys
ta 4 da add.check my 2 myspace pages when u have a minute & please leave a comment &/or add friends
...keep on honing yr skills/craft....
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