WE'VE MOVED!!!!

The new online home for Honor Flow Productions is now LIVE!!! Clean your feet on the mat, bring in the grub, and make yourself at home. Also take note of the date and time on the home page. Hummm....

4.4.15...4:15pm

HonorFlowProductions.com 

Theme From 94.7 The Wave's "Making Waves" by DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL"

Every year, LA radio station 94.7 The Wave produces a segment called "Making Waves." "Making Waves" is dedicated to recognizing status quo movers and shakers in the African-American community from all different professions and purposes.

Along with being assigned to co-produce this year's installment alongside Morning Show Host Pat Prescott, Pat gave me the opportunity to produce the theme music that will be heard under the interview highlights (in radio, we call it a "music bed") that will be aired throughout February on The Wave.

So right as the station is going to commercial, don't touch your dial just yet, lol! That is when these 1 minute production spots will be gracing the airwaves backed by some H.F.P. sonics.

- Chuck

And Then I Saw Her... (From The Motion Picture "Dear White People") By DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL"

All Instrumentation and Programming By DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" For Honor Flow Productions

This past Tuesday night, I finally found time to go to the movies and check out "Dear White People." Man listen... in a status quo were "post race" and stereotypes are a subject of debate, this flick throws that conversation right in your face and makes your laugh in the process. I identified with his movie so much. I can't tell you how many scenes seemed to have came right out my college undergrad years, lol!

Furthermore, personally, I am EXTREMELY proud to be a part of the film's soundtrack! Pay close attention to the scene where Coco is filming her infamous vlog, that is this Honor Flow Productions jam in the back I named "And Then I Saw Her..." because the instrumental just felt like "A Fly Love Song."

My sister and I were hi-fiving in the theater like we just scored a touchtown lol! Super crazy to hear something you cooked up in your bedroom in a movie on the big screen, and then to see your name in the credits!? Wild man.

Lastly, a testimony of listening to your gut; when I was submitting beats for this and other potential projects, this was the only beat that I didn't make before hand in the batch I submitted. Something told me to make a fresh one to complete the group of tracks. And it turns out, this was the one that was placed. I heard this story a million times, but since I've experienced it, I'm firm believer in this saying: it only takes one. But it does takes a couple dozen before you get to that one, lol!
Special thanks to Paul Stewart of Atom Factory Music for the opportunity and go see Dear White People now! And take a couple friends with you!

- DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL"

Backstage Pass # 2- 2014 Taste Of Soul with 94.7 The Wave (10.18.14)

To hear over half a million people... yes, seriously, no exaggeration... A HALF OF MILLION PEOPLE start word for word "sing-a-longs" while your on stage performing is the greatest feeling any DJ or musician can experience. And it happened in masses 3 times this year at Taste of Soul 2014.

1) Greg Mack and I's 3 minute impromptu Funk music revue in this order: George Clinton's "Knee Deep," Zapp's "More Bounce To The Ounce," Brick's "Dazz," Lakeside's "Fantastic Voyage," Parliament's "Flashlight" and Prince's "Head."

2) When The E Family was about to take the stage and we had to pause their introduction for a second because the crowd was still singing part of the 2nd version AND chorus to Michael Jackson's "Rock With You" even though I had just stopped the record about a minute before.

3) Then 35 minutes later at the end of The E Family's set, Stevie Wonder pops on out of no where stage with Shelia E, and sung a piece of "Don't You Worry About A Thing" (A personal favorite of mine in Stevie's catalogue to boot. And yes, thanks to my sister Tyler, we have HD film of that, lol!)
That led to me a 10 minute impromptu mix of all Stevie records. My Lord, if their was going to be an earthquake on Crenshaw Blvd that night, it was close. That crowd energy was at critical mass and I cut the crossfader so much for the crowd to sing back, I honesty could have left the songs completely off and they would have carried the entire tune word for word.

Honestly, my written account doesn't do this justice. You had to be there to experience this. If you ever doubted that music is one of the most powerful pieces of energy in the world and brings us together, "one nation under groove," this is my testimony. I only dreamed of days like this. Feeling euphoria like this. Rocking stages like this. And God willing, hopefully many more to comes. This is why I love why do. I will never forget this day. Thank you Crenshaw Blvd. Love to my crew at 94.7 The Wave... we did that, lol!


- "thE oLd SouL"
 
Photography By Tyler Ann Nunley For Genevieve Munroe co.

See more photos from Taste Of Soul 2014 at Genevieve Munroe's website HERE!

94.7 The Wave's Pat Prescott & Greg Mack, Dana Dane of The Get Fresh Crew, and Yours Truly

 Headcrack of Dish Nation/The Rickey Smiley Show getting busy on the mic with a freestyle. Our second year straight at Taste Of Soul we've played a game of "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper."

 

Steve Wonder being escorted off stage by 94.7 The Wave's Frankie Ross after his impromptu duet of "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" with Shelia E.

Living "The Glamorous Life" with one and only, Shelia E.

 

Sunday Funday Award Tours: Eighty-Two X The Boo Over (11.2.14)

From "breaking it down" as DJ Lance Rock from Yo Gabba Gabba while on the decks at Eighty-Two...

To thanks to DJ Waldo Rules, making a connection that was "just a Stones Throw away," with MED and The Beat Konducta, Quasimoto himself,  Madlib; never a dull moment during the H.F.P. "Sunday Funday Award Tours."

Backstage Pass # 1- Spinning For Fantasia & Brian McKnight @ Nokia Theatre (10.24.14)

Photography By Bernstein Associates

Thank you to everyone at the Nokia Theatre for being a dope host to me. This was my 1st time rocking a theatre and you guys made it easy and memorable. Shouts out 94.7 The Wave for the look, and Fantasia & Brian McKnight for their showstopping sets. And most of all... That Dancefloor Burner of a crowd! Thank you for the love and partying with me. Here are some shots I took through out the night from my four eyes.

Taken @ The 94.7 The Wave Studio days before the show...

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ The RAD Cabin's "Zombie Prom" THIS SATURDAY (11.1.14)!!!

Third time is the charm and third time is the deadliest. This Saturday night, The RAD Cabin presents another holiday function sure shot. A LOT going down with this one. Read all the details below directly from The RAD Cabin crew. See you on the other side... this Saturday night *Insert Vincent Price laugh*
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FREE ENTRY ~ 21+
It's a Warehouse, UBER there's no parking!
**ENTER on 58TH Street**

Dress in your Zombie Best!
It's scary how good this will be.
A Wound Bar? Yup! You can get your scars and gashes done by Special FX make-up artists at our Wound Bar!

You can come in prom wear OR be the Undead of your choice. Sexy Zombies. Celebrity Zombies. Evil Zombies. Rotting, undead, brainsucking mutant virus voodoo Zombies. It's a dead man's party... who could ask for more?!?
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Please contribute to Charleyville.org, a charitable foundation which provides scholarships for musicians and writers. You can make a direct donation to Charleyville here: http://charleyville.org/support/contribute/

Just a reminder that this benefits a great cause: Charlotte was an amazing and inspiring musician and poet and her family will be here from Nashville and Wisconsin to celebrate and raise awareness for the foundation that they set up in her name. If you can’t attend, please consider making a donation to this charity.

LIVE music!!!

Get your classic Zombie Prom picture taken by Playboy Magazine Photographer, Joel Flora!

***Make sure you show the flyer above on your smartphone for entree at the door!!! And say the password: "PromKing"

Yearbook (The Mount:Year One)

In late September, I received a Facebook message from a college classmate that "wanted to see if I could do something for her since I was all in the music business." Oh boy I thought, messages that start off like this usually result in two kinds of requests: one, to help them get something on the radio or two, concert tickets. Turns out, she asked if I could type out a playlist of some popular mainstream Hip-Hop and R&B songs from our freshman year at Marymount College for a memory box she was complying.

Now, anyone that knows me will tell you, I am always one to soundtrack associate almost every occurrence in my life. From the moment I received that message, the wheels started turning, and I saw myself scribble out a list of over 40 songs the next morning. Once I looked down at my hieroglyphics, bookmarked moments of my freshman year of college; one of the most influential 12 months in my life, started to flashback in my mind. A time in my life when I realized "I knew this world was crazy, but not this crazy." I realized it moves at the speed of light such as the album cover’s photo; a shot I took of myself one late night on the college’s bus for photography class. Just a written list would not suffice nor do justice, these experiences had to be relived through speakers.

Unlike The Demonstration series, the record selection process was more based on historic context than my own personal taste. It had to be given that this was the soundtrack for that time period, and not just for my own ears (that is another list in itself).

Important to highlight is much of the landscape of what Hip-Hop and R&B music has become presently started to manifest that year. Just listen to Snoop and Akon’s “I Wanna Love You” or the “Hyphy Movement” cuts on this tape and tell me you can’t hear its minimalist influence on DJ Mustard; currently spearheading arguably the West Coast’s most influential sound since Dr. Dre and Scott Storch unleashed the lowrider Grand Piano and Symphony String bounce of the magnum opus, “Still D.R.E.” Then there is the affair of Hip-Hop with Dance music. It is a common place now, but later became pop culture foreshadowing heard in, my humble opinion, Timbaland’s best cover to cover production work outside of Missy and Aaliyah: Justin Timberlake’s Future Sex/Love Sounds, Nelly Furtado’s Loose, and his own Shock Value. All three of those LPs were laced with vibes of Electronic, dance floor driven monsters.

Admittedly, 95% of these songs I jammed from jump, 4% grew on me over time, and one song on here I honesty cringed at including. But I knew I had to given both its popularity and association with one of those hilarious flashbacks I mentioned above. I'll let you try to figure out which song it is.

But that is the power of music. It is a hell of a stimulating sensation. The melody and lyrics are the flux capacitor and our mind is the DeLorean. With that established as the motto, I welcome you to the first installment of my nostalgia trip with “no roads.” First stop... 30800 Palos Verdes Drive East... Fall of 2006.

These were the sounds, these were the quotes… this is the music Yearbook of The Mount: Year One.

Soul Claps & Salutes and Thank You For Listening,

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL"

PS- Thank you Sara "placing" the light bulb over my head.

Arranged and Mixed By DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" For Honor Flow Productions
Album Art Design: Tyler Ann Nunley For Genevieve Munroe co.
For Promotional Use Only!

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ Eighty-Two Tomorrow (10.4.14)!!!

A Super Sonic Sunday with your homie "thE oLd SouL" tomorrow at Eighty Two! I'm on starting at 5pm!

#HFP #RespectTheDJ #Sega

Designed by Rowell Marcos For Magic Mustache Media

H.F.P. X iStandard Producers LA Showcase (9.15.14)

Last Monday, I had the honor and privilege to participate in the LA Edition of the iStandard Producer Showcase! For those not in the industry know, the iStandard Showcase gives up and coming producers the opportunity to play a set of their beats in front of an elite group of fellow producers and record label A&Rs.

This was an excellent experience and it was a release to finally get to preview some of the new-new we have been working on for over a year and half now to the public. Some of those new jams I played during my set you can hear in this short film.

Thank you to iStandard, thank you to Shawn Barron, Cardiak and Dawaun Parker for the words of wisdom and thank you to everyone who came to The Dragonfly to vibe out with a brotha! Soul Claps and Salutes.

- DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL"

Sunday Funday Award Tours: Eighty-Two (9.21.14)

Lapdances in the middle of an arcade... now that's a first. I haven't seen a chair pulled in the middle of a dancefloor like that since high school dances at The L. And the owner Noah making it rain soon after this was taken lol! Thank you as always Eighty-Two for another Sunday Funday Award Tour!

Remember ya'll, I'm at Eighty-Two EVERY OTHER Sunday from 4pm-8pm. Next time with be October 5th!

The RAD Cabin's #LaborFriday Flicks (8.29.14)

#LaborFriday... Soul Claps and Salutes and Thank You. That shit reminded me of the the same high school/college functions that made me fall in love with cold rocking parties. A topnotch assembling of party people. To all bands, vendors, photographers, sound men, security, helping hands, and Dann Saxton of The Rad Cabin... you kick ass as usual. Here's to more.

Photography By Tommy John For StillMotionLA

Photography By Paola Patricia For Pistola Photography

Sunday Funday Award Tours: Eighty-Two (9.7.14)

Hi Scores On The Dancefloor... Thank you again Noah, Waldo, and everyone at Eighty-Two for another Sunday Funday Award Tour! 

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ The iStandard Producer Showcase: LA Edition (9.15.14)!!!

On Monday, September 15th,  I have been selected to have the honor and privilege to participate in the LA Edition of the iStandard Producer Showcase! For those not in the industry know, the iStandard Showcase gives up and coming producers the opportunity to play a set of their beats in front of an elite group of fellow producers and record label A&Rs. It's sort of a battle as well because all competitors will be judged for prize packages at the end of the night. That is why I am personally extending the invitation to you all to come out to The Dragonfly that night and vibe out to some brand new, unreleased H.F.P. jams!

I have limited number of free tickets to the event that I will be giving out. Hit me on Twitter at @thEoLdSouLHFP or by email at HFPempire@yahoo.com if you want to grab some! Otherwise, tickets will be $10 at the door.  Holla at me and see you all at The Dragonfly on September 15th!

The Dragonfly
6510 Santa Monica Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Doors: 8:30pm
Show: 9:45pm

Sunday Funday Award Tours: Ametron Electronics and Eighty-Two (8.24.14)

 Both DJisLORD and DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" were putting in work this past Sunday. Thank you again to Mike at Ametron and Waldo & Noah at Eighty-Two.  Antennas up for Sunday Mixdown transmission...

Photography by Tyler Ann Nunley For Genevieve Munroe co.

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ Eighty-Two Tomorrow (8.24.14)!!!

After you check out Lord at Ametron Electronics, the Sunday Funday Jams continue 1nce again at Eighty-Two tomorrow! Chuck is on 4pm-8pm. "Game On" (c) Wayne's World. 

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ The RAD Cabin's "#LaborFriday" NEXT FRIDAY (8.29.14)!!!

NEXT FRIDAY!!! The RAD Cabin is at it again with another holiday party sure shot! Good Bands, Good Activities, Good Vibes, and maybe even a good DJ... our own DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" will be on decks!

***Make sure you show the flyer above on your smartphone for entree at the door!!!

HFP X ALS Challenge

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL," DJisLORD, and Elimn8 take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and pass it along to a couple of friends. To donate, please visit http://www.alsa.org.

DJisLORD Live @ Ametron Electronics' "DJ Hangouts" THIS SUNDAY (8.24.14)

DJisLORD back again at Ametron Electronics' "DJ Hangouts" THIS SUNDAY from 11:00am-3:00pm. Classic cuts, breaks, and S@#!

1546 North Argyle Ave
Hollywood, California
90028

Sunday Funday Award Tours: Eighty-Two and Lucky Strike H&H (8.3.14 + 8.10.14) (Flicks)

It's been two straight Sundays of jams on top of jams. Rocked the decks at Eighty-Two (8/3 and 8/10) and Lucky Strike Hollywood & Highland (8/10)! Thank you again to Waldo and Noah at Eighty-Two and Dann of The RAD Cabin for always giving me the opportunity to be the soundtrack for good times.

Photography by Tyler Ann Nunley For Genevieve Munroe co.