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New & updates on Anji’s various projects

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Urban Punks and The Morphism Remix Anji Bee

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It’s the end of Summer, and the end of Anji Bee’s campaign to raise funding for her debut solo album with a series of remixes of the title track, “Love Me Leave Me.” Two new Bandcamp-exclusive digital singles were released, featuring 3 club-ready dance remixes by San Francisco DJ/Producer act, Urban Punks, and up-and-coming Russian techno/breaks producer, The Morphism. Additionally, Bee has made the popular 2004 mix by Rom DiPrisco, of Bitstream Dream, available for sale for the first time in years.

Bee is urging fans to contribute what they can afford via the “pay what you want” option on her Bandcamp page. At time of writing, fans have donated $550 towards the pressing of an ultra limited edition CD. Bee also hopes to recoup the costs of mastering the album plus her cover photo shoot, and with some luck, pay for a small promotional campaign. She is offering to include the names of all fans who donate at least $20 in the liner notes of the CD, with a donation deadline of Sept. 21, 2013.

Check out all 5 ‘Love Me Leave Me’ remix singles at anjbee.bandcamp.com

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Anji Bee on Behind The Lyric Radio Show

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Anji Bee discussed both the lyrical back story behind her Lovespirals‘ song “This Truth” on the latest episode of Behind The Lyric. She also talked about how the chart-topping Damien.S VS Lovespirals remix single came to be released by Loverush Digital in 2010. Hostess and show producer, Marcie Joy, plays the Adam Fielding Chilled Out Mix. Interestingly, Adam was also a guest on this episode, talking about his latest album. More great songs and stories are featured from Zoe Johnston, Maxx Hennard, Yavanndiel, Noah, and Marcie.

Download Behind the Lyric #31 FREE on iTunes

Listen to an edit of just Anji Bee’s interview feature on SoundCloud:

Behind The Lyric airs on over 40 major FM and Internet stations worldwide, including The Movement HD, who recently added The Chillcast with Anji Bee to their lineup.

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Anji Bee Interview on Inside The Machine

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Anji Bee is the featured artist on the second episode of Inside The Machine, the new audio show of Nicholas Young, founder of Original Machine. She and Nicholas sat down for an hour long interview on Skype, which actually went a bit longer as the two enjoyed their discussion of independent music, radio, podcasting, and fine arts so much. The show revolves around the back stories of 4 of Anji’s songs, “Love Me Leave Me,” “Hand In Hand,” “Love Will Turn Your Head Around,” and “Put Some Music On (Intensity of Sound Retro Funk Mix),” all of which are included in full on the show.

2017 UPDATE: This station is now defunct, but I archived it over on my InternetArchive account: AnjiBeeOnInsideTheMachine

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2nd “Love Me Leave Me” Remix Single Released

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Fundraising efforts continue for Love Me Leave Me, the debut solo album by Anji Bee, with two new remixes of the title track being released. This second “Love Me Leave Me” remix single features a dreamy Baeleric-infused chill out mix by Lovespirals. Ryan Lum of Lovespirals stripped down the electronica elements of the original album mix and added wistful acoustic guitar, his trademark dream pop electric guitar, and groovy congas, while Anji contributed a soulfully ethereal backing vocal to enhance  the verses of this moody and romantic remix.

The “flip side,” as it were, is a light and summery remix by German producer, Mr. Alfa, of Venus International. Bee had previously contributed vocals to Alfa Kay’s Winter Sun EP in December 2012. Kay also contributed two remixes to Bee’s collaborative song, “Love Will Turn Your Head Around,” with San Francisco band, Karmacoda, and singer/songwriter Beth Hirsch, who is a frequent collaborator of Kay’s. Bee is set to release a Karmacoda remix of “Love Me Leave Me” as one of 2 tracks on the upcoming 3rd single.

As with the first single, Bee is urging fans to contribute what they can afford via the “pay what you want” option on her Bandcamp page. At time of writing, fans have donated nearly $300, which is approximately 1/3 of what’s needed to press a small run of eco-friendly CDs. With several more singles slated for release including the aforementioned Karmacoda remix, mixes by The Morphism and Daniel Knoxville, plus 2 mixes by Den Jones under his new Urban Punks moniker — and possibly a few more surprises — Bee is hopeful that her funding needs will be met. Pre-sales for the full-length album will likely begin in August.


An exclusive “unplugged” mix is available as a free download for fans that sign up to the email list on www.anjibee.com or that “like” the official Anji Bee page on Facebook via an app on  Anji Bee’s MTV page, where you can also leave a “tip” to help fund the CD pressing.


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10th Anniversary of “Love Me Leave Me”

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Its the 10th anniversary of one of Anji Bee’s best-known songs!  The lyrics and vocal melodies of “Love Me Leave Me” were written a decade ago for a musical collaboration that never materialized. But Anji loved the song so much that she shared her demo vocals with Canadian producer, Rom di Prisco, who created a version for his 2004 Bitstream Dream album, ‘Integration.’ This album has long been out of circulation, and the song is not available anywhere legally.

Anji had never been satisfied with her hastily recorded demo vocals, so she was delighted when her Lovespirals partner, Ryan Lum, offered to recreate “Love Me Leave Me” in their own Chillcuts Studio. Armed with a vintage Neumann mic, a state of the art reverb unit by Bricasti, and an additional decade of singing, recording, and production experience, Anji has finally brought her melancholic lyrics to life with sensual and jazzy nuances galore.

The first remix of “Love Me Leave Me” to surface is by Anji’s long-time collaborator, The Grooveblaster. A series of 2 song singles are set to be released over the next month, with entries by Karmacoda, Mr. Alfa, Lovespirals, The Morphism, and Den Jones. Anji is asking her fans to pitch in a few bucks for each release to help fund the release of her full length debut solo album on CD, as well as to defray the cost of moving her long-time music show, The Chillcast, to a new hosting service. Read all about it and hear the single in full at anjibee.bandcamp.com

An exclusive “unplugged” mix is available as a free download for fans that sign up to the email list on www.anjibee.com or that “like” the official Anji Bee page on Facebook via an app on  Anji Bee’s MTV page.

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Anji Bee in Top 20 Most Influential Music Journalists

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Anji Bee has been named the #16 Most Influential Music Journalist in Social Media by Sonifly. The Sonifly Buzz blog selected their recipients “from a wide pool of writers, ranging from Rolling Stone to Billboard to various freelance writers all across the industry,” whom they “feel has displayed exceptional work in [their] field while simultaneously maintaining a considerable online presence.” This online presence consists of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and Wikipedia – and took into account not only likes, follows, and posting activity, but “how much reciprocal interaction had taken place between the followers and the journalist [to] decide who had created and nurtured relationships with their fan base.”

The Sonifly piece does a fairly thorough job of reporting various highlights of Anji’s career in both the musical and podcasting spheres, though it should be pointed out that Anji’s career in radio began in the mid-90’s, not the 80’s, and what they couldn’t know is that The Chillcast has had apx. 6.5 thousand download requests and Chillcast Video apx 16.5 million download requests via the Mevio network, since those stats are not publicly available. As an added bonus, the piece includes Anji’s lyrics to the song, “Phantasma,” from a collaboration with Rom di Prisco (as part of his now-defunct musical collective, Bitstream Dream). This song has been revisted with a brand new recording under the title, “Sleight of Hand,” for Anji’s upcoming debut solo album, Love Me Leave Me. Stay tuned for more news on that soon!

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“UP ALL NIGHT” by BLU + ANJIBEE / THEDEEPR MX

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New Single On Bandcamp!

BOCrew from Paris just dropped a single on Bandcamp called “Up All Night” by TheDeepr which features a vocal by Anji Bee. This song goes back to the Secret Mixter project held in 2010 on the CCMixter site. The site allows musicians to collaborate with vocalists and other musicians using files that are deemed as Creative Commons, which means that collaborations generally happen without artists’ direct input. This is one of the more impressive mixes that I’ve heard from the site.

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Happy Healthy Vegan Vidcast Launched

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Ryan Lum of Lovespirals recently launched a new site and video show called Happy Healthy Vegan, with the help of bandmate, Anji Bee. This mid-40’s duo share tips and information on their active vegan lifestyle, hoping to help their fans, friends, and family understand the connection between a plant-based, whole food diet and a healthy mind and body. After trial and error, moving from a standard American diet, to a vegetarian diet, to a vegan diet, to a raw diet, and finally honing in on their current 80/10/10 styled diet, Ryan was able to lose 70 pounds — while Anji lost 25 pounds — and both became much fitter and more youthful in the process. Begun in February 2013, this project is just getting started, but a number of episodes are already available on the Happy Healthy Vegan YouTube channel, so please subscribe to learn how to lose weight effortlessly while never going hungry, increase your energy, clear up your skin, and improve your overall fitness.
 
Watch our Earth Day episode to find out why being vegan will help save the planet:

Check out a clip of a brand song called, “Saudade,” from my upcoming solo album:

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Anji Bee, Beth Hirsch & Karmacoda Remix EP Out

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Currently a semi-finalist for Best Dance/Electronica Song in the 2012 International Songwriting Competition, “Love Will Turn Your Head Around ” – the collaborative effort of San Francisco band, Karmacoda, Parisian singer/songwriter, Beth Hirsch, and So Cal singer/songwriter, Anji Bee – has just been re-released in a series of re-imagined versions by a diverse and talented group of musicians, producers and DJs from around the world. This digital collection of 8 remixes by DJ Puzzle, Mr. Alfa, Synapsis, Return To Mono, Den Jones, and Anji’s band, Lovespirals  (the latter featuring newly recorded vocals by Anji), plus an all-new version by Karmacoda highlighting Heather Pierce as the sole vocalist, satisfies with its mix of genres and moods. ‘Love Will Turn Your Head Around – The Remixes‘ is available in your choice of digital format on Bandcamp, or more traditionally through iTunes, CDBaby, and Amazon Mp3. Listen to every song, in full, below:

Karmacoda (top), Anji Bee (left), and Beth Hirsch (right)

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Anji feat. on The Morphism ‘Madness SHift’ EP

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Out now on Bandcamp is the debut release by The Morphism, called ‘Madness Shift E.P.’ Anji Bee contributed lyrics and vocals to the b-side cut, “Cetus Aero.” This track hearkens back to Anji’s work with Rom diPrisco, with an old school ‘Need For Speed‘ feel.  Anton of The Morphism is a long time fan of Rom’s game soundtrack work, as well as his musical project Bitstream Dream, which is how this collaboration was born. The Morphism recently remixed the new Anji Bee recording of the classic Bitstream Dream track, “Love Me Leave Me,” as part of the promotion for the upcoming album of the same name.