Hello Everyone,
My name is Joe Holland aka: JHolla and Welcome to OnTop Records and Entertainment Inc. With all BS aside I'm going to tell all of you that I started this blog to promote my artists to you ,the record buying public ,but as I was thinking about what to write it came to me that this self imposed journey of incredible UPS and DOWNS might be interesting to some of you so here it goes.
Presently we have a roster of 2 incredible acts, our Rock act goes by the name 'ArthurKill' and in my professional opinion they KICK ASS and with a little luck and a lot of perserverance we may just be able to get all of you to know them in a big way.
Our Hip Hop artist goes by the name of 'Prince Culture' or 'PC' as we call him, he comes to you from Brooklyn New York and has a style all his own, he says what he wants without premise or BS ,but does it in a way where he doesn't offend anyone and yet gets his point across effectively.
These guys are my family without a doubt, I believe in them as much as they believe in me and we take each day as an adventure in trying to build something we all see to be our future and life's blood.
Our tag line is "Indie Music The Way Your Music should Be !!"
I chose this tag because after years in the business , first as a club DJ then as a commercial studio owner and producer and now as a label owner I have seen many aspects of the business and truly was not impressed. From having deals put on the table on a Friday afternoon and having them pulled off of that same table by Tuesday morning because my A&R rep got fired to seeing an entire roster of artists(25 to be exact) fall apart at the seams because a few small labels were looking for demos from them after hearing their material at a music conference to having my best friend and business partner leave me high and dry and up to my neck in debt because his fiance didn't like what he was doing because it was a dream.
All of these elements play a role in why I kept going and why I chose this tag. You see, I believe that too many people let others control what paths they should take instead of following their destiny, I am a very lucky man to have the wife that I have to put up with all of the hardships that I have bestowed upon her and my wonderful family trying to live this dream and I'm sure if I didn't have her I'd probably have followed another path that someone else had chosen for me. I am Independent and always ended up on my own so I felt that the type of music my company brought to the masses to follow the same formula.
I weeded through many artists along the way,some were incredibly talented and some just plain didn't have it. 9 out of 10 times the talented ones always thought too much of themselves to be humble enough to learn and have patience in order to perfect their talents to become superstars and ended up doing nothing at all. The less talented ones always had my heart because they would listen and try to the best they could to make it happen for themselves, I always had patience with these artists and spent as much time as I could with them to try and help them along even if I knew they weren't going anywhere. Their belief in themselves kept me along for their ride and probably stalled me for awhile , but that's OK because I learned a lot from each and everyone of them and truly wish them all the best in whatever paths they have chosen.
That brings us to today, PC and ArthurKill are my carbon copies , they've all been down some kind of bumpy road throughout their carreers before we got together and it all works like clockwork. Their work ethic is next to none and their respective talents speak for themselves.
OnTop doesn't do things the way most labels do things, you see, we've formed partnerships with all of these gentlemen and we all know that it doesn't work unless we put everything we have into it and like I said in AK's introduction maybe with a little luck and perserverance we'll make it happen some day soon.
I hope I haven't bored the crap out of all of you and truly hope to keep you entertained in the weeks to come with stories from the On Top archives as well as the day to day journey we're taking this year to break both of these artists, PC and AK both have albums coming this Summer and do hope you all take a listen and can hear what I hear everytime we finish a new song.
Check us out at http://www.ontoprecs.com/ and also on myspace @ www.myspace.com/arthurkill
and www.myspace.com/princeculture
Our Twitter Feed is:
Http://www.twitter.com/ontoprecords
Take Care for Now
JHolla / ontoprecords
My name is Joe Holland aka: JHolla and Welcome to OnTop Records and Entertainment Inc. With all BS aside I'm going to tell all of you that I started this blog to promote my artists to you ,the record buying public ,but as I was thinking about what to write it came to me that this self imposed journey of incredible UPS and DOWNS might be interesting to some of you so here it goes.
Presently we have a roster of 2 incredible acts, our Rock act goes by the name 'ArthurKill' and in my professional opinion they KICK ASS and with a little luck and a lot of perserverance we may just be able to get all of you to know them in a big way.
Our Hip Hop artist goes by the name of 'Prince Culture' or 'PC' as we call him, he comes to you from Brooklyn New York and has a style all his own, he says what he wants without premise or BS ,but does it in a way where he doesn't offend anyone and yet gets his point across effectively.
These guys are my family without a doubt, I believe in them as much as they believe in me and we take each day as an adventure in trying to build something we all see to be our future and life's blood.
Our tag line is "Indie Music The Way Your Music should Be !!"
I chose this tag because after years in the business , first as a club DJ then as a commercial studio owner and producer and now as a label owner I have seen many aspects of the business and truly was not impressed. From having deals put on the table on a Friday afternoon and having them pulled off of that same table by Tuesday morning because my A&R rep got fired to seeing an entire roster of artists(25 to be exact) fall apart at the seams because a few small labels were looking for demos from them after hearing their material at a music conference to having my best friend and business partner leave me high and dry and up to my neck in debt because his fiance didn't like what he was doing because it was a dream.
All of these elements play a role in why I kept going and why I chose this tag. You see, I believe that too many people let others control what paths they should take instead of following their destiny, I am a very lucky man to have the wife that I have to put up with all of the hardships that I have bestowed upon her and my wonderful family trying to live this dream and I'm sure if I didn't have her I'd probably have followed another path that someone else had chosen for me. I am Independent and always ended up on my own so I felt that the type of music my company brought to the masses to follow the same formula.
I weeded through many artists along the way,some were incredibly talented and some just plain didn't have it. 9 out of 10 times the talented ones always thought too much of themselves to be humble enough to learn and have patience in order to perfect their talents to become superstars and ended up doing nothing at all. The less talented ones always had my heart because they would listen and try to the best they could to make it happen for themselves, I always had patience with these artists and spent as much time as I could with them to try and help them along even if I knew they weren't going anywhere. Their belief in themselves kept me along for their ride and probably stalled me for awhile , but that's OK because I learned a lot from each and everyone of them and truly wish them all the best in whatever paths they have chosen.
That brings us to today, PC and ArthurKill are my carbon copies , they've all been down some kind of bumpy road throughout their carreers before we got together and it all works like clockwork. Their work ethic is next to none and their respective talents speak for themselves.
OnTop doesn't do things the way most labels do things, you see, we've formed partnerships with all of these gentlemen and we all know that it doesn't work unless we put everything we have into it and like I said in AK's introduction maybe with a little luck and perserverance we'll make it happen some day soon.
I hope I haven't bored the crap out of all of you and truly hope to keep you entertained in the weeks to come with stories from the On Top archives as well as the day to day journey we're taking this year to break both of these artists, PC and AK both have albums coming this Summer and do hope you all take a listen and can hear what I hear everytime we finish a new song.
Check us out at http://www.ontoprecs.com/ and also on myspace @ www.myspace.com/arthurkill
and www.myspace.com/princeculture
Our Twitter Feed is:
Http://www.twitter.com/ontoprecords
Take Care for Now
JHolla / ontoprecords
