User:Vg.tracology/Collector's edition (band)

"Collector's Edition" is an unsigned Alternative/Hip-Hop group comprised of D. Allen and Vince "VG" Gates. The duo met in Burford, GA, a town on the outskirts of Atlanta; orginially a production team, focused on developing and distributing their hip-hop fusion. Allen & Gates under the monker of "The Resolution" began producing for many local artist. One of which was a woman by the name of Lyric Jones, Her distict soulful voice asentuated the hip-hop fusion in a way no other artist had done before. The duo quickly began focusing all their attention on the southern bell and took on their first album project. Mid way through the project she expressed her fears of being a solo artist almost bring the project a complete halt, but in attempts to the keep the singer on track and the project alive the duo decieded to take a "Groove Theory" meets "The Fugees" apporach at her project. Under the name "Collector's Edition" the eclectic sound began to soar to new heights. The group's music began mirroring the vastly diverse group. D. Allen, a chi-town native spent most of his childhood up north and his younger musican days touring with church choirs, brought a smoother jazzy feel to the music. Lyric Jones, a florida naive that spent much of her life up rooting herself from detrimental situations, brought a gritty, self inpowered woman's point a view, with the combination of her unique voice she stood out as the group's lead. VG, a military brat that spent most his younger years Rapping brought the awareness of real hip-hop. With the combination of their lyrical background and out of this world sound of "the resolution" backing the project began picking up steam. But the closer the project got to becoming finish the less Lyric wanted to still be the lead forcing VG (the groups lyrist) to take a more active role, once again changing the direction of the group. After a few songs D. Allen & VG believed that the change would be to great for the group's audience. The called a meeting to try try preserve the orginal direction for the group. Unwilling to change her to change her desion and fearful of what was going to happen to the group, due to fact that VG was about to become a father, Lyric resigned from the group. Left with material incomplete material and no lead female, D.Allen & VG disbanded the group and returned to production, a steep slope to climb since many of there orginal artist had quit and for almost a year they hadn't been networking in the "production circle". VG moved to augusta to keep his new family together but still kept his focus on music. D. Allen and VG where traveling back and forth between cities to barely keep the production alive. About two months into the process VG suggested to D. Allen to record a couple of songs, do a couple of shows to meet up and coming artist and line up production work. So "Collector's Edition" reemerged with there first song without Lyric, "Follow Trend". There first gig was for a UK TV talent show called "Got Hits" the duo appeared as special guest and gathered a warm reception from the crowd. At this venue they also met there future manager, Al Burns. Trying to keep the momentum going the group preformed at Patch Werk's "I do music", an atlanta back TV show called "Get Your Skate on", and several cafes, night clubs, and lounges around the city. As planned the production work started to pick up, but also the group begin having a growing number of fans again. The two went back to the lab and begin working on their project. Staying true to themselves the groups subject matter focused on their world and life experiences. As the project grew and under the management of Al's company they began working with artist such as Sara Stokes, Whateva, Nova. They worked with producers such as DJ Head, Space Camp, CrazYogi and so much more. The group is just releasing their first single "Strip" and fans, djs and audiences are already addicted to the sound and waiting to hear more. This group is already well on their way to living up to to there name and becoming a Collector's Edition; a must have for any music lover. [http://www.myspace.com/collectorseditions. Collector's EDITION page]]]