Power Surge Productions
Power Surge Productions is comprised of a collection of beats, rhymes and R&B instrumentals. These basement tape demo songs were recorded between 1984-1993* by Brian Donald who went by the name Mr. Melody and then later, Mellow-D. Tell us what you think.
* "Tribute to Prince" was recorded in 2006
* "Brian's Groove" was recorded in 2010
* "Rock Jam" recorded in 2011Band/artist history
Mellow-D started making beats at the age of 14 in his dad's home in Detroit (just off of 8 Mile). He eventually graduated to keys, drums, rhyming and singing.Have you performed in front of an audience?Did a High School Talent Show
Your musical influences
Run DMC, Whodini, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, KRS-One/BDP, Prince, Afrika Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, A Tribe Called Quest, Eric B. and Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre and a few othersWhat equipment do you use?
For these recordings, the following equipment was used*:
Sequential Circuits Drumtraks
Yamaha DX7
Korg Mono/Poly
Roland RD digital piano
Korg DDD-1
Yamaha DX11
Roland TR-505
Yamaha RX7
Casio SK1 sampler
Ensoniq EPS 16+ sampler
Tascam 644 Midistudio
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* On "Tribute to Prince", the following equipment was used:
Korg TR w/ Linn LM1 drum samples
Warwick Corvette bass
Fender Squier Strat
TASCAM 2488
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*On "Brian's Groove"
Completely done with GarageBand on an iMac
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* On "Rock Jam"
Squier Custom Telecaster
Warwick Corvette $$ bass
Live drums played on Yamaha DTXpress III
Korg TR
Pro Tools 8/Mbox 3 Pro
Apple iMac
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All songs:
All instruments/programming by Brian Donald fka Mellow-D
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Additional songs will be available as they are transferred from the original tapes to mp3 format.