Collective Efforts will be taking the final mixes to get mastered on October 5th. After weeks of fine tuning the mixes, we are finally ready to share them with the world. The incredible Glenn Schick, www.gsmastering.com, will be making sure all of the songs are bumping and hitting right, and basically making my mixes sound halfway decent. He also mastered Medicine, and we are honored to have his professional ear bless the new project. Big ups, Glenn!

We know it took a long time to get this done, but we are very proud of it, and hope it stays on rotation in your decks and ipods for many years to come. Thank you for your patience and as always, your continued support. Peace.

Hameen

Come party with your folk at the East Atlanta Ice House on Thursday, October 1st, 2009, while we finish off the first night of incredible performances and A3C festivities. We are honored to grace the stage with such incredible artists. J-Live is one of my personal favorites of all time. Anyway, the line-up is as follows:

7:00 Doors Open
7:30 DJ Deliver & DJ Trumastr
8:30 Ozy Reigns
8:45 “Pathways” Trailer
9:00-9:25 Hezekiah
9:30-9:55 Homeboy Sandman
10:00-10:25 Kam Moye (aka Supastition)
10:30-10:55 Torae
11:00-11:45 J-Live
12:00-12:50 Collective Efforts

We will also be celebrating the birthday of J-Mil, which falls right at the time we are scheduled to perform! So make sure if you are out there to buy him a shot of Jack (after the show, please, HA)!

For more info, visit the A3C Festival’s official site.

Hope to see you all out there!

Peace,
Hameen

Okayplayer.com had nice things to say about the latest EP, “Time For Hope”:

“This all too brief release shows loads of promise for the reported full-length from Collective Efforts that, according to their label, is due this fall. If this is indeed the case, the LP cannot come soon enough. If one misses Hip-Hop with a positive message, pure music, and honest lyrics then they’ll find all the above in this amazing EP.”

– D.L. Chandler

Read the entire review here.