Its been a crazy past couple months for Habitat Music producer Ming, who has been bangin’ out some amazing remixes for Ellie Goulding, Beyoncé and Kaskade.

Plus, if that wasn’t keeping him busy enough, he’s just launched his Hood Famous Music label!

Habitat Music will be providing the score for commercials from automotive powerhouse Dodge Cars.  Working with Dodge’s Forida-based advertising agency, Habitat will help them marry imagery of the iconic vehicles with music that sets the Dodge brand apart from competitors. For a brand that’s “Never Neutral”, Habitat’s making sure the music also defies neutrality.

It’s been a blast working on a spot (airing this fall) with a cat that refuses to go barefoot and has quite the appetite.  More details to come soon, but we can’t let the cat out of the bag yet…

“A while ago, SoundCloud stumbled upon a video on Emusician.com in which producer Aaron Albano talks about using SoundCloud to send and receive files during the production process of Toby Martin from Youth Group’s upcoming album. Remote collaboration, NYC-Sydney-style, united by the Cloud.

Wanting to know more, we reached out to Aaron with a couple of questions about how he uses SoundCloud.” Read More Here

'Big Mike' Lynche

Longtime Habitat Music and Hood Famous Music collaborator Michael Lynche made it to Hollywood on American Idol last night. Habitat composer/producer Aaron Albano (a.k.a. Ming) helped “Big Mike” craft his unique blend of high-energy music called the “Dirty Blues”–where gritty southern soul meets dirty south hip-hop. The sound can best be described as a cross between Gnarls Barkley, Outkast and R. Kelly. We’ll be anxiously watching Idol along with the rest of America as the competition unfolds!

Check out some of his past work with Habitat writer/producer, Ming. Track 4 “Pimp Beat” features a keyboard riff from yours truly.

Ming's Video Blog

Ming’s monthly video blog “In the studio with Ming” is featured on the front page Electronic Musician’s site. Each month he will be interviewing the artists that come through the studio and speaking about some of the production techniques used these in sessions.  Check for interview with Toby Lightman, Michael Lynche and more..

This is the second film I have scored for Karen Cantor of Singing Wolf Documentaries. Dealing with end of life choices, I found a perfect song in the Amelia’s Dream catalog called “Before Your Time” to anchor the movie’s main character, Merian. The song was written by Amelia Gewirtz and myself in memory of a close friend.

Last Rights Promo

For more information you can visit the Last Rights web-site