DJ Confidence/Hazel LaLanne/Courtney Rickett
Musically Promiscuous = Open to all genre’s!



Courtney was born in Juneau, Alaska, and moved to Seattle when she was two years old. Music has surrounded her and filled her life since birth, and she has had a wide variety of musical training and experience. As a child, she was in the choir and band, and even after school she would make up dance routines to the most popular songs on the radio. This gave her a balance between classical training and “pop” music trends that you can still feel in the music she supports to this day.
This collage of musical listening and making continued through marching band, raves, hip hop concerts, folk life festivals, chamber ensemble (playing violin parts on a flutes), listening to every station on the radio, church choir and everything in between. Over time, Courtney worked on her ability to hear what the average listener liked and disliked, and as Hazel LaLanne (her eye color and a tribute to her grandmother), she makes impactful changes to the production efforts of the Confined Media House, stripping down the music and making it more accessible.


Links
http://www.confinedmedia.com/ – Record Label Site
http://www.confinedmedia.com/podcast.xml -Podcast
http://hazelconfidence.blogspot.com/ - Blog
http://www.djconfidence.com/ - Homepage


DJ Confidence Mixes
http://www.djconfidence.com/sets/esn_live_april_22.mp3
http://www.djconfidence.com/sets/esn_live_nov_20.mp3
http://www.confinedmedia.com/confidence_sets/dj_confidence_at_mighty.mp3
http://www.djconfidence.com/sets/dj_confidence_on_c89.mp3



See more photos here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/crickett45/ModelPhotos

http://picasaweb.google.com/crickett45/CourtneyRickett

Services - Los Angeles/Seattle/Portland

Confined Media Event Consulting - making what you need, 

                                                                              fit inside the box

We can do as little as rent you a set of turntables and a mixer, or as complicated and coordinate the entire event, to providing DJ's and other acts for the the entertainment

Planning and throwing events can add additional stress for groups, especially ones that are already overloaded with work. Let Confined Media take some or all of the pressure off. Offering competitive pricing options and completely adjustable consulting and event planning packages. Let Confined Media Handle it!

Example: Everyone knows someone with equipment, and could rent/borrow some of the shadiest looking turntables and CDJ's for headlining artists. This not only a risk to the success of the event, and also the headliner will be less than happy using non standard equipment, could effect his or her performance, and could be more likely to break and have you SOL scrambling at the last minute. Don't add modes of event failure, reduce them with Confined Media event consulting...... We can do as little as rent you a set of turntables and a mixer, or as complicated and coordinate the entire event, to providing DJ's and other acts for the the entertainment.

Pro DJ gear for rent in Los Angeles. -- DJ also available for rent -- !  

1 - Pioneer DJM-800 

2 - Pioneer CDJ-1000 Mk2 

2 - Technics SL-1210 MG5 

1 - Mackie SRM 350v2 w/ stand 

1 - DJ I can also deliver/pick up equipment (additional charge) 

Please e-mail for pricing and scheduling: courtney@confinedmedia.com

CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast

In searching throught music podcasts on I-tunes, I found the CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast and started listening. I suggest that anyone in the biz, or wanting to be, should listen to this podcast. I'll elaborate later with more thoughts and ideas but for now here are 3 interesting things I learned.

1. CD Baby is in Portland Oregon!!! OMG... How did I not know this? I'm from Seattle, I go to Portland frequently, I even help throw events in PDX with Latenight Renegades... I'm sad that I did not know sooner... I'll have to try and meet up with them next time I'm in town.
2. One in Three people in the world owns a cellphone.
3. Ringtones are not makng money anymore, time to develop an unique I-phone/google App... crazy!

Bio's and info

Since I continually have trouble finding my Bio, and the "about me" section in my profile had a limit (SO lame... limiting a blogger) I figured I would post the "official" Bio's here.

Let's start with Confined Media a quick story...
Confined Media is my life... my business, and is the name of our Independent record lable. Ryan and I started the idea out of our shared intrests (music, photography, writing, design, etc), and differing skills and talentents that we found to be very complimentary. The goal was to get paid for doing things we like. The name is almost as much of a talking point as our logo (See Logo Blog) with some questioning what it means and where it came from. Confined Media us being funny (*we get funnier), all of the skills and talents we wanted use for the business were types of media and we wanted to use all media to express ourselves, so Confined Media. I said it once and TADA... we had a name. Althougth we have some exciting genre branding coming up soon for the record label so keep a look out!


Official Confined Media Bio
Website: http://www.confinedmedia.com/
Confined Media is a Seattle-based label, working to stretch the edges of the club music concept. With no genre boundaries, the people working to produce music under the label are looking to make tunes that are danceable, smart, accessible, or experimental; music that catches the ear. Releasing the first EP in 2007, productions have ranged from DJ-friendly, groovy tunes, to trials in sound that bend the possibilities of live performance. Trying to keep up with the latest technology, label members are trying to push forward into unexplored realms of music using the latest innovations in sound production. Overall, Confined Media, as a record label, is trying to take itself and its artists as seriously as possible without losing their initial intent - to entertain people and have fun doing it.

Facts
Date of First Release: Decemeber 17 2007 (Overhead Lighting)
Total Releases to date: 24 (minus 3 several unfinished releases that were given numbers
Total Tracks released to date: 65



Memebers:
Ryan Hicks, Courtney Rickett (co-owners), Caleb Cox, Josh Carpenter, Nicholas Potter, Jeff Ackley (Latenight Renegades PDX), Gabe Spiel, Jason LeMaitre, Kahyeed Murray
Artists:
Andrew Cox, Ryan Xristopher, Hazel LaLanne, AKU, Dj Obey, Jason LeMaitre, Phluid, Oob, Cari Golden, Kavina Trujillo, Dj Confidence, Split Attention

label@confinedmedia.com

Distribuited by: Symphonic Distribution



Online Stores:



http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Confined+Media/

http://www.audiojelly.com/?a=artists/Ryan+Xristopher

http://www.trackitdown.net/recordlabel/107552/confined-media.html
http://www.djdownload.com/browse-label/Confined+Media/5835
http://www.soundcloud.com/ryan_xristopher/

SPLIT ATTENTION

Split ATTENTION is the latest artist that has signed with Confined Media...
With 4 Releases in the past 4 weeks Split Attention is an artist to WATCH!!

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