About ME: Producer/Artist/Songwriter Q Dot seems to always operate in rare form. In todays music industry, the terrain is always treacherous and difficult to navigate, yet the 23 year old Seattleite is finding his way to success with ease. You won't find him on a major label roster yet he's already realized a substantial amount of national airplay on both video and radio. How does he do it? Let him tell it and he'll say it's luck and persistence. In actuality it comes from years of studying the industry from the outside in. At 18 Q Dot had some of the worlds most renown record companies vying for his unique services as a producer and MC. But inexperience swimming up the deadly industry waters was both the gift and the curse. A record deal with Interscope Records (home to Aftermath, Eminem, G-Unit) fell through and what would have been an oppurtunity to capitalize on the sensation-at-the-time B2Ks early success with a remix to their debut hit slipped through managements hands.
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, or in Q Dot's case, wiser. A lot wiser then your average aspiring artist. Away at college, he found studying the industry was far more interesting than the tedious Freshman workload and that notion brings us to now. A talented musician and owner of a budding enterprise Q Dot indeed has the city, and a lot more, on his back. "Nine out Ten albums don't succeed in the industry, that ALONE means being independent is the only way to go today. That way artists and labels can control their own destinies and reach success on their terms. Its now up to the general public to find music the old fashioned way, go to shows, hit myspace, listen to internet and satellite radio and the independents to put themselves in a position to compete with the big guys."
About DEATH IS DYING: Everyone has heard the saying before "________(fill in the blank) will be the death of you one day." In my case, and i'm sure in alot of others', death wasnt going to be just one thing in particular, it was a plethora of distractions, roadblocks, habits and though I hate to admit it, illegal activity that if it didnt actually take me off of this earth, it would be a death in a figurative sense.
This CD was recorded over a period of time when I was going through everything I mentioned before and throughout most of this CD you can hear what those things could have been, i'll let you determine that...Something in the CD that i'm proud of is from beginning to end, if you listen to the words, and read the quote on the inside of the CD booklet you can hear the rise and eventual fall of "death" as an actual character in the music. I wrote Death is dying to be an experience that goes beyond what you hear through the speakers. But moreso to be a figurative journal that everyone, in their own minds' corner, can continue to add to...because everyone has a "death" to deal with at one time or another aferall the title isn't death is dead...its death is dying
