No Politics by Quentin Harris. 2:05 Listen Now Buy: £0.99 In MP3 Basket View MP3 Basket 2. By Quentin Harris. Gotta Do by Quentin Harris. 4:59 Listen Now Buy: £0.99 In MP3 Basket View MP3 Basket 3. Hate Won't Change Me (feat. Byron Stingily) by Quentin Harris. Hate Won't Change Me (feat. I think the great thing about Quentin Harris doing it is that he can make it all make sense because it’s all one producer, and he’s well-versed. This is the direction that I wanted to go. I didn’t want to do the same kind of record.
Quentin Harris has become one of the most in-demand remixers in the world, adding necessary club sheen to R&B vocals, house tracks and frequently turning the proverbial turd into a polished diamond. No wonder he’s been called on to remix everyone from Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey to Femi Kuti and Blaze. In addition to “Don’t You Forget About Us” from Mariah, and “Not Like Crazy” by Jill Scott, one of his benchmark rubs was a sneaky re-production of Leela James’ “My Joy”, transforming her dynamite blues jam, into classic deep house. He says he never thought it would cause such a splash. “I had no idea that “My Joy” would turn into what it turned into. The records I really loved and had the most fun working on, like Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around,”, stayed under the radar. You know, I never know. I just do what feels good.”
This May sees the release of his sophomore album, “Sac•ri•fice”, the follow-up to 2006’s “No Politics”, a collection that encompasses Harris’ widescreen house vista. “It’s taken me two years to make “Sac•ri•fice,” he confides. “There was a year of frustration because of writers’ block and also, I was hearing a lot of records that I felt were copying my sounds and I was challenged with trying to come up with something new without alienating my fan base. I hope I’ve succeeded. If I had to describe “Sac•ri•fice” sonically, I would say that it sounds like the album Prince, Murk and I would make together, if such a dream session should ever happen.”
Harris’ success has been built on the rare ability to straddle genres effortlessly, with productions that gracefully sit between the soulful end of the Shelter and the tougher sound that many European audiences demand. Danny Tenaglia called it Hard and Soul and Quentin surely lives up to it. “I go out and listen to everything even if it’s not my scene,” he states. “For instance, Victor Calderone is a good friend of mine – and even though I won’t necessarily love everything he plays, I do think it’s important to go out and hear him play. I love to go and get out on the floor with the crowd; not hang out in the booth. When I hear a record and it really really catches my attention, I get crazy about it, and then I’m like, Ok that’s the record of the night for me, I’m gonna go and find out what it is and then go home.”
That polymath approach to music would surprise few who have heard Quentin’s studio output or his extended live sets. Whether he’s wowing crowds in Ibiza with a dose of Leela James or delving deep into his creative reserves for another genre-defying re-production, Quentin Harris is the man who can. No politics, no doubt.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two condemned multiple murderers, including a serial killer, apparently committed suicide within hours of each other on the nation's largest death row, California officials said Monday. Officials said that while both men's deaths are being investigated as suicides, there is no indication that their deaths are related.
Corrections officials said they found Andrew Urdiales, 54, unresponsive during a security check at San Quentin State Prison late Friday. He was sentenced to death on Oct. Adobe flash player version 8.0.0.0. 5 by an Orange County judge for killing five women in California, and previously faced the death penalty for three murders in Illinois.
The California victims were Robbin Brandley, 23, in January 1986 in Mission Viejo; Maryann Wells, 31, in September 1988 in San Diego; Julie McGhee, 29, in July 1988 in Cathedral City; Tammie Erwin, 20, in April 1989 in Palm Springs; and Denise Maney, 32, in March 1995 in Palm Springs. The murders occurred while he was stationed at various U.S. Marine Corps facilities in Southern California.
A woman who survived a 1992 attack by Urdiales, Jennifer Asbenson, described her harrowing getaway to '48 Hours' in the 2011 episode, 'Escape from a Serial Killer.'
}He previously was convicted of killing Cassie Corum, 21, and Lori Uylaki, 25, both from Hammond, Illinois; and Lynn Huber, 22, of Chicago, in the mid-1990s. Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted his sentence to life in prison in 2002 for two murders, and his third sentence was also commuted when Illinois banned the death penalty.
He was then extradited to California to face charges there, and he had been on California's death row since Oct. 12.
Separately, authorities say they found Virendra Govin, 51, unresponsive alone in his cell in a different death row housing unit late Sunday. Both inmates were being held in single cells at the time of their deaths, according to a prison statement released to CBS San Francisco. An autopsy will determine their causes of death.
Govin was sentenced in December 2004 for committing four Los Angeles County murders.
The victims were Gita Kumar, 42; Plara Kumar, 18: Tulsi Kumar, 16; and Sitaben Patel, 63. Govin, his brother Pravin Govin, and Carlos Amador, then set the Kumars' home on fire in 2002. Govin arrived on death row in January 2005. His brother, Pravin, has been on death row since September 2005.
All male prisoners in California on condemned status are housed at San Quentin in maximum-security custody level units, reports CBS San Francisco. But California has not executed anyone since 2006 and inmates are far more likely to die from suicide or old age.
Since California reinstated capital punishment in 1978, 79 condemned inmates have died from natural causes, 25 have committed suicide, 13 have been executed in California, one was executed in Missouri, and one was executed in Virginia.
There currently are 740 offenders on California's death row.
While suicides are not uncommon, the pair of deaths comes weeks after a rare slaying. Xforce cs6 master collection keygen download.
Officials said Jonathan Fajardo, 30, was fatally stabbed Oct. 5 in a recreational yard. Fellow inmate Luis Rodriguez, 34, is considered the suspect, but investigators were trying to determine a motive and how he obtained or was able to make the weapon.
The suspected suicides were announced the same day that a federal court-appointed special master who oversees prison mental health care criticized California corrections officials for proposing that they be allowed to start negotiating an end to federal oversight of suicide prevention efforts.
Special master Matty Lopes called the state's proposal 'incredibly premature' given the continued problems outlined in an expert's report also released Monday.
Attorneys representing inmates said the state's suicide rate is, for the second year in a row, on track to exceed 24 suicides per 100,000 inmates. That was before six suicides since Sept. 1, including the two on death row.
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That far exceeds the national state prison rate of 16 suicides per 100,000 inmates.
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The exchange came as a federal judge considers appointing an outside investigator to weigh a whistleblower's allegations that top California corrections officials are misleading federal officials about improvements in the treatment of mentally ill inmates.
State officials again denied that there was any fraudulent activity but said some mistakes have since been corrected.
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