Vicelounge is an interactive/music production partnership of

Tai Allen & Jonn Nubian.
Love Music (Summer Preview) by Recordbreakin

SUMMER your cold with the preview…it’s surely new to you and will hold your until the album drops in 2012.

Tai Allen & Jonn Nubian have crafted singing & poetry into a signature approach reminiscent of Gil-Scot Heron — yet uniquely their own.  In 2010, Allen’s album (produced by vicelounge) “Easy Readin’” was awarded Album of The Year by the National Poetry Awards. In 2011 the group was lauded with great reviews from BET/CentricTV and other critics.

Creative is the best adjective/noun to define the group. Utilizing different creative mediums is considered a pathway to a tone to the ViceLounge production team. Writing has always been the cornerstone of their creativity.

Allen states, “Music is my second lover. She, like so many others, seduced me at a tender age. I cannot remember which classic tune changed my life; I think it was an orgy of acts and songs.”  ViceLounge has been influenced by many including Norman Connors, Gil-Scot Heron, Art of Noise, Portishead, Public Enemy, Quincy Jones and Django Rhinehart.

But the creativity also runs in the technology realm: the team has been at the forefront interactive production and strategy. Since the late 90s, vicelounge has helped create platforms for major firms and small shops.

Projects include work with, Grammy Nominated artist, Maiysha; REEBOK; Nigerian soul star, Keziah Jones; Spike Lee; Uptown Magazine; Uniworld Group; UBO; Apollo Theater; Brooklyn Arts Council; DJPremium & DrJays; and, Black Enterprise.

Music: amalgamated noise. truth set to words and tones, spoken or sung, felt inside the melodies torn from yesterday or created for tomorrow.

Welcome family, this is the present!

Vicelounge is a place to find yourself or others nodding their heads and tapping their feet. Get up and do the proper two-step with the fine lass/lad from across the room. Take them and ride the drums or sit on the melody, this interconnection of hip-hop and soul-fried music.

Then there are the days when beautiful ambiance beckons you to sit and love another; gets you to focus on the important things. You think it through while we provide the soundscape. This is where you dance because you cannot stop yourself. Enjoy the company of others for 5 minutes: sweat and lose control; close your eyes and get into what moves you – sometimes organic; sometimes electronic.

Vicelounge refuses the boundaries and constrictions of genres. We make music that befits our moods and feelings. Crafting songs to turn a thought into conversation or welcome a love into new universe. This is why we play and sample and write and think art. and this is what we create… art.

I could tell you it is great art inspired by the masters of galaxies, but who am i to make such announcements. We only know it is heart-felt and honest.

Plus, what is music but a cultural exchange between maker and listener; a presentation of thoughts and philosophies with a person or group? we offer ourselves in song. You offer yourselves as listeners and enjoyers…even the critics have a place in our hearts.

Come. Enjoy the gift of pretty noise.
Take. Share. Enjoy. Repeat…

“The soundtrack for your stylish and dangerous lifestyle.”

vice- [vahys] , –noun

1. an immoral or evil habit or practice.

2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice.

3. sexual immorality, esp. prostitution.

4. a particular form of depravity.

5. a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.

6. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice.

7. a bad habit, as in a horse. 8. (initial capital letter) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.

lounge- [lounj] verb, lounged, loung·ing, noun –verb (used without object)

1. to pass time idly and indolently.

2. to rest or recline indolently; loll: We lounged in the sun all afternoon.

3. to go or move in a leisurely, indolent manner; saunter (usually fol. by around, along, off, etc.). –verb

(used with object)

4. to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon. –noun

5. a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end.

6. a place for sitting, waiting, smoking, etc., esp. a large public room, as in a hotel, theater, or air terminal, often with adjoining washrooms.

7. a section on a train, plane, or ship having various club or social facilities.

8. a cocktail lounge.

9. Archaic. the act or a period of lounging.

10. Archaic. a lounging gait.