Raj Kotecha

Hosting Flashback 22 with DJ Rav – Biggie Tribute [Video]

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:28:22 +0000

A little clip I found from March 2012 at Flashback, hosted by the Flashback Duo DJ Rav and DJ Ritesh. 22 gigs is a lot to do every six months, (yes, that’s right, 11 years, around 300 – 400 people each time, and tens of thousands from ticket sales donated to various charities). If you haven’t been to this event, here are my top 5 reasons to attend:

1) It focuses on a beautiful time in music, the 80′s and 90′s Soul, Swing and Funk era
2) The crowd is awesome; with mid-20′s being the newbies and many 30 and over’s, that genuinely love music and dancing.
3) Flashback’s overall vibe, via founder Ritesh Shah, who genuinely loves music, helping people and is an all round great guy. You definitely feel this resonate when you’re in the room.
4) It’s cheap, £10 in advance, no dress code, drinks offers and a healthy cut always goes to charity.
5) We (Lovesoul) DJ there, and at a few NYE specials too. DJ Rav is one of a few people I share a bill with that actually makes me rehearse a little before I perform.

In the clip below, we needed to hype up the room as it was the month of The Notorious BIG’s 15 year Anniversary (passing date).

My Question to David Droga

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:02:59 +0000

A few moments ago, my good friend at The Guardian – Robin Hough – sent out a Facebook post that David Droga of Droga5 was doing a live chat with the Guardian Media community online. You don’t often get facetime (via a comments board) with a legend like this. My question, and his great answer are below, and I’m sure you can still view the whole fantastic conversation here.

My Question:

David and GMG, thanks for today.

My question to David: Do you believe in creative legacy, and if so, what would you like yours to be?

Thanks,

@RajKotecha

David’s Answer:

@rajkotecha

As a typical creative I am all ego and insecurity.
My main goal was to change MY advertising industry not THE advertising industry.
But if I can nudge us forward a little and into a better place I would be very happy.
Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be.
And I mean that on several levels. Of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also just not contributing to the pollution of crap advertising. 90% of what our industry produces is rubbish.I want to play in that 10%
There is no category or issue that couldn’t benefit from smart creative and strategic thinking.

I love this answer and I think it’s a plate full of food for thought. Tweet me to discuss it, especially if you have read the full live chat, and you can follow David Droga on twitter @ddroga.

Our 100th YouTube Video with Unseen Footage

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:49:04 +0000

Here is the link for March 17th 2012 [BGMS Fundraiser at The Clubhouse]

and the link for March 24th 2012 [Flashback].

Lovesoul’s New Year’s Eve at The Gherkin was Crazy

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:29:07 +0000

Here’s what happened in the first three minutes we hit the stage for New Years Eve 2011. Shout to Labrynth and Tinie Tempah for making a banger…

Christmas Eve, Boxing Day and New Years Eve 2011 with Lovesoul

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:57:55 +0000

The links you need for each party are:

Christmas Eve Red and White Party at The Clubhouse Sat December 24th 2011 (Get Free Passes)
Boxing Day Soul Shark at Fat Cat Cafe Leicester, Mon 26th December 2011 – Call Fat Cats on 01162 553 610
New Years Eve London Rocks at The Gherkin Tower, Sat 31st December 2011 (Buy Tickets)

Lovesoul headlining The Gherkin for NYE 2011

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:13:47 +0000

Hit Read More to see the event invite – it’s pretty huge.

Hosting at The Full Moon Party in Thailand

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:05:49 +0000

Easily one of the craziest events I’ve hosted – got passed the mic at the November 2011 Full Moon Party in Thailand, did what I did and gave a shout out to our supporters back home that we’ll be seeing on New Years Eve 2011 at The Gherkin for London Rocks! Hope you like the clip. PS, I am really getting into house music…

Association of Publishing Agencies Keynote

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:09:06 +0000

Hey guys,

Here’s a talk I did for the APA on the real time internet and the power of personal brands.

New Years Eve 2011 and more

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:30:31 +0000

Hey guys, the links you needs are right below the video.

New Years Eve Tickets – Humili-Asian Website – Visit Sync-Bar.com

And below is how I make the video – a rare appearance by One Take Kotecha…

Speaking on a panel for Social Media Week London 2011

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:46:47 +0000

As you know, I enjoy organising panels through my company CreativeContentAgency.com. It helps the whole ecosystem flourish and passes knowledge down from those in the industry, to those with ideas, that will hopefully be even more successful. Sadly, as I was in Dubai, I could not organise/chair this one, so we called in Sumit Sharma, Editor of TheHipHopChronicle.com (who Lovesoul produced this Raekwon/Dynamo piece with) to run it. Between us, we shouted everyone a few drinks and got the space from the good folks at 01Zero-One. Also on the panel was

Dave Haynes, VP Business Dev, SoundCloud
Rahul Verma, Freelance Writer, The Metro, The Guardian, The Independent
Babatunde Adefuye, Senior Writer, MTV Wrap Up

Hope you like it, would appreciate your feedback… send me a tweet @RajKotecha