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Just acquired hands on this NEW Gateway Worship - God Be Praised album that was just released today. I love the style of music they did with its previous album Wake up The World. The doxology opening from that album was just mind-blowing. Gateway worship has that congregational worship 'feel' that is attractive - makes it teachable for local churches across the earth. This is a new band that I may be starting to follow in addition to those listed on my Youtube Channel in addition to Hillsong, Planetshakers, Passion and Desperation Band!
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
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The NEW Hillsong album recording will occur tonight at 7pm SYDNEY time. The album title is unsure at this stage and the Hillsong team normally finalizes that along with the album art several months severals months after in time for the annual Hillsong Conference album release. Here's the track recording which may be subjected to change on the night itself.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
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The NEW Hillsong Chapel: Yahweh (2010) has been released! Hillsong Chapel - Yahweh 2010 Album is a newly created series of intimate and devotional arrangements of popular Hillsong songs led by the Hillsong worship team. Recorded live in the Hillsong Chapel, Yahweh, the first installment in the series, contains organic and contemplative versions of top CCLI songs including "Mighty To Save", "Hosanna", "From The Inside Out", and the title track "Yahweh".
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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NewReleaseTuesday is doing an exclusive full album preview of the Hillsong Chapel - Yahweh album. The album preview will be available all week long prior to the album launch. Click the above to sample the full album. Mind you the website added extra 'newreleasetuesday' vocals into the album preview to prevent infringement of copyright material.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
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Hillsong United: We’re All In This Together – One Night Only In Cinemas!
Cert PG
Monday 11th October, 7pm
One Night Only in Cinemas – Back Due to Popular Demand!
Running time: 1h51m / 111mins
Filmed over a period of 2 years, The I Heart Revolution: We’re All In This Together follows the worship band, Hillsong United, as they travel across 6 continents 42 nations and 93 cities in a cross-cultural journey of music, animation, interviews and live action documentary as they realise every story of hope, love, loss and sacrifice ultimately points to the one story.
HILLSONG UNITED'S FRONTMAN: JOEL HOUSTON
“It’s a story made up of many stories, told by many voices, no individual voice any more or less important than any other, yet every voice working together to ultimately tell one story - a story that involves everyone; that captures our collective and idiosyncratic purpose in one, part documentary, part apologetic, part call to action.”
ONE NIGHT ONLY IN CINEMAS
Monday 11th October 2010
To find your nearest participating cinema and to book tickets, visit: www.theiheartfilm.com
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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News have been going around and Christian music followers especially the younger generation who have been influenced for good by the music and songs either sung or written by then Hillsong United's forefront man Marty Sampson. Marty has not been on this year's Hillsong Live - A Beautiful Exchange album. He has been keeping a low profile since the album 'United We Stand' by Hillsong United. His last album with United was the 2008 release The I Heart Revolution: We're All in This Together (2008). He often leads worship at church and has continued his strong contributions for new Hillsong albums.
Marty has a style of music and vocals unique only to himself which is captivating and uplifting. Originally featuring in the Youth Alive albums of the late 1990s, he was one of original Hillsong United worship leaders. Guitar is his main instrument and he occasionally plays the piano.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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To all our friends who have expressed interest in Hillsong New York City:
This email has no doubt been a long time coming and on behalf of my wife and our Co-Pastor Joel Houston we sincerely thank you for your interest, your patience and your prayers as we embark on what is truly an exciting journey. This email will hopefully answer a few questions and give you an idea of where we are headed with Hillsong NYC. Laura and I have finally landed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Joel is in the process of finding his home here and very soon will be completely re-located to New York City. And what a city God has called us to…
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Joel Houston has announced on his twitter that the new Hillsong United album will be coming out February 2011. Here are some tidbits of the new Hillsong United album as teased before!
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Did this video out of a request. And did it in a rush so it's not all pro but here's 'Hillsong London - To Bring You Glory' guitar chords. Recorded with the iPhone 4 - (5 megapixel camera). I got a bit excited and too into the song so there's parts where it sped up and the strumming was slightly excessive loud. You don't have to do that.
Verse:
I lift my hands to heaven, and I see the grace and love poured out for me.
Now I stand here in surrender, to the one who gave it all and died for me.
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
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Hillsong United's Brooke Fraser is releasing a new album entitled FLAGS this coming OCTOBER. Tour dates are located at the official Brooke Fraser website.
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
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Hillsong has a collective blog from all extensions that shares information about the ministry extensions it has across. Here's a description on it's blog website:
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Monday, July 26, 2010
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Hillsong YOUTH has a Youtube channel that shows their YOUTH albums which are not sold but available only to the church members internally at the Hillsong local church.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Believe - Story by Darlene Zschech
I actually went into the chapel to play Reuben some of the worship songs I had been writing, and came out with one of his to work on... It's funny how that happens... BUT it's always an honour to write with others, and I LOVE the direction this song ended up taking. There is nothing more powerful as a worship leader than to declare the faithfulness of God over people's lives, to remind them that our God reigns, truly reigns...and that He cares enough for each of our lives to be STRENGTH for us all.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
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[Joel Houston at Masterclasses I Heart Worship & Justice]
Main Speaker for 1st Night Rally – Snr Pastor Brian Houston
So we got to the Arena on time BUT because it was open to the General public, we were waiting outside for over and hour at the door because the Arena was PACKED!!!!!
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Monday, June 28, 2010
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Hillsong Conference 2010 is happening this year in Sydney at the ACER ARENA from July the 5th to the 9th. People across the globe will gather there to worship and receive an encounter and a revelation from God, to go back and champion the cause of the local church. The experience is definitely extraordinary and encourage you all to be there at least once. Here is a short footage of Hillsong Executives discussing the purpose of Hillsong Conference in one of the many weeks they gather together. Darlene Zschech, Joel Houston are the two executives in the video.
Hillsong Live - A Beautiful Exchange will be released this coming early July weekend.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
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It has come to our attention that the new 2010 album of Hillsong Live - A Beautiful Exchange Download has been leaked online. People across the world are already downloading the album but its a low quality leak. I would encourage all to purchase the album in support of Hillsong ministry. It helps finance their local church movements.
The website THISMEANSLOVE Blog offers a collection of Hillsong Live CD + DVD online from the album Faith + Love + Hope. There's updated information from this website about Hillsong; just from browsing the forums it can be seen that 1-2 people from Hillsong Church are running the forums. It also has a user-friendly forum that allows users to discuss their interests.
Edit: The download links have been removed from the website.
Another big christian media website is ChristianSonic. It has a lot of major and minor artists that have gained recognition to the ears of christian audience. Much informative information about Hillsong too. The website is very aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
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Hillsong Live returns with an all-new album entitled, A Beautiful Exchange. Recorded at Hillsong Church in Australia, these powerful worship songs explore themes including sacrifice & redemption (“A Beautiful Exchange”), extraordinary love (“God Is Love”), and comforting hope (“Forever Reign”) which is also the first radio single and looks to be a song that will be quickly adopted by churches everywhere. Hillsong Live albums are moving experiences led by worship leaders including Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, and Darlene Zschech to name a few. Other key songs include: “I Will Believe” & “The One Who Saves”.
We highly recommend purchasing the CD/DVD once its out. We will definitely purchase the products; the low quality versions of these music does not compare to the actual quality of the music itself! Support Hillsong church as they have provided us with uplifting music!
Watch the "Behind Scenes" of Hillsong Live's 2009 - Faith + Hope + Love album:
Interesting Facts:
- Joel Houston mentions within the video that even towards minutes before recording night that they are unsure about the lyrics!
- The song "Believe" sung by Darlene Zschech in the upcoming Hillsong Live - A Beautiful Exchange album has a different musical arrangement on the CD to the DVD.
- The song "You" sung by Hillsong United's frontman Joel Houston has changed the a part of its song lyrics AFTER the track recording at 1:50 minutes from "make my life transparent" to "make me more transparent" which sounds more fitting and easier to sing. Something to keep in mind if you're teaching this song in your local church.
Here's a more recent video of Hillsong Live - You from the "A Beautiful Exchange", months after the the actual album recording. Pay attention to the lyrics:
- Hillsong's has made the 'WHOA' worship battle-cry (what I'd like to call it) a recurring element. Here are some songs where it's been or some element of the worship battle-cry has been exercised:
Hillsong United - All of The Above Album: SOLUTION
Hillsong Live - This is Our God Album: YOUR NAME HIGH, WITH EVERYTHING
Hillsong United - Tear Down The Walls Album: NO REASON TO HIDE, ARMS OPEN WIDE, YOUR NAME HIGH
Hillsong Live - Faith + Hope + Love Album: FOR YOUR NAME, IT'S YOUR LOVE, NO REASON TO HIDE
Hillsong Live - A Beautiful Exchange (ABE) Album: OUR GOD IS LOVE, FATHER'S HEART, YOU, ADD INCENSE/SOMETIMES (FREE WORSHIP)
- U2 inspired 8th dotted delay on electric guitars has been an recurring element post UNITED WE STAND albums (listen to the lead electric picking line from [UNITED WE STAND album] Hillsong United - The Time Has Come). An individual has commented that this guitar effect is nickname'd, "The Mosquito" in their church!
- Hillsong Live - The First and the Last lyrics changed during post production. At the live recording, the second last line sings "God of all days, Lord there is no one like You" is what we currently here on the CD "Calling the light, with all the earth we will sing". There's more to it as mentioned in the COMMENT section. Pay attention to the lyrics:
- Hillsong post-production team for album recordings has proven to be awesome. In Hillsong Live - 'God One and Only' the drums part in the bridge is different to the track recording off the album FAITH + HOPE + LOVE. Watch the camcorded version of it at the live recording HERE (at 1:23 minutes onwards) and compare it with the actual track recording HERE.
Surely by now we realize that live recording albums do require significant post-production work to bring forth quality standards.
If you find anymore interesting facts, do let us know!
HILLSONG LIVE - A BEAUTIFUL EXCHANGE DETAILS:
CD TRACK LIST
1. Our God Is Love (Joel Houston and Scott Ligertwood)
2. Open My Eyes (Reuben Morgan and Braden Lang)
3. Forever Reign (Jason Ingram and Reuben Morgan)
4. The One Who Saves (Ben Fielding)
5. Like Incense / Sometimes (Brooke Ligertwood and Rich Mullins)
6. Greatness Of Our God (Jason Ingram, Stu Garrard and Reuben Morgan)
7. The Father’s Heart (Gio Galanti)
8. You (Joel Houston)
9. Love Like Fire (Matt Crocker)
10. Believe (Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan)
11. Beautiful Exchange (Joel Houston)
12. Thank You (Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding)
DVD BONUS TRACKS
13. Hillsong London “The Answer” (Bonus Feature)
14. Hillsong London “God Our Salvation” (Bonus Feature)
15. Hillsong London “For All You Are (With You Are Good)” (Bonus Feature)
16. Hillsong London “All Things New” (Bonus Feature)
17. Hillsong London “Glorious One (With To Bring You Glory)” (Bonus Feature)
18. Documentary “A Beautiful Exchange: Behind the Scenes” (Bonus Feature)
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Friday, June 18, 2010
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Here's a low quality preview of the song Hillsong Live - Our God is Love. This is the very first song track from Hillsong's upcoming 2010 live album release. It's a song of declaration about God's through His son Jesus Christ. The song gives a very vibrant and energetic start to the album. It may very well be a good album this year! Visit our YOUTUBE channel to listen to it.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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An eventful 3 weeks in Europe and the UK have been and gone with great events ranging from a 900 cap. room in Paris, France to a 30 000 cap. sports arena in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Now, Hillsong United is preparing for this year's Hillsong Conference 2010 at Sydney, Australia. Hillsong United's complete itinerary was:
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Hillsong United editing crew reported their 3 weeks of solid work has turned up some good results, the majority of which being produced at 11th Hour Studios that are run by Andrew Crawford and Jim Monk.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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March 2010 has seen the commencement of Hillsong United’s second studio album.. We are recording in Studio 1 at Studios 301 in Sydney, making very good use of the 72 channel Neve 88R and the great sounding rooms the facilities include. After a week of solid work we are well under way…more to come!
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A Beautiful Exchange Hillsong Live returns with an all-new album entitled, A Beautiful Exchange. Recorded at Hillsong Church in Australia, these powerful worship songs explore themes including sacrifice & redemption ("A Beautiful Exchange"), extraordinary love ("God Is Love"), and comforting hope ("Forever Reign") which is also the first radio single and looks to be a song that will be quickly adopted by churches everywhere. Hillsong Live albums are moving experiences led by worship leaders including Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, and Darlene Zschech to name a few. Other key songs include: "I Will Believe" & "The One Who Saves".
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
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Planetshakers Church just finished their international conference 20TEN recently and have amazing speakers such as TD Jakes, John Bevere and Reggie Dabbs as the keynote speakers of the conference. The opening night of the conference was amazing. You can watch it at HERE on my youtube channel.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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Hello World!
For the past few days I've been just messing around with Adobe Premiere CS4 and just collaborated a preservice video for church that we may use in the ffuture. A preservice video helps break the ice between entering church and starting the service, so it helps people recognize that service is about to start and its time to take seatings - furthermore people start putting their attentions to the video screen.
Here is the table of work as you can see..
I've got the video running up on youtube. You can check it out HERE. I'll probably put the video on the sidebar for convenience.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
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