Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Samuel Crown has released a new E.P. "Dream My Way Up," a collection of 5 songs recorded over the past year. Ranging from electronic, synth-based dance tunes to bare-bones acoustic ballads, Samuel Crown covers a lot of territory.
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
The Sota Boys are back to follow-up their album "Always Say Always" with a Christmas EP, "MistleFlow".
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
The Sota Boys are a local pop/hip-hop group managed by Droptone intern Drew Schmalz. The group consists of members Brent Haglund, Jesse Johnson, and BJ Skoog, with occasional features from some of their friends. This past summer, we had the privilege of producing their first full-length album, "Always ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Over the last several months we've been fortunate enough to track and mix Vision The Kid's upcoming album "Lost Summer". Together with Producer Ryan Tru Truax, making this album has been an amazingly eclectic adventure.
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
New artist Nikki (Nicole Rodriguez) recorded her first 3 singles at Droptone Studio over the last few months. All 3 songs were a collaboration between Nikki and I. Nikki supplied the lyrics and I layed down the tracks. Nikki was fantastic to work with and made huge ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
[singlepic id=168 w=320 h=240 float=left] Parallax made their way back to Droptone in early August to record their second live album, "Nice 2." This project is a collaboration among some of the state's finest artists including Big Zach (of Kanser), St Paul Slim, Jellyfish and Corey (of More Than Lights), ...
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The summer of 2010 has come and gone, but on September 1st one full length album remained. Corby Pelto recorded his debut album "Merry-Go-Round" over the last 3 months here at Droptone and it's out now.
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
We just just finished a killer one drop track "Turn Back Time" for African based lyricist and singer Mukama Morandi.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Chicago based songwriter, Gordon Vanguard and his grunge-pop band Licker recently did some mix work at Droptone. The band recorded a handful of new songs a few months back at local recording school, IPR. With bare mixes in hand, they asked me to polish them up. I really enjoyed working ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
[singlepic id=436 w=320 h=240 float=left] Dancer and model, Dani Gassmann has just released her single, "Can't Take It Anymore" on iTunes.
Dani came to Droptone with a notebook full of lyrics and a few melodies in her head, but wasn't sure where to start with her first song. After talking about ...
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
[singlepic id=163 w=320 h=240 float=left] Maria Isa's latest release, "Street Politics," was another product of Droptone Studio. Maria brought her album to us this last spring and we helped her re-record, re-mix, and re-think her album.
The project began by adding the support of her extremely talented band. I captured the ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
[singlepic id=153 w=320 h=240 float=right] Earlier this summer, Fat Lemon, an alternative rock band, came into the studio to mix and master their latest self-titled release. The band tracked all of their songs independently outside of the studio, and I just helped them get the best sound out of their ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
[singlepic id=166 w=280 h=200 float=left] Morrison Boomer is an acoustic duo from Seattle. They were in Minneapolis over the last few months and I had the privilege to record their first studio release, and their second album throughout July and August. This album is mainly acoustic guitar, bass, and vocals. ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Several months ago I started working on a project with singer songwriter Keaton Kronberg. Before we got too far on his solo project, he ended up adding a full band to the mix and we switched gears. We both decided it would be best to let the band work on ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
[singlepic id=167 w=320 h=240 float=right] "Love All Over" was the culmination of 2 years of work by singer/songwriter Noah Cornelius. Noah and I began working together in the summer of 2007. We put down a handful of acoustic guitar scratch tracks and experimented with different tempos and song structures. Once ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Esera Tuaolo is scheduled to release his first solo full-length album on February 26th. The venue has yet to be decided. Esera has been working on his album over the last 2 years, tirelessly perfecting every track. Packed with 8 originals and 2 covers, Esera's album covers a wide variety ...
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Welcome to the Droptone Studio Blog! It's a new year and we've got a new website. 2008 was full of fun and lots of music. It went out with a bang as the studio stayed open around the clock working on Christmas music. Helen Thul, a local christian artist, recorded ...
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