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Today's guest, Kavi Halemane, has worked in various parts of the music business. After starting his career in digital marketing and strategy for Interscope Records he moved on to work directly with artists and content creato…
Our guest today is composer, producer, and co-founder of Cinesamples, Mike Patti. Mike started Cinesamples in 2007 when he saw an opportunity to create niche libraries to fill holes in the marketplace. Since then they have g…
Today's guest is producer, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist Julie Kathryn. Julie releases music under the alias I Am Snow Angel, an immersive blend of digital and organic elements, many of which are created from h…
Today we are joined by two guests. The songwriting, composition, and production duo of John Trivers and Elizabeth Myers. Operating as Trivers Myers Music for over three decades, they have created musical brand identities for…
This week's guest is Grammy nominated mastering engineer and audio equipment designer Ian Sefchick. Ian builds one of the most sought after boutique tube compressors in the audio industry under the unusual company name Magic…
This week's guest is artist, producer, and remixer Kyle Stern, better known by his moniker Attom. Kyle has built a following in the electronic music realm with his blend of chill and house with a heavy pop music influence. …
Today’s guest is the multi-platinum awarded producer, mixer, and musician Bill Appleberry. Bill has worked on Republic Records' and NBC's hit TV show The Voice for the last decade. He has produced and mixed the studio record…
This week's guest is our very own host Travis Ference. To celebrate six months of Progressions: Success in the Music Industry we invited our prior interviewee, Damian Taylor, to guest host a live Ask Me Anything episode. Dam…
Today’s guest is entrepreneur and creative music executive Jerimaya Grabher. Jerimaya is a co-founder of and principle manager at Global Positioning Services, a full service music management company that currently looks afte…
This week's guest is Los Angeles based producer, composer and artist Matt Lange. Matt has made a name for himself in the electronic music world both as an artist and as a producer. In addition to releasing his own music, he’…
Today’s guest is Dave Green, the front man of the Los Angeles based band The Filthy Souls. In addition to fronting his own project Dave also writes for an uncountable number of artists, brands, and TV shows, as well as plays…
This week's guest is sound design wizard, entrepreneur, and tech enthusiast Chris Gear. Chris is a co-founder of the hugely popular ADSR Sounds as well as the owner of both OhmLab and SoundFreqs. He’s known throughout the in…
This week’s guest is veteran recording engineer, mixer, and golf enthusiast Jesse String. Jesse began his recording career at the legendary Henson studios, and eventually went freelance where he would stack up credits with …
Today’s guest is Grammy award winning engineer, mixer, producer, and songwriter Ian Dowling. Ian is based out of the UK and has worked on an uncountable number of gold and platinum records for artists such as Adele, Kasabian…
Today’s guest is multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, and educator Charles Burchell. As a producer and musician Charles has worked with artists such as Talib Kweli, Christian Scott, and Braxton Cook as well as his own…
Today’s guest is Grammy and Oscar nominated mixer Maurizio Borgna. Based out of Italy, Maurizio has been working throughout Europe as an engineer, mixer, producer, and label manager since 2003. His credits include tv, film…
Today’s guest is London based producer, composer, session musician, and sound designer Will Hatton. Will’s main focus is producing and releasing music under the moniker Hush Child, but he’s got an array of other things on h…
Our guest this week is Grammy nominated recording engineer and mixer Martin Cooke. Martin’s resume reads like a who’s who of alternative and rock n roll. He's worked with artists such as Death Cab for Cutie, Of Monsters an…
This week’s guest is Detroit based producer, artist, mixer, and mastering engineer Noël Jackson. Noël has worked with various artists and labels including Warner Records, Superfreq, David Guetta, Kevin Saunderson, and Mr. C…
This week's guest is Ian Kagey, the Director of Operations for Power Station NYC, a historic and classic recording studio in the heart of NYC now currently run by Berklee College of Music. The mix of skills that Ian learned…
This week's guest is film and television composer Andrew Johnson. Andrew started his career as an assistant for composer James S. Levine at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control facility. While there he worked on hit shows such as Gl…
This week’s guest is two time Grammy winning recording engineer and mixer Fernando Lodeiro. Fernando is a New York based engineer who came up through Avatar studios. His credits include Esperanza Spaulding, Vampire Weekend…
This week’s guest is Brian Zarlenga, general manager of the revolutionary music software and technology company Output. Brian's career in the music business has taken him from the sales team at a major label to handling lic…
Our guest this week is bass player, producer, songwriter, and artist Corey Britz. In addition to being the bass player for the band Bush, Corey also fronts his own project as well as produces and writes for numerous alternat…
