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DaNCEBUMS is a band that makes dances. Inspired by the passion and vitality in the way that audiences respond to their favorite band, DaNCEBUMS set out to cultivate the same enthusiasm for their dances. By creating choreography that adapts to any space, DaNCEBUMS engage hearts and minds in dark clubs, clandestine parties, and the most sought after auditoriums. We are Margaret Johnson, Kara Motta, Eben Kowler, Maggie Zepp, and Karen McMenamy. Music composed and performed by Eric Mayson and Toby Ramaswamy.

New single Everything's Beautiful out now!

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Noise Maker 🎹 Collaborator 🙏🏼 Aviator ✈ 
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Casey O’Brien has spent the past seventeen years exploring sound. As a bassist, producer, composer, and collaborative performer, O’Brien has flexed his musical muscle across multiple platforms. In nearly two decades, there’s rarely been a day when O’Brien hasn’t had an instrument in his hands.

 “This is a natural state for me” says O’Brien, sitting in his kitchen, casually playing bass. “For me the road was always leading to music.”

 O’Brien started playing bass when he was 19. He grew up St. Paul, in a house filled with an eclectic collection of music. O’Brien’s father, an avant-garde leaning trumpet player, provided a varied foundation.

“My dad was way off into free jazz, listening to Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, and of course Coltrane and Miles Davis, so there was that,” says O’Brien, ticking off influential jazz heavyweights as though they’re old pals. “And then there’d be Michael Jackson. Thriller would always be around, for instance. And he’d  buy hip-hop recordings like Run-D.M.C..”

 O’Brien has a connection to music that makes it seem as if it’s part of his physicality. Even as he relaxes, bass guitar in hand, he is tweaking his notes to match the rhythm of his speech.

 “I was really lucky to listen to, and get my hands on, such a wide range of music,” O’Brien says. “And then to grow up in the golden era of hip hop—where sampling was still so new that the law hadn’t caught up to it yet. We were just looking through this stuff trying to see where it all came from. I got into Parliament, Bootsy Collins and Average White Band that way—because of listening to this hodge-podge of music. I grew up listening to virtually everything, so when someone now says, ‘Hey man, you wanna do that?’ I say, ‘Yeah, I do.’”

 O’Brien has furthered his musical education through tutelage under Anthony Cox, a jazz instructor of upright bass, and Jim Anton, who teaches electric bass. This instruction, paired with O’Brien’s expansive musical range, has given him the versatile latitude to delve into a multitude of projects.

 In the past, O’Brien has appeared on recordings and released remixes with Twin Cities hip-hop greats Eyedea and Kristoff Krane, as well as No Bird Sing, Adam Svec, Carnage, TD Mischke, and Face Candy. O’Brien’s most recent film work includes the score for The Place Where We Were Born by Minnesota Book Award Winner, Kao Kalia Yang, and its composition places him on the opposite end of the spectrum.

 Presently, O’Brien is the house bass player for the Soul and R&B label Secret Stash and leads various jazz and R&B ensembles based in the Twin Cities; frequent collaborators include Graham O’Brien, JT Bates, Nathan Hanson, Davu Seru, and John Keston. He also performs regularly in the soul ensemble Sonny Knight & The Lakers, improv-group Coloring Time and with Neo-Soul songstress PaviElle.

This fall, O’Brien began recording for his debut solo record—and if O’Brien’s musical heritage has anything to do with it, it’s sure to be an album that ignores convention.

 “It’s just part of my life… It’s everyday stuff,” says O’Brien on making music. “I like having that all in my life.”

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