Artist - Jeremy 'Bunnie' Dreher and Jeremy 'Germ!' Thiessen

Notes from Jeremy Dreher

"Inspired by noise, the cut up, and a DIY philosophy, The Future was Then is a Minneapolis-based duo consisting of Germ! and J. 'Bunnie' Dreher, audio engineering students with a love of electronic music. Although the band hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bunnie Dreher built up his musical chops in Salt Lake City, UT and Bellingham, WA with bands like Dying Is Easy (D.I.E.) and Logic Control. Meanwhile, Germ! was chopping it up in Lincoln, NE as a member of The Scientific Method and Drugs in Common (D.I.C.). 

Borrowing ideas from late '70's and early '80's industrial and punk rock, T.F.W.T. brings forward new ideas perfecting the past. Their current works have the feeling of trancy industrial, but they refuse to be pigeon-holed and have lent a hand in recording and mastering music for several regional hip-hop bands. They take a certain kind of pride in being able to work across genres and try to implement aspects of many of them into their music. With history as their guide, they are here to tell us: The Future was Then."

Jeremy 'Bunnie' Dreher: Synths, Samples, & Programming
Jeremy 'Germ!' Thiessen: Synths, Samples, Programming

Losing Them to Apathy

Jackson Thompson aka Dj Mellow J is an alumnus of The Institute of Production and Recording for Audio Production.

Notes from Jackson:

"At age 14 Jackson picked up "Making beats" with a cheap $50 program from Best Buy. Little did he know that this decision would change his life. Slowly but surely this turned into a passion and the music grew more indepth and meaningful. At age 16 he learned the art of sampling records from a close friend and soon mastered the technique. After starting to collect Jazz records, he picked up DJing. Throughout the years he has drawn inspiration from Golden Era Hip Hop acts such as A Tribe Called Quest, J-Dilla, 9th Wonder, and more recently experimental Hip Hop/ Beat music such as Flying Lotus, Shlohmo and Samiyam. Right after graduating High school in 09, Jackson attended The Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis,MN majoring in Music Production. He has studied under the likes of James Patrick, Kevin Bowe, and Eric Olsen. After Graduating from IPR Jackson moved back home where he grew up in Grapevine,TX to grow as an Artist, Producer, and DJ. Jackson hopes to continue to release his own music through his own outlets and grow as an Artist and Human.  

Put it on my mind

Artist: Aaron Blowers aka AJ   Band: AVICI

I'm an alumnus who graduated in 09'. This song is from my band AVICI. It was tracked in Studio 2 of The Institute of Production and Recording and mixed at my house. To hear some of my other stuff, check out my SC, www.soundcloud.com/flyinsticks 

Father Darkness

Artist - Evan Travis

Words from the artist: Evan Travis started playing music his first year of high school, and has since grown a passion for it. Play anything he can, making music is always on his brain. Everything in these songs is written, performed, recorded, and mixed by him. He uses audacity for recording because it is free, and he is cheap. 

I'm a dinosaur

Artist Brady Harding  Band: Attacking The Mind

Attacking The Mind is a musical entity hailing from small town Iowa but currently located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Attacking The Mind is ran solely by one person, Brady Harding. The music resides happily inside of the metal genre but also takes influence from other areas of music such as hardcore and electronic music. Attacking The Mind combines punishing riffs, pounding drums, soaring synths, roaring bass, and powerful vocals to create the sound that will enter your ear holes. Attacking The Mind's debut EP was released on September 5th, 2011 and can be purchased from iTunes.

Haze

Artist: Jon Timmerman

Notes from Jon:  "This is a collab project with a buddy of mine based out of the Washington area. He is 20 years old and I am 21.  This is our 2nd track together which will be released through Hard Dance Nation Records in the next few months here.  Personally for this track I contributed to all the melodies and we both put the overall production together.  He made those amazing hard kicks and together we thought out each idea and this is our track.  We decided not to have vocals in this track based on overall feel of the track and that we wanted the melodies in this track to be the vocals in a sense.  Enjoy guys." 

World Of Vision

Artist - Jason Mickelson aka Adopted Son

Jason is a graduate of The Institute of Production and Recording.  This is a song from his EP named Nature vs. Nurture

Down The Falls

Artist - Tony L. Kollman  Band - Junebug

Notes from Tony:  "This song was my final in Steve Hodge's Mixing & Mastering course. It was engineered by me with help from fellow IPR student Collin Crawford. It was produced, mixed and mastered by me. I also play drums, percussion and sing background vocals in the group."

On-the-Sidewalk

Check out Soundhoose: https://www.facebook.com/soundhooseaudio/

Soundhoose - Fight Night

Lost In Space - Rhaelee

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