I am Young Tom. 
Fresh new underground Artist. Just starting out, so Give my sounds a listen, Like, Share with ya mates, and show some love. 
Music is a way for me to express myself, a way to release my creativity. (And exert anger)

Hi! I'm Jake Berran (b. 2002), a composer from Minnesota currently studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. I believe that music has a magical, captivating power to say what is hard to articulate with other forms of expression. To that end, I love making each new creative process a completely different path through the vast expanse of human emotion and thought, resulting in a unique, multifaceted style. I enjoy writing for any instrumentation but feel most at home with piano, percussion, concert band, and choir. My current compositional interests include exploring humor, juxtaposing aesthetically incongruent material, working with various forms of text, and using electronics in enticing ways.

Sager first stepped behind the decks in Southern California around 2000, cutting his teeth on vinyl. As part of the Santa Barbara Word of Mouth collective, he helped throw legendary full moon parties in the mountains—free-spirited gatherings where the music flowed as freely as the good vibes. There, under the stars, he learned the craft by watching scene-shaping DJs like Cumulus, Dark Messiah, Saro, Jeigh Baldwin, and Mouse.

In the pre-social media era, drum & bass was an even more underground, tightly knit culture. Sager made regular pilgrimages to Respect in LA and the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice parties, where talent from across the West Coast converged. By the late 2000s, he was rocking underground parties in Florida and Georgia, always with the same mission: share beautiful, high-energy, melodic music that moves people.

That passion started long before turntables—since the early ’90s, he was making mixtapes off the radio, later graduating to burning mix CDs for friends. If you’ve known him a while, chances are you’ve got one.

Now based in the SF East Bay, Sager is best known for drum & bass, but he’s just as at home dropping breakbeats, progressive, tech, or stutter house. His sets have lit up FnF, FRC, Burning Man, Heavy Petting Zoo, and more. He’s a sucker for kinetic dance remixes of classic tracks, and his favorite genre? All of them—if it makes you dance, it’s coming in hot.
Thanks for listening—see you on the dance floor soon!

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