It's life, art, food, and Wu-Tang, as an artist from Vermont tries to figure out how to make a podcast. If you like watching car crashes in slow motion, JMP might be right for you.

In Aaron J. Trumm’s 21 years in the studio and on stage, the theme that continues to come up is “balance”, or as some would say it, “fusion”.  He balances dark with light, with lyrics balancing edge with positivity; he balances new with old, putting modern twists on traditional methods, like putting rap and singing on top of a live band; and he balances life, refusing to let dreams go by the wayside, while simultaneously prioritizing health, family and life outside of art.

Aaron’s influences are wide and varied, from The Roots, which he loves because  they continue the oldest hip-hop tradition of honest, creative story telling without all the gangster posturing, to Rage Against The Machine, who called to Aaron because they’re revolutionaries who can rock, to Johhny Cash and Bob Wills, who remind him of his roots, but buck the stifling traditions and closed mindedness of the country establishment, and were constantly looking to collaborate with people outside their box.  He fuses these elements and becomes something wholly new – a rappin, rockin, blues man, lover AND warrior, who will move between rapping and singing even within lines, and is equally at home behind the mix desk as he is behind the piano or the mic.

In “Livin Is Bling”, Aaron’s rhythmically complex raps say in no uncertain terms that he won’t be stopped, and hopes you won’t either.  He invites you to “sing it with me if you think that livin is bling”.  Life is GOOD, and don’t you forget it!  “Be Like Me”’s lively rap and reggae like chorus admonishes us all to be what we are, and in “Slumberland”, he takes on heartbreak, loss, desperation and the surreality of someone being gone.

Aaron’s latest work seeks balance and life, drawing on this wide variety of influences which seem completely eclectic, but he sees as similar.  The Roots may not be anything like Rage Against The Machine to you, but to Aaron, they’re both rappers and revolutionaries who decided to put a good ‘old fashioned BAND on stage.  Neither of them may seem like the Man In Black, but to Aaron, they’re all standing on the shoulders of the jazz greats, country crooners, blues masters and hip-hop  pioneers, all of which are telling the story of living, breathing and lifting up.

Along the way, Aaron has been on stage everywhere in the U.S. and some places outside, he was the 10th ranked slam poet in the world, his techno/classical fusion project Third Option was called “Wicked, totally amazing” by BBC Radio I’s Annie Nightingale, he’s earned a Master’s degree from Stanford University, and he’s built NQuit Music, which at 21 years old, is now one of the oldest still operating independent labels in the U.S.

COREUPT at it's CORE is a pulse pounding action brawler! Follow Gatling as he fights along side new allies to discover the CORE of the worlds COREUPTION!

Music Produced by Drew Bowers

Synopsis:

Many years ago a group of scientists, known as the Sherman Intellectuals, discovered a mystical energy source known as the Cores. These small round glowing spheres contained nearly limitless supplies of power, allowing man to create colossal airships and power whole cities. Today the world is in a decadent age of prosperity and excess. However, that time has nearly come to an end.

A mysterious force called the Blue Mist is slowly consuming the land. Growing unremittingly, the blue mist turns any living being within it into a soulless shell. Only six nations of the world are able to appeal to the Sherman Intellectuals and climb with them high into the sky away from the influence of the mist, but the floating nations are slowly running out of sky.

Gatling is one of the lucky few who lives above the clouds. He is a member of the Black Blades, an elite group of soldiers on the floating island nation of Panzer. However, their plans to unite the six floating nations and fight back the blue mist is hindered when Panzer Island is attacked by a mysterious group of pirates......

I want to try something new... Like mix American Country with techno beats, heavy metal with dub step, pretty much along those lines.

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