New York-based producer, composer and sound artist Nick Zanca has been releasing music under the name Mister Lies since 2012. The project began in a Chicago dorm room with the release of a four-track EP, Hidden Neighbors – over the years, his music has inhabited a specific intersection between intimacy and atmosphere in a maximalist mosaic of field recordings, sample-based textures, glitchy synthetic soundscapes and nocturnal pop songs. Zanca currently lives in Queens and is a founding member of the band Quiet Friend.

YDIMITU (f.k.a. earlynineties)

Thank you...

THE NOISY FREAKS 

2 funky guys

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I fell in love with a music at a very young age. Some of my first memories was signing and dancing around my living room with my record player on. At 5 years old I went to my first concert and my love for music has just continued to grow throughout the years. I started writing songs at the age of 13 with some of my friends and haven't stopped since. After over 20 years I finally decided to put some music to all of the lyrics that I've written. I've always had a dream of working in the music business. I definitely enjoy writing more than performing and would love to see my name inside someone's CD as a "writer" to one of their hit songs. I love all types of music and have written songs for many different styles of music. My plan is to definitely upload more songs soon for everyone to see. 

Young Pandas are a New England based Indie Soul band conceived by members of Bad Rabbits and Such Gold alongside Soul Singer-Songwriter Mike Maven and his co­producer Kyle Nagel who invoke a wide range of influences from Bon Iver to J Dilla, Prince, and Bill Withers. With subtle overtones of Passion Pit and Phoenix, this unique band pulls together a group of young Indie music veterans bent on breaking genre constraints and drawing from the sounds of a wide range of American musical traditions.

Young Pandas has a sound that is both edgy and current as well as reminiscent of classic Soul, Hip Hop, and Woodstock Rock & Roll; promoting a modern blend of the raw, organic approach to music while influenced by the sounds of Indie music today - Miike Snow, Foreign Exchange, The Naked and Famous, Daughter, Toro Y Moi, Bad Rabbits, and others like us.

Grammy® Considered - Best Pop Solo Performance "Myths", 66th Annual Grammy Awards
2x New England Music Award Winner: 
2018 Male Performer Of The Year | 2019 Video Of The Year - "Another Day Another Bullet"

Winner 2023 New York International Film Awards:
Best Video - "Myths" 

Finalist 2023 Los Angeles CinematographyAwards:
Best Video - "Myths" 

Boston based Recording Artist, Producer and Film Composer Munk Duane has a style deeply rooted in late 60s and early 70s Soul and Pop, with unapologetic nods to legends such as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Prince and Stevie Wonder, crafting a sonic atmosphere that is traditional in inception and modern in execution. Channeling spirits of the past and filtering them through a 21st century aesthetic, Munk manifests an evolution by daring to experiment in hybrids. 

Munk's music has been licensed to hundreds of television and film productions such as Hulu's Pam & Tommy, The 70th Annual Tony Awards, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Hawaii Five-O, 60 Minutes, NCIS and Blue Bloods, to The Sopranos, the Super Bowl Half-Time Show and NCAA March Madness. He composed the original score for the 2015 Indie Thriller "The House Across The Street" starring Eric Roberts and owns Bad Stella Studios, just outside of Boston. Munk Duane endorses Reverend Guitars and became an official Reverend Artist in April 2016.

Recently, Munk has been busy composing for companies like Extreme Music, the production music arm of Sony Music Publishing. Extreme Music creates and licenses music for use in television, film, advertising, and online media.

"Seeing my name next to Hollywood composing legends on the Extreme platform is completely surreal.", Munk explains. Extreme Music is powered by A-List talent including Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer, Snoop Dogg, deadmau5, Ice-T, Sir George Martin, Atticus Ross, Tina Guo, Ramin Djawadi, Harry Gregson-Williams, Michael Giacchino, Timbaland, James S. Levine, Xzibit, and Junkie XL.

Additionally, the smart sleep device company Hatch contracted Duane to create an entire custom channel for their product. Munk recorded over 10 hours of exclusive original content, that follows specific scientific methodology to help users wind down, sleep, and wake up feeling refreshed. Hatch is the second company Munk has worked with to help restless souls reach an optimal sleep state. His previous engagement composing for the Bose Sleepbud II helped inform compositional and sound design choices, specially designed for the task.

Munk Duane has appeared in major press including a feature in Billboard Magazine, as well as The Hollywood Reporter and The Boston Globe. He has been a guest lecturer for the Professional Development Seminar at his alma mater Berklee College of Music.

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