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6.12.2012 - Ziggy Marley "Can You Feel It" single free download:
I played drums on the new Ziggy Marley single "Can You Feel It", a great track with Linda Perry, Chuck D, and many other talented people. It's available as a free download
Ziggy Marley - Rhythm and Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals
Linda Perry - Piano, Organ, Guitar, Vocals
Chuck D - Rap
Gilby Clarke - Guitar
Guy Erez - Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Jon Mattox - Drums
Rock - Percussion
Kevin Dippold - Guitar, Flute, Keys
Jessy Greene - Violin
Bryan Schaefer - Trumpet
Craig Fundyga - Marimba, Steel Drums
Background Vocals - MC Lyte, Christa Collins, Linda Strawberry, Lauren Christy, Becky Henkel, Greg Dulli, Octavius Johnson, Djin Aquarian
Produced by Kerry Brown
Engineer - Kevin Dippold
Mastered by Brian Lucey
5.11.2012 - Website Updates:
Created a reel page , and a videos page . It's been a crazy busy year so far. More to tell soon.
2.9.2012 - "Let's Get Moving" now available on iTunes.
"Let's Get Moving" is my debut album of eclectic upbeat instrumentals for my film/tv work. It's a bit on the lighter side especially compared to the bombastic 'drums of death and destruction' that I've become known for.
You can listen to the tracks below via soundcloud, but if you would like to take them with you, please visit the
iTunes page
2.5.2012 - Recent theatrical trailer placements:
My work was used in trailers for "The Artist", "Think Like A Man", "The Grey" and "Shark Night 3D" trailers.
1.18.2012 - Updates and new sounds at my music page
1.12.2012 - Video for "Crazy Day" by Palco:
I've been recording and producing music by Palco in my studio recently. Here's a cute video with footage from those sessions:
12.22.2011 - Video for "Our Place" app by Palco:
Here's the first song by Palco that I recorded and produced in my studio. It's the theme song for the "Our Place"
iPhone app"
9.21.2011 - Music & sound design used in "Money Ball", Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt.2" and "Planet of The Apes" trailers.
Some recent new theatrical trailers that used my music or sound design:
8.19.2011 - Music in "Cars 2" and "Margin Call" trailers.
My swing era inspired upbeat track "Dancing Drums" was used in the theatrical trailer for "Cars 2". My songs “Mountain Cycle” and "Radical Red" were both used for the theatrical trailers for "Margin Call".
7.22.2011 - Ribbon Mic Drum Overhead Shootout
Ribbon mic madness! Here's the link to the ribbon mic shootout that Randy Coppinger, Matthew Mcglynn and myself did at my recording studio recently. This mic shootout was for drum overheads:
7.15.2011 - My ever expanding Twitter friends and #FF recommendations list.
Here is an ongoing list of my favorite people on twitter. Please follow them!
I had a great recording session with
@recordinghacks and
@RandyCoppinger doing a massive ribbon mic shootout on drum overheads. This
is a link to the introduction, and the links to our drum overheads session will be arriving shortly.
Once again I was invited by Matt Mcglynn of recordinghacks.com to check out and
review some microphones. I love any excuse to geek out on new recording gear. This time the mics were from Shure, and they were the new line of Beta mics for recording drums. I was able to get my friend (and great engineer/producer) Stan Katayama over to my recording studio and give his impressions with the mics as well.
Here is the review replete with lots of drumming recorded with the new mics, a totally ridiculous room-mic test, mic shootouts, music, and a video too.
The recordinghacks website is a great resource for microphones and many other things related to the art of recording.
5.2.2011 - New music placements in major movie trailers.
Recent trailer music placements include Apollo 18, Pirates Of The Caribbean : On Stranger Tides, Scream 4, and Date Night
4.28.2011 - List of Twitter friends and #FF recommendations.
Here is an ongoing list of my favorite people on twitter. Please follow them!
3.31.2011 - {ARCHIVE] "Galvanic Rush" in DirecTV spot.
Music I did for a 2009 DirecTV spot.
01.13.2011 - My review of JZ DMK1 at recordinghacks.com
I was invited by Matt Mcglynn of recordinghacks.com to check out and
review the DMK1 3 microphone setup for recording drums from JZ, a Latvian based company. I was able
to get my friend Matt Forger over to the recording studio to lend a hand.
Here you will
find the full review with audio examples of my drumming through this micing system, and a shootout
with other microphones.
The recordinghacks website is a great resource for microphones and many other things related to the art of recording.
12.20.2010 - Music for the entire Tangled Trailer.
Trailer for "Tangled" - Found: Rapunzel features my song "Somebody Pinch Me", and upbeat track featuring live drums, percussion, and upright bass:
12.07.2010 - Music in "I Love You Phillip Morris" and "Buried" trailers, and in BURN NOTICE.
My track "Somebody Pinch Me" was used in the theatrical trailer for "I Love You Phillip Morris". "Miss En Garde" was featured in the "Buried" theatrical trailer, and another new new song of mine "Game Over Man" was featured the Burn Notice episode "Eyes Open" (first aired Nov 11 2010) .
09.13.2010 - Halford "Made Of Metal"
Two songs from Halford's new release on Youtube. It's a powerful album, and I'm proud to be a part of Halford's creative team.
07.30.2010 - Dark Ambient Remix of Radiohead's "Nude"
This remix was featured on the Radiohead remix website for the single "Nude"
07.20.2010 - "Double Trouble" featured in "Burn Notice"
A new song of mine "Double Trouble" was featured in episode #406 of Burn Notice. It's an electic bass heavy track with lots of harmonic echoes, hand percussion, and some airy synthesizer. You can read more about the music featured in Burn Notice here
07.02.2010 - Music placements in Inception & Diary Of A Wimpy Kid trailers.
07.01.2010 - YouTube video "A Quiet Groove":
An experiment replacing the snare with a 14" floor tom, and no proper high hat. I often get inspired by different setups, and mixing things up a bit. This groove appeared soon after setting up a 26" Gothic Radius cymbal which compliments the toms.
05.04.2010 - Music placements in Losers trailer
The trailer for "Losers", featured some of my percussion music.
05.02.2010 - New music on SoundCloud.
Here are a few of my new trailer cues that I put up over at soundcloud.com
The lighter side of my drumming was heard in episodes 308 & 310 of "Mad Men". These were jazz tracks that I recorded with the great John Fumo!
02.02.2010 - music placements in "Up In The Air", "Brothers", and "Burn Notice"
I recently had music placements in the trailers for "Up In The Air", "Brothers", and the TNT show "Burn Notice". The two songs used in Burn Notice are for an upcoming episode (#316) which airs in March.
11.11.2009 - Bright Orange Studios gallery has been updated
2009 has been a busy time at my recording studio, and I've been fortunate to work with a lot of talented people and projects. A little bit of everything: Film muisc, production music, indie rock, singer/songwriters, country, singlish, a bit of Indian music, and even a heavy metal Christmas album.
I just updated the gallery page at
the web site so check it out. New songs and mixing examples coming soon.
06.17.2009 - Drumming Improvisation on YouTube
I first posted this video on Facebook, and after I received some kind responses there, I thought I might share this improv on YouTube. I recorded it at Bright Orange Studios a short while ago, and it is one of my attempts to make drumming melodic and musical:
06.10.2009 - Phil Gates music video
The video for "Robin Hood, Where Are You Now?"by Phil Gates was just put up on YouTube. A good portion of it was shot at Bright Orange Studios by the G-Man. The song was written by Larry John McNally and produced/mixed by Matt Forger. I played drums on the track, as well as some serious cowbell:
06.02.2009 - New studio drumming samples:
I've updated the drumming section with some recent studio drumming examples.
05.27.2009 - UNI "iv" album now available on iTunes
UNI is an eclectic instrumental music collective which explores diverse musical influences including rock, jazz, world music, film music, and musical soundscapes.
At the core of "iv" by UNI is Jon Mattox, Bill Knight, and Brian Cram with guest performances by John Fumo (horns), Jeff Dellisanti (saxes), and Jim Marcotte (guitars).
I've been writing and developing a new series of music for my film & television work. Recent new music placements in major film trailers include "Fast & Furious", "Fighting", and "Dragonball Evolution".
Bright Orange Studios. has been busy, and I've been working a wide range of projects including Roy Z, Erinn Williams, The Gobshytes, Katapillar, Jason Whitton, Garon Michael, Kosta Lois, Phil Gates, The G-Man, Larry John McNally, & Stephen Day,
UNI's album will be released digitally on iTunes, and many other places in the coming month.
03.02.2009 - updates for 2009!
2009 has been a bit crazed & I've been working on all kinds of new music at Bright Orange Studios. I've recently licensed some of my music for major movie trailers including Gran Torino, My Bloody Valentine 3D, &Traitor..
In the studio, I've recently finished up a bunch of new album projects including the long awaited Uni album, Lahna Turner's comedy music album, Brian Cram's solo album, and many drumming & music production sessions for other artists and projects too.
08.20.2008 - Movie trailer madness!
It is movie trailer madness!
Here is the major movie trailer for Death Race. My percussive bit starts when the Universal logo splashes onscreen.
I've also been working on the international trailers for the amazing foreign film "PVC-1". This is the trailer for Greece which features my percussion piece "Waiting" in its entirety:
05.21.2008 - "Feedback" audio comic book by Stan Lee
I just finished working on the audio comic book "Feedback" written by Stan Lee (Dark Horse Comics). The superhero himself was in Bright Orange Studios where we did the mixing, and I placed some original music, and contributed sound design as well. Here's a bit from the official press release:
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), the nation's largest educational audiobook library, has released its first audio comic book, Stan Lee's ''Who Wants to Be a Superhero?'' published by Dark Horse Comics. Lee, the world-famous co-creator of ''Spider-Man™,'' ''Iron Man™,'' ''X-Men™,'' ''Fantastic Four™'' and ''The Incredible Hulk™,'' among others, penned the comic book, which features the superhero ''Feedback.'' The ''Feedback'' character, created by Matthew Atherton and his wife Sarah Blevins, was the winner of Sci-Fi Channel's season one hit show, ''Who Wants to Be a Superhero?'' Atherton, an RFB&D volunteer, together with Lee, helped record the
audiobook at RFB&D's Hollywood recording studio. Atherton then enhanced the recording with sound effects and original music, written by Jon Mattox of Bright Orange Studios, located in Los Angeles.
Bright Orange Studios has been busy with all kinds of music projects; modern glam rockers Soho Vamp, country music (Ricky Lewis / Rod Harris), revival blues (Larry John McNally), orchestral rock (Geezer), and UNI has been overdubbing too.
I've written and recorded a new series of hybrid music cues for an upcoming compilation called BAD ASS DRUMS 4.0. I've put a few up here to check out.
01.31.2008 - Roy Z / Butch / Driver @ Bright Orange Studios
The multi talented producer/guitarist/songwriter Roy Z (Judas Priest, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson) was just in at Bright Orange Studios producing drum tracks for the long awaited Driver album. His drummer Reynold "Butch" Carlson came in with his old school metal drum set up replete with an intense china cymbal. We did 3 days of drum tracking and we used some experimental micing techinques including live reamping of the the drums. This gave some of the tracks some interesting color especially on the snare.
This album will rock, and speaking of rock, will also feature Rob Rock on vocals. Roy Z, you rule!
01.05.2008 - Music in the trailer for 21
My piece of music "Radical Red" has been used for the movie trailer of "21". My percussive bit is at the front of the trailer. Watch it here:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/21/
10.22.2007 - Bright Orange updates & Novatunes
Bright Orange Studios has been busier than ever these days recording the likes of The Forth Annual, Larry John McNally, The SG project, Jamila Ford, Heather Stewart (with the great Jonathan Pointer on guitars), Joe Steele as well as Bright Orange Records related albums (mixing the UNI album, mixing Brian Cram's debut album).
Bright Orange Records is proud to announce that both Sue Paine's "Love Should Be Easy" and Simon Lynge's "A Beautiful Way To Drown" were hand picked to be a part of a new music web site called Novatunes. The launch of the site will be happening in late November, and you can find more info at http://www.novatunes.com/
The Bright Orange Records release by Days Between Stations is now available and is getting rave reviews internationally. Jason Quicksall's "My Wiser Side" is available too, and the mastering for Darryl Blood's "Making All Things New" is complete now as well.
10.11.2007 - Movie trailer licensing updates
My percussive piece "No Answer" has been licensed in the new trailer for the upcoming Coen Brothers movie "No Country For Old Men". You can watch it here:
Other recent major licensing includes music in the trailers for "Outlaw", "Hostel 2", and television promos for TNT.
I'm also very excited to be working on the music for the trailer of "PVC-1" the acclaimed film by Spiros Stathoulopoulos. This is a remarkable film that is winning awards internationally. It's an important film for many reasons. The website is http://www.pvc-1themovie.com/ and the new trailer will be finished soon.
