Welcome to SlamCast, where your hosts Neil and Brea chat with creatives about their process and how they navigate the grind of promoting themselves. This week they sit down with Mickey Breeze, a highly accomplished DJ, artist, and educator.

We get into the origin story of Breeze to learn how his family support and their background led him to being a DJ at the age of 10. We chat about what keeps him motivated as an independent artist.

We also get behind the scene tips about Breeze’s performance setup. It’s a mixture between Ableton and Serato. In a seamless combination of both of these softwares he uses Rane Twelve turn tables with a 72 mixer to send digital signals to his computer. He also incorporates a Midi Fighter 64 using midi clips from Ableton.

Lastly, Mickey Breeze gives us his top tips and tricks to be a “successful” artist on social media and in real life. He tells the audience to expose as much of the process as you can. People want the whole package. Listen to the full episode to find out more!

Welcome to SlamCast, where your hosts Neil and Brea chat with creatives about their process and how they navigate the grind of promoting themselves. This week they sit down with Stefon Bionik Taylor. He is a composer, producer, & multi-instrumentalist from the Twin Cities who strives to contribute to the community through creation, collaboration, and teaching.

Like the part-human, part-machine allusions of his nickname, Bionik is at one in both acoustic and electronic realms. Bionik has composed, arranged, and collaborated on countless records with classic and contemporary artists ranging from Lizzo to Phil Collins.

In this episode of SlamCast, Bionik gives us a run down of his start into music production in the Early 90’s. We get into his inspiration to switch from Pro Tools to Ableton production and how it lead him to Slam Academy. We talk about his career as a whole and how creativity comes in seasons. Following these cycles in your own growth is a crucial part to enjoying the process and flowing naturally through it. We also talk about the progression of technology and promotion. Bionik’s key advice is to never get stuck in one lane. Always evolve & put your work out there for people to hear. You’ll be happy you’ve left yourself a trail of progress breadcrumbs for future you to look back on.

Welcome to the first episode of Slamcast, where your hosts Neil and Brea chat with creatives about their process and how they navigate the grind of promoting themselves. This week they sit down with James Patrick, the owner and co-founder of Slam Academy. He is also a sound artist, music producer, and educator. He has been creating original electronic music and preforming live since the 1990s.

We get into the background story of Slam Academy and how it’s success in the industry helps foster growth for musicians at any stage of their career. Slam Academy was made for playing and having fun. JP believes this is the fastest way to growth and “success”. We also dive into sound system culture and how connecting with humans on a vibrational level is so essential to relationships. We discuss the connection to musicians and people on some sort of spectrum. Slam Academy has helped countless non-traditional learners find their own journey down a non-traditional path. We chat about finding happiness alongside of the “grind” and how important it is to find your third space. For majority of the staff & students at Slam, this third space is music.