Engineers

DUME41

Dume has been mixing records since 1996, and mastering them since 2005. He specializes in hip hop and contemporary music and is also Creative Director of the record label Fresh Chopped Beats and has released dozens of albums commercially. 

Contact: dume41@freshchoppedbeats.com
Mastering: www.legionofdume.com

K STIELL

If James Bond is the man with the “Golden Gun”, then Kris-Stiell is the man with the “Golden Ears”. Born in the West Indies, growing up on the East Coast, and finally residing in the Northwest, Kris-Stiell attended the Art Institute of Seattle long enough to figure out that to be Seattle’s TOP Hip-Hop engineer, he had to leave one way of “higher learning” for another. That said, he became an apprentice to Seattle veteran super producer – Vitamin D and subsequently current manager of The Pharmacy Recording Studio. Kris-Stiell since then has recorded tracks for countless Seattle artists, and nationally has recorded with such artists as Philadelphia Freeway, Ras Kass, members of Slum Village, Blackalicious, Gang Starr Foundation, Jurassic 5 and more. As you can see – he has provided to be one of the Northwest’s hardest working Hip-Hop engineers and an essential part of any production studio.

Contact: kstiellinc@gmail.com

OC NOTES

OCnotes records as a solo entity, but also as one-half of Metal Chocolates (a collaboration with rapper Rik Rude), one-third of Indian Agent (a collaboration with Nicholas Galanin & Zak Dylan Wass), Founder of the now dead Freekazoidz, one-quarter of Knife Knights (A collaboration with Erik Blood, Ishmael Butler, & Marquetta Miller), and is a member of the Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces‘ universe).  He also works currently as a live visual artist & musical collaborator with Shabazz Palaces. 

Over the years, he has released over 50 albums, mix tapes and EP’s.  He continues to learn new crafts while pushing the boundaries of creation. OCnotes is known for his wildly unpredictable and consistently on-point DJ sets, which could be considered snapshots of his comprehensive appetite for original sounds. 

Get lost in his music or listen to his radio show, “Sunday Soul” every Sunday from 6-9pm in Seattle Washington on 90.3 KEXP FM, streaming worldwide on KEXP.ORG

If James Bond is the man with the “Golden Gun”, then Kris-Stiell is the man with the “Golden Ears”. Born in the West Indies, growing up on the East Coast, and finally residing in the Northwest, Kris-Stiell attended the Art Institute of Seattle long enough to figure out that to be Seattle’s TOP Hip-Hop engineer, he had to leave one way of “higher learning” for another. That said, he became an apprentice to Seattle veteran super producer – Vitamin D and subsequently current manager of The Pharmacy Recording Studio. Kris-Stiell since then has recorded tracks for countless Seattle artists, and nationally has recorded with such artists as Philadelphia Freeway, Ras Kass, members of Slum Village, Blackalicious, Gang Starr Foundation, Jurassic 5 and more. As you can see – he has provided to be one of the Northwest’s hardest working Hip-Hop engineers and an essential part of any production studio.

Contact: ocnotes@gmail.com

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