Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with JON SOLO

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"Jon Solo began playing the piano at four years old. In his youth he went on to become a top ten finalist in The International Young Keyboard Artist Competition, and a regular cast member of the television show Music Magic, which was regionally broadcast and filmed in Seattle.

Solo was awarded a scholarship from Cornish College of the Arts where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Piano. He moved to New York and began cutting his teeth playing in renowned Jazz Clubs throughout the city. In the last 11 years he’s been a regular band member for Angus and Julia Stone, Brett Dennen, Passenger, and Dope Lemon, playing sold out world tours and major music festivals, such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, Governor’s Ball, Outside Lands, Hang Out Festival, Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot, Osheaga Festival (Canada), Rock Werchter (Belgium), Pink Pop (Netherlands), Hurricane Festival (Germany), Montreaux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) Falls Festival (Australia), and many others.

Other career highlights include national television performances on The Dave Letterman Show, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Good Morning America, and The CBS Morning Show.

In 2017, Jon Solo created Naneum, an ambient-piano based project. Since then, he’s released four full length albums and one EP. He was recently featured on NPR’s regularly broadcasted Echoes with John Diliberto, playing a live concert and interview. In 2018 he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and licensed a song to Apple, which is on the iOS in the photo memories section.

We chatted with Jon on how he uses the Prophet-6 in his music"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with JOSIE PACE & KEN ROBERTS

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"As the saturated synths rise behind the lyrics “Just take your stamp off my design” in Josie Pace’s driving single, “Battleground” we immediately understand this is not an artist who is weak when abandoned. Instead, this Detroit artist’s music represents a piece of her solitude. The blistering glow of downtempo post-industrial beats, electro-pop melodies and layered soundscapes are home to Josie’s captivating lyrics; she is a songwriter in the purest sense. The result is a pulsating sound that will haunt you with vulnerability while basking in Josie’s world of self-reflection and unapologetic rock and roll attitude that Detroit is legendary for.

When musician and producer Ken Roberts saw an acoustic performance of Josie he was blown away. The raw and intimate performance captured the one thing all songwriters strive to achieve: believability. The two started working together with Josie’s songs as the foundation. As an accomplished guitar player, Josie molds and refines her songs acoustically only to tear them apart and rebuild them with Roberts’ grinding synths, unique production style, and the addition of Mark Damian’s live drums. Songs quickly formed into a unique sound that pull from the likes of Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails yet contain a high-art fashion swagger as if you just bumped into David Bowie at a Halston Party.

From the beginning, the style and the art of the music are just as important as the melody and beat. Josie’s first music video Torn introduced audiences to her unique brand of electronic rock and visual artistry. That theme continues with the videos for Battleground, NO, My Mistake, Lies of the Lovers and Fire where fashion and desolation hold hands with Josie’s in-your-face performance. Perfect Replacement would follow featuring a collaboration with another fierce female, Sammi Doll (IAMX). Josie carries the same commitment of style and artistry to her high-energy live performances having shared the stage with Tim Skold (Marilyn Manson, KMFDM) Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Architect), Powerman 5000, Stabbing Westward, and <PIG> along with successful headlining shows in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles.

We chatted with Josie and Ken on how they have been using Sequential instruments in their music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with

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"Dennis Guevara was born in Trenton, New Jersey and began his musical studies in piano at the Boys Harbor Conservatory of Music. He later graduated from Mercer County Community College, and the City College of New York with a degree in Music Performance, and Point Blank Music School for Mixing and Mastering. Guevara has performed with various Jazz, Latin Jazz, World Music, and Salsa artists and is also a runner-up winner for NAMM’s Coverband 2011. He worked as Artistic Director at AMLA Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia, and was invited to teach at The Kimmel Center of Performing Arts as Bandmaster for the Summer Jazz Camp. Dennis currently works as Musical Director for Grammy Award winning Pablo Batista’s Latin Jazz Ensemble and World Music artist Nina Rodriguez.

We chatted with Dennis on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with EMERIC ZUBAR – BLAKE

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"Emeric Zubar (artist name BLAKE.) has been a Hip Hop/Soul and electronic music producer for the past 20 years. With a varied discography, Emeric has built quite a catalog in the music scene with instrumental albums used by international TV shows such as So You Think You Can Dance, Dance On, 4 Weddings and 1 Honeymoon, and YAK FILMS.

In 2016, Emeric founded DRIVENSOUNDS, a sound design and music producing company. With DRIVENSOUNDS, Emeric collaborates with a large number of labels, artists, and companies in the music business to create compositions, music demos, and create sound design presets and sound packs for Native Instruments, Sounds.com, Presonus, Arturia, Loopmasters, and Applied Acoustics Systems.

We chatted with Emeric on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with DREEK BEATZ

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"Music producer Dreek Beatz based out of Atlanta, is the brainchild and sole producer behind Pushing Keys Music Productions LLC.

Dreek has produced for artist such as: Skrillex, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Plies and Don Tolliver to name a few. In addition, his work has been featured on the movie soundtrack Suicide Squad.

We chatted with Dreek on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."


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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with TAKAHIRO IZUMIKAWA

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"Takahiro Izumikawa is a highly sought-after pianist, keyboardist, arranger, and producer born and raised in Japan. His style has its roots in jazz but incorporates hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and traditional Japanese melodies. He released his first piano solo album in 2014, which was sponsored by Kawai Musical Instruments. He moved to New York City later that year to further his music career. Since then, he has worked with well-known hip hop artists such as Smif&Wessun, Kool Keith, Black Moon, and Smoke DZA. He has also worked with Grammy Award winning musicians Maurice Brown (trumpet player for Anderson .Paak), Jermaine Holmes (vocalist for D’Angelo), Daru Jones (drummer), Mononeon (bassist), Marcus Machado (guitarist), and Timothy Bloom (vocalist).

In 2016, he performed with Takuya Kuroda, a notable trumpet player who debuted through Blue Note Records at the Blue Note Jazz Festival, which was headlined by Earth Wind and Fire, George Benson, and Marcus Miller. In 2017, he arranged all the tracks on “Hard Times,” an album by alto saxophonist and jazz giant Vincent Herring.

Takahiro’s latest album Life is Your Thoughts was released from major label Ropeadope in the United States on April 10th, 2020.

We chatted with Takahiro on how he uses the Prophet-6 in his music"
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Update: moved this up as I initially missed the link to the interview. Apologies for that!  Thanks to popman in the comments for catching it.

Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with BEN ANDREW

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"Ben Andrew is a concert pianist, composer, arranger, graphic designer, and app creator. He studied at Trinity College of Music, London, under renowned British concert pianist and pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus, John Bingham, and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where he studied under Jenõ Jandó.

He has given numerous solo recitals both in the UK, Eastern Europe, and East Asia at venues including St Martin in the Fields in London, The Pump Room in Bath, and Óbudai Társaskör, Budapest. Ben also has an extensive concerto repertoire and notable performances include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Rachmaninov’s 2nd and 3rd Piano Concerto to name a few. In 2013, he performed the music of Hollywood film composer Harry Gregson-Williams at St John’s Smith Square, London under the baton of the composer himself.

Ben’s original songs have been played on BBC radio and in 2019, a song he co-wrote with his band Collingwood called “Not in My Name” led to an interview on LBC, one of the UK’s leading radio stations. He is also a Hal Leonard author and he recently released a book on music theory as well as an arrangement of “Hatikvah” for violin and piano, which currently features on the ABRSM and Trinity violin syllabus.

Ben’s band Collingwood has been the support act for musicians including Roger Hodson, founder of Supertramp, and Tony Hadley, the founder of Spandau Ballet. In January 2020, Ben performed with Rick Wakeman and Bernie Marsden as part of a Beatles tribute concert in Buckingham, England.

Ben is also the artistic creator of two iOS apps, ScaleTracks and ScaleTracks JAM, which aim to make scales and arpeggios an enjoyable and, most importantly, musical experience. ScaleTracks has been a worldwide success and has been endorsed by leading figures in the music industry. ScaleTracks has also received highly positive reviews in BBC Music Magazine, The Strad, and Music Teacher Magazine among others.

Ben is Head of Keyboard at Stowe School, England where he leads a strong team of piano teachers.

We chatted with Ben on how he uses the Prophet-10 in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with MR.PHARMACIST (AKA GREGG FOREMAN)

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"Mr.Pharmacist (aka Gregg Foreman), is a multi-instrumentalist musician residing in Los Angeles. He has been playing music for decades alongside of artists like: Cat Power, The Gossip, Beth Ditto, James Williamson (of the Stooges), Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega (Suicide), Martin Rev (Suicide), Jesse Malin, Lucinda Williams, Linda Perry, Toody (Dead Moon), Peter Buck (REM) David J (Bauhaus), Pink Mountaintops, The Delta 72, and is currently Band Leader and key synth player for Kat Von D.

Gregg has been using Sequential instruments since he was a kid — his relationship with Sequential started when he bought a second-hand TOM drum machine. Mr.Pharmacist refers to his style and genre as “Moth,” referring to being one part Mod and one part Goth. He draws his influences from the soundtrack music of Blade Runner and John Carpenter, and the post-punk sounds of Suicide, Fad Gadget, and Cabaret Votaire.

We chatted with Gregg on how he’s using the Rev2, Prophet X, and OB-6 in his recordings"
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with NICOLAS VELASQUEZ

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"Nicolas Velasquez is an artist and producer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Falling in love with synthesizers about three years ago (about the same time he started producing music), Nicolas tries to enhance the organic capabilities that synthesizers possess.

His debut album Den stora kölden – Musik inspirerad av Trollvinter is an instrumental interpretation of the book ”Moominland Midwinter” by Tove Jansson.

We chatted with Nicholas about how he uses the Prophet Rev2 in his music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with SHAI YALLIN

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"Shai Yallin is a cross-genre keyboard player, composer and producer from Tel Aviv, Israel. Combining influences from his roots in proto-electronic music and progressive rock, he has been making music in his home studio and with bands since the early 2000s. His past work includes keyboards, arrangement and engineering with progressive rock band Solstice Coil, and composition, keyboards, arrangements and engineering with electo rock project Salvya. Currently Shai is active as a solo electronic music artist under the moniker electricmonk, as well as handling keyboards and arrangement duties with Subterranean Masquerade.

We chatted with Shai on how he uses the Prophet Rev2 in his music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with MARKUS LANGE

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"Ostblockschlampen, also known as Eastblock Bitches, are a German DJ and producer duo consisting of Sophie Schaefer and Markus Lange, which has existed and been active since 2009. Their music is a mix of Bass House, EDM, Trap and Moombahton, and their releases have reached over 20,000,000 streams.

Markus Lange has been a producer since 2003 and has released on labels such as Great Stuff Records. Sophie Schäfer has also worked as a DJ and producer since 2007.


We chatted with Markus on how he’s been using Sequential instruments in their productions."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with VICTOR ATANASOV

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"Behind the music of Frenzy Jones and Dope Buzz is Victor Atanasov. Victor has been involved with the electronic music scene for more than a decade and has worked with the likes of the featured female vocalist on Prodigy’s hit single Smack My Bitch Up, as well as with Prodigy’s engineer. Victor’s music has been played numerous times on the biggest radios such as BBC Radio 1, Kiss 100 among others with great feedback from some respectable names in the music scene and business. In the recent years Victor has experimented with new sounds and genres with synthesizers and drum machines. We chatted with Victor on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with CHRIS HALL

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"Chris Hall sings and writes music for the electronic rock band Stabbing Westward. They have had 2 Gold Records from 1996-2000 and continue to record new music and tour.

We chatted with Chris on how he’s been using Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with DAVID JOSEPH WESLEY

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"David Joseph Wesley is a Grammy Award nominated composer based in Los Angeles, working in film, TV, and video games. You may have recently heard his music on several network TV, cable and Netflix series such as James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, Chicago Fire, Veep, Saturday Night Live, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Santa Clarita Diet, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, as well as many trailers and commercials including Toy Story 4, Incredibles 2, Hotel Transylvania, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Dave was also fortunate to work with composer Ron Jones on the music for several seasons of Family Guy, which also enabled him to work with the largest live orchestra in television history. One of his favorite projects is his work on the music for “Firefly Online,” the video game based on Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking Firefly TV series. Although the game was never completed, he released his music for the game via the album Music To Smuggle By in 2018 as a tribute to the fans and to keep the Firefly spirit alive.

Dave finds inspiration for his music everywhere. An avid astronomer, his love of space led to two albums, several singles and multiple YouTube jam sessions about the cosmos and space-phenomena. In 2019, he released the album, Cassini, as a tribute to the NASA Cassini mission to Saturn, written entirely on the Prophet-6. And in 2017, in collaboration with NASA, Dave wrote an album for the solar eclipse titled Syzygy, also created entirely on the Prophet-6. Similarly, his obsession with synthesizers and the 80s naturally led to his “Pumpkin Patches” albums of synth-based music inspired by 70s and 80s horror as well as synthwave music released under the name “Parsec.”

We chatted with David on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with PETER JAMES

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"Peter James is a Keyboardist, Producer, and Sound Designer out of Sydney Australia.

He’s been heavily involved with a number of influential bands over the years, the most well known of these being Hillsong United & Hillsong Worship. Some of his greater achievements include programming keys and arranging strings on an Grammy Award-Winning song “What A Beautiful Name” as well as producing an album that was nominated for a Latin Grammy just recently, “Habla Sobre Mi.”

He’s also well known for his sound design work and has had his presets featured on many albums and TV programs such as HBO’s The Walking Dead, Murder One, Good Girls, and other popular Australian TV shows.

We chatted with Peter on how he’s been using Sequential instruments in his music"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with DOMi

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"Keyboardist Domi Louna is the youngest woman sponsored by the world’s top keyboard innovators, and graduated from Berklee College of Music under a full Presidential Scholarship in 2020.

Collaborating with drummer JD Beck, their sound is a future-sonic meeting of jazz, hip-hop breakbeats, luscious synth harms, and up-tempo virtuosity. The duo have become one of the internet’s viral addictions, attracting interest from people all over the world.

DOMi & JD have performed with Thundercat, Anderson .Paak, Eric Andre, Jon Bap, MonoNeon, Louis Cole and many others. Their virtuosic live show has been seen at Newport Jazz Festival, Brixton Academy opening for Cinematic Orchestra, Blue Note NYC presented by Robert Glasper featuring MonoNeon to The Root’s Annual Picnic. Celebrated as one of the most exciting young forces to the future-sonic-jazz movement, DOMi & JD Beck are soon to release their first debut album in 2021.

We chatted with Domi about how she uses Sequential instruments in her music"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with Julian Cisneros

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"Julian Cisneros is a film composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for taking the traditional orchestra and unifying its versatility with arrays of analog synthesis and organic texture. The result is a continuously evolving sound that integrates with his various projects.

In 2020, Julian launched a licensing site featuring his diverse catalog of commissions from some of the worlds top studios and brands. Some of his clients include RED Digital Cinema, National Geographic, Disney, Lucasfilm, Honda, Filson, Black Diamond, Mitsubishi, OceanX, Vizio, Prana and many more.

Based in sunny Orange County, California, Julian continues to innovate and collaborate with filmmakers all over the world.

We chatted with Julian on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with GENE PAUL GAYOL

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"Gene Paul Gayol is a songwriter, composer, producer, keyboardist and has participated in Latin Grammy & Golden Globe winning projects. He has also performed or recorded with Platinum & Grammy award-winning recording artists. More recently GP’s keyboards can be heard in the Disney film Encanto.

Avenoir, a band made together with his friends during the pandemic, released their debut record New Year’s Day 2022 and features the Prophet-6 & vintage Prophet-5 synthesizers.

We chatted with GP on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with HENNING NEIDHARDT

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"Henning Neidhardt is a German pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Owing to his jazz piano studies in the Netherlands, as well as at the Folkwang University Of The Arts in Essen, he is mostly active in and around Cologne, the Ruhr area, and Amsterdam. In addition to live performance, he is also composing soundtracks for short films, as well as producing his own ambient music. Henning was awarded the “Steinway & Sons Advancement Awards Jazz” in 2018.

We chatted with Henning on how he’s been using Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with MATTHEW S

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"Matthew S (aka Matteo Scapin) is an Italian-based electronic music producer who has been releasing music since 2009. Matteo teaches Ableton Live music sequencing software courses at the Istituto Musicale Veneto di Thiene, and also teaches at Pantarhei in Vicenza. He collaborates as a sound designer with Gruppo L’Espresso and Gruppo Magnolia, a TV production leader in creating new entertainment formats that include different genres.

In 2020 he released the single Daydream (for INRI Classic) in collaboration with accordionist Pietro Roffi and pianist Gian Marco Castro. The piece was written during the coronavirus quarantine.

We chatted with Matteo on how he’s been using Sequential instruments in his music.

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