Music Business

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Kristian Riley

Kristian Riley is a Grammy-nominated music producer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He was a founding member of the genre-blending band Citizen King and co-writer of their Top 10 hit “Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out).”Following his success with Citizen King, Riley has worked with artists such as The Promise Ring, Maritime, and Silversun Pickups—serving as engineer on their chart-topping album Swoon. He has done sessions with Tyler the Creator, Frank Ocean and George Clinton among many others. Riley plays guitar for the band Bandie and is the founder of Yardlights records. He produces and mixes all of the band’s recordings at his own Yardlights studio.https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kristian-riley-mn0000320500

Jay-J Hernandez

Jay-J is a Grammy Nominee, a prolific producer andcollaborator spanning over 300 releases, a self-taught studiodemon, inventor and ambassador of the San Francisco sound,an immensely popular and well-travelled DJ, flying over a millionmiles playing clubs all over the world including many of the mostfamous brands like Ministry of Sound and Pacha. He foundedMoulton Studios, the West Coast’s most influential dance musicstudio, had his own Coke® bottle for the 2008 Beijing Olympics,was the DJ for the 2006 MTV® Australia Video Music Awardsand launched two comp series for Defected Records, UK. He’sremixed artists from Alicia Keys, Jill Scott to Joss Stone and hascollaborated with producers from Kaskade to Miguel Migs. Animpressive resume to be sure. More impressive yet is hiscontinuing self-imposed artistic development, which fuels hisceaseless obsession to learn new technical and creativeaspects of his work.Jay-J founded and built Moulton Street Studios in 1998 and in anew location Moulton Studios from 2000 to 2005. These studioswere a beehive-busy hit factory providing the public and theindustry with killer music. Their client-list reads like a who’s whoof dance music. Forever a slave to detail, Jay-J’s own studiowas a study in design innovation, aesthetics, coziness, andproduction possibilities encompassing tons of new and vintageoutboard gear and a huge, ready-for-anything digital back end,augmented by a gorgeous live recording room.Jay-J’s incredible production and engineering talents keep himin demand and his recognition in the trade comes from the techside as well as the creative side. Apple, Avid / Digidesign,Sonnox, SOL Republic and others have used his music to demotheir new products, tapped him as a brand ambassador or hadhim lead presentations at industry trade shows like AES, NAMMand the Winter Music Conference.

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