Today we’d like to introduce you to Jason Burt.
Jason, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I’m born and raised in Dallas, grew up in the church and didn’t start playing music until I was 16, got my first paying music gig at a church like most of my peers. Brad Nyght (Gungor, music bed,) and Nick Jay (Jonathon Tyler and the northern lights, LIVE) were the first to let me rummage through their studios as they worked and still are my mentors in music.
It was later I found Modern Electric Sound Recorders which is where my career really began. I sat behind Beau Bedford (Texas gentlemen, Jonathon Tyler, and the northern lights, Paul Cauthen) and Jeff Saenz for years and learned about recording and started to get to know the Dallas rock scene. Through those years I was able to be a part of a lot of great records as an engineer, or mix engineer maybe even play guitar or bass on some of the records, but that wasn’t enough for me I wanted to be at the helm and show what I could do.
My first full-length album was The Dead Flowers second full-length album, and I cut it in dripping springs with Nick Jay in 5 days with a pretty small budget. It was a great learning experience, and we made a solid record that was in 2015… Since then I’ve cut over 300 songs with anyone from the likes of Bobby sessions to Leon bridges, I’ve had the opportunity to play with everyone from Charley Crockette to The Roomsounds.
In 2017, I started a band with Keite Yound who already had a solid foundation in the Dallas music scene but we weren’t aware of what would happen next… we put together a set of material that would later really help merge the Dallas R&B hip-hop scene (Rc & the Gritz, Friday’s foolery, funky knuckles) with Dallas’ rock scene (Paul Cauthen, the Texas gentlemen, etc.) Something we are super proud of…
Joining together these incomparable musicians first in the studio (modern electric) than out on to the stages and world. I’ve seen a lot of great growth in myself and the players I chose to put on records in the last two years and hope that the curve is only at the beginning because we are capable of anything and with a family like this I expect major things to happen here in Dallas really soon.
Currently, working on my own album called “everything’s phunck’d” with the artist (Sarah Jaffe, David Ramirez, Leon bridges, Keite Young, Charley Crockette) and hope to release some of that before the end of the year.
Look for it and Medicine Man Revival on Spotify.
Has it been a smooth road?
As smooth as a road can be for someone making about 15,000 a year trying to make music work. Being creative is one of the hardest things on the planet, to balance creative emotions with unsteady income is basically the demise of all beginning artist. You gotta be willing to eat dirt for fun.
We’d love to hear more about what you do.
I’m known for taking chances. Being too honest, working maybe too much. Our music just sounds different… I really want the music we (me and who in creating with) make together to be nostalgic of the past with notes of the future… and that just takes time to do well.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
I’ve been listening to Bobby Sessions (def jam) preach about the power of seeing the future and believing it, so I’m gonna go on a limb here and say in 5 years things are gonna be WAY different for anyone who lives under the Modern Electric Roof. Grammys and gold records to boot. Amen
Contact Info:
- Website: Modernelectricsoundrecorders.com
- Email: electrophunck@gmail.com
- Instagram: Electrophunck
Image Credit:
Cal Quinn, Rico Deleon
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