A Look at Circus Brown’s Not a Side Show

As you all might know, I am the sound engineer for Circus Brown’s Not a Side Show every Saturday Night on KRCL 90.9FM radio based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I started working with Circus Brown a little over a year and a half ago when I was introduced to him by Matt Mateus: the man who invigorated purpose into my life by inspiring and teaching me the principles and practices of sound engineering. And so, I owe my entire careers success and future success to Matt. In fact, many of the principles he instilled in me have directly resulted in the creation of this website. He always taught that sound engineering practices should be past on from one generation to the next.

While I seemingly veered off subject, I couldn’t have been more on subject. Circus Brown is a radio dj that is directed connected to Salt Lake City’s local music scene, and furthermore one of the only radio dj’s in SLC that uses his connections to properly represent the local music scene. Circus Brown has been a radio dj for 6 years now with KRCL, undoubtedly changing the dynamics of the music scene in Salt Lake City.

Since 2002, he has been blogging about life in Salt Lake City, the local music scene, and his radio show. And with his latest addition “Circus Brown’s Podcast Central” you can subscribe to his podcasts and receive his entire shows and interviews via rss.

If you don’t have an rss reader, or are new to rss feeds and readers, I highly recommend using Google Reader to subscribe to your rss feeds. It works like a charm, uses your Google account (if you have a gmail account for instance), you can view/download music and video files straight from the reader, and if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch it couldn’t work better.

Now, last but not least Muscle Hawk played on the show last Saturday and I must say it was an amazing experience. They came in around 9:30pm and started setting up all their equipment. Lindsey on the drums, Josh on a beautiful Analog Moog Little Phatty Synthesizer and bass, and Greg on an M-Audio Axiom 49 key midi controller, Ableton Live 7, and a very versatile Korg Zero 8 digital mixer that glued everything together.

Here’s Circus Brown’s Blog Post for the entire radio show featuring Muscle Hawk live:

New “Circus Brown’s Not a Side Show” Podcast

Saturday night Connery and I were visited by a very special holiday bird, Muscle Hawk.

Another great show with plenty of new music plus some Queen, Cars, Dr. Hook, Randy Newman, Wire, you know all the classics needed to keep a cold winter night cozy.

New podcast is up for your enjoyment, and you can also check out Muscle Hawk live next year a few dates are listed on their myspace.

In my opinion they have nearly perfected their musical sound, and when I spoke to them about how they achieved their sound Greg replied, “It took a long time to get to this point, but I finally feel like we’ve achieved the sound we’ve been striving to get all these months”.

I for one thoroughly enjoyed meeting and recording Muscle Hawk and I hope Circus Brown will revisit them next year when they have produced some more amazing tunes. As Circus mentioned you can listen to the entire show featuring all six of the songs they played that night. And they have several shows coming up in February and March 2009 so check out their myspace for the specific dates and times.

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