Rami Nakhleh

Having been brought up in several different cultures has allowed Rami to gain the advantage of mixing for various types of ethnic, commercial and independent musical styles. With the sounds of the 70's and 80's synth pop, his taste for electronic music was nurtured at a young age by a mentor that played a big role in shaping Rami's musical career.

His early teens saw the exploration of sonic masterpieces that were now the driving force behind a well established underground electronic scene. Journeying into the production of electronic music came after a number of years as a DJ, and the piano skills acquired in his early years later translated into well refined keyboard techniques covering various genres, as well as an in depth knowledge of music theory. Aside from the keys, Rami has also been a percussionist for 12 years.

As the building blocks of electronic production were being realized in his earliest works, his knowledge and career in audio engineering, synthesis and programming began to grow. Finally, after much encouragement from his longtime mentor, he attained a professional degree from Full Sail University. Since then Rami has produced several dance based songs, contributed to many more, and has mixed and mastered numerous artists and several albums.

Lucas Orion

Lucas was born in Seattle, Washington into a musical family. Having been exposed to singing and playing music in his early years, he went on to join various choirs as a means of training his voice and ear. In high school, an amplified jazz ensemble introduced Lucas to the engineering side of music. His musical tastes had always been diverse, and over the years he has developed a love for hip hop, electronica and hippie jam-bands which eventually led him to pursue DJing, before making his way into production.

Indeed, he was not just hearing into the sound’s emotional and tonal aspects, but on a deeper level how the sound was composed. What elements a certain sound was constructed from, it’s audible harmonics, and its stereo width, were all curiosities that encouraged Lucas to attain a professional career in the industry.

He studied MIDI production as well as studio recording courses at a college in Eugene Oregon before heading to Full Sail to obtain his degree in Audio Engineering. Shortly after completing his courses of study at Full Sail, Lucas began working at a commercial audio post-production studio in downtown San Francisco. On his off hours he records and mixes at his home studio, as well as consults with artists on preparing material for both copyright registration and contract negotiation.

Joseph Popiolek

In 1992, Joseph S Popiolek began his musical career. He joined one of Detroit’s first Industrial music acts, IEC, as the live percussionist, and from there learned the ins and outs of MIDI programming. The band IEC also was deeply into recording technology, recording and producing all of their releases, on Tape decks and Portastudios to ADATS and Minidisk recorders, and thus introduced Joseph to the recording engineer process at the IEC "Gateway Studios".

On into the mid-1990’s, Joseph lent his musical and engineering skills to a number of bands, then finally becoming a full time member of electro-rock group Esion. Also in 1998 came the Detroit Music Awards "Best Industrial Performance" for the band Backspace (formally IEC) for the Album "Terrorforming". That year also saw the start of Joseph’s first side projects Thirty Millimeter and Echo1 with which He wrote music for the release of the new Ford Focus in 2000.

On the engineering side it was at this point He started with DAW recording with the early versions of Cakewalk and Acid. Then moving onto Nuendo and then to Protools, and building a home studio around the PC.

In 2000 and 2001 came the back to back nominations at the Detroit Music Awards for "Best Industrial Performance" for the Esion album "Pull". 2002 after ten years with Backspace (IEC) and four years with Esion, Joseph Left to become a full time student and pursue engineering, and then started Echo Engineering and Sound.

Working as a live sound and recording engineer for many bands, including his former bands, Joseph worked his way through college receiving a Music Production Certification from Washtenaw Community College’s nationally acclaimed recording program and then an Associates of Science in recording Arts from Full Sail.

His project Echo1 scored the independent film "City on a Hill" and the video game "Dungeon of Glory" in 2006, and a new musical project Eustress started in 2005 released its first album "Design to Fail" in 2007.

Immediately after graduation Joseph began engineering for The Brookwood Studio in Ann Arbor Michigan, recording live performances of the University of Michigan, Eastern University of Michigan, and Ann Arbor Symphonies, in addition to Michigan Marching Bands and Theater productions and others. He also works as a stage hand in the Washtenaw Community College’s Living Legend series and continuing on with Echo Engineering and Sound.

"When engineering, I like to be transparent, like a window, through the window you see the artist and the production is the glass, it should be crystal clear so you see the artist not the production. The window frame is the mixing, it puts the artist into context and gives the listener focus to where their attention should be directed".