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sylvan esso / made of oak / gxm / rosenau + sanborn / cedar av ๐Ÿ––

Durham, NC
Joined May 2010
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
cancelling spotify and going back to the haunting sound of wind in the forest at night
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Nick Sanborn
6 months
i have died
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
i made it
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Nick Sanborn
25 days
i will be djing after @phish this saturday at mondegreen, what is life
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Mondegreen: A 4-Day Festival
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In the back of the concert field, the towering Heliograph rises into the sky, a retro-futuristic beacon that invites you to ascend its octagonal tower for a panoramic view. Following Phishโ€™s sets, the Heliograph comes to life with late night DJ sets byโ€ฆ
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
the constant mental duality of trying to move forward with your work while also reaching backwards to reclaim parts of your younger, more naive self
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
reminder that every pharma company that has a working vaccine could publish their research and production method so that any able/available labs could start making doses, saving countless lives and preventing a resistant strain from emerging, but they wonโ€™t, because capitalism
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7 years
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Nick Sanborn
4 years
logging back on to this panic attack induction machine to say that my band @SylvanEsso has a new album out today, and iโ€™m overjoyed. amelia is my favorite person on earth and making music with her is the honor of a lifetime. thank you to everyone listening
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
still cannot believe this
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
I, um, got quoted by The Obama Foundation.
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The Obama Foundation
7 years
Music is a "wonderful way to bridge the gaps between people."โ€” @SylvanEsso . Hear "Signal" on our new playlist:
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
my latest appearance on @PhishRadioSXM โ€™s crowd control aired last night, hereโ€™s the selections for the heads:
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
never trust a musician whose studio has great cable management
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
i was about to make a smoothie and amelia yelled โ€œoh go blend your fruits, you sad ass bitchโ€ at me and iโ€™m still laughing
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
canโ€™t wait to drop this album of bangers that will inevitably fill the dancefloor with pensive 30-40 somethings crossing their arms and nodding thoughtfully
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Nick Sanborn
4 years
i played a beat for amelia the other day and she shrugged and said โ€œwell, itโ€™s intellectually interesting, but it definitely doesnโ€™t fuck the pandemicโ€ and i have never felt more accurately burned in my whole life
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
no rules me out now ๐ŸŒฟ
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Nick Sanborn
6 years
ME: what a beautiful night. iโ€™m just going to sit here and quietly watch the sunset BRAIN: ... hey ME: not now BRAIN: ........ok but- ME: please donโ€™t BRAIN: WITH ALL THE PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN YOU KNOW A SEA TURTLE MUST HAVE EATEN A CONDOM BY NOW, HERES A MOCK UP VIDEO I PREPARED
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Nick Sanborn
6 years
woke up horribly depressed about our species, but walking around central park picking up trash and listening to nils frahm is helping. i love you guys.
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
weโ€™re playing kimmel tonight and the other guests are pt anderson and annette bening and does anyone here have a thunder shirt or asthma inhaler i can borrow
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Nick Sanborn
6 years
be sure to check out my new podcast about fish history, Cod Past
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
threw out the first pitch at miller park, they played ferris wheel between innings, and i got a giannis bobblehead, itโ€™s all happening ๐ŸŒฑ
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
iโ€™m playing fretless slap bass on network television tomorrow morning
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
my anxiety today is so intense that i just went to guitar center as a form of self medication and it kinda worked
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
no rules sandy
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
revamped @SylvanEsso live case ๐Ÿฆฆ
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11 months
when i was young all i cared about was drums, then i matured a bit and it was just bass, and now itโ€™s just hi hats. like literally give me ten different ones per track i canโ€™t get enough. be bold make your track all hats itโ€™s 2023 and weโ€™ll all be forgotten after we die who cares
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
i wish there was a world in which voting for democrats wasnโ€™t a constant disappointment, where it didnโ€™t merely feel like holding up a sieve against an unrelenting tide of hatred, greed, and idiocy. fucking do something, you cowards.
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Nick Sanborn
4 years
anyone else having that thing where the idea of continuing in general is sounding less and less cool and the idea of crawling into a playstation and never coming out again is sounding pretty good
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
man we drove from anacotes to seattle last night and blasted yankee hotel foxtrot straight thru and fuck if it didnโ€™t take me right back to the absolute magic of music and being alive again
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
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3 years
A preposterous amount of fireworks going off over Southern California rn
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
sitting outside a hardware store blasting my own music in my 2010 prius
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
I recorded a Mr. Rogers cover for a puppet musical and then Taylor Swift put it on a playlist. My life is weird.
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Taylor Swift
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Songs Iโ€™m loving right now ๐ŸŽถ
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
s/o to the tsa agent who was working the x-ray, squinted into the monitor as my synth went thru, then got a big grin on his face & looked up at me and said โ€œi see you, manโ€
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
playing Modular Synthesizer on daytime tv today
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Nick Sanborn
6 years
just recorded my favorite band, now weโ€™re listening to prince real loud and making matzo ball soup on this beautiful thursday night in america, hug yr friends yโ€™all
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
everyone making records specifically for a dance floor that may never really fully exist again is such a wild, devastating, hopeful practice
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
wake up at 3am in singapore, ramen for breakfast, crate digging, sambal squid for lunch, play a show, watch friends play shows, life rules๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
kill me
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
the outbreak of war as australia burns is giving me a powerful, overwhelming sense of bleak despair and as this site only worsens my mental health, i think i need to not be on here for a while again. be kind to one another and see you in the real world ๐Ÿ––
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
just so i have this straight: they think we *shouldnโ€™t* force anyone to get a life saving vaccine against their will but we *should* force someone to carry to term and then give birth to another human being against their will
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
Apple, 2007: Behold, the iPhone! Welcome to the glorious future! Apple, 2017: for a thousand bucks u can turn ur face in2 the poo emoji lol
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
retooling the @SylvanEsso live case ๐Ÿฆฆ
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
durham is spending $80+ million on a new police headquarters while there's a fucking gofundme page to pay down durham public school's $103k lunch debt. what are we even doing here
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
having my most prolific year of my life and tbh this shit is exhausting
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
just blew into my phones lightning port like it was a nes cartridge
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
All these arguments we're having will be way more exciting when we're having them underwater.
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
i know the pandemic has been hard on us all but i just caught myself legitimately considering becoming a hades speedrunner, please keep me in your prayers during this difficult time โค๏ธ
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
the revolution has more brand partners than i was expecting
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
of the bajillion terrible trends among our species right now, one of the least talked about yet most depressing is the one where people decide to never apologize for anything
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Nick Sanborn
6 years
the best band on earth just announced theyโ€™re releasing a second album, and itโ€™s really really good. i want to send giant internet gratitude to alexandra, molly, and amelia for asking me to be a part of this beautiful and inspiring experience, it was such a joy. ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
*on a first date* ME: (chewing noisily) what's yr least favorite species? DATE: um, wha- ME: (interrupting) mine's Humans
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
david byrne put didnโ€™t care on his valentines playlist, putting my imposter syndrome on hold for approximately 90 whole minutes
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David Byrne
2 years
David Byrne Radio Presents: Music for Valentines! (thoughts + streaming links: )
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Nick Sanborn
8 years
OUT: tattooed outlines of your home state IN: tattooed outlines of your heavily gerrymandered congressional district
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
amelia is out of town and iโ€™m watching the Q doc send help
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
*spends 20 straight minutes trying to make a star trek / holiday crossover joke around the phrase โ€œhollydeckโ€, quietly gives up and eats a bagel*
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
i humbly once again ask the jam band taper scene to start taping @bigthiefmusic shows and putting them on relisten
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
walking around LA sweating profusely listening to a phish podcast, itโ€™s all happening folks
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
the future is now
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
wistfully trying to remember a version of myself that still had the ability to be surprised by this shit
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
god i love milwaukee
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8 years
Let's all try to set a better president for our future.
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
2017: well, itโ€™s between a civil rights lawyer who risked his life to prosecute the KKK for killing children and a guy who may have fucked kids, thinks gays deserve death and waves a gun around while wearing a cowboy costume, so itโ€™ll be close
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
i think my main takeaway from watching like 30 seasons of survivor is that everyone is hotter when they havenโ€™t looked in a mirror for a month
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
while this is primarily a reminder that things that work for famous, very successful people will not work for everybody, itโ€™s also nice to see someone in the former category making moves that elicit this much conversation about sustainability for people in the latter
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
as a person who is literally presenting awards onstage a week from today let me say what the actual fuck
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
itโ€™s cool that emo is coming back, but itโ€™d be even cooler if this time around it wasnโ€™t just a way for incels to rebrand their toxic masculinity
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
hearing unconfirmed reports that phish is playing us during setbreak at msg tonight, this beautiful death dream continues to fold in on itself
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Nick Sanborn
4 months
in honor of the 10 year anniversary of our first record coming out i went back to the original session file and made a instrument rack preset out of the โ€˜blong blongโ€™ sound i made for coffee, download away you nerds
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3 years
youโ€™re not allowed to hate socialism if youโ€™ve ever used a groupon
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
if you donโ€™t have at least four empty beverage containers on your desk are you even a producer
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
checking into a hotel with a ps4 under my arm like itโ€™s my overnight bag
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Nick Sanborn
9 years
this is depressing on so many levels
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
oh my god @flockofdimes has been nominated for best guitar solo of 2021 by @GuitarWorld i am not making this up please go vote for her
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Nick Sanborn
4 years
i honestly canโ€™t remember the last time i looked at this website and left feeling hopeful. can anyone? this is amazing.
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
whoa this sold out in less than 3min - sorry to anyone who didnโ€™t get tix, if you want to come later on iโ€™ll be djing there all night in the main bar - thank you milwaukee ๐Ÿ’™
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
milwaukee: weโ€™re playing my alma mater, cactus club, tomorrow night to benefit @MidwestAccess - get tickets here:
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Nick Sanborn
8 years
He bragged about sexually assaulting women. How is this even a conversation. What the fucking fuck.
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
so full of rage that iโ€™m having imaginary arguments with dead relatives
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
this grammys is reminding me of all the shows on tour where no one shows up and the bands just end up playing for each other and first itโ€™s depressing but then itโ€™s THE BEST
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
gonna spend the rest of the week making โ€œwhistleblowerโ€ themed house music to spin on the day this guy finally goes down
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
iโ€™m having a really good night ๐Ÿ––
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Nick Sanborn
8 years
If you tell an artist not to discuss politics today then you truly don't understand the purpose of art.
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
sanders / warren 2020 warren / sanders 2020 sanders / abrams 2020 warren / abrams 2020 warren / sanders / abrams trade off every two weeks round robin presidency 2020 iโ€™m cool with all these
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
THERE IS STILL SOME GOOD IN THIS WORLD @flockofdimes
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
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Nick Sanborn
2 years
is it covid or is it a fiery rage consuming every cell of my body
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Nick Sanborn
4 years
as a producer, sophie made you rethink your entire musical worldview every time she put out something new, and you would still be 20 steps behind her last breakthrough while she was already on to the next one - there are literally only a handful of people this can be said about๐Ÿ’”
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Nick Sanborn
8 years
thanks for making me believe in us again, everyone.
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
this tour is just the best
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
if you arenโ€™t reamping your kicks through a shitty crate PA head are you even making dance music ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Nick Sanborn
4 years
is my man jogging rn
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
*at a vfw* back in ~MY~ day pitchfork would give you a middling nonsense review and youโ€™d simply hold a personality-defining grudge for a decade
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Nick Sanborn
5 years
very excited to announce that @rosno and i made an album together called Bluebird. itโ€™ll be out 7.23 and you can hear the first song today, which features a sample of the wonderful @sharonvanetten . thanks for listening!
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5 years
Volcano Choir's Chris Rosenau and Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn are releasing a gorgeous ambient album as Rosenau & Sanborn. Lead single "Sharon" works wonders with a manipulated sample of Sharon Van Etten's voice. Listen:
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2 years
fuck this
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Nick Sanborn
8 years
I'm donating all proceeds from the Made of Oak web-store today to the NAACP and ACLU in solidarity with the #MoralMarch on Raleigh.
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
boy it sure would be a shame if every snitch ass texan who made 10k on this anti abortion law somehow coincidentally also managed to suffer 10k in property damage
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Nick Sanborn
8 years
Guys I promise I'll start tweeting about stupid synthesizers or whatever again at some point, once I stop mourning the Death of Reason.
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Nick Sanborn
3 years
gear doesnโ€™t matter
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SNARZ
3 years
If you could give only 1 tip to someone starting to learn music production what would that tip be? ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐Ÿ“
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Nick Sanborn
7 years
thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone, those of you who know me personally will not be surprised that i am currently celebrating by cooking a large number of brats ๐ŸŒˆ
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