Artist/Producer Episodes

Growing and Managing Multiple Revenue Streams While Remaining True To Your Art

Marieme is a Senegalese-American artist whose music focuses on themes of Self Love, Revolution, and Empowerment. Being uprooted by war at 6 months old and her upbringing have shaped Marieme into a messenger of Love. Speaking through music, fashion, and cutting-edge tech, Marieme has been making a case for her message with her voice being used for film and television. The podcast opens with her recent hit song "Built For Greatness" which was placed on the Michelle Obama and Oprah Netflix special ...

Rob Garza: The Secrets to Building a 30 Year Career in Music

Alphabet Rockers: A GRAMMY Winning Design Creating Conscious Hip Hop Music

From The UK To The Bay: Leveraging Social Media to Build an Artist Brand

Collaborating as a Trio, Running an Indie Label, Dolby Atmos, and The importance of Meta Data

Psy Trance, Psychedelic Research with MAPS and Finding Inspiration from your Work and Culture

The Value of Education, Crowdfunding, Vinyl and Sound Healing

Saying Yes, RTFM, Finding Fulfillment, and Meditation

Networking, Collaborating, Vision & Weed

Multi-Instrumentalist, Artist/Producer, Label Boss and Ableton Certified Trainer

From Live Sound To NFT's and remote recording with The Everyone Orchestra

Jef Stott, Global Bass and ambient music recording artist, producer, and educator. In this episode Jef discusses his transitioning sound from hard hitting Global Bass to the more ethereal and ambient sound of his most recent collaboration with Mah Ze Tar for The Zikr Project, and their latest release, Ishq on Black Swan Records. Jef also talks about his series, "The World is Sound", and how he seeks to bring rich music culture to a wider audience. The meaning of Global Bass Music. How to infuse ethnic instrumentation into electronic music. The Oud and percussion, and how to integrate that into live sets. An Ableton Live breakdown delineating the difference in stylistic approaches between his tracks Osiris and Ishq.

Heather Christie & Greg Gordon discuss "music-preneurship", remixing songs for more reach, the negative effects of American Idol, and the Hero's Journey in music. Heather shares her range of artistic experiences in dancing, acting, producing, and performing, as well as her transition from musical theatre to singing and songwriting. Heather talks about her influences from Latin American culture, her travels to Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala, and writing songs in Spanish. She then reflects on her experience on American Idol, and how that sparked her to learn music business and take control of her own career. Heather talks about practicing, performing and producing music with her husband and partner, multi-instrumentalist Vir McCoy and using the stems of many differents world instruments from many of his recordings to create new and exciting dance music geared towards the ecstatic dance community. Opening and closing music is Space Between, by Heather Christie. Book a Mentorship se…

Martin Luther McCoy: singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and native San Franciscan. Martin Luther shares stories of his career starting from a gospel music childhood in San Francisco’s Bayview, to performing and touring with Philadelphia-based Hip Hop Band, The Roots, and being cast as Jo-Jo in the Hollywood musical, Across The Universe. Experiences and lessons learned, including adapting to an industry shift from physical to streaming services, and networking and making opportunities in the competitive music industry. Learning to balance what feeds your soul and the business savvy required to nurture the relationships that drive success. Building his "team" including influential Bay Area attorney Michael Aczon. Martin Luther talks about his development as a singer, producer, and entrepreneur with his label, Rebel Soul Records, and the empowering messages he aims to deliver through his music. Touring and performing with Kev Choice and being invited by Randal Kline, (founder of SF…

Shawn Mercado, aka SHDWS, producer, DJ, engineer, and sound designer. A Bay Area native and Pyramind Alum. Shawn shares his experiences with DJing and promoting for iconic San Francisco clubs like EPR, Ruby Skye, and City Nights. He’s produced music previously as M3RC, and spent years honing his craft and discovering his signature style, leading into rebranding and releasing a polished sound under the SHDWS. He’s released music for Night Bass and Divided Souls, and has collaborated recently with Blossom. Shawn talks about his experience with Wax Motif’s Park ’N Rave Livestream, and what it was like performing for a socially distant audience and tens of thousands of viewers on Insomniac’s Twitch and YouTube streams. And Shawn breaks down his debut release with Divided Souls, Vixen.

Excerpts from different episodes of the Mentor My Mix Podcast, hosted by Greg Gordon. Brought to you by Pyramind, America's premier Music Production School.

From Conceptualizing the original APC 40 to Mentoring LMFAO

Getting signed, touring, national commercials, multiple streams of revenue, and a Grammy Nomination

OG Bass Head to OG Funksta breaking down Skunked

Bioharmonic Technologies and Primal Resonance: Producing Music for Wellness

The journey from Frost Raven to K Theory to Social Kid

From Controllerism to Self Care to the Joy of Education and Continuity through Community.

In this episode Greg and DJ Celeste discuss the transition of the current live music industry from venues and festivals to online live-streaming, Twitch and VR parties, including the use of Tiltbrush and Blender as a stage building tool for visual artist in collaboration with musicians and venues in the online space.  Collaborating with cello Joe in Oakland. Filming a music video pre-covid. The amount of musicians and producers in our orbit. Producing and releasing music during quarantine. Making vibrant music with Ableton for ecstatic dance parties. The Boutique Electronique label in Germany. Producing Hip-hop. Livestreams with costumes. The financial impact of Covid-19 on the artist community. Learning to adapt to the new normal. Social media marketing. Wanting to believe in the arts and the good of people. The cutting edge of music technology and its effect on the perspective of art imitating life and life imitating art. Making VR art with Tiltbrush for events in Second Life. Us…