Black Aaron Broadcast

Aarun Simon is a rapper and producer from Philly living inChicago who makes his own music videos. He's had a hell of a journey together there he's at and there're no turning back now. Give his latest project 21 a listen: https://soundcloud.com/aarun-simon/sets/21a

I chatted with artist RIDG DOWNS we discussed the emotional journey of leaving Iowa for California to pursue a career in music.

Josh is an award winning DJ loves live music festivals like EDC and is currently in the same graduate program as me at CSUN. We talk about everything and then some, please enjoy!

Diane and I discuss mexican food, faith, audio engineering, and what her plans are for the future during the pandemic in the face of adversity.

Shanai and I talk faith, exchange alien sighting stories, talk about her being kidnapped at Scientology temple, and discuss what it's like to pursue her purpose in life.

Vanessa is passionate about bringing change to live music for those with special needs and exhibits a beautiful spirit of warmth in human emotion. Her ability to simultaneously share her vulnerability and maintain incredible strength in her ambitious pursuit of education to obtain a career in the music industry during a time where the future is uncertain shows grit. She is intelligent and an extraordinary young woman who I had the pleasure to speak with. Follow her on IG: sassa_tra.tra

Oscar is a rancher in El Salvador helping his family while attending graduate school at CSUN online. He's a fellow veteran, a musician, and shares his experience with Ayahuasca follow him on IG: @ocelottheband

Alex Sanders has a sharp mind for pop culture. She is working hard to make the transition from a 9-5 to managing brand partnerships full-time for TikTok influencers like @BrynneMarleee Follow her on IG: @alex.desiree

Jake loves a cold draft IPA beer, likes getting choked during BJJ, and recently left his two 9-5's to pursue a career in the music industry full time. Listen: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7E1S5mSJaNUSmqQBuJcaHh?si=MFQYg_cOQGSlGC-RsCBcJg Video: https://youtu.be/TPINBdgBRPA

Louie is the founder of West Ghost Productions and through hard work was able to make the transition from a 9-5 to being fully employed within the music industry as a music producer and mixing engineer. IG: @westghostproductions

A proud Armenian composer, metal head, and music teacher who has definitely seen some shit along his immigration journey from Iran to live in United States. Listen: https://soundcloud.com/eminbaghoomian

Justin is talented and kind-hearted man. When he's not playing music for autistic children, he is grinding his way along in the music industry. Also happens to be an AMAZING singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitar player. Follow him on IG: @Jstucker for live performances #TuckerTuesday #Covers

Sabrine Alsalih aka @s4brine is a music video producer, music business student, and most recently produced the video "FALL" for @DevHiroshi that drops Friday SEPT 18TH here's a clip from IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFLaIXiimJa/

I had my buddy from grad school, aspiring marketing genius, drummer, and future record executive come on and nerd out with me about music, the industry, and why being nice to people will make life not suck. Checkout Dutch Honey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVpFe_4vzA

I had the pleasure of speaking with my friend, grad school colleague, and NBC Universal music licensing specialist @Pableezy1 Follow: https://www.twitch.tv/futurefest

Number one podcast fan and film maker friend from australia talks film and Hollywood and other stuff.

I sit down to talk with my friend and music producer from Sri Lanka, who happens to be behind some big hits in his home country. We talk about music, culture, and the recent easter bombing in his homeland that has made it a scary place to return to so soon after our recent college graduation.

Driving to LA with Seven Talking about Business and Marketing

In this episode I interview artist and videographer Julian Flores. And he happens to be the director of my favorite music video in the history of ever "Acid Rain" by LORN. He's also won multiple awards like best dance video at the 2015 UKMVA(United Kingdom Video Music Awards).

Here I sit down with professor Michael Geluz as we geek out about 80s movies, go into the dark web of imdb cinema, and literally become besties before your very eyes. Stay blessed. Don’t stress. Stayed tuned for a new episode of the Black Aaron Broadcast podcast every week! iTunes: https://apple.co/2N3HZyD Google Play: http://1b.yt/ejDJ2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/419QDYlRq7YXPuFNj2I5DD?si=Aml5VLkHSEuYdaVHTnA37A Youtube: https://youtu.be/DKUHHHZmit Facebook.com/AtBlackAaron

Here I sit down with my professor Dr. Mark Waldrep and discuss him growing up as a privileged youth in Michigan, dealing with the unfortunate loss of his parents, leaving home to become a rockstar in California, and how taking advantage of a single opportunity to learn led to his ascension into professional success, audio greatness, and a multitude of successful business ventures that were dependent on not only his creative application of technical know-how, but the close relationships made along the way by networking. His website: http://realhd-audio.com Stay blessed. Don’t stress. Stayed tuned for a new episode of the Black Aaron Broadcast podcast every week! iTunes: https://apple.co/2N3HZyD Google Play: http://1b.yt/ejDJ2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/419QDYlRq7YXPuFNj2I5DD?si=Aml5VLkHSEuYdaVHTnA37A Youtube: https://youtu.be/aiykMUGxbL0 Facebook.com/AtBlackAaron Donate BTC: qqfkecxe9c433ydg9p4uy8l0anpqs9xazqls2y9vza

Josh is a veteran guitarist who played in bands actively from late 80s throughout early 90s. Playing alongside the likes of Sublime, Fishbone, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and No Doubt. But since then he has been a professionally experienced audio engineer, co-produced emmy-award winning film compositions, and professor of audio recording at CSUDH. In this interview Josh talks about why he loves re-record mixing and writing scores. Josh tells a hilarious story where he almost ended up "killing" Val Kilmer, calling Taylor Hawkins of Foo-Fighters a sell-out before he blew up, the amazing experience engineering a Herbie Hancock, meeting Angela Davis, a funny experience of an album being titled after him, the shadiness of music industry, how hard rock is gone from the public consciousness, performing at a Jeff Buckley tribute, but more importantly why vacationing with his wife is fun and helps him stay young! Stay blessed. Don’t stress. Stayed tuned for a new episode of the Black Aaron Broadcast podcast every Thursday @10am PST! iTunes: https://apple.co/2N3HZyD Google Play: http://1b.yt/ejDJ2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/419QDYlRq7YXPuFNj2I5DD?si=Aml5VLkHSEuYdaVHTnA37A Youtube: https://youtu.be/nlw2n3HS2EY FB: https: Facebook.com/AtBlackAaron Donate BTC: qqfkecxe9c433ydg9p4uy8l0anpqs9xazqls2y9vza

I sit down with my professor and owner of Shelter Studios Cesar Mejia. We talk about how music made him feel as a child and growing up in east Los Angeles playing in bands. He also share how much of a Metallica fan he truly is and early influences. He tells an amazing story about Motorhead and playing Lemmy’s guitar. Also what keeps him going this long in the game. Cesar also says he’d love to work with Portugal The Man!

Today my guest discusses growing up shitty with “white privilege” in New Hampshire. The move to San Fran that made him say fuck this Im joining the Army. How after serving his country he found a new family in drifting cars. Also we talk about our personal beliefs and how he’s a bit of a Nihilist at heart. Stay blessed. Don’t stress. Stayed tuned for a new episode of the Black Aaron Broadcast podcast every Thursday @10am PST! iTunes: https://apple.co/2N3HZyD Google Play: http://1b.yt/ejDJ2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/419QDYlRq7YXPuFNj2I5DD?si=Aml5VLkHSEuYdaVHTnA37A Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN77pGCHhVKly8o1jZ-4uKw/videos FB: https://Facebook.com/AtBlackAaron Donate BTC: qqfkecxe9c433ydg9p4uy8l0anpqs9xazqls2y9vza

Here I sit down with a veteran in network and multi-level marketing and talk about what it takes to be at the top of the pyramid in his business, relationships, music, American culture, the way of the superior man, and some of the things wrong with todays society.

KJ is recovering from a recent unexpected, but successful surgery. KJ made time to laugh, talk, and stay positive while sharing his personal story with an old friend. We talked about how scary it was to find how he was diagnosed with colon cancer, but also current events, music, and the state of modern culture. Please enjoy our conversation!
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I met this guy at Orange Coast College when we were on a UCI college tour where we nerded-out at a software engineer open house. He’s now a UCI Graduate and has since moved on to intern with Amazon over the past summer, but eventually accepted a position as a resident software engineer at Google in Seattle, WA(GANG GANG!!!). We have been to multiple rock and punk-rock shows together including Death Grips and H09909. Before he even took a programming class he’d coded a mobile app in Java for weightlifting. This man is a Lvl 9000 Math Wizard. Oh and we also saw a special screening of Albert Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo which was dope. He’s a cool guy id like to introduce you to Mr. Santiago Martin! :D

The only guy I know who managed to convince his wife to have their wedding or honeymoon at a heavy metal festival called Wacken Open Air in Germany. So he's defintely a heavyetal head. He's a fellow veteran and served in Army Infantry. He spent two deployments in Agahanistan twice. He's my new friend via the Veteran Resource Center and a great guy. I think its only proper to have a veteran on during the week which marks the 17th anniverary of Septermber 9/11. Lets represent with some vets this week. My friend Vincent Fenno aka Bustos!

We used to work at Carmax throwing silk on the pimp game. He just got back from Turks and Caicos Islands. He’s on his way up the socio-economic later. He’s a fan of Obama. He’s one of my best friends and a ride or die. He’s watched me go from wildest negro in the OC to a married man with a family. My ace boon coon. My main man mayonnaise. Mr. Ryan Mayo

He's a political critic and my favorite social media commentator via my FB newsfeed. He's heavly involved with The All-American Boys Choir. Also happens to be my property manager in LB and is a low-key real estate guru. The Only person to reformat the hell out of my pre-interview when responding with his answers. Makes the best fish tacos in Orange County. His mom's ox tail soup is legit af. He believes tax is theft and so do I. My good friend and amazing human being Pierre Calderon!

He grew up next door to Google. He's got more than 5 albums under his belt and can find his music available on Spotify. He Writes music, plays instruments, and sings. He is an expert troll, over lvl 9000. An extreme fanboy of Noel Gallager. He knows more about the band Blur than anyone I’ve ever met. My man definitely has eclectic taste in music. I have watched him collaborate on music production with one of my favorite new artists. He possesses a quick-witted sarcastic and savage-like sense of humor. The living embodiment of the annoying older brother archetype. If his cat don’t trust you. He might shoot you. Gang Gang. My buddy, my pal, my bruh Steve Adams.

This man loves to write. He definitely enjoys EDM shows. Is sober with a brand new lease on life. He head bangs with or without music. Ive seent it! And we defintely hae a quickly developing broamnce bromance. A great guy with lots of heart and my other other brother from another mother Mr. Brian Jimenez!

My guest today is a vegan. US Navy Veteran. OG hip-hop head. An avid collector of vinyl records. He also has some very interesting connections to infamous Death Row Records. An LA Native. Introduced to some of the most wild and satisfying music I’ve ever heard. He is a wise and knowledgeable elder in audio program who has been a cool cat from day one, Mr. Lance Pierre.

Today’s guest is an amazing mixer and recording engineer, but also producer. He’s legit friend too; who has been working with rap artist and best friend C5 out of Oakland professionally for at least the past couple years He’s a huge fan of Kanye West and Wale He puts a lot of trust in everyone until they give him a reason not to. And the only person I’ve ever met in person who actually contributes to rap website Genius annotations providing great insight into the hip-hop community. My guest today, Andrew Jacinto aka DREW aka Prodbydrew

My guest is a 22 year old young bull in the rap game. He’s been dropping remixes to the hottest tracks in the game on his Lil Wayne 06-07 shit. Don’t talk shit about Joe Budden, because he’ll come for your throat like a savage. He doesn’t think Dark Night was the best movie in the Batman trilogy A pretty boy, but he’s deeper than he looks. He’s savvy af with the social media. My friend. My colleague. My bro. Brian Fombona aka B-Rhye.

A true hip hop head. He has genuine hyphy energy from the BAY. He makes beats that bang hard af and prefers his music production meetings green friendly for maximum artistic creativity. He's currently stationed at Studio 770 in Orange County. I've watched him work side by side with talented artists in studio to record dope tracks. He's one of the most hardest working Rappers, Producer, Beat makers I know and he’s got the gold fronts to prove it. Checkout his latest album “Better than a Gold UZI" streaming on all major platforms. Sonny Vega aka Don Juan Desparko aka Santino Padilla!

Theres no one who loves to talk about poop, pop-punk and Paramore more than this guy. He turned our Friday studio lab into a hot sauce guzzling cult. He plays solid bass, is surgical with pro tools, bangs drums, and even rapped a Post Malone cover about farting. Please don’t smudge his yeezy’s because he’s very proud of his eclectic taste in footwear. One of the only student in the program to successfully take an artist’s project from concept to distribution. The future of audio engineering and music production. My friend. My bro. My colleague. Taylor Hollingsworth!

Black Aaron Broadcast was live. July 5 at 9:44 AM · My guest today is a lifelong student of martial-arts and Karate expert. Don’t cut her off or drive too slow because she’s known for fits of rage on and off the road. One of the few people who doesn’t think Disneyland is the happiest place on earth. She used to study computer science, but decided a major in the arts would be far more profitable. The only other person aside from me that doesn’t have a hangover the day after celebrating Independence Day Sarah Shane!

She’s quiet, but her music speaks volumes. A truly genuine artist. She has powerful creative spirit and humble as they come. One the hardest working recording engineers I know. She’s a big fan of horror movies, loves Thai tea, fancy coffee drinks, sweets, and all things delicious to eat. Meet Alvi Talavera.

Today my guest is someone who makes a fabulous ceviche, stays dripping in San Diego local Craft beer t-shirts, thinks I sound like Dave Chapelle, and Yet his laugh is identical to that of actor Seth Rogan. He is a devout worshiper of legendary recording engineer and music producer Steve Albini. One the most animated and aggressive beer bong players Ive ever encountered. An Extraordinarily talented song writer, lead singer and guitarist of one of new my favorite bands called Above Borders out of San Diego, CA Mr. Alex Gradwhol. Listen to Above Borders: https://soundcloud.com/user-394339443/sets/above-borders-ep

Today my guest is hipster god, veteran barista, intellectual coffee snob, regularly attends latte pouring competitions, really into synth modules, someone sick of his own self-proclaimed hipster bullshit, sharer of dank existential dog memes, and has the most uniquely abstract sense of humor I have ever encountered. But he is truly one of the most kind and warm-hearted people I have ever met. Please welcome to the show my friend and colleague here at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles, CA th distinguished gentlemen with a distractingly impressive lumberjack and accompanying hipster pedo-mustache Mr. Barry Sutton.