Musician Profile #1: Jason W

This is a sneak peak of a new feature that will start early next year. It is called the Musician Profile. It will focus on people that have contributed in one way or another to the music of Metal XOR Studio. This first entry will discuss none other than Metal XOR Studio founder and CEO, Jason himself.

Name: Jason W
Projects involved with: all

Jason's music career began at the age of four with piano lessons. He continued piano lessons into his mid-teens. Then he received a small Yamaha keyboard in the fall of 1986. With that he filled a few tapes of cover songs and original songs.

Just prior to getting his keyboard, he and his cousin Harry were recording themselves singing ad-libbed lyrics to instrumental songs off of the radio. This lasted a couple of years and created more than a dozen tapes of the two singing.

In 1987 Jason also played keyboards for the garage band Pheonix. This eventually led to him borrowing a friend's electric guitar and becoming the guitarist for the Two-Tones. He also played guitar in a trio for a school Christmas program in 1988. This led to the 50's & 60's band The Traveling Deengelburys. Jason played rhythm guitar for their only show, a fund-raising dance at the high school in March of 1989.

There was a brief period where Jason experimented with layering his keyboard sounds and adding vocals. This experimentation in 1990, along with a newly acquired drum machine, led to the earliest Mune Mud recordings.

Even though the solo project Mune Mud is still around today it has spawned other projects throughout the years that have come and gone. The second project Jason created was NueroMorgue in 1993. The next was NueroMud in 1994.

In the early 90's he was a member of two other projects: The Spartans (with Harry and Brad) and The Duke Boys (just Jason and Harry).

By now there were two other major projects he was involved with. He was a member of Isthmus, along with his cousins Harry and Jimmy. And in the late 90's he and Jimmy had their own project called ORC.

In 1998 Jason met his future wife, Nikki. They recorded a few songs together and released an album in 2001 called Love Songs. They also wrote a couple of songs that Nikki sang at church. They have plans on writing and recording more music in the future.

In 2003 Jason was the bass player in a group called Muffin Loaf. This was a group of Jason's co-workers who got together to play a show after work on March 18, 2003.

He is also producing albums for the newest member of the Metal XOR family, Paige W. Her first album came out in August of this year. She has already recorded a few sessions for her second album due out next fall.

A few other projects that either didn't get out of the planning stages or had limited success are X-Selsior, Binary Pipedream, Young Herbage, and Parvo.

Jason is a jack-of-all-instruments, master of none. To varying degrees he has played the piano, keyboards, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, drum machines, recorder, violin, and attempted vocals. Most of the music in the last year or so has been created in the computer, so he has experience with various programs such as CakeWalk, Reason, and Audition.

Overall, Jason has created a lot of music in the last twenty years and plans on creating much more in the next twenty.