Unc D: composition, production, editing, bass engineering, drum sequencing, synths (melody and weird middle section), rhodes and piano engineering, art.
uncd.bandcamp.com

Tommy Lehman: Trumpet engineering.
tommylehman.bandcamp.com

Thin Thicket: clav, live drum set, keys and bass engineering.
blkklb.bandcamp.com

Gino West: live drumset.

John Polace, rhodes, synths, clav, and piano engineering.
johnpolace.bandcamp.com

Kevin Maxwell Smith: rhodes, piano.

Nathan Negro: synth.

John James Martin: vibes and glockenspiel engineering,

Francesco Corrodo: rhodes engineering.
francescocorrado.bandcamp.com

BLDNTHNDR is part of a trilogy of lead bass songs which combine beat culture and improvised instrumental music. As producer, Unc D's thing is making the bass a careful center player while curating a kaleidoscopic soundscape of largely first take moments from a crew of the Cleveland area's finest instrumentalists

These songs are the result of many overdub sessions of individual remote recordings and live quintet overdub sessions. The song started out (as most Unc D tracks do) as a chord progression on iReal Pro. From there, Unc D wrote and recorded his basslines, added electronic drum sequencing to find the groove of the track and added some synths. This beat was then brought to Bearcave Records studio in Youngstown, Ohio, where Thin Thicket recorded and engineering a live quintet recording to the track. From this session we got Gino West's drums, Thin Thicket's crunchy clav, and nathan negro & kevin maxwell smith's synths. From there, overdubbing was the name of the game. Akron's own Tommy Lehman [Acid Cats, Nathan Paul & the Admirables] added his endlessly classy trumpet solo (remote recording only to the original minimal beat), and the same was later done by Cleveland's John Polace [People in the Daytime] remote recorded rhodes, synths and clavs, and Youngstown's John James Martin remote recorded vibrophone and glockenspiel and finally Francesco Corrodo, a jazz artist based out of Italy, who remote remoted rhodes.

Unc D took all of these overdubs and outtakes and edited them together into a smooth circus of sound, methodology merging the best results of improvised instrumental music with the focused and refined nature of beat making.