While Mixing beats, local musician finding influences everywhere
A local musical talent is working away on a new album that hopes to blend classic instruments with electronic sounds to produce something wholly new as he continues to help others bring life to beats in an Atlanta-area studio.
The local multi- instrumental musician, engineer, and producer Dusty Brogdon lives in Rockmart and has already released many songs over the past few years, along with being a key component in some of the latest rap music that heard widely on the radio.
Now the hardworking Brodgon is hoping to make his own brand on music with a still-in-progress album.
A veteran who came back after his military experience to peruse a life in music, Brogdon attended the SAE Institute of Atlanta in 2016 and graduated as valedictorian. He said he grew up in a music environment due to his mother being in a bands and recording while he was growing up.
Some of the musical influences for his new workings is Eagles drummer and singer Don Henley, who Brogdon credits as getting him interested in music, and Eminem for his honesty and his ability to say what was needed to be said.
He also said that Outlined in Color has also been part of what's influencing his output for their raw emotions.
"Most the time when I'm writing my own music it's about heartbreak," said Brogdon, "I almost dang near promote getting into relationships and falling in love strictly for that artistic flood after a break up. The best music i have ever wrote was after a break up; its those deep dark pits you get into that only music can lift you out of: it's like medicine."
Brogdon has been working in one of the most prestigious studio in the southeast for the past eight months as an intern. Brogdon was able to be in the studio with artist such as Future and spent t he l ast t hree months in the studio working along side the team that helped produce Young Thug's latest forthcoming album.
He now produces original beats that he sells in his free time, and also records artist from all over in his personal studio. Brogdon also likes to spend his free time working out, and making comedy videos that he posts through his social media profiles.
Brogdon is also in the workings of making a new album under the name 'Set Me Free,' which will be released sometime later this summer and performed in front of an audience.
'Set Me Free' is a new style of electronic music that blends together genres like E. D. M. and metal. This music can be described aggressive yet beautiful as Brogdon's energetic vocals lay on top of melodic synth tracks and real instruments such as the song "your low= my high" which contains an acoustic guitar, piano, electronic horns, and synthesizers.
To hear some of Brogdon's later work check out INHL on Spotify and Apple music.
To keep up with Set Me Free or to check out some of the later songs by Brogdon visit "dusty-brogdon" on Instagram where Brogdon puts links to his latest works and comedic videos daily. You can also contact him this way if you are interested to have your music produced by him at his studio.