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Velvet
Velvet Echo is the production duo of Mike McClellan and Stephen Newman. Longtime friends and collaborators, they formed their own studio while finishing college. They played and performed with multiple bands, all the while honing their skills as producers and engineers. Their friends would ask them to record and produce them, which would lead to meeting new musicians meeting talent they wanted to work with. During this time their love and appreciation for multiple styles of music deepened, which encourage them to branch out in their own writing. This created a snowball effect which lead to them moving away from running a recording studio and focusing on producing. Mike and Steve enjoy talking about music, movies, and spending time playing old video games.
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Velvet Echo has produced music for ESPN, The NBA, MTV, the Today Show, as well as created promotional music for Major League Baseball, the NFL, The Olympic Games, Amazon.com. They produced releases for Amy Whitcomb of NBC's "The Voice" and "The Sing Off."
signals
Signals is a four-piece electro-pop ensemble from Utah, featuring producers/songwriters Aaron Anderson, Mike McClellan, Steve Newman, and Debra Fotheringham. The band coalesced in the spring of 2016 with the purpose of crafting tunes together with an electronic heart and a melodic pop sensibility. Fotheringham’s voice leads the soaring melodies of the band’s atmospherically moody but often lyrically upbeat songs.