Patrick Blin
By Ashley Marie
Photo by Dustin Lane
As we pulled into the parking lot of IowaTechno Headquarters, a rush of emotions came flooding back. I have attended several events at this undisclosed location, and the most recent show was no different! Control Room brought together a family of friends; love and unity poured from every soul on the floor as we danced ‘til the sun came up. The lineup was energetic from start to finish, and each artist brought their unique sound to the IowaTechno stage. Another finale to the warehouse rave season is in the books and already I am yearning for more! Our main man behind the scenes described it perfectly; warehouse raves offer a more intimate, laid back setting when compared with festivals and other larger venues.
Who is responsible for so many of these shows and events in the Cedar Rapids area, you ask?
Patrick Blin, one of the founders for IowaTechno, is always the first to give credit and equally hesitant to be at the receiving end of much deserved praise. IowaTechno is a group of artists, staff, and volunteers that serve the EDM community in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and surrounding areas. Pat continues to book shows as an artist using his own name, but found he most enjoys his role behind the scenes as a promoter. With an impressive list of mentors and a dedicated team, he works tirelessly to make every event bigger and better than the last! His drive and work ethic are evident in his day job at Hibu as well, where after only two years he earned a trip to the Dominican Republic for top sales.
Patrick and I were neighbors growing up in the same small town of Garrison, Iowa. Although he often claims Garrison as his home town, his dad was in the Navy and his family moved several times before settling there when he was about 7 years old. Little known fact, Patrick was born in Scotland! He hasn’t crossed the Atlantic in over two decades, but he had dual citizenship in both the US and the UK growing up! He graduated from Washington High School in Vinton, Iowa and has lived in Cedar Rapids for quite a few years.
Several attempts to meet with Patrick had not worked out due to our tightly packed calendars. I finally caught up with him at a workshop by the NewBo Synth group and ended up riding back to the warehouse with him for our long-anticipated interview. As Pat navigated the streets of downtown Cedar Rapids, he admitted he had never been interviewed before and was nervous. We spent the commute catching up on life and reminiscing the good old days of our youth.
Inside Headquarters, Pat flipped on the lights and looked around the room intently, like he was going back over a mental to-do list as we walked over to the speakers. I happily relived memories in a space that seemed so much different in the quiet and bright lights. He arranged a couple chairs and we settled in by reviewing the objective and list of questions before I hit the button:
Alright, so if you wanna just kind of introduce yourself. A little bit of who you are, what you do.
So uh, well we’re gonna stay away from the age thing.
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I just celebrated a pretty big birthday bash back in March, so if you were at one of my events you might know how old I am. My name is Patrick Blin, my DJ name I go by Patrick Blin. So I started IowaTechno. We’re gonna actually have a big, five year anniversary party. Beginning of October is the plan.
Is that going to kick off the warehouse season again?
Uh, possibly. Yeah, probably.
When does that season usually go?
It always use to be year round and then music festivals kind of came in.
Those take over kind of the summer months?
Yeah, and so then for a while it kind of phased in to like the underground and clubs would kind of close down a little bit during, like, June and July, just because that was the heavy months. But now it’s like every single month of the year pretty much has a festival. So it’s kind of made it tough on underground and club type stuff with all the festivals. Festivals start up in like late April and just go heavy until September now. And there’s even festivals in the winter I’ve seen around the country.
But yeah, so a buddy of mine, Dustin Oxford and I, we started IowaTechno in October of 2014. And we were just kind of kickin’ the shit and, you know I always wanted to get involved and start doing my own parties I guess. I first started DJing in like April of 2013, and that’s kind of how I got really involved.
What was the first ever event you went to?
Well, I think it was honestly Pornstar’s Ball, and my buddy Jay Pearl was like, “hey, let’s go to this Pornstar’s Ball,” and I hadn’t, didn’t even know what electronic music was or anything. And the name of it, Pornstar’s Ball, it didn’t, I thought it was, “great, strip club,” you know, “let’s go.” So we went and um, yeah, I had a good time. Probably Pornstar’s Ball was the first one I went to I think, but, I don’t know. Lines are blurred somewhere in there.
So you mentioned you started DJing in 2013, what’s the genre you would say you play in?
So I really started out more, just kind of all over the place. I guess when I first started I was just...
Just trying a little bit of everything?
Yeah, I would just find tracks that I would like. Honestly I didn’t really in the first two, three, four years probably of DJing I didn’t really have a good idea of what I was doing. I would just pick a bunch of tracks that I liked and play them. And they wouldn’t really mesh together because I would play techno, house, deep house, tech house, and they would be all over the place. I was just, “oh I like this track, and this one,” but they might not necessarily go together. So my sound has kind of changed quite a bit I guess. More so, I was a lot of tech house type stuff. And then I’ve really moved into mostly techno. But it really depends on the party that you’re playing and the timeslot. You know, if it’s the earlier timeslot I try to play more housier stuff. It just depends, try to play the slot. I prefer to play like, more melodic type techno. Like Drumcode and Octopus, and stuff like that. Tronic. These are record labels that I like a lot.
I like being the artist and painting the picture of the party.
It sounds like it was quite a learning experience for you. Where did you start learning?
Yeah, it was actually a Pornstar’s Ball I remember. Matt Fee was playing, and he wasn’t wearing a shirt and he has chest hair and he had shaved something into his chest hair, I don’t remember exactly what it was, but I do remember he like shaved something into his chest hair. And after he got done playing I just reached out to him, I’m like “I really want to do this,” and he’s the one that kind of took me under his wing and showed me, you know, “this is where I buy music,” he gave me a whole bunch of music to kind of start off. ‘Cause that’s one of the hurdles is buying music to DJ is not cheap. It’s usually like $1.50 to $2.50 per track. So to get a decent amount of music it’s going to cost quite a bit. He gave me probably like 3,000 tracks, which was nice, and showed me where to go to buy my own.
So I kind of, you know, started digging for what I like, but, honestly DJing isn’t really my passion. More so I like being the artist and painting the picture of the party. That’s what I like to do. I like to pick whose going to DJ, when they’re going to DJ, um, I like to find the right environment that we’re going to do the party in. And I’ve really kind of taken a backseat to DJing. I do take gigs here and there, and honesty sometimes I feel I take more than I really want to. So especially when the summer hits, I look at my summer schedule and I have like maybe one or two weekends that I’m not doing anything. And majority of it is music stuff that I’m either playing a show that weekend or I have a show going on, or something like that. Sometimes it’s just nice to not have anything going on. Sit at home and be lazy.
Well, on the way over here we talked a little bit about DJ workshops. That’s something you’re interested in setting up.
Yeah definitely. So we actually did a DJ workshop in December I think it was.
And that was invite only it said.
I mean, yeah it was kind of an invite only type of thing. Really what the goal with DJ workshop is, something that we kind of noticed, I mean the music scene in Cedar Rapids is kind of dying compared to other places. There’s a handful of different factors I see part of it. One of it is there’s not really anybody throwing parties here besides a couple people like me, and I primarily do techno and house. Matt Rissi, he primarily does techno and house. And that’s pretty much it. And there’s nobody really doing any dubstep or bass music parties. I mean, you know Rissi will book a little bit of that here and there, and I’ve done a couple bass music parties. That’s something that I’m getting more into now.
Plus, there’s not really any young people that are getting involved. And that’s something that I think helps grow a lot. If you look at like maybe Des Moines’s scene as a perfect example. There’s so many new DJs, a lot of people that I’ve never met. I think three or four years ago I knew every single DJ in Iowa pretty much. Now there’s a lot more of younger kids that are getting involved. And when those kids get involved, they have friends in their circles that come out and experience the music and become aware of it. So that’s something I feel like we need to do here is get young people involved and I think a DJ workshop is a good place to do that. Hopefully get some younger kids that wanna say “hey, I want to give DJing a whirl,” maybe, “I want to get into production,” and I think that will help our scene grow a little bit too. Just getting some new faces out and actually getting them involved and hopefully maybe down the road playing one of my shows.
something I feel like we need to do here is get young people involved and I think a DJ workshop is a good place to do that.
So this is something that you want to look toward doing in the near future?
Well honestly we were looking at maybe doing it this month. We did one workshop in December, and we probably weren’t as prepared as we should’ve been.
It’s a learning process.
I went out and bought some used pieces of DJ gear just so that people that do show up for the workshop, we can kind of have a more hands on approach. Maybe show them some things, get them started, but then give them a chance to hop on. I think I have three or four controllers that I bought. So if people come that don’t have their own controllers. And that’s one of the biggest hurdles for people that are trying to get into it, or even have an interest in it. They don’t really have an opportunity to even to try it out because they don’t have the gear, they don’t know how to get into it, and that’s just kind of going to be the early stages of the workshop. Showing them, “this is where you go to get music,” and I’ve actually going to need to get a folder together where I can just give them a whole bunch of music, kind of like I was given. That way they don’t have to spend a bunch of money like that, or have a bunch of money to try to get into it. But with the controllers that I bought, another kind of plan is actually sending them home with some of the people that show up if they really want to.
Like a rental service or something?
Well I wouldn’t even charge them because most likely we would be doing it every month. So it would be a good opportunity to send them home with that controller, and they’d have it for a month. Mess around with it on their own time. And then when they come back next month bring it back and maybe somebody else gets an opportunity to get it.
There’s more, 'underground' events that you do like New Year's Eve or RE-Birth, and then you have the more mainstream or more publicly promoted like Pornstar's Ball and Kulture. What’s the difference, from your perspective, as far as what you need to do and how you’re promoting those?
Well the more private type underground stuff is usually a crowd that is more laid back and, I guess, more mature I would say. It’s just a little bit more a intimate vibe that we have, as opposed to maybe a party that we do that’s more mainstream at a bar or something. You get people that maybe aren’t really used to the crowd ‘cause the electronic music scene is more of a laidback, friendly, happy group of people as opposed to maybe the regular person that goes out to a bar.
It’d be more like, I feel like every time when I’m coming to an underground one, I know I’m going to see a bunch of people that I just love. People that I’ve ran into before and people that have been to shows and know the experience and are coming with an open mind.
It’s a different experience and that’s the thing that I like. One thing that’s kind of a roadblock with a bar is you can’t really go past 2 AM. We like to go later than 2. The nature of our music is more of a nighttime type of thing. So that’s kind of another big thing of getting outside a bar, is just going later and having the freedom to kind of do whatever we want I guess. A big empty space gives us the opportunity to paint a picture and build a place the way we want it to be. A bar or a music venue you’re kind of limited to what they have in there.
So back to the start of IowaTechno, you and Dustin Oxford, how long has he been around? Like how did you guys meet up?
So he’s been around quite a while. He was somebody that had been going to parties and kind of intertwined DJing and stuff probably at least five years before I got involved. I guess we just started hanging out and we really hit it off and became good friends. On the weekends I’d just go hang out at his house with him all weekend.
He’s here in Cedar Rapids?
Yeah, I mean he’s kind of slowed down quite a bit on DJing and everything. We kind of started together, the first party we did was in October, 2014 and that was an underground party called Back to the Underground. That was the first party we did, and we didn’t do very well at that party. We actually lost a little bit of money so then it took another couple years before I kind of got back on my feet to do another underground party. A lot of funds go into putting one of those on and so I took a break from the underground type stuff for quite a while. But yeah, I mean, he got married and he’s focused on his 9 to 5 quite a bit and he’s kind of slowed up, he doesn’t really DJ that much. I’m going to try to get him out to DJ our 5-year anniversary party.
Dustin is probably a good teacher as far as starting the promotion stuff. Is there anybody else that is giving you pointers along the way?
Yeah so, me and Dustin did that first party and I really didn’t have any clue about what to do. But he kind of helped a long way with that first party. And then after that, maybe even before that, I guess, I had probably spent quite a bit of time with Matt Rissi. He’s been promoting parties for, I think eighteen years now. The Solar Cathedral fifteen year anniversary was like two, three, four years ago maybe. So I’ve kind of always wanted to be involved, and when you’re putting events on it’s always big to have somebody there to help you setup for the party and just get everything going, especially an underground type event. So I was always reaching out to Matt. Like, “Hey, when are you going to setup for this?” and I would show up. So he’s kind of slowed down quite a bit on all of his warehouse or underground parties. But the last two, three years or so that he was doing them, I was pretty much there for every single one. You know, the day before the party, the day of the party, just in the trenches. Whether it was hanging up black plastic, or loading in speakers or just doing anything to really help. So I would say without that experience and learning from what he did and just the way that he put on his events, I wouldn’t be where I am at today. I know that that’s how I’ve learned so much. Just learning from his process and the way he did everything. So to this day, if I have a question or something that I feel like I might need a pointer on or any advice or opinion on something, he’s somebody that I’ll reach out to. Say, “hey, what do you think about this situation?” So I take his opinion pretty highly.
without that experience and learning from what he did and just the way that he put on his events, I wouldn’t be where I am at today.
Well you kind of mentioned that Back to the Underground, obviously being your first one, that’s going to be one of the hardest that you’ve done. Is there another event that stands out as being one of the most challenging to have pulled off?
Yeah so that one and then, I would say, even a couple of smaller things we used to do quite a bit of parties at Just Jules—our Impulse series. Those were definitely challenging. Anytime you’re in a new venue, especially like a new bar or music venue that you’re only going to move everything in the night of the party or day of the party set it up. You’re always finding something along the way that kind of, run into a snag or something. So that’s definitely challenging, getting in that. After a couple of shows there, it became really easy. We would kind of have an idea of how long it was going to take to get in there and set things up before the party. Aside from that, I would say the New Year’s Eve party we did. That’s the biggest party IowaTechno has ever done.
I’ll tell you New Year’s Eve here was pretty sick, ‘cause you walked through that doorway and it was literally like a portal into a different party.
And that’s always been a goal of mine. To do a party where we had two rooms and it wasn’t like, it wasn’t where, ‘cause for some people, I mean, I’m not as, I used to be at a point where I didn’t like dubstep at all. And if I went to a party where it was mixed, it would be maybe a techno DJ, and then a house DJ, and then a dubstep. And when the dubstep hit, I would kind of not feel into it anymore, and I would be outside or whatever, trying to get away from the music during that time period. And it’s like an hour where you’re just trying to find something else to do. And now I’ve grown to like dubstep, especially like deep dub quite a bit more and experimental type stuff. So that has always been a goal of mine is where we’d have a party that would have two stages. I’m sure there’s other people on the other side of the spectrum that don’t like techno or house really, and they like dubstep only. So put them in my shoes when the dubstep would be done for an hour and it would be techno. They would be looking for something to do during that time. So that’s why I like the two room party type thing because if you want to come in and listen to techno you can, but if you don’t really enjoy it, and you enjoy dubstep, well that’s going on all at the same time. So you don’t really have to pick or go outside or try to go away from the music or anything like that.
That was a pretty good turnout. What was the final count, do you know?
We had over six hundred people for that. That was the most we ever had for an IowaTechno party. So that was a challenge running two stages and booking twice as many DJs. Having two different sound setups. Having two different lighting, all the traffic of people coming in, and all that stuff I guess.
Everything that goes along with that.
Yeah. Luckily I teamed up with a buddy of mine, Seth Leopold, DJ Snag is his DJ name. House of Leopold is what they promote under. So we teamed up with him, and he was the stage manager for the bass stage. We called it the House of Leopold bass stage, and then we had the IowaTechno stage. It did take quite a bit of pressure off of me not having to worry that the setup in the other room was running and being managed correctly ‘cause I knew I had him over there. That helped out quite a bit, but yeah it was definitely challenging. I would say those are probably the biggest challenges that I had. Aside from maybe finding a proper place where we can do an event and it be safe.
What event has been the most fun. Obviously all of them you put a lot of hard work, but which one of them have you really been able to just sit back in?
I would say my birthday in March. I mean, the New Years Eve party did the best. Everybody told me it was really good, from what their feelings and the way they expressed and said it was great. I didn’t really honestly get a chance to even have a good time.
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‘Cause after the party was over, I was happy that it went well, but I was like, man, it doesn’t even feel like, I don’t really have the feeling of “this was a great party,” just ‘cause I didn’t really have a chance to even soak it all in. But, my birthday was a smaller event, smaller party, and once two o’clock hits, I kind of kicked back and had a drink finally. Usually when I do a party I don’t really—at least like an underground party—I usually don’t drink until it’s pretty late. Just because I want to make sure everything is running smoothly the first two, three, or four hours. Once it is, then I can kind of relax. My birthday party, we actually celebrated my buddy’s birthday too, Harry. So it was kind of our combo party, and definitely had a lot of fun. Aside from that I really enjoy when Matt Rissi does underground warehouse parties ‘cause then I get to relax the whole time.
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Yeah? So we need to tell him to come out and do some more, right?
Yeah I think those times are over, but we’ll see. Maybe he’ll get a wild hair and be like, “hey you know, I wanna do one of those again.”
We’ll have to work on it, right? One thing I really specifically want to ask you is why do you stay in Cedar Rapids? Why are you so passionate about this area and promoting the scene in this area?
Well, I guess I lived here for quite a while and I don’t honestly know why I guess I stay here to do what I do. ‘Cause I feel like if I went somewhere else I could probably get something going.
So there’s gotta be something that keeps you here. I mean, I think about moving out of state sometimes. I don’t know if you’ve ever entertained this thought.
I mean I definitely like Minneapolis.
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I would like to live there. But, you know at least for the moment, I feel like, I don’t know if it’s an obligation or what.
You gotta give it back to pay it forward.
Yeah, if I quit doing parties there wouldn’t be any parties right now. So don’t get me wrong, I enjoy doing them, but I’m hoping that somebody will come along at some point and get involved and kind of go through what I went through. ‘Cause it was a good four or five years of just kind of tagging along with Matt and learning from things that he did and how he went about things to get to the point where I’m at now. It isn’t something where somebody can just hop right in out of the blue and never have really seen and experienced some of the things that arise and just the way that you go about setting up a party. I mean, we kind of have a standard, I guess, that we like to follow.
Do you have a list that you go off of?
No I don’t have a list, but one of the biggest things is like a proper sound system. I mean, there’s a lot of people that do parties and there’s people that I would say do go the right way and get a nice sound system. At least a sufficient sound system to do a party with. And that’s one of the first steps I guess is having a sound system. Whether you own one or you’re renting one, having one in place to have for the party. And having a venue to do the party at. Some people really just want to throw a party. I mean, they might be doing it for the right reasons but they don’t take the time to say, “Hey, do we have a proper sound system in place to do a party?” They’ll do one with whatever they can get. That’s the standard that we have is a proper sound system. I’m not as crazy on the lighting side of things as some people are. It definitely creates a different experience, but one of our IowaTechno mottos is, “Dark, intimate, IowaTechno." So, we do tend to like it darker or more minimal lighting for our underground type stuff, which, of course, makes it harder on the photographers sometimes.
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You did have somebody that you kind of delegated that work out to for Control Room recently, didn’t you?
Yeah so my buddy Chris Shepherd, he lives in Waterloo, and we’ve only known each other probably maybe two years now or something like that. And he just started coming to our Impulse shows, and he said he had a few lights and that he would be willing to bring them. So he started bringing a couple lights and before you know it, he would just bring his lights and do that for free, which helped because we were obviously on a low budget at a bar. Now he pretty much does all of our lighting for all our events. We’ve purchased a few professional lights, he’s built some lighting rig things. He made this kind of red, light chandelier, I guess is what you’d call it, that he hung on our ceiling for our Control Room party and our Freaks Like Us party is the first party he got that out. Yeah he does some cool stuff and we’re definitely looking to expand our lighting a little bit. He’s actually got something pretty cool planned for our next party that we do, whenever that is. Our next underground party I should say.
one of our IowaTechno mottos is, "Dark, intimate, IowaTechno."
IowaTechno, is that a group?
Yeah so it kind of started out as a promotion company. A name that we used to promote our parties, and it was just me and Dustin Oxford. Somewhere along the way, we decided that there was other artists in the Cedar Rapids area primarily, and we figured out that if we had a team of people we could maybe accomplish a little bit more. The next person that we added was Collin Cook. But now we’re at a point where we have, at least all the artists that are on our roster is me, Collin Cook, we have Dustin Oxford, we have Dylan Newton, which he goes by ‘DJN’ now or something like that.
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And we have Mike Walker, Kinny Kindig, which is, Kinny’s the only one that doesn’t live in Cedar Rapids, he lives in Burlington. He plays a lot of shows in Burlington, kind of does his own shows down there. Yeah so we get him up here every once in a while to play. We’re all really good friends.
So recently we added Bigzz. He’s a local club DJ. He plays at The Country Underground quite a bit. I had actually met him probably a handful of years ago. I don’t know what clicked within this past year but he kind of came out to a couple of our parties and he won a DJ contest that we did for New Year’s Eve. He really just clicked with our group. For me it was, I’d just seen some traits. He was willing to put the extra effort in and help out when we needed it. That’s something that goes a long way for me. So we kind of decided as a group that we really like him as a DJ, as a person, so we offered if he wanted to join the team. We’re just a team of DJs and artists.
The DJ contest, I was just gonna ask as you were mentioning that you added a new guy, if there was like some kind of process?
I mean, the DJ contest was some kind of promotional thing. It was a way to help us gain awareness about our New Year’s Eve party. I don’t remember the exact specifics of it, but the DJs that were interested they would obviously help promote or share our event, create awareness to their circles. That’s not something that we do often, and we had two open timeslots. So it’s a good way to give people a chance that are maybe not as well-known DJs or somebody that we might not notice or know about. But with their efforts, and you know Smokahauntas and Bigzz were the two that won, they really put in quite a bit of effort and deserved to win obviously. I probably wouldn’t have known about, you know, they weren’t really on my radar. And now, after Biggs joined our team, and after that contest, I feel like it created a lot of awareness about Smokahauntas too. Because after that, she’s played probably four or five shows in Iowa now? She lives right on the edge of Iowa, I think, in the Quad Cities. I don’t know if she lives in Iowa or on the Illinois side, but they have something really special going on over there, but she wasn’t really on anybody’s radar. We didn’t really know about her that much and I think that helped create that awareness and she’s played Kosmic Kingdom last weekend, and she’s playing 515, and she’s played a couple shows in Iowa City, and another show in Des Moines. Yeah, so we’re definitely looking to bring her back to play another show for us at some point.
I think we kind of hit all the points here. Is there anything else that you’d want to add or anything like that?
No, I mean we kind of went over all the artists that are on the roster. I guess, looking towards the future we’ll see where IowaTechno goes.
You guys have a website?
Well we kind of do. We have a domain, we had a website that Dustin was in charge of that. It’s kind of, I think it’s blank right now maybe.
Well you’re on Facebook, and Snapchat.
Yeah Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Well I don’t really use Twitter as much. So keep an eye on all those areas if you want to see what we have going on.
And then you have the membership cards.
Yup, we give those away at our events.
Those are always for sale right?
Yeah it’s just kind of a cool little thing. Basically, once you come to our party you’re a member. So if you want to show off that you’re a member you can get a card. Plus we do some other cool little things. We’ll do some free membership nights once in a while. Maybe once or twice a year usually. As long as you show up with your membership card you’ll get in for free. Every underground or big event that we do that’s not like a bar party we will draw a random member number, and whoever that member is gets in for free, gets on the guest list. So that’s one of the other perks. We haven’t done any discounted merch yet for membership cards, but that’s something we will do probably at some point in time. I feel like I’m missing one other thing. Oh. So we do do a party at like a bar, then we usually do the same thing, we’ll draw a random member number. But instead of getting free entry—‘cause usually the bar parties we do are free—you’ll get like some sort of bar tab or something.
And then you said something about five-year?
Oh, five-year plan for IowaTechno.
I don’t really have a five-year plan I guess. The goal that we have is, one thing that we try to do is bring in artists that don’t necessarily get to play in Iowa, or don’t necessarily ever play in Iowa. Just some new artists that we get to experience. We’ve brought Brennen Grey in for my birthday, he’s from LA. Well he lives in LA during the winter and he lives in Berlin during the summer. And then we brought Raul Facio from El Paso, Texas, and DJ Deeon from Chicago. Most recently we had Juheun from Octopus for Halloween party and he’s from Arizona, Phoenix I think. So we like to bring in artists that are kind of up and coming.
It sounds like you’re looking to expand that.
Yeah, so definitely the goal is to try to bring in bigger names that people don’t necessarily get to see but maybe they’ve heard of. Just kind of make those connections ‘cause a handful of our artists like Collin Cook, and Mike Walker, and Dylan Newton, they produce—you know Collin and Walker, really Collin Cook, produces quite a bit. Walker does as well and Dylan as well. So bringing in some of these artists from out of state, and even out of the country—we had Mark EG from the UK. It allows them to make those connections with some of those guys that have some of their own connections and hopefully, maybe get them out to the rest of the US and the world. So that’s all we got for the five year plan.
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