It’s Chris Bertram, Producer: “”Alien Sex Cult,” was a nickname that did not stick to me in college, but became a curious moniker. The band’s unique alternative rock sound grew out of experimental synthesizer sounds I helped produced at a college cable T.V. station, Peralta Colleges Television. The station manager needed music between shows, so I improvised and used previous band management experience for a band that had won Sacramento’s KZAP’s “Battle of the Bands.” “I became interested in Electronic Music while taking music theory and electronics at community college. I’ve always made prototype sound oscillators, and grew familiar with the attack, decay and sustain portion of a sound. I learned that every sound has an envelope and that electronic sounds may or may not be based on natural sounds.” “In College at American River College, in Sacramento, I took music and helped manage a band called Panther that played local shows in the Bay Area and Sacramento. The band had won a battle of the bands competition. Later I started a newsprint magazine and tabloid Bay Area Rock Magazine while I lived in Oakland and attended Merritt College in Oakland and transferred to San Francisco State University. The magazine allowed me to interview countless bands and gain backstage access to clubs with press credentials for music. At San Francisco State University I took music: Rock Since the 1960s, and The Roots of Rock and released a debut album that was signed to iTunes, an online music store managed by Apple. The album was recorded at The California Recording Institute where a graduating class wrote papers on the band and engineered a recording session on the band first called T.Y.N. Research. The band recorded further on two inch tape at Woo Woo Productions in Marin County and transitioned to the band: Alien Sex Cult. Further recordings were done in digital at Studio132 in San Francisco the home of: The Hot Tuna Studios, the studio from the former Jefferson Airplane, and also a favorite recording spot for Britney Spears. Partial mastering was done at Fantasy Records Studio in Berkeley by George Horn the golden ear of Fantasy Records. Fantasy Records home of Credence Clearwater Revival and recording studio for Aerosmith, and Fleetwood Mac is in the process of mastering an entire album for the band. I built a website with promotional materials and some of the songs began charting on websites such as mp3.com. When a song hit number one at mp3.com, I called a producer of Eagles legend Don Henley: Steve Jankowski. I asked Steve to produce a horn section for Sentimental Places a strong contender of Alien Sex Cult and he produced the horn section. Steve Jankowski has toured with Aretha Franklin and numerous big named talents. The debut album “Electronics in the Orchestra,” is available at iTunes for music download and available at over 200 outlets worldwide.” “I produced, engineered and played guitar, synthesizer for Alien Sex Cult. I also composed all of the songs under ASCAP and BMI in bands for this album under T.Y.N. Research and Analog Data Enterprises, for Alien Sex Cult. The album Electronics in the Orchestra is protected by a Library of Congress Copyright 2005…” Chris Bertram Key responsibilities: Producer, Album Engineering: Custom Synthesizer and Software, Vocals, Lyrics, Songwriting, and Session Musician. listens to: Various Classic Rock, Modern Rock. Music Influences: Classic Rock, Alternative Album, Modern Rock. Chris formed his music company, Analog Data Enterprises and T.Y.N. Research for the band, Alien Sex Cult to download mp3′s of Alien Sex Cult’s songs. Building on his roots in the Oakland punk rock warehouse scene, Chris is now the editor of Bay Area Rock Magazine an e-zine that started as a print fanzine in 1988, Bay Area Rock Magazine reports the latest news about bands, music trends and developments. Chris is always interested in new artists and developing talent to produce in his recording studio. All music is published by Analog Data Enterprises A.S.C.A.P. and T.Y.N. Research copyright 1985-2001 and 2005 By Chris Bertram, unless otherwise noted when collaborating with studio musicians.