MC: What is Signal Path all about?

Signal Path is a musical project created by Ryan Burnett (guitar/production) and Damon Metzner (drums). The band started in the unlikely mountain enclave of Missoula, Montana in 2001, but now is squarely based in the Denver, CO electronic music scene. Musically, we try to incorporate deep melodic ideas that wrap around a compositionally focused core of intricate rhythm and massive low end. Both Ryan and I also draw a lot of influence from american roots music, and try to incorporate those influences with our electronic production. Rhythmically, we definitely identify with a lot of glitch, hip hop and big beat music, but intertwine acoustic instrumentation as well. Throughout our songs, we regularly incorporate acoustic guitars, mandolins, and lapsteel guitar that weave inside sidechained synths, massive leads, and heavy basslines. All of the acoustic instrumentation in our production is played live in the studio by Ryan and later chopped up and glitched to incorporate into the production. Our goal is to produce deeply meaningful and unique music that can be both beautiful and intense live.

MC: What do you have going on at the moment?

Right now we are 100% focused on our free album Imaginary Lines (which dropped today!) and getting ready for one of the most exciting headlining tours in our history. We couldn’t be more thrilled to share the stage with some of our favorite artists in the nation including Blockhead, Bluetech, Designer Drugs, EPROM, and EOTO. Having the opportunity to perform with artists of this caliber is a HUGE inspiration. Setting up a tour like this is something that we’ve dreamed about doing for a very long time.

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Catch them at The Roxy Theater in Hollywood on September 25th.

MC: What’s next?

We’re extremely focused on making the next several months some of the most positive in the history of the band. We couldn’t be more proud of the music we’re putting out on the new album Imaginary Lines, and we can’t wait for the fans to hear it live. We took the summer off to write, record, and produce what we feel is our most complete studio work to date. We just really can’t wait to get on the road and share this music with the fans live. Ultimately NONE of this would be possible without their support.

MC: Anything else that you want to share?

We really just want to thank all the fans for everything. As I said, absolutely NONE of this could happen without them which is one of the reasons we give the music away for free. Of course we’d like to give props to www.mediacontender.com for the opportunity to share these thoughts and help spread the word. We’d also really love to thank all the artists we’re fortunate enough to work with including the amazing visual artist Josh Keyes who donated this fantastic piece of art for use as our album cover.

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Click to Download “Signal Path – Verbal Yes”
Taken From the Album: Imaginary Lines
Released Sept 1st, 2010
Free Album Download: www.signalpathmusic.com
(Verbal Yes Stream & Download Courtesy of Media Contender)