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Alex James Muscat is a San Francisco born Singer/Songwriter/Multi-Instrumentalist who is most well known as a recording engineer and as the founder of Last Stop Records. Available as a freelance engineer/producer for work on your music & video projects. You can see him performing regularly with Tall Shadows.
Born and rasied in San Francisco CA, AJM grew up taking piano lessons and went to high school in the Sunset district during the late 80's. Most of his youth involved starting up bands with friends, playing his Fender Jazz Bass and making analog recordings in his parents basement on the now long worn out Tascam porta two 4-track recorder. At 18, AJM found himself living in Spokane Washington (playing in and recording local bands) before making his way to Boston, Massachusetts to attend the Berklee College of Music, working as a licensed street performer near the subway in Harvard Square, Cambridge. "in the first year, I found myself playing down the corner from Martin Sexton and Mary Lou Lord. Plus, I was enrolled in the same songwriting classes as Melissa Ferrick." "Having grown up with little exposure to independent music culture, I was completely blown away with all the dedication & talent I was seeing and hearing. To this day I still find the memories a great source of inspiration to me." Soon afterwards alternative music arrived. AJM bought a P.A. and co-founded grunge act Ten To Six, singing and co-writing songs with guitarist Tony Valli. The group enjoyed local success touring the Northeast, winning a battle of the bands contest in Lowell at some local club and paid some dues on the road. Highlights included a residency at the Lindwood Grille, WBCN BeerFEST and playing the Rat in Kenmore Square.
Last Stop Records was founded in 2000 by Alex James Muscat as a forum to advocate San Francisco's independent music community. Originally created as an oulet for his own musical projects, Last Stop Records has a growingly profound discography, with albums from some formidable local talent. Artists who adhere to a bare bones, do it yourself buisness practice when recording and distributing their own music. As the label began to grow and space became available, Alex invested in a Pro Tools rig, eventually building a recording studio, which is currently Muscat Sound. Over the last five years Alex has recorded dozens of bands and singer/songwriters, and performs regularly in a number of local bands. In 2007 he played a special engagement with Microsoft founder Bill Gates at the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco, playing a custom shop Gibson Les Paul. Tall Shadows played the afterparty and are are always available for private events. In, 2008 AJM finished producing his 3rd solo release, the ghost of electricity and the first PHIL VOID album - delusions of the pampered and has plans to make a lot more. "the idea with the (PV) project is to use creativity, technology and improvisation to create some music and release it." A new album "Living the dream" will be out by christmas. A new song "jetpac" is posted on myspace and the Last Stop Records mp3 player.
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After
graduating in 1994, AJM relocated back to San Francisco to manage a
deli on California street saving up enough money to buy an 8-track recorder,
a Fender Blues Deville and an Epiphone Sheraton II. Finding local talent
and recording his owns songs and bands, he started working towards producing
and engineering professionally. After
setting up a short lived studio in Marin County and the eventual completion
of his first album BLUEPRINT in 1999, Alex began talking with
producers and independent A&R folks, who had expressed interest in shopping
it to the major labels, but after relocating to Los Angeles, and spending
a year in Hollywood, working with former 
