With a combined experience of over 50 years in recording studio music production and audio engineering, the talented staff at CCM Recording Studios has the know-how and perspective to give your project a truly professional sound.
Darren Skanson
Owner/Producer/Chief Engineer
Darren is the owner and chief engineer at CCM Studios as well as producer and artist in his own right. Darren has been recording, writing, and producing for 25 years. Establishing the studio in 1995, Darren’s credits now include 2 Billboard charting CD’s that he wrote, produced, and engineered, a Coalition Of Visionary Retailers Award for his music Acoustitherapy, and hundreds of sessions and projects.
Darren has a Bachelor’s Degree in Music with concentrations in recording, composition, and guitar performance from The University Of Minnesota, Moorhead and spent several years touring nationally with progressive band Mata Hari as well as classical guitar and violin duo Watson & Company.
As a producer and engineer, Darren has recorded projects as diverse as classical to hip hop, metal to jazz as well as corporate work like music for video and voice over. Darren’s most recent work as an artist can be found at www.skanson.com.
Mike Warkentin
Specialty: Hip-hop/Rap
What’s goin on! Mike is a rap and hip-hop specialist at CCM Recording Studios and is a funky-ass DJ, MC, percussionist. He makes hot fire, whether it be albums, instrumentals, mix-tapes, audio explorations or whatever else comes to mind.
Mike and his brother Zach are the nucleus of the jazz-funk-hip-hop group, Broken Tongues, and are almost finished with their debut album entitled, Vocal Chords. Look out for the first single entitled, Does Hip-Hop Remember the Jazz?, in the coming months.
Mike graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Spring of 2006 with a degree in Visual Communications with emphasis in Audio Design. He toured the SE for several years performing with his old band, Dirty5Thirty, and now resides in his hometown of Denver because he believes in the budding Colorado music scene. Live, instrumental hip-hop is coming to Colorado in a very big way.
Rex Anderson
Specialty: Rock/Metal
Rex is our newest engineer. After proving himself a capable engineer through our internship program, Rex has worked hard to bring the noise back to CCM. He is an accomplished guitarist and bassist, as well as a player in the Video Game Music community. He currently plays with drummer Andy Porter in Random Battles, a Postal-Service style VGM project, as well as wedding/karaoke band Candi and the Freams.
Rex has a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Towson University in his home state of Maryland. Being a former Baltimore native, Rex is no stranger to vibrant, diverse music scenes. He hopes to lead the pack in finding fresh new talent and bringing it to the masses. He’s the rock ‘n’ roll yin to Mike’s hip-hop yang. If your band is looking to kick ass and take names, then Rex is the sound man for the job.