Ep. 63 - New Years 2021: A Retrospective ft. Genta Tamashiro

BrownTown on BrownTown. The gang reflects on 2020, unpacking the
episodes that helped us get through a truly unprecedented year.
From coronavirus to George Floyd uprisings to national elections
to our everyday mental health, BrownTown and audio engineer Genta
Tamashiro discuss creating the podcast against the backdrop of a
tragic yet powerful year.


BrownTown and Genta methodically and chronologically detail the
year's episodes with regard to COVID-19, quarantine, and
transitioning from in-person to virtual recording. As the
behind-the-scenes production changed, so did the episodes
themselves, each leaning into how the pandemic and/or uprisings
implicated the episode's topic. Even before COVID/quarantine in
the early months of 2020, the episodes were packed with deeply
relevant topics such as the Chicago city budget, the
prison-industrial complex, and Black-centered, Black-owned media
that were all heavily revisited in mass in the latter part of the
year.


With 19 total episodes, the most in one year since Bourbon 'n
BrownTown's inception, 2020 also brought 7 sequel episodes (1
third installment), only 1 with no guests, and 5 episodes with
two guests at the same time. In addition to breaking down each
episode, the team chops it out about SoapBox projects Chi DNA,
Census 2020, and Obama CBA; the 8-week Instagram Lives during
quarantine; and much more. For better or worse, here's to 2021!


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GUEST


Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Genta Tamashiro is a
creative devotee of the artistic community. He attended the
specialized magnet school Denver School of the Arts for middle
and high school, which gave him a solid foundation in musical
performance and theory as well as an introduction into audio
engineering. After spending some time at the University of
Hawai’i at Manoa, Genta moved to Chicago to pursue a career in
audio engineering where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Audio
Design and Production from Columbia College in 2015. Through his
freelance audio work, he has traveled around the country and the
world with notable artists such as the Becca Kaufman Orchestra,
The Way Down Wanderers, and Masego. When he is not running the
sound for a band somewhere, you can find him producing his own
music or editing podcasts for SoapBox and other creative
organizations. Listen to more about this life, work, and
perspectives on hip-hop in Episode 5 - Hip-Hop in the Age of Spin
(2017) and all of Bourbon 'n BrownTown's previous New Years
episodes.


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CREDITS: Intro/outro song Karen by Yvie
Oddly. Audio engineered by Genta Tamashiro.with assistance from
Kiera Battles. Episode photo by Sean Kelly.


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