I am Jason Prine. Some people know me as JZN, Bruce Beer Drive, PRiNE, Prine, Jason, the Prine of prine.nebula, and well, there’s Jason. I started making music in 1994 when a friend passed along to me a classic “Tracker” program for my PC and a bunch of samples…I then found myself immersed in the world of sampling anything and everything I could get my hands on, starting out with Hip Hop instrumentals and Trip Hop. In 1999, in conjunction with Tar Media Productions, I released my debut EP “Desh Pardesh”; I referred to it lovingly at the time as “Thrift Shop”; my own take on Trip Hop and Instrumental Hip Hop a la DJ Shadow. That EP served me well and was able to create a starting point for me to start gigging as Jason Prine in 1999 and then as half of prine.nebula in 2000. My music transformed during that 1999 to 2003 period into Breakbeat, Jungle / DnB, Techno, and well, Leftfield type beats. I had the opportunity play quite a few gigs solo and in prine.nebula during that period in the Toronto, Canada area. prine.nebula was a cool underground force of myself and Steve Cowan, playing Breakbeat, Jungle, and Tech House shows; it was all live, improv and off the wall – the only way Steve and I knew how to do it. We really did luck out playing at WEMF, OM, Hullabaloo, Nightmare, and many underground parties and clubs of that era in Toronto. We actually opened for Astral Projection in 2001 I think…but that’s another story. Steve AKA Nebula AKA half of Infindebula is someone you should check out; shout outs to Steve! As life goes on, I took a break from music from 2003 and found myself being called back to music in 2011 when I released a few compilations of my chill and upbeat tracks from my vault. With those releases out of the way and into the wild for free, I found myself being reinvented as Bruce Beer Drive, developing my own Synthwave sound, initially sparked by Com Truise and Kavinsky’s 100 bpm to 110 bpm beats. However, I find my stuff is not as moody as most Synthwave I find and I typically like to call it “Upbeat Synthwave”. For the curious Bruce Beer Drive was the street I grew up on in my hometown of Brampton, Ontario, Canada...and I’m proudly a Brampton guy! I released a few EPs and LP as Bruce Beer Drive (“Water Colours”, “Feathers”, and “Thought I’d Put This Here” respectively), produced on my laptop, mainly from material I would put together back and forth on the train between consulting gigs or in the evening after I put my kids to bed. My second full length LP as Bruce Beer Drive came in the fall of 2015 (“Fletch Bueller”), after some changes in my life provided me time and inspiration. Fun fact about that album is that it was all produced on my iPad Mini using a handful of apps…that album actually turned me into a real iOS head when it came to making tracks and sound design. After being reintroduced to Armand Van Helden, Duck Sauce, Bob Sinclair, and tons of House in 2016, I found myself morphing in JZN, my House moniker. I released my debut LP in Spring 2017 as JZN (“001: 130BPM (Tech House Observations)”); the entire LP is 130 bpm (as you guessed from the title) …a good friend of mine refers to the opening track “Discoh” as a “real banger”…but I’ll let you be the judge. That album was a blast, as I was able to take the best of sound design on my iPad and combine it with production on my laptop to really take it to a special place. I’m always working on new stuff and look forwarding to sharing with you my new creations. And yeah, maybe a bio should be in the third person…but I’m here, so I’ll write it in the first. Cheers 😊