Core Values Matter
Right now, you can fake a shiny, auto-tuned, & perfectly quantized song with technology. But no plug-in can give you real quality; that comes from the soul. Mixing music should bring the artist & the performance into focus.
I'm a music mixer who believes the sound is the song. Every band can find its audience if the recordings represent your vision & help the listener feel like they know you. My goal is to help your recordings match the music in your head. Contact me for audio solutions in music or podcasts.
Satisfied Clients
The Only Way To Know For Sure. Click the titles to listen.
Quinto Imperio
Cronica Immigrante [2017]
Quinto Imperio's music comes heavily influenced from central, south america, and africa, as well as a piece on social justice, calling out immigration issues, and promoting community pride.
¡Esso! Afrojam Funkbeat
Loc@s, Cold Bed, & Mundo Vale (vocal & instrumental)
¡ESSO! Afrojam Funkbeat is a dynamic musical ensemble formed in Chicago in 2013. They perform a variety of roots rock inspired dance music from North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean Islands
All Extinct Animals
Live In The Future, Monsters Resurrected, Paradise Fire
Abstracted sound art comprised of tape, synths, noise, & beats.
feedbacula
NOW
"A part of Chicago's thriving experimental music scene since 2008, feedbacula are a prolific husband and wife duo that blends together elements of dance, electronic, noise and found audio to create a jarringly original sound...."
fAbrics
Recorded while the members were finishing high school, this garage-psych trio was the genesis of the current Chicago band, Electric Sheep.
Jon Z. Extract
Catchy children's music from a founding member of fAbrics & Electric Sheep.
Electric Sheep
Do Androids Dream?
Carrying the garage torch for millenials with innovative psych-pop.
Black Bear Combo
Live at Lincoln Hall
4 tracks of high-energy Balkan dance party music, recorded live at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, & mixed by Ezra for vinyl.
Erick Deshaun Dorris
Erick Deshaun Dorris brings us "The Digital Divide", an album that believes it's a TV show. There is no TV show. This album was completely tracked by Dorris using his iPod and keyboard (except for a snare drum on "Funeral Poem" performed by Dersu Burrows of Black Bear Combo), & mixed/mastered by C.Ezra Lange. The Digital Divide is a combination dance party and meditation filled with strong arrangements and melodies that will stay in your head.
Bad Mashadi
Ehsan M, born and raised in Mashhad Iran, Chicago resident since 2000, unfinished physics studies in Tehran Azad University, graduated in cinema studies from Columbia College Chicago, taxi driver, and self taught musician. Badmashadi is an original Iranian music project that also steals from Romani, jazz, and electronic music styles. (I recorded these two songs, but did not mix them. _Ezra.)
You.
If you have a project in mind, contact me. Your work is my next greatest accomplishment.
Podcast editing/mixing, or mixing from sound files/stems: $12-55/hr (depending on complexity); 1st round of revisions is FREE, each additional set of revisions $12/hr.
Tracking fees depend on the project.
Contact me for an accurate quote.
Raw Vs Mixed
Here's a demonstration of the dramatic difference between unmixed & mixed music. In the first section of each track you will hear what I recorded [or the tracks I received]; the second half is what I delivered to the client. PLEASE NOTE: As a result of the mixing process, there is a significant volume change in the middle of the track, please set your computer volume accordingly.
Raves & Praise
Musician Comments
Geoff Burkhart
"Working with Ezra was a great experience. He really had a way of making the sounds in my head happen on a track; my vague ideas became concrete with his ability to intuit and his technical know how."
Devin Bragulla
"Ezra was fantastic to work with! It's rare to find someone with such a broad understanding of music, an expert grasp of recording technology, & the flexibility to work with a wide range of musicians. I'd work with him again in a heartbeat."
Anna Gregoline
"Ezra has been my recording, mixing, and tracking engineer on multiple, vastly different musical projects. While his professionalism was obvious, I could not have anticipated how essential he would be to the process of both recording and mixing. His expertise is astounding, his sensitivity to the artistic process impeccable, and his creative workarounds to overcome problems were numerous and impressive. Old-hat studio rats, new-to-the-process noise-makers, or extreme avant-garde artists - I highly recommend him for any and all types of music recording and mixing both in the field and in the studio."
Woosung Alice
"I'm so grateful other musicians urged me to get in touch with Ezra. He is meticulous, intelligent, and intuitively understood what I was aiming for in the recording. He was also very patient with me, thoroughly addressing all my nit-picky concerns. The mixes had clarity, warmth, and presence, bringing out elements in my sound that I wasn't fully aware of before. I look forward to working with him on my next album!"
Armando Perez
"Yo, this kid can handle whatever you throw at him. Ezra is an energetic performer with a great ear and solid creative ideas. On stage he is dynamic and experienced in multiple capacities. The same can be said in the studio, live recording,editing, and mixing. Work with him and watch your own understanding of music grow."
Erick Deshaun Dorris
"I don't come across many people who match my passion around the work, but Ezra is one of the few. When I tell him what I am going to do, he responds critically. When I celebrate a success, he pushes me to do it again, and do it better. He is one of the most idiosyncratic people I have ever worked with. As a colleague, he is focused on continuous improvement and he is rarely satisfied. When I am putting together a creative team, Ezra is my first call 99% of the time. For the past 9 years, I have worked as both Ezra's supervisor, peer and have been in a support role on his teams. We've recorded music together, played in live ensembles together, filmed videos, designed websites, mixed albums and more. I am extremely proud, and grateful, for every project we've been able to work on."
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