Zachary Hansen

Zachary Hansen
Oddity Bar 2015 with the immortal Danny Albert, Paul Budd, Corey GladHeFelter and Kirpatrick Thomas
Oddity Bar 2015 with the immortal Danny Albert, Paul Budd, Corey GladHeFelter and Kirpatrick Thomas
Background information
Born (1972-08-19) August 19, 1972 (age 52)
OriginSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
GenresIndie rock
OccupationMusician/Engineer
InstrumentDrums
Years active19
LabelsDropHit

Zachary Hansen is the former drummer for such Newark, Delaware bands as Jake and the Stiffs,[1] Medicine Man (and the sexy new illusion), Raised on Sugar, Spindrift,[2] and D.Machine[3] among other appearances on numerous Mid-Atlantic region recordings with such bands as The Stone Road Stalkers, Blue Water, and The Sonny Mishra Project. In 1993 Zachary along with partner Eric Teather founded Manic Music Recording Studio, recording such acts an Ellemmenno, Spindrift, and Homegrown. In 1994 he along with partner Steve Funk founded one of the first mp3 websites featuring free music and news, drophit.com[4][5] which later turned into DropHit Records producing numerous albums,[6][7] compilation releases[8][9][10] and promoting musicians worldwide.[11] Hansen went on to own and operate a dot com data company based in Las Vegas, Nevada and is currently writing/recording music with Former Jake and The Stiffs[1] front man Randy America. Starting in 2013 he served as the Director of Connected Devices at the largest North American music distribution company Music Choice[12] overseeing all customer facing web/mobile/stb music platforms working in the first of its kind "real-time streaming video channels" allowing multiple users to watch synch-streamed music videos. In 2015 he began work on a revamp of DropHit.com – iAmRadioWorld.com [13] showcasing independent music from around the world.

  1. ^ a b Dan (15 September 2008). "Danthology: Jake and the Stiffs at Mojo 13". Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  2. ^ "XEMU Records: Spindrift". www.xemu.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. ^ eMinor. "D. Machine – Rock from Newark, DE". ReverbNation. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  4. ^ "DropHit.net - UnSigned Artists - MP3 - Video - Blog - Etc". Archived from the original on 2008-05-21. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  5. ^ "Original Digital Technologies – ODT – DropHit Records – drophit.com – Main Web Link". 1999-04-23. Archived from the original on 1999-04-23. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  6. ^ "Drophit Records". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  7. ^ "Spindrift (4)". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  8. ^ "Drophit.net Compilation at Matt Germak Band". www.mattgermak.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  9. ^ "Awards – Lynn Julian". bostonactress.org. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  10. ^ "Ash Riot presented by IndieMusicPeople.com". Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  11. ^ "• Photos of Drophit •". www.tuugo.us. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  12. ^ "Music Choice". MusicChoice.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  13. ^ "iAmRadioWorld". iAmRadioWorld.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.