By Josh Adams Special to OnMilwaukee.com Published Feb 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM

Formed by Milwaukee staples Phantom Channel (Adam James) and LMNtlyst (Brandon Birchbauer), the Lab Partners started out as merely an experiment in music.

After more than 150 songs written and recorded at the Milwaukee Conservatory of Music, it dawned on them that they might have something substantial.

With Phantom Channel's live drumming and LMNtylst's wide-range of instrumentation, the Lab Partners created an organic sound that's been a recent hot track on Milwaukee's progressively growing Independent radio scene.

At first, their self-titled debut CD takes listeners down a 30-second path of solid Milwaukee Hip-Hop flow. Within a minute you're traveling down a new road of melodic and uncategorized sound.

This sonic evolution is the result of one of Milwaukee's most prolific producers LMNtlyst and the evolving musicianship of Rusty Ps Co-MC Phantom Channel. Sprinkled with radio friendly hooks "The Lab Partners" keeps listeners on their toes with a hypnotic undertone that grows your curiosity from track to track. With a career worth of material in the vault one must wonder, what journey will the Lab Partners take us on next.


On this edition of "Sound Pass" the Lab Partners talk about their inception and how free styling played a huge part in creating a unprecedented body of work. Mindpool Live presents, The Lab Partners.
 

Josh Adams Special to OnMilwaukee.com
Mindpool Live Producer, Director and Blogger Josh Adams has made a career of following bands around the globe. He spent the first decade of his career as a video director and designer with Tina Turner, Beastie Boys, Barenaked Ladies, Janet Jackson and others. Josh now owns Mindpool Live, a film and video production company nestled in Milwaukee's East Side just steps from OnMilwaukee.com's headquarters.

Josh, along with Mindpool Live Producer Ryan Schaber, focus on the production of high-quality video vignettes that present some of the most intriguing bands in Milwaukee and the world. The Mindpool Live Web video series "Sound Pass" is an interview-based piece giving viewers an inside look at some of the country's most relevant musicians, while "Open Mic" is a intimate performance piece woven together with documentary style interviews -- giving viewers unprecedented access to the inner workings some of the most prolific artists in Milwaukee and the country. "Sound Pass" and "Open Mic" are featured in Josh's OnMilwaukee.com blog.

Josh grew up in South Milwaukee and resides in Wauwatosa with his wife and equally ambitious music connoisseur Sandi Anderson. Josh believes Milwaukee is music industry's best kept secret and hopes it won't be that way for long. "There are artists in Milwaukee and Wisconsin that are doing things that are unique to the whole world and the industry is beginning to notice."

Josh has recently directed or produced video for some of the largest festivals in the world including, Montreux Jazz Festival, ACL Festival, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Milwaukee's own Summerfest. He has also won two Midwest Emmy's for Mindpool's production of Bucks and Brewers programming.

Credits include:

  • Beastie Boys "3MCs and One DJ"
  • Handsome Boy Modelling School's "Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip-Hop Like This)"
  • Journey "2001"
  • Return To Forever "Live From Montreux" on BluRay"