Synthetic Elements

Todd McMullan (song, guitar) Kyle Hernandez (bass) Mike Blecha: keyboards, guitar, trumpet, choir Brett Carson: drums Randy Johnson: trombone, washing board, accordion
Raised in a small town in desert Colorado, high school students Todd McMullan (song, guitar) and Kyle Hernandez (bass) joined forces in the spring of 2001 with the idea of forming a band as soon as they migrated in the following months to the capital Denver. Upon their arrival, they discovered the ska punk beyond Less Than Jake / Goldfinger / Rancid and enlisted Mike Blecha and Brett Carson. After two and a half years of tour and two self-produced albums: Straight From Skanktown (2001) and Out of Order (2003).
When they return, they sit down to record a new eponymous EP and benefit from inch shots of local programmers and radio hosts. It is therefore with growing popularity and 400 concerts on the counter (alongside The Skatalites , English Beat , The Slackers , Mustard Plug , Mad Caddies ) that they returned in 2007 to Denver to set up their own recording studio (Stockout Studios) and to set up Standing Still, which achieved a good local success and began to make the band talk at the national level. The quartet who does not work and recruits a fifth member the following year: Randy Johnson comes to diversify the punk skankers before the arrival of their fourth full opus: Trashed Out Paradise in 2009.