The Network

He drew inspiration from his favorite artists such as Prince, Sly and the Family Stone, and Scritti Politti. After high school Rob decided to follow his passion and began touring the West Coast with a cover band. For the next four years they played shows up to six times a week to a variety of venues and audiences.

In early 2015, yearning for time to explore his own creative vision, Rob began work on a new album, “When you start working on four to five records at a time for other people, and all these other things are going on, you don’t really have a lot of time to think about, ‘Ok, when is my next record going to be done?’” In the course of four months the songs that were to become Binary Affairs took life. The upcoming release of this album marks his long-awaited return to the stage and musicianship.

Extended touring allowed Rob to hone his skills performing but left him with a desire to dig deeper into music production. After a period of intense study, at the age of twenty-four Rob released his first record, Extract. Developing his unique sound and stepping up to vocal duties for the first time, Rob crafted an album that explored his musical roots and established his unmistakable style, collaborating with legendary rocker Dan Reed, of the Dan Reed Network.

Rob’s work soon caught the attention of major record labels, “One of the songs I had written made it to an industry gathering for 107.7 in Seattle where somebody from Virgin Records heard it, then got a hold of me saying, ‘I can have a record deal for you in four weeks,’ and so I said ‘Make it happen!’ …four weeks later I was signed with Sony Epic.”

The record deal gave him firsthand experience of the record industry and producing his own album, “The situation let me move into a production position because I had been given 100 percent creative control of my record – I got to produce it and make decisions that normally you wouldn’t get to make if you didn’t have creative control, so I had instant cred as a producer after that.

All of a sudden I was getting all the requests from bands that wanted me to produce their record. That was when I started to shift from artist to producer.” Rob developed a reputation as a talented, competent producer and produced renowned acts such as Katy Perry, Meredith Brooks, Christian Burghardt, The Fame Riot and Haley Johnsen. In high demand, he pursued record production with passionate dedication.