Scott "Scottinho" Anderson

I grew up on a farm in Minnesota. It made me a nice, honest person. I used to put on the Muppet Show 8-track and pretend I was performing in a concert as I sang along. I took piano lessons and played trombone in the school band. At 16 my mullet and I bought an electric guitar and it changed my life forever. I wore rock T-shirts. I got a job at a restaurant to fund my music habit.

I studied jazz guitar in college because the guitar was cooler than the trombone and I knew the pentatonic scale. While in college, I received some scholarships to study jazz and played as much as I could. After college I moved to Chicago and worked some day gigs, again to support my music habit, and I learned an incredible amount about the real world.

After a few years of that (and a lot of practicing the guitar) I got a masters degree in music at DePaul University. I then began working as a musician full time.

I taught at the Music Arts School in Highland Park and developed a love and respect for not-for-profit community music schools (the only way I'll teach.) I played with Anne Harris' first band. I played a LOT of gigs; weddings, restaurants, concerts, festivals, parties, and even a lesbian Dolly Parton tribute/underwear design contest.

I sang in a church choir. I took classical guitar lessons. I hung out and played with a lot of Brazilians. In 2003 I went to Brazil and recorded with Toninho Horta. That CD, Scottinho Batizado was about my experiences playing capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.

I learned a tremendous amount from making that record, mostly I learned that I love making records. In 2005 I was ready for something different and I moved to NY to try my hand at scoring films. In the first year that I was here I landed two feature films. One of them won a bunch of awards.

Through my work in film, I learned more about how to make recordings. I decided that in between films I'd help people make their records – I'd be a "producer." This part of my career has really kind of taken off for me. And I love it. In 2011 I opened O Lab, my production facility in Brooklyn. From there I make records, compose, arrange, mix and master. It's all hip and "Brooklyn- y" there.

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