Record Producer. Interactive Developer.

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Thursday, January 01, 2009
BOSTON – Francis Phan, aka p-franchise, aka Franchismo, is one of Boston’s premier music producers in Hip Hop, R&B and Spoken Word music and remixer of House dance music. He is the inaugural recipient of the Producer of The Year Award at the 2006 New England Urban Music Awards.
Francis along with rap artist Omega Red are co-founders of the production camp The Jugganautz. Francis has produced Iyeoka’s critically acclaimed album Black & Blues and Ayisha Knight’s album Until, which Boston Globe’s Steve Morse described as a “multicultural marvel”. Francis also produced Iyeoka’s single “For Rwanda”, which was featured on civil rights leader Ambassador Andrew Young’s documentary “Rwanda Rising”. In 2008, Francis produced TV show theme songs for BET-J’s “My Two Cents” and “Leading Men”.
A composer and classically trained pianist since the age of eight, Francis produces music out his Boston based recording studio facility, dubbed the Slingshot. Francis is as versed an engineer as a musician. Francis is a former “Golden Ears” student of Grammy nominated mix engineer David Moulton.
Francis has degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering where he did his thesis work in psychoacoustics, neural networks and speech recognition. His research was published for a graduate level textbook by CRC press. He has also developed audio software for Cakewalk, iCast and Harmonix Music (makers of video game Rock Band) where he has credits for the Sony PlayStation 2 game “Frequency”. Francis is a former executive officer for Sonicbids, an online music agency.
As a technologist, Francis specializes in user interface software development and is presently programming Flex and iPhone applications. Francis has been involved in work for Disney World, Boston Museum of Science, Antrhopologie, Sprint, Alltel Wireless and Borders Books.
Francis runs his own record label and production company Phanai Entertainment. He also serves on an advisory board to Project Think Different, a non profit media organization creating positive messages through music and video. He has been commissioned to write and produce music for fundraising events for advocacy groups such as Boston’s Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Viet Aid. Francis is a former faculty adjunct at Eastern Nazarene College for music production instruction.
A former sub three hour marathoner, Francis’ other passion is world travel. His wanderlust has included Spain, Brazil, Vietnam, Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, England, Taiwan, Thailand and Burning Man.
Francis and his first and most prized synthesizer, the Roland Juno 106

Francis Phan and his Juno 106

July 01, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO – Francis Phan is a record producer and interactive software developer.  He is a co-founder of the Hip-Hop production group “The Jugganautz” and is the inaugural recipient of the New England Urban Music Awards Producer of The Year.

Francis has produced Iyeoka’s critically acclaimed album Black & Blues and Ayisha Knight’s album Until, which Boston Globe’s Steve Morse described as a “multicultural marvel”. Francis also produced Iyeoka Okoawo’s single “For Rwanda”, which was featured on civil rights leader Ambassador Andrew Young’s documentary “Rwanda Rising”. Francis produced TV show theme songs for BET-J’s “My Two Cents” and “Leading Men”.

Francis has managed the early music career of rapper O’mega Red and is presently partners with David Franz where they produce and manage the music career of Iyeoka.

A composer and classically trained pianist since the age of eight, Francis produces music out his recording studio, dubbed the Slingshot. Francis is as versed an engineer as a musician. Francis is a former “Golden Ears” student of Grammy nominated mix engineer David Moulton.

Francis has degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering where he did his thesis work in psychoacoustics, neural networks and speech recognition. His research was published for a graduate level textbook by CRC press. He has also developed audio software for Cakewalk and iCast.  Francis was the fourth employee for Harmonix Music, makers of the video game Rock Band franchise.  Francis was also a former executive officer for Sonicbids, an online music agency.   Francis is presently a user experience prototype developer for the advertising division of Yahoo!.

As a technologist, Francis specializes in user interface design and development.  Francis has also been involved in work for Disney World, Boston Museum of Science, Antrhopologie, Sprint, Google Picasa, Alltel Wireless and Borders Books.  Francis has won the iPhone category in the 2009 Boston Music Hack Day and was part of a winning team for MIT’s 2010 Semantic Web Linked Data competition.

Francis runs his own record label and interactive media agency Phanai Media Group. He also serves on an advisory board to Project Think Different, a non profit media organization creating positive messages through music and video. He has been commissioned to write and produce music for fundraising events for advocacy groups such as Boston’s Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Boston Viet Aid. Francis is a former faculty adjunct at Eastern Nazarene College for music production instruction.

A former sub three hour marathoner, Francis’ other passion is world travel. His wanderlust has included Spain, Brazil, Vietnam, Sweden, Belgium, Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, England, Taiwan, Thailand and Burning Man.  A long time resident of Boston, Francis now calls San Francisco home.