BIO

Daves (Marks and Conradt) are classically-trained musicians who wrote, performed, and recorded music for over two decades. First meeting at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1985, Dave and Dave were the first two people from the music department to attempt majoring in DRUMS. At that time, Wesleyan had produced a number of piano and vocal majors, but with no official program established, Wesleyan was ill-equipped to handle the two collective, rhythmic souls ‘crazy enough’ to pursue Applied Percussion. A curriculum was soon established under the direction of Rich Jones and the music department has never been the same.

Joining forces as DRUMFOUNDED in 1994, Dave and Dave meddled in everything from theatre, television, and live performances (i.e., destroying keyboards at electronic music festivals), to composing flash cartoon theme songs and music beds, video game tunes, commercial jingles, and award-winning, commercial-radio-morning-show theme songs … OK—maybe just one award-winning, commercial-radio-morning-show theme song (Joe & Timmo Morning Show / 92.9 – The Eagle). Drumfounded has completed 10 collections of material—all written, recorded, and produced by Daves. 

From “Firstapes” to “Mother Rocker” and lots of unreleased material in between, to this day, DRUMFOUNDED’s music still remains atypical, engaging, and unpredictable.

REVIEWS

• “DRUMFOUNDED’s style is most often quirky, harmonically obtuse, sometimes and rhythmically playful almost always, and consistently clever and full of interesting twists; all with a high level of craftsmanship. Sometimes the craftsmanship isn't evident, but only when it’s supposed to be that way.”

– Dr. Michael Ropp (musician extraordinaire and long-time music mate)

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• “The unclassifiable DRUMFOUNDED.”     

– Kyle Tonniges, Music Writer

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“Unlike so much of what I hear these days, Drumfounded is INTERESTING. It interests me. That sounds bland and redundant, I know; but there’s very little music out there that interests me anymore. This does.”

– Robert Brady, Bassist, Musician, Great Friend

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“Annoyingly infectious.”

– KTGL, The Eagle

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“A studio frenzy of enlightenment?!”  

– Kelly Powell, The Reader, Omaha, Nebraska