Joe Lester

My name is Joe Lester. I’m a Los Angeles-based composer/producer/engineer.

A bit more about me: I have over 20 years experience as a professional musician, composer, session and touring performer. I majored in Music Theory & Performance and minored in Jazz performance at UCSC in 2004. I’m an original and current member of the band Intronaut. I’ve also played with and toured the world with a diverse array of artists. As a composer and session performer, I’ve worked with artists such as Mestis, Secret Chiefs 3, Cloudkicker, Clipping and many others. As a studio engineer and a composer, I also work with a variety of hip hop artists and producers such as Kenoe Jordan and Hollywood Beats, who have credits with artists like Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj, NBA Youngboy, Nipsey Hussle, Roddy Ricch and others.

I think that I work particularly well under direction and incorporating feedback into revisions. My hip hop clients adore my ability to replicate the general sound or feel of a reference track into a new composition with no licensing issues. As far as diversity of style goes, I think that my varied background in styles as diverse as jazz, heavy metal, rap, progressive rock and r&b gives me eclecticism and nuance as a composer. I am accustomed to working for clients remotely, when needed.

At home I work with Logic Pro X, Apollo interfaces, Korg and Akai controllers, Output and Splice sample libraries, and more nice guitars and basses than I should list here. I am an endorsing musical artist with the following brands: Zon Guitars, Dunable Guitars, Ampeg Amplification, Aguilar Amplification, EMG Pickups, Darkglass Electronics, and Jim Dunlop Guitar Products. I also own and use Neural DSP, Spitfire Audio, Dada Life, XLN Audio, Unison, BABY Audio, Taqsim and Future Audio Workshop paid plugins.

Some of my professionally commissioned compositions as well as works-in-progress can be heard here:

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Some of my personal music compositions can be heard here:

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