James Kananen is an Audio Engineer and Record Producer from Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland Ohio. With a background in audio and sound I'm ready for your high quality professional recording, mixing, or mastering for music or video for the north east Ohio area.

SummerSeries Shows Moved!

BAD RACKET SUMMERSERIES SHOWS MOVED TO NEW VENUES! We’re working on many new albums and running sessions at the studio, but unfortunately the remaining #SummerSeries shows scheduled to take place at our home in Ohio City will be moving to new locations. The new show spots are awesome, BUCKBUCK Gallery (just down the street from…

Bad Racket Launches New Music Webstore

Bad Racket Launches New Music Webstore Please note: The Webstore is now CLOSED!   Cleveland Based Recording Company Launches New Music Download Service. (CLEVELAND, OH ) June 3, 2013 – The age of digital music continues to evolve as options for artists to finance, produce and distribute music expands with new tools readily available on…

Bad Racket Summer Series Announcement

 Bad Racket Summer Series Announcement (2013)     Over 20,000 people came out for our Brite Winter festivities in Cleveland last month. 19 degrees and snowing and no one cared for a second, just “big stupid grins” on everybody’s faces. As we steadily move into warmer temperatures we’re carrying all that energy and excitement into…

Happy New Wall

Happy New Wall from Bad Racket Recording Studios Cleveland I know I’m a little late on reflection for 2012 and gushy optimism for 2013… all the “best of” posts are done, but I’m still thinking about it. Sorry, the ‘it’ isn’t even easy to pin down. The first thing that comes to mind of what…

Shoulda called it a soundtrack…Bad Racket’s Cleveland Music Compilation

Bad Racket’s Cleveland Music Compilation   A few days ago I sent a message to a friend of mine confirming the date and time for an upcoming video shoot. We’ve done over 20 videos now, enough to make the process feel ordinary… but what’s cool about that is that when I’m excited for the next…