Since the very beginning in 1995, we have focused solely on music CD projects for our clients - we don't do jingles, voiceover work or commercials, just music.

Totaling up the Barking Dog Records label projects, Raptor Studio clients and postproduction work for major institutions including the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, Concordia College and North Dakota State University music departments, we have produced more than 100 CDs for artists throughout the Upper Midwest. Under the expertise of producer/engineer Mike Coates, artists from rock, blues and country to classical, folk and jazz have released commercially successful and musically outstanding projects.

National press and music reviews have praised the outstanding production quality of our recordings, including Gramophone (Russell Peterson), Audiophile Audition (Harris-Coates Duo), My Texas Music (Brennen Leigh) Dirty Linen (Brenda Weiler) and Alternative Press (3 Minute Hero).

 

Barking Dog Records label artists:
Jessie Veeder, Peter Halverson, Jay Hershberger, Harris-Coates Duo, Deb Jenkins Band,
Cindy Greywind, Margot Wagner, Brennen Leigh, Russell Peterson, Ded Walleye, Brenda Weiler,
3 Minute Hero, Mike & Linda Coates, Lisa Briggs

Raptor Studios Clients - full-length CD projects
Concordia College, NDSU, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, F-M Area Youth Symphony, Lucy Thrasher, Julie Joyce, Sarah Morrau, Susan Ekberg, Aflame, Brookdale, SkyBlues Band, Obsidian, Mandy Brakel, Transcontinental Saxophone Quartet, Valhalla, Mata Hari, Hard Bop Saxophone Quartet, Escaping Jacob, and more

Raptor Studios Clients - demos & short CD projects
Raven Darkcloud, Russ Peterson, Becky Gulsvig, Terry Lausch, John Pederson and more...

 

 

Raptor Studios Clients

 

We have recorded virtually all genres of music -- follow the links
to the home pages of the artists who have recorded here:

 

BANDS/GROUPS

 

 

SOLO ARTISTS

 

 

 

 

CLASSICAL, JAZZ, SPOKEN WORD

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