Nick Austin
Business Development
email: nick[at]indiepool.com
tel: Ex 229
Born in New York, I enjoyed the big city life for all of two years before my parents decided they knew best, and smuggled me into Canada.
It wasn’t until the beginning of high school that I had any real interest in music – up until that point I had only had only taken childhood glockenspiel lessons and a failed attempt at learning the tuba. But 9th grade brought on a drive for AV tech, concert bands, music theatre, and an unhealthy amount of music purchasing (and pirating).
After graduating from Music Industry Arts at Fanshawe in 2009, I moved to Toronto and have been living semi-comfortably as an industry consultant, aggressive music collector, handsome gentleman, band manager, and now Indie Pool’s incredibly charming biz dev guy.
Feel free to give me a call or email if you’d like to talk about music, business, the music business, dogs, food, how video games are now an art form, what it’s like to be colourblind, more food, or if you just want to call to tell me your troubles – that’s just fine by me.
TOP 16 RECORDS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Ben Folds Five — Ben Folds Five [1995]
The Beta Band – The Three EPs [1997-98]
Calvin Harris — I Created Disco [2007]
CAKE — Fashion Nugget [1996]
Daft Punk – Discovery [2001]
Death Cab For Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge [2008]
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan [2012]
EELS – Daisies Of The Galaxy [2000]
Herbie Hancock — Head Hunters [1973]
The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious [2000]
Hot Chip — In Our Heads [2012]
Leo Kottke – 6- And 12-String Guitar [1969]
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – Casino Drone [2016]
The Strokes — Is This It [2001]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Unknown Mortal Orchestra [2011]
Weezer — Pinkerton [1996]
PS: If you have any interest in my ongoing, near-frivolous project where I catalogue and attempt to purchase every album I’ve ever pirated in my teenage years, you may do so here: http://mediafire.com/albumsboughtinlife. Feel free to waste some of your day looking at spreadsheets.
