Ian Mackintosh Portland-based electro pop/rock  producer/engineer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist. Known for his longtime collaboration with Ben Braun (Mackintosh Braun), Ian has just recently released the album Don’t Show This To Anyone which serves as both a fresh new calling card and a musical reintroduction of sorts. With heavy lifting from Jody Redifer on drums and a spattering of performances from some of his live band-mates (Matthew Gannon, Christian Hurd, and Michael Charles Smith), Don’t Show This… is an ivy-league offering of twelve 3-minute groove diggers that offer a pop-adjacent juxtaposition of style and substance, slick and saturated, retro-reverent and future-forward toe-tappers. As evident in the aptly-named knee-jerking first single “Energy”, Mackintosh has found and exploited the link between the modern home studio psychedelia of Tame Impala, the arena rock and/or roll swagger of The Rolling Stones, and the animated percussive outbursts of The Flintstones’ Bam Bam.

Ian was reared (as they say) by a conservative evangelical family in rural Oregon. Most of his connection to the outside world was through playing popular cover songs at county fairs in a family band not unlike The Partridge Family or The Jackson 5, albeit less glamorous than either. At the age of eight, Ian started writing songs. This did not go unnoticed by his father, who at times would allocate his earnings for new gear in their home recording studio. Since then, Ian has continued to hone his craft/obsession while navigating the ins and outs of the biz and opting to release his best and most urgent work-to-date in the middle of a global pandemic. Godspeed.

Genre: Acid Pop, Indie Rock, Electro Pop

For Fans Of: Mackintosh Braun, Tame Impala, Phoenix, The Jackson 5

Influences: Prince, David Bowie, Thompson Twins, Tommy James and The Shondells, PM Dawn

Career Highlights: 

Featured performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk 

Opened for Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark

Featured songs in popular television shows

Remixed songs for Aretha Franklin, OMD, Lady Gaga, etc.