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Colin C

musician and record producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5144939
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Colin C. (born Colin Cameron Allrich in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is an American musician, remixer, audio engineer, and sound designer who began his career as a self-taught musician and producer with the first wave internet musicians associated with MP3.com's launch in the late 90s while living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In these early years he was known for exploring PC computer based sequencing with Jeskola Buzz and working in various early EDM genres. Colin found music inspiring from an early age and as a teenager discovered electronic music via U.S. based Wax Trax! Imports such as Underworld and Autechre that would fuel his desire to produce and DJ.

Colin spent the early 2000s living in Los Angeles, California working a day job with Apple computer as a Logic Pro certified trainer and DJing around LA and Hollywood nightly, opening for DJs such as Paul Oakenfold. With connections in the Progressive House and Progressive Breaks community, he began to release club music with labels such as Lost Language, Cyber Recordings, Thrive/Renaissance and Global Underground.

Having stated he doesn't see himself stuck in a particular genre, Colin's work evolved in 2010 when a Post-Punk Rock song written as his self-described Deadwave HORRORFALL project was selected by Gary Calamar to be included in the HBO series True Blood after being pitched by his bandmate through mutual connections. From here Colin's Slighter project wrote “No Control” for FOX's “Bones” for character Sweets’ gun range montage and in 2011 with providing “Hells Gates” to a street fight scene in Lionsgate Films “Blood Out” starring Luke Goss. Colin spent most of the 2010s syncing music to various television shows as well as The People's Choice broadcast.

Believing that he is best suited in the studio than performing live, Colin's production work led him into sound design with collaboration with Loopmasters to create Logic Pro packs for users to tighten up their mix engineering skills. Colin has also created sample packs for Splice, CAPSUN ProAudio, Soundtrack Loops and others, as well as mixing and mastering for various clients out of his The Cell Studio.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Colin, musician and producer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Colin C” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.