Tom Purdue

Tom Purdue grew up in Brigham City, Utah in the 80’s when New Wave was king. Originally learning how to play drums in his youth led to a life long appreciation of music and rhythm. Eventually he found a love for more electronic sounding drums and synths through listening to KJQ and driving an hour away to Salt Lake City to visit dance clubs like the Ritz and record stores like Mad Platter.

The drummer turned to song writing after begging an old girlfriend’s mother to teach him some basic music theory. Tom formed a synth band called Decussion Council with his friends from high school with the successful end goal of being played on KJQ’s Local’s Only.

After his friends left on LDS missions, Purdue stayed behind and released two albums of Industrial Music under his name in 1991 and 1992, which he performed live at local Salt Lake Clubs with his friends Sean Young and Kami Hall. Purdue continued writing and cataloging his music, but paused any dreams of musical ambitions to have a family with his wife Kari.

In 2012 he said goodbye to Utah and made his way to Austin, Texas to work in the videogame industry, where he now works as a game designer, developing mobile and VR game titles.