Breakmaster Cylinder, also known as The Mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder, by the initials BmC, or simply as "The Master", is a

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and producer who has provided title themes and

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for a number of radio shows and

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s. Cylinder came to notoriety with the launch of

Gimlet Media Gimlet Media LLC was a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who served as the company's ...

's '' Reply All'' in 2016 and was a fixture on that show until it ended in 2022. Known for their

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, Breakmaster Cylinder does not make public appearances and has employed

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s for interviews, photographs, and other media engagements.

Development and early career

Breakmaster Cylinder grew up playing

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, learning to perform classical compositions by

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and others. They first began working with

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using

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techniques between two

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decks, and then later acquired a keyboard with loop-recording capabilities. Cylinder's first releases were DIY albums of

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made just for friends. Cylinder spent more than a decade composing and producing music before finding a wider audience. In 2006 Breakmaster Cylinder self-released their first album ''Spasmodic Symmetry'', followed by 2009's

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-driven

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mashup ''Dolomite!'' Cylinder's next albums, ''Say Hello to Klaus'' (2010) and ''See You Around'' (2011) were released under the Breakbit Music label. In 2013, Cylinder started to get some press with the release of ''Big Schnitzel'', an audio mash-up sampling food references made by

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In their early days as a composer, Cylinder worked as a food delivery driver and often wrote music while parked on the side of the road. They produced many of their early works using a

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mini

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and

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software before switching to the

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digital audio workstation. Aside from Bach as a recurring theme in their music and imagery, Breakmaster Cylinder has also cited

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, and

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as influences on their work.

Podcasting work

Cylinder's career took off after

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the theme for ''TL;DR'', an internet-themed segment hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt for the

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public radio program '' On the Media''. Goldman enlisted Cylinder as the show's composer after seeing a

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that they had made for their

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' song " Mr. Sandman" set to a montage of film clips from

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. Goldman and Vogt then brought Cylinder along to

when they started the podcast '' Reply All'', for which Cylinder also composed the beginning and closing themes. In an interview for

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’s podcast ''

Song Exploder ''Song Exploder'' is a music podcast created and hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway, which debuted in January 2014. It is part of the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX. The show features musicians talking about the creative process behind an individua ...

'', Cylinder revealed that they derived ''Reply All's'' opening theme's chord structure from

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's " Prelude in C Major" mixed with acoustically recorded

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s, a

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-derived bass line, and the sounds of rolling jars, spinning coins, and a hammer shattering a small glass. By episode 16 of ''Reply All'', Cylinder had contributed some 25 audio pieces to the show's music library for use as themes for various recurring segments, as well as music beds to convey moods in the show's journalistic pieces. These themes would grow to number in the hundreds by the time ''Reply All'' ran its final episode in June 2022. Cylinder also created satirical cut-ups from pieces of ''Reply All'' episodes that were run post-show as incentive for continued listenership through the podcast's end credits and final ad block. For one season of ''Reply All'', this idea was expanded into a serialized audio story that appeared at the end of each episode. The

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-esque serial featured Cylinder and a canine companion, known as "Dog", visiting alien planets while lost in outer space without any guidance from the internet. In 2020 Cylinder released the series as the album, ''BMC and Dog In Space: The Complete Series'', via multiple online platforms. ''Reply All's'' success led to Cylinder taking jobs creating themes for more than 60 other podcasts in the next three years, as well as music for film, advertisements, and video games. In 2015, Cylinder collaborated—via

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and

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—with the ''

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'' podcast to reconstruct then-current compositions by

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. In 2018 Cylinder collaborated with fellow

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ous media artist Zardulu to produce the track "Ablanathanalba" following ''Reply All's'' exposé on Zardulu's viral

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phenomenon. After an open-source theme for a

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podcast appeared in a

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commercial, The Changelog’s founders commissioned Breakmaster Cylinder to compose and produce the theme music for all of their podcasts as a means of ensuring that their theme music would be unique while also unifying the sound of all of the podcasts across the network. in 2023 Cylinder compiled and released their themes for Changelog’s podcasts into a pair of albums catalogued as ''Volume 0'' and ''Volume 1'', followed by ''Changelog Beats Volumes Dance Party'' in 2024 and ''Changelog Beats Volumes After Party'' in 2025. Breakmaster Cylinder licenses all of their music through their own publishing company, Person B (stylized as Person^♭) Productions. Since 2015, Cylinder has curated their assorted radio and podcasting themes into several albums, each titled ''Songs for Broadcast'' followed by a volume number. In December 2022 Cylinder announced that the ninth volume would be the last because "it caps a trilogy of trilogies". Cylinder released a tenth volume of ''Songs for Broadcast'' to Bandcamp in January 2024.

Albums and collaborators

Many of Breakmaster Cylinder's albums are thematic, and include

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s, collections of

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s, and music made for podcasts. The 2014 album ''Pineapple Princess'' was partially derived from hearing

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’s music being played in supermarket produce sections. The 2017 album ''Pickled Beets Part III'' features a year's worth of weekly submissions to the

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beat-writing competition, ''Stones Throw Beat Battle''. One of these submissions, "Drumcorpscore" was designed to be a backing track for

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’ song "

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". "Drumcorpscore" and many other of the weekly submission tracks were later repurposed, with samples removed, for use in scoring ''Reply All.'' Also in 2017, Cylinder remixed a version of the traditional

folk song Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

" Down by the Bay" as sung by popular

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artist

Raffi Raffi Cavoukian (, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is an Armenian-Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt best known for his children's music. In 1992, ''The Washington Post'' called him "the most p ...

. Breakmaster Cylinder explained, "That song says it isn't safe to go home because Mom will say some crazy shit to you, which is a weird message for a children's song, but is actually how many adults I know feel about oing home for the holidays" Cylinder released this, along with two other

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on the ''Singable Songs For The Increasingly Enraged'' EP and included a note encouraging fans to donate to

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, an organization for which Cylinder had previously fundraised with their music. Cylinder has also been known to use their craft to mess with

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culture as heard in their

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remixes of radio themes such as that of ''

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''. A reviewer described Cylinder’s mash-up "The NPR Drop" as "a wonderfully bizarre amalgamation of

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, and the ''

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'' horns." Breakmaster Cylinder is a proponent of the

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site

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through which they make all of their music available to stream or download. A decade of collaboration with rapper Dislotec resulted in a series of singles released from 2015–2019 and an album issued as a reward to Cylinder's

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backers. Also in 2019, Cylinder collaborated with Australian comedian

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on her live show ''I'll Be Bec'', which was filmed for online video streaming just before the

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Persona

Since Cylinder's earliest contributions to ''TL;DR'', radio hosts have credited the composer as "The Mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder" and claimed to never have met nor spoken with them, nor to have any knowledge of who Cylinder actually is. Cylinder has perpetuated this mystique of

in interviews stating, "I guess the

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is interesting", and, "My face (if I have a face) doesn't matter". In the final episode of ''Reply All'', Cylinder revealed that they are a

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and have lived in three different sections of the

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. During his time at Gimlet Media, ''Reply All'' host Alex Goldman asserted that he and his staff did not know Cylinder's secret identity. "I found him, or they—we don't really know—on the internet," Goldman said in an interview with the ''

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''. "I contacted him and he agreed to work with us, so long as he could remain anonymous." Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak from podcasting network The Changelog exclusively use Breakmaster Cylinder's music to score all of their shows, yet claim to not know if Cylinder is a "guy rgirl—we're not sure if it's one person rmany people." For an interview with ''The Secret Room'' podcast, Cylinder fielded questions through a mix of

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-style mashups of pop songs and an old Speak & Spell on the fritz. In an audio story about Breakmaster Cylinder's compositional and recording techniques, ''

'' producer

states, "I interviewed Breakmaster Cylinder, but out of respect for his or her privacy and mystery, I had an actor replace Breakmaster Cylinder's voice... Or did I?". It has been speculated on Reddit that the name "Breakmaster Cylinder" is a

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of "breakmaster", a musician who works with

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s, and " master cylinder", an automotive component that regulates the

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s of a car, truck, or motorcycle. When asked about their gender, Cylinder has referred to themself using the

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pronoun. In photographs, Cylinder appears as a head shrouded in a black motorcycle helmet painted with white bug-eyes that are actually a pair of

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marks that form the base of two

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s. Their head is shown on a variety of different bodies and gender expressions, and occasionally on a manipulated portrait of

. Despite their allure of secrecy, Cylinder has gained repute for responding to fan letters and being easily accessible via the internet.

Output

Podcast and radio themes

* ''Absolutely Crushed'' * ''AFK'' (Changelog) * ''All Consuming'' * ''The Axe Files'' (

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Audio) * ''Battle Born Tech'' (KNVC FM) * ''Be Less Typical'' * ''Ben Franklin's World'' (Omohundro Institute) * ''+=Fun'' (

) * ''Bleeped'' * ''Blogtacular'' * ''Business Casual'' (Morning Brew) * ''Business/Disrupted'' * ''The Changelog'' (Changelog Media) * ''Completely Optional Knowledge'' * ''Crazy Genius'' (''

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'') * ''Creatures'' * ''

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'' * ''Decoder'' (Vox Media) * ''Dedicate It'' * ''Discomfort Zone'' * ''The Drunk Projectionist'' * ''The Europe Desk'' * ''The Ezra Zaid Project'' * ''Fabulous Flying Merkins'' (Indaba) * ''Feminist Furies'' * ''Fictional'' * ''Footloose & Fancy Free'' * ''For The Record'' * ''Founder's Talk'' (Changelog) * ''Gameplay'' * ''Gender Reveal'' * ''Get More Smarter''` * ''Girl's Girls'' (Curvy Girl Media) * ''Glow Girl'' (Curvy Girl Media) * ''Go Time'' (Changelog) * ''The Greatest Gift'' * ''Hello Monday!'' (LinkedIn) * ''Hit Enter: Stories from the Inbox'' * ''The Hungry Fan'' * ''HyperFixed'' (

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) * '' Imagined Life'' (Wondery) * ''Indie Romp'' * ''Into It'' (Vox Media) * ''Jobs Club'' * ''JS Party'' (Changelog) * ''Know It All'' * ''<~> (Less Than, Approximately, Greater Than)'' * ''Meat and Three'' (

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) * ''Meet Your Maker'' * ''Met Nerds om Tafel'' * ''Methods'' * ''Moonshot'' (Lawson Media) * ''Outside/In'' * ''Nothing Is Boring'' * ''NZZ am Sonntag'' (NZZ) * ''Ohrensessel'' * ''Otakon'' * ''The Payoff'' (Mic) * ''Personal Best'' (

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) * '' The Pitch'' (Gimlet Media) * ''Play It Back'' * ''PodSAM'' * ''Practical AI'' (Changelog) * ''Preserve This Podcast'' * ''RehabCast'' * '' Reply All'' (

) * ''Request for Commits'' (Changelog) * ''Reset'' (Vox Media) * ''Sandwich Podcast'' (Sandwich) * ''Sanity Podcast'' * ''Say Something Worth Stealing'' * ''The Secret Room'' * ''Ship It'' (Changelog) * ''Sidedoor'' (

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) * ''Signl.fm'' * ''The Soak'' * ''Soapboxers'' * ''Special Relationship'' (''

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'') * ''Sorry, What?'' * ''Spotlight'' (Changelog) * ''STEM Diversity Podcast'' * ''Stories of Our Times'' (The Times) * ''Switched On Pop'' * ''Talking Points'' * ''There Will Be Spoilers'' * ''Think Again'' (Big Think) * ''The Third Web'' * ''The Ticket'' * ''Time Well Spent'' * '' TL;DR'' (

) * ''Today Explained'' (

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) * ''True North'' * ''Undefined'' * ''UnMonumental'' * ''We The Ppl'' * ''Welcome to Macintosh'' * ''With Good Reason (

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)'' * ''Yarn Stories'' * ''Yes Was'' * ''Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow'' * ''YM Answers'' * ''You Can't Do That'' * ''88% Parentheticals'' (

) * ''100% Related?'' (

)

Albums

* ''Spasmodic Symmetry'' (2006) * ''Dolomite!'' (EP, 2009) * ''Remix One'' (2009) * ''Say Hello to Klaus'' (2010) * ''Musique Pour Les Pubs De Nourriture Pour Chiens'' (2011) * ''See You Around'' (EP, 2011) * ''BMC: Remixed'' (2011) * ''Tokyo'' (EP, 2012) * ''Blithering Heights'' (Mixtape, 2012) * ''The BMC Fine Ringtones Collection'' (2013) * ''Remix Two: Short Attention Span Theater'' (2013) * ''Big Schnitzel'' (EP, 2013) * ''Pineapple Princess'' (EP, 2014) * ''Pickled Beets: Part I'' (2015) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part I'' (2015) * ''The BMC Fine Ringtones Collection: 2nd Issue'' (2015) * ''Pickled Beets: Part II'' (2015) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part II'' (2016) * ''BMC: Live From Gimlet's Executive Washroom'' (2016) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part III'' (2016) * ''I Wanna Hear The Music'' (EP, 2017) * ''Pickled Beets: Part III'' (2017) * ''BMC ONE: Video Collection 2007–2017'' (2017) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part IV'' (2018) * ''Singable Songs For The Increasingly Enraged'' (EP, 2017) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part V'' (2018) * ''Blithering Heights 2'' (Mixtape, 2018) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part VI'' (2018) * ''Remix Three'' (2018) * ''Mono Planet'' EP (2019) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part VII'' (2020) * ''BMC and Dog In Space: The Complete Series'' (2020) * ''Breakmast of Champions'' (2020) * ''Dead Legends'' (OST, 2021) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part VIII'' (2022) * ''Songs For Broadcast: part IX'' (2022) * ''Mr. Stockdale'' (OST, 2023) * ''The Moon & All That'' (2023) * ''Changelog Beats Volumes Theme Songs'' (2023) * ''Changelog Beats Volumes Next Level'' (2023) * '' BMC's Voicemail: Fall 2018 '' (2023) * ''Polter Pals'' (OST, 2023) * ''Songs For Broadcast X'' (2024) * ''Changelog Beats Volumes Dance Party''(2024) * ''12 Months'' (OST, 2024) * ''Slash Quest'' (OST, 2024) * ''Changelog Beats Volumes After Party'' (2025)

Singles with Dislotec

* "Solfeggio" (2015) * "Superflypapertrailblazer" (2016) * "Warning Signs" (2018) * "Tiny Marshmallows" (2018) * "Pitbull" (2018) * "Westwood" (2018) * "I Don't Wanna Talk To My Neighbors" (2019) * "Zombies" b/w “Eject / Reject” (2019) * "Dollar Of Damage" (2019)

Contributions to other media

* ''Computer Show'' (scored "computer music" for 1980s TV spoof) * ''Life's Wonders'' (RV series composer) * ''MetaLetters DAO'' (Metaversal) * ''Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco'' (contributed original music to 2022 documentary film) * ''Pakistani Reactions'' (theme for video series) * ''Slash Quest'' (Green Pillow/Noodlecake Games)

References

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