Bryan Anderson is the customer service supervisor for Skullcandy, here in Park City.

He is also known as Mycon and is one of three emcees for the hip-hop group Broken Silence who will be celebrating a CD release on Dec. 26, at Downstairs.

Anderson and his compadres Jim Benedict and Nate Benedict, whose stage handles are Imij and Nab, respectively are all also Park City High School graduates and have been working together for seven years.

The group is a regular at the Star Bar and Downstairs in Park City, as well as Salt Lake venues such as the Urban Lounge, Kilby Court, Burt’s Tiki Lounge and the now defunct Lo-Fi Café. It has even played Muse Music in Orem and a few venues out of state.

“All the gigs are nice, but we like to play locally as much as possible,” Anderson said. “That’s why we chose Downstairs as the place for their CD release.”

The CD is actually an six-song extended play disc called “We See Everything,” which is being released on Arterial Records.

“We were planning on doing a full-length CD,” Anderson said. “But as we were getting the songs ready, we decided we were only interested in releasing the songs that we were truly proud of. So we decided to record 15 or 20 songs and release six. We just didn’t want to release music just for the sake of getting material out there.

“The other six we didn’t release may be reworked for a future project, but we knew the ones we decided to put on the EP was the ones that were the strongest.”

As the band worked on “We See Everything,” it decided to release a couple more extended plays before releasing a full-length.

“Each EP will have its own theme,” said Anderson, who cited Tupac Shakur, Living Legends, Aesop Rock, Swollen Members, The Black Keys, Oingo Boingo and Paul Simon as Broken Silence’s musical influences. “We’ve got a conspiracy album, which we’re into and we think there is a niche for that. And we have an idea to eventually record with all-live instruments, without the pre-sequenced stuff.”

During the recording of “We See Everything” and its predecessor, 2004’s “Heat,” which isn’t available at the present, the three MCs brought their own lyrics to the table.

“The process is basically for us to come up with a concept first,” Anderson explained. “We’ll conceptualize with what we want to start working on. And from there it’s either we start on the music or we start on the lyrics. Then we base everything around whichever thing we decided to do first.”

While the MCs come up with their own lyrics, if they invite a guest to appear on a song, they usually have the guest come up with their own riff or lick.

“That’s why we ask them to be guests,” Anderson said.

On “We See Everything,” Broken Silence even asked their drummer “Mr. Moonie” (real name Clifford Sundberg who also plays in the local band Robin Mary) to lay down a few words.

“We also have a bassist,” said Anderson. “His name is Paul ‘The Weatherman’ Reed, and he also plays in another band called Stem Cell Ghost.”

In 2005, Broken Silence went on a two-year hiatus.

“I packed up and went to audio engineering school in Arizona,” Anderson said. “I got a degree from Conservatory for Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, Ariz. And I interned in Denver for a year.

“I’m still paying for it, but man, it was invaluable information because we record everything out of my own home studio. And it makes it more workable because we’re not paying $40 bucks an hour and I can go in anytime to work.”

Still when Anderson returned to start the band again, there were some kinks that needed to be ironed out.

“Regrouping is always interesting, because so many things can happen in that amount of time a band is on leave,” Anderson said. “One of the guys became a father and has a family and we were all living in different areas and had to centralize the operation. Also we had to rebuild the entire live act.”

Broken Silence originally worked with another band called the Mad Hatters.

“They are a bluesy rock band and we were like an 11-piece live act,” Anderson said. “Drums, keys guitars vocals bass, singers and more. We did that for a year. And then we went in a different (musical) direction.”

These days, the emcees are more than content with their collaboration with Reed and Sundberg.

“We’re happy where we are at now and I don’t see a change coming any time soon in the format,” Anderson said. “People tell us it’s been the best we’ve sounded. So why fix something that’s not broken?”

Hip-hop, Anderson said, is a more versatile form of expression, than metal or rock.

“I don’t play guitar,” he said. “I can’t express myself that way musically, however, I’m in such a position where hip-hop holds an absolute world of possibilities lyrically. I can express anything.”

Broken Silence will perform at Downstairs to celebrate the release of the extended-play CD “We See Everything,” on Sunday, Dec. 26. Doors open at 7 p.m.