Raised on a DJ's hands.

Born in Dayton, Ohio, into music from the start. His father worked as a DJ, so Chase learned mixing and beatmaking as a kid. By 11 he was producing his own songs and writing his own lyrics — a head start most artists never get.

Studios first. Stages when they came.

Through his teens he worked the craft in studios and local venues — writing, producing, and performing as the work demanded. Shared bills with acts like Asher Roth and Chanel West Coast came early; the point was never the age. It was showing up ready, night after night.

Grief, then a uniform.

He carried real loss early — his brother passed when Chase was a teenager, and he lost friends both before and during his service. That weight shaped him, and the search for discipline and purpose led him to enlist in the U.S. Navy. He served honorably as an Aviation Ordnanceman aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) — standing armed watch, assembling and maintaining missiles, and leading bomb assembly teams. He earned leadership and trust through composure under pressure.

Beats from the corners of a warship.

Service never killed the music. He built makeshift recording rigs on the ship and made beats from remote corners of the vessel between duties. Still on active duty, he earned acceptance to Berklee College of Music — balancing naval responsibilities with remote coursework, then finishing a B.P.S. in Electronic Music Production & Sound Design and a Master of Music in Music Production. That resourcefulness never left: he turns closets into foam-lined recording booths, and every place he lives has a studio at the center of it.

Everywhere the signal reaches.

With both real-world experience and the credentials to match, he built a presence across nearly every platform that matters — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, BeatStars — and engaged peers and fans across X, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Clubhouse, Discord, and Twitch. Millions of streams, a global audience, and a brand that stays ahead of the culture.

The label is not a side project.

PaperChase Records is the house cut of the journey — Level Headed Never Grounded and the catalog that followed. Independent label. Rush Hour Distribution B2B · Amsterdam. Live public surface at paperchaserecords.com; nest under this site at /entertainment/records.

Same ear. Different instruments.

Music production trained signal, structure, taste, and shipping under constraint. That stack became the operating method for data science, IT, forward-deployed engineering, and GEN AI consulting. PaperChaseWebb is the practice: strategy, creative direction, and systems architecture. Labs productizes installs. Models are ingredients. You own what ships.