Our James Brown spent 17 days in January at Sound City in Van Nuys, California recording the new Arctic Monkeys album with producer James Ford. It was essentially recorded live to 24 track analog (excluding the odd fix and overdub) and mixed by Craig Silvey at Sunset Sound in Hollywood. James says “it were a reet laff” (translation = it was a lot of fun). We can’t wait to hear the results. Here is a nice shot of James and Alex Turner:
Our James Brown shared the control room with a documentary film crew last year as he engineered the upcoming Foo Fighters album. That footage will be included in a career-spanning documentary what will be shown for the first time (we think) in Austin at SXSW. Don’t miss it, as there is sure to be wonderful footage of James sitting in a chair looking at a tape machine remote. Details from SPIN:
Late last year our Kyle “Slick” Johnson produced and mixed Philadelphia up-and-comers Creepoid. The resulting album is called “Horse Heaven” and it’s getting all kinds of buzz around Philly and beyond. The band recently sat down with The Deli and discussed making the album with Kyle. Check out the interview here.
Click on the photo below to read a wonderful interview by our Eric Broucek (!!!, Holy Ghost!, LCD Soundsystem, Hercules & Love Affair) on SonicScoop.
The Village Voice has a nice little interview with Obits over here. While there, take a listen to “Obit’s killer new jam about a math problem”, co-produced and mixed by Geoff Sanoff.
Chris Coady just spent the better part of the past four weeks recording Santigold at Downtown Studios here in NYC. Chris says that the album is amazing. That’s literally all I know about the sessions. I’d love if she did a Morrissey cover – given the photo below I’m assuming she is a fan.
… and it’s really good. I’ve only had a chance to listen to it once but am surprised at the number of songs that got stuck in my head after one listen. If you are not in New York City, check out their MySpace page here – you might be able to see them live with Los Amigos Invisibles or Toubab Krewe. Here is a photo of the band + Eric at Stickydisc in Greenpoint, Brooklyn:
Pitchfork gave Chris Coady another “Best New Music” today, this time for a single off the upcoming Cold Cave LP. Chris produced and mixed the album in October and November of last year at Electric Lady, Stratosphere Sound and Soundtracks. Click below to listen to the track.
Check out an interview about making the new record (with James, Flood & Alan Moulder) and listen to a new song over here at Pitchfork.
In case you missed the ad in the current issue of Tape Op, here is a fun video of our own Hector Castillo endorsing one of his favorite gadgets – the Keymaster by Pigtronix. Click on the photo below to watch.
