YouTube footballing star Spencer FC recorded a song at Livingston Studio 1 before his team played football at Wembley Stadium!
Spencer FC headed to the Wood Green, London studio with YouTubers Joe Weller, Poet and Vujanic to create a Spencer FC anthem that would lead them to victory!
‘The Wembley Cup’ is a series following Spencer FC’s journey to recruit an all star team of YouTubers to take on rival YouTuber MiniMinter and his Sidemen at Wembley.
Acoustic curtains have been fitted in the spacious drum room at Livingston Studio 1, a recording and mixing facility in Wood Green, London.
Open, half-closed or totally closed, the acoustic curtains vary the acoustics from really bright and reflective to a much drier sound.
Working alongside Abbey Road Studios, Miloco Builds were asked to provide UMG Vault, an archive facility consisting of five transfer suites and an oven room. The UMG Vault rooms needed to provide both good levels of isolation and internal acoustics but also needed to deliver an ultra-clean mains supply and low-noise components in the bespoke LED lighting system.
Miloco Gear were also on hand to help procure additional tape machines as the facility is able to digitise a wide range of analogue media.
“It was no mean feat for Pete and his team to run a building site within a building site,” says Simon Campbell, technical manager, Abbey Road Studios. “They did a marvellous job with excellent results.”
Studios 301 Sydney has offered free recording time to seven aspiring artists chosen for the new Converse Rubber Tracks program.
A total of 84 acts will record at 12 participating studios. From 14-28 September, studios including Converse Rubber Tracks in Brooklyn, New York and Boston, Massachusetts; Abbey Road Studios in London, England; Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California; and Tuff Gong in Kingston, Jamaica will host chosen artists throughout a two-week period.
Selected acts will record alongside a team of experienced producers and sound engineers during 1-2 day sessions. Upon completion of their studio time, each act will retain all the rights to their music.
Reptiles (Australia)
The Attics (Australia)
Fever Charm (USA)
Motor City Madness (Brazil)
The Plastics (South Africa)
Heroes for Sale (New Zealand)
VIGILANTES (Australia)
Read more about Converse Rubber Tracks
Posted in European Recording Studios, London Recording Studios, Mixing Studios, Neve Recording Studios, Record Producers, Recording Studio Engineers, Residential Recording Studios, SSL Recording Studios, Tracking Studios, UK Recording Studios, Uncategorized |The MPG Awards 2016 gets underway today with the official opening of the online submissions process, which allows for the names of worthy recording professionals to be put forward for Awards consideration.
“This part of the Awards process is open to everyone,” says MPG Awards group director Tony Platt. “Anyone can submit a name, and indeed we encourage recording professionals to get online at www.mpgawards.com and submit their own names rather than relying on other people to do it for them.”
Now in its eighth year, the Music Producers Guild Awards recognises the enormous contribution made to the international music industry by the UK’s top producers, engineers, remixers and mastering engineers. Previous award winners have included Sir George Martin CBE, Paul Epworth, Brian Eno, Trevor Horn and Dave Stewart.
The MPG Awards 2016 will take place on 3 February 2016, at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London – a new venue for this event.
The submissions process for the MPG Awards 2016 will remain live until 30 September 2015. There are 12 Award categories that are open for submissions, while the remaining three (Outstanding Contribution, Award for Innovation and Award for Inspiration) are in the gift of the MPG. The winner of the Producer of the Year award automatically receives a BRIT for Best Producer.
The MPG Awards 2016 categories open for public submission are:
UK Producer of the Year
International Producer of the Year
Breakthrough Producer of the Year
Recording Engineer of the Year
Breakthrough Engineer of the Year
Mix Engineer of the Year
Mastering Engineer of the Year
Re-mixer of the Year
UK Album of the Year
UK Single Song Release of the Year
Studio of the Year
The A&R Award
The MPG Awards 2016 categories in the gift of the MPG are:
The MPG Innovation Award
The MPG Inspiration Award
Outstanding Contribution to UK Music
For Foals’ fourth album, titled ‘What Went Down’, the Oxfordshire five-piece teamed up with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Jessie Ware, Mumford & Sons) and retreated to the south of France to record in La Fabrique.
The result is a primal, intense, sometimes harrowing album of extremes – the record touches upon the depths of madness whilst also exhibiting some of the most beautiful pop songs the band have ever written.
Lyrically, vocalist Yannis Philippakis deals with themes around cultural identity, generational anxiety, cynicism, pessimism and heartbreak; “I wanted to tap into my inner madman and feel like I was channeling some sort of fevered creature.”
Posted in European Recording Studios, Miloco Clients, Mixing Studios, Neve Recording Studios, New Albums, Record Producers, Residential Recording Studios, Tracking Studios, UK Recording Studios, Uncategorized | Tagged Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Foals, james ford, jessie ware, la fabrique, Mumford & Sons, what went down, yannis philippakis |
Oxford-based outfit Foals are giving fans free cassettes of their new album ‘What Went Down’ (recorded at La Fabrique) in advance of its release tomorrow.
The band have hidden cassette copies of the album in Madrid, Paris, Oslo, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg; and shared the coordinates via social media.
Posted in European Recording Studios, Miloco Clients, Mixing Studios, Neve Recording Studios, New Albums, Residential Recording Studios, Tracking Studios, Uncategorized | Tagged Foals, la fabrique, nme, what went down |
Reading and Leeds festivals take place simultaneously this weekend and will see Miloco clients on nearly every stage.
Sundara Karma, Saint Raymond, Lucy Rose and Sunset Sons take to the Festival Republic Stage this year; with Everything Everything, Don Broco, Wolf Alice, Circa Waves, Lonely the Brave, Glass Animals, Kwabs and Shura appearing on the NME / BBC Radio 1 Stage.
The lineup of The Pit includes Black Foxxes. And last but by no means least Royal Blood, Bastille and Bring Me the Horizon will take slots on the Main Stage.
Also, festival organiser Melvin Benn appeared to suggest to NME that Foals would be the officially-unannounced band to perform, saying, “Wild horses wouldn’t let me be able to tell you who the secret guests are. You can take from that whatever you want.”
As a result of their success on Tradiio (where music fans ‘invest’ in up-and-coming artists using virtual coins), band Some Velvet Morning were rewarded with some time in The Engine Room through our partnership with Tradiio.
“The studio was excellent and we achieved very pleasing results during our time there,” say the band, who reached #1 on the global and rock Tradiio charts with ‘How To Start A Revolution’. They also reached #3 in the global charts and #1 in the rock charts with ‘Allies’ after receiving a total amount of 5,880,100 coins collectively.
When asked whether the guys would recommend Tradiio to other artists they couldn’t speak more highly of it: “It seems a very clever way to expand your fan base and the practical benefits such as free studio time really benefit independent acts”.
Tradiio is available for free at –
Web http://tradiio.com
iOS http://tradi.io/iosapp
Android http://tradi.io/androidapp
Posted in European Recording Studios, London Recording Studios, Miloco Clients, Mixing Studios, SSL Recording Studios, UK Recording Studios, Uncategorized | Tagged allies, Android, how to start a revolution, iOS, Miloco, some velvet morning, the engine room, Tradiio |
Recording, writing and mixing facility Greystoke Studio has recently been added to the Miloco site.
Based in west London’s Hangar Lane, Greystoke has a huge range of instruments including a synth collection containing models from Roland, KORG, Oberheim and Sequential Circuits; a Steinway ‘Baby’ grand piano; a full drumkit; guitars; keyboards and organs – it’s even got a lap steel! Building its incredible gear list (including some beautiful microphones and the latest preamps) has been a labour of love.
The studio has been acoustically designed to capture the best sound in the booth, live room and mixing room, and is the perfect space for writing and recording, for bands and solo artists.
The Miloco Builds team completed the extensive acoustic fit out following the studio’s recent rebuild, with Nick Whitaker overseeing the acoustic design.
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