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Bryan Wilson – Die Mason Die Releases

After a busy period in the studio, Bryan Wilson has seen success with recent releases from London-based four-piece, Die Mason Die.

Released through Young And Lost Club on 16th August, the band have put out single, ‘You’re Lonely’, along with B-side, ‘Mother’, as fresh additions to their often attributed genre description of ‘Ghost-Folk’.

Read the full article here

Lightship 95 Studio Takes Part In ‘A Ships’ Opera’

This weekend saw Miloco’s popular studio-on-a-boat, The Lightship 95, take part in The Thames Festival – a ten-day celebration of London’s iconic river through art, music, and educational events both on the water and along its banks and bridges.

Taking place between Tower Bridge and London Bridge on Saturday 14th was a spectacular event; 1513: A Ships’ Opera by Richard Wilson and Zatorski + Zatorski. Consisting of a huge group of ships and vessels, they performed a live, moving and operatic concerto of the sound of ships – steam whistles, bells, horns, sirens and canons – to mark the centrepiece of the festival.

You can listen to ‘Jubilee Horns’ below:

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Miloco Clients Nominated for Mercury Music Prize

The 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year nominations were announced last night at Covent Garden’s The Hospital Club. Hosted by Lauren Laverne, the acts up for winning the prestigious £20,000 prize were revealed:

Arctic Monkeys ‘AM’
David Bowie ‘The Next Day’
Disclosure ‘Settle’
Foals ‘Holy Fire’
Jake Bugg ‘Jake Bugg’
James Blake ‘Overgrown’
Jon Hopkins ‘Immunity’
Laura Marling ‘Once I Was An Eagle’
Laura Mvula ‘Sing To The Moon’
Rudimental ‘Home’
Savages ‘Silence Yourself’
Villagers ‘Awayland’

A significant year for musical creativity and excellence is demonstrated with the 12 albums, celebrating the wonderful range of talents, genres and styles present right now. Here at Miloco, we’re particularly pleased as two of our past clients have received nominations, so congratulations and good luck to all!

Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg

The Nottingham singer-songwriter’s debut album was produced and mixed by Mike Crossey (Gotham Producers) at the Motor Museum, Liverpool. Read more about the record here.

Foals – Holy Fire

The third album from Foals was produced and Mixed by Flood and Moulder and Recorded by Catherine Marks. Recorded in Assault & Battery 2 and mixed in Assault & Battery 1, the record was propelled into the number 2 spot thanks to it’s infectious single, Inhaler.

Find out more about the release here.

Goldfrapp – Tales Of Us Album Review

Goldfrapp’s sixth studio album, Tales Of Us, was released last week and has so far reached number 6 on the UK album charts.

Mixed at Miloco’s Toast and The (now defunct) Garden Studio by Craig Silvey, the record has been two years in the making, resulting in a stunning return to form for the duo.

To read our full review and listen to stand-out track, ‘Drew’, click here.

The 1975 Hit No.1

The long-awaited debut album from The 1975 has gone straight to number one in its first week of release.

It seems the band’s playful mix of 80’s sensibilities, minimalistic instrumentals and catchy guitar riffs really won the public over. Since their first single, Chocolate, hit our airwaves, the band’s success grew as they found themselves playing numerous festivals and featuring on various national radio stations.

The deluxe album version features a whopping 6 discs including various remixes and EP tracks – a hefty collection for your music library! Produced by the legendary Mike Crossey, he recorded and mixed ‘The 1975’ at Miloco’s The Motor Museum and Livingston 1 studio.

If you missed our review, you can read it here.

Daughter Album Wins Big At AIM Awards

Released back in March, Daughter’s debut album, If You Leave, has gone from strength to strength. Firstly reaching number 4 and 16 respectively on the UK Indie and Top 100 album charts, and now a big win a the AIM Awards.

After nominations were submitted, with many categories involved, the results were announced yesterday (4th September) proving it was yet another triumphant year for Independent music. With performances from Franz Ferdinand and Outstanding Contribution To Music winner, Billy Bragg, the night was a true success.

Nominated for the Independent Album Of The Year trophy, Daughter was up against some tough competition, the likes of David Byrne & St Vincent for their album, Love This Giant, as well as other acts such as Ghostpoet, Jagwar Ma, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Jon Hopkins and Vampire Weekend. But, If You Leave took the winning spot, thanks to its dreamy blend of Indie Folk and beautifully haunting melodies.

If You Leave was part-recorded at both 123 and Musixbox studios in London, engineered by Brett Shaw and produced by Igor Haefeli and Rodaidh McDonald.

Check our Online Mastering Studios, for quick and easy record perfection

Following the success and popularity of our Online Mixing service, we have set up a similar mastering option where clients can choose from our brilliant Online Mastering Studios and engineers to provide smashing masters of their records quickly and affordably.

Our great range of mastering facilities spreads across Europe and even into Africa (we have a mastering studio in Cairo!). This is the beauty of unattended online mastering; you don’t have to move an inch but you can still make the most of these state-of-the-art studios and the top-level mastering engineers who work in them, wherever in the world they may be.

Miloco’s online mastering studios operate in a quick and easy way to make mastering your tunes simple and perhaps more importantly, affordable. Here’s how it works…

Firstly, get in touch with our bookings team on +44(0)207 232 0008 or email bookings@miloco.co.uk to discuss the basics: number of tracks to be mastered, your budget, the timescale and the kind of sound you are after. It is always good to send us a few examples of tracks that have a similar feel to what you want for your record.

We will then pass this information on the mastering engineer we think would be best for the job (there are more details on the available engineers and online mastering studios below). We will put you in touch with the engineer who can liaise with you over the finer technical details of the work, the format in which to send the tracks and any artistic matters – you can send them some example ideas too to pinpoint the perfect sound.

The mixes can then be sent to the mastering engineer and studio over the internet using an FTP server or similar delivery method. Having established a timeframe in which to get the masters completed, we’ll get to work on putting the finishing magic touches to your records before sending back the wrap, again over the internet. Satisfaction guaranteed.

So, below is the selection of mastering studios and engineers on offer at Miloco. We can provide all sorts of mastering services: CD mastering, vinyl mastering, MP3 mastering and more.

24-96 Mastering in Germany is the home of acclaimed mastering engineer Robin Schmidt. Robin has won widespread praise from numerous leading producers including Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club), John Leckie (Radiohead, The Coral, Stone Roses, Muse) and Guy Massey (Manic Street Preachers, James Blunt) for his mastering work on albums by the
likes of Ben Howard, Jake Bugg, The Black Keys, The Kooks, Emeli Sande and Mumford & Sons. Find out more on 24-96 Mastering Studio here.

Babajim Mastering in Istanbul, Turkey, is the brainchild of the internationally renowned mastering engineer, Pieter Snapper, who has built this world-class mastering studio around the principals of thorough communication with clients and fine attention to detail. His studio is pretty special; a Roger D’arcy (Recording Architecture UK) designed room incorporating a unique “stealth bomber” shape to maximise the accuracy of the master. Find out more on Babajim Mastering here.

The Fisheye Music Network is a portfolio of mastering studios based in Rome, Cologne and Cairo, with more planned facilities on the horizon. Mastering engineer Stefan Heger is the barin behind this highly popular online mastering operation. Stefan’s career has taken him all over the world in the last two decades, and seen him build a highly impressive CV. His recent projects have included Dragonette and Cody ChesnuTT. View information on Fisheye Music Mastering here.

Back in the UK, we have the Bristol mastering studio Optimum Mastering. Another Roger D’arcy-designed mastering studio of the highest acoustic quality, Optimum is run by the hugely successful engineers Shawn Joseph and Jack Adams who between them specialise in a wide range of genres. Their client list includes names such as Portishead, Roni Size, Funeral For A Friend, Courtney Pine and Gilles Peterson. Read up on Optimum mastering by clicking here.

Lastly, we have two of London’s most established mastering studios available on our online mastering service. The first is Unity Mastering in Maida Vale, North-West London. Unity is the home to veteran masterer Chris Parmenidis, the ‘old school don’ of vinyl mastering. Check out Unity Mastering here. In North London are the CD mastering specialists, Blue Pro Mastering who also provide a CD and DVD Manufacturing service. Find out more on Blue Pro Mastering by clicking here.

To make an enquiry for any online mastering projects, please contact the Miloco Bookings team on +44 (0) 207 232 0008 or email bookings@miloco.co.uk.

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Introducing Question De Son Studios, Paris

With so many great French recording studios, we are pleased to add a fifth to our collection of facilities across the Channel this August, and the second that is based in Paris. Question De Son is the creation of Jordan Kouby and Frederic Vectol whose no-compromise ethos has resulted in an amazing choice of recording, mixing and writing facilities. It houses one of France’s very best equipment collections and each of its three studios boast outstanding acoustics.

Studio A has a vast stone and wood live room that is great for live sessions. It includes a Yamaha C3 Baby Grand piano and many other vintage keyboards including a Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Hammond B3. Clients also have access to a DW drum kit and many guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers and pedals. You can choose from countless microphones, and there is a Studer 2” Tape Machine for all tape enthusiasts. The control room is built around a Neve VR console, stacks of outboard and custom TAD monitoring, making Studio A an equally impressive mix room as it is a tracking space. View Studio A’s full equipment spec here.

If you prefer mixing through an SSL then Studio B is the one for you. It houses an SSL 4048G+ console and has the same custom TAD monitors as Studio A. It has already been identified by many leading sound engineers as one of the most comfortable and efficient listening environments in Paris. An amazing collection of outboard is complemented by a 5.1 monitoring system with a Martinsound MultiMAX surround controller, available on request. The iso booth next to the control room allows for vocal, guitar and keys overdubs. You can view Studio B’s equipment spec here.

Studio C is mainly a writing and editing room, however it has been designed with as much attention to detail as A & B and serves as an excellent room for all kinds of projects. Studio C shares the same booth as studio B, so it is great for recording vocals and other overdubs.

A modern and luxurious lounge/kitchen is available for clients to relax in, and central Paris is literally on your doorstep with the Gare du Nord (Eurostar) only 5 minutes away. Immediately outside the studio, trendy cafes mix with Pakistani tailor shops and the nightlife is of course brilliant – a typical melting pot of Parisian culture.

“With excellent equipment and acoustics this studio was my base whilst making the new Babyshambles album and it delivered on all fronts! Packed with an impressive array of microphones and instruments, QDS was an inspiring place to work. The staff were extremely friendly and efficient and I can’t wait to go back and work there again” – Stephen Street (Producer: Babyshambles, Blur, The Smiths).

Find out everything you need to know on Question De Son Studios by visiting www.miloco.co.uk/questiondeson. Contact the Miloco office on +44(0)207 232 0008 or email bookings@miloco.co.uk for all enquiries.

Miloco Engineer Matt Lawrence Receives His Grammy

So, here’s some pretty decent news…

Miloco engineer Matt Lawrence received a package in the post recently, straight from the USA’s National Academy of the Recording Arts and Sciences.

Inside the package was this… a brand new shiny Grammy Award in recognition of Matt’s work on ‘Babel’ by Mumford & Sons, which won Album of the Year at the 2013 Award Ceremony. Matt engineered on a selection of the tracks and vocal parts on ‘Babel’.

The sessions Matt worked on with producer Markus Dravs and engineer Robin Baynton took place at Miloco’s Angelic Studios in 2012. They also did some early work on the record in The Pool.

Miloco would like to congratulate Matt, Markus, Robin, the Mumfords and everyone else involved in the success of ‘Babel’. May this be the first of many Grammy gongs.

You can check out Matt Lawrence’s CV and bio on the Miloco website at www.miloco.co.uk/engineers/mattlawrence.php

Nadine Shah – Love Your Dum And Mad

The long awaited debut album from Nadine Shah, Love Your Dum And Mad is finally here.

After a hugely successful past few months, the Whitburn singer’s debut has been highly acclaimed across the music scene. Featuring tracks from her previous EP, Dreary Town, the record was produced by Ben Hillier (The Horrors, Depeche Mode), recorded at Miloco’s The Pool studio and mixed in Ben’s room, Panarific.

Check out our full review here.