As part of The Pool’s relaunch, we asked Ben a series of questions on both the studio and his recent activities as a producer. Since the last time we interviewed Ben in 2007, the Pool has been through a major transformation, and now of course has a massive new injection of analogue gear thanks to Johan’s arrival. Ben has also worked with everyone from Depeche Mode to Graham Coxon in that time, as well as a selection of new bands and artists such as Beth Jeans Houghton, Dennis Hopper Choppers, Nadine Shah and Plugs. As such, we all agreed it was high time to reconvene.
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This month we’re ushering in a brand new era at our ever-evolving tracking studio, The Pool, in London SE1. The Pool’s longstanding partnership between Miloco and producer Ben Hillier is thrilled to now welcome on board Johan Ekelund, producer and co-founder of the Kobalt Music Group, and a selection of his enormous shipment of rare outboard equipment.
This new £80,000 investment in gear means that The Pool now rivals the most famous studios in the UK. It now provides over 50 Mic Pres and EQs, a collection highlighted by 18 vintage Neve Preamps; 9 x 1079s and 9 x 1272s, in addition to two Telefunken V76/80 preamps.
Here are the new EQ’s on offer. We have 2 x API 550s, 2 x API 550As and 2 x API 560Bs. Then there’s the NTI EQ3, 2 x Lang PEQ-2As, Pultec HLF-3C and MEQ-5.
We have 9 new Compressors: 2 x Neve 2254/As, Urei 1176 & 1176LN, and Altec 436C, Universal Audio 175-B and 2 x API 525As, and have heavily enhanced the selection of Delays and Reverbs too, with a Fairchild Reverberation II Model 659 & 659A, Ursa Major Space Station SST-282, AMS RMX16, EMT 244 and Lexicon Super Prime Time. Last but not least, a Moog 12 Stage Phaser MKPH processor is also now on the spec.
As far as tracking rooms go The Pool now has pretty much everything. Johan’s contribution joins that already provided by Ben; a vast collection of esoteric gear in its own right. This world-class spec lives in a studio boasting a huge live area, control room and drum booth, all of which are designed for maximum sound quality and vibe…
You can view The Pool’s equipment spec by clicking here.
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Australian rockers Call Collector set up camp in our Engine Room studio earlier this summer. We were very pleased to have this exciting band and great bunch of guys over for a few weeks at our HQ at Leroy Street, London. We wish them all the best for when their debut album, which they were mixing at the time, is released.
During their stay they filmed a 4-episode Studio Files series: 3 documenting the actual session, and one spoof retrospective ‘rock-u-mentary’ which featured the recently-discovered (much to our delightful surprise) acting talents of three of our assistant engineers: Mark Allaway, Jake Gordon and Joseph Rodgers.
So thank you to Call Collector for their time at Miloco, and for the laughs they’ve given us since with the ‘Call Collector Studio Files’!!
View the films by visiting The Engine Room’s Session Videos page.
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The third album from the already prolific North Londoners. A fantastic musical blend of indie, folk and electronic loops which see this youthful 4-piece come of age. Features lead single, ‘Shuffle’.
Craig Silvey mixed A Different Kind of Fix in The Garden Studios.
Released 29th August 2011.
www.bombaybicycleclubmusic.com
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The brilliant new single from Florence and the Machine is just the start of what promises to be a big tilt towards superstardom when her second album drops later this year.
Craig Silvey mixed ‘What the Water Gave Me’ in The Garden.
Released 23rd August on iTunes.
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The music world is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, and tributes to the grunge masterpiece are flying in from all genres and in all forms. Battle for Seattle is a reggae covers album of 10 Nirvana tracks, fronted by Little Roy, produced by Prince Fatty (aka Mike Pelanconi), and envisaged by Mutant Hi-Fi.
There are numerous contributions from other veteran Jamaican musicians, including Wailers guitarist Junior Marvin. Battle For Seattle looks set to follow in the footsteps of fellow reggae tribute albums, Dub Side of the Moon and Radiodread.
Mike Pelanconi produced and mixed the album at Miloco’s The Ironworks.
www.facebook.com/battleforseattle
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So another fantastic Mercury Music Prize ceremony has passed, and we’re thrilled to be able to congratulate PJ Harvey and her co-producers Flood, John Parish and Mick Harvey on scooping the highly-coveted award for 2011, for their work on PJ’s eighth studio album, Let England Shake, which was also mixed by Flood in Miloco’s Assault & Battery 1 studio.
PJ Harvey is now the most successful artist in the history of the Mercury, which has been running since 1992, with four Mercury nominations and two wins, the first being in 2001 for her seminal Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea. That year, when the ceremony was held on the same day as the 9/11 attacks, she was in America and so not present.
During last night’s acceptance speech she said, “It’s really good to be here this evening, because when I last won 10 years ago I was in Washington DC watching the Pentagon burning from my hotel window. So much has happened since then. This album took me a long time to write. It was very important to me. I wanted to make something meaningful, not just for myself but for other people, and hopefully to make something that would last.”
During the making of Let England Shake, PJ was heavily inspired by the horrors of war, and spent much time researching testimonials given by civilians and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. The album won by unanimous vote by the panel of Mercury judges.
So please join us in raising a glass to PJ and the team, for a richly-deserved second success at the Mercury. We’d also like to congratulate all the other nominees for their fantastic albums and performances on the night.
The second single from Hard Fi’s latest album, ‘Fire in the House’ looks set to take the Staines indie rockers’ triumphant festival season into the clubs for a late summer blast. The single, which was produced by Stuart Price and mixed by Alan Moulder, features a remix by the legendary Tiesto.
Alan mixed ‘Fire in the House’ in Miloco’s Assault & Battery 1. Released 15th August 2011.
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Posted in London Recording Studios, Miloco Clients, New Albums, Record Producers, Recording Studio Engineers, SSL Recording Studios, UK Recording Studios | Tagged alan moulder, Assault & Battery 1, Hard Fi Fire in the House, miloco studios, Stuart Price, Tiesto |We’d like to say a huge congratulations to everyone involved in the Miloco-made number 1 album, Echoes by Will Young. Will has been working on his latest success throughout this year with producer Richard X and Miloco’s Pete Hofmann, who gained a co-production credit, and mixed the album. Another of our talented engineers, Matt Wiggins, also gained an engineering credit.
So please join us in raising a glass to Will, Richard, Pete and Matt for their fantastic work on the UK Number 1 album, Echoes.
Find out more on Pete Hofmann by visiting his website: www.petehofmann.co.uk/
You can view Pete’s CV here: interfaceyourmusic.com/PeteHofmann
To view Matt Wiggins’ CV follow this link: www.miloco.co.uk/engineers/mattwiggins.php
The third Hard Fi album will be looking to follow in the footsteps of its chart-topping predecessors. The Staines 4-piece amalgamate everything from reggae to rave in another offering of their trademark, chorus-heavy indie pop.
Paul ‘P-Dub’ Walton mixed Killer Sounds in Sofa Sound.
Released 22nd August 2011.
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