Merrill Garbus: of tUnE-yArDs
by Eli Crews
Merrill Garbus is the founder and central figure of tUnE-yArDs, an extraordinary band that I have had the honor of traveling with over the past year in support of their fantastic album w h o k i l...
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Interviews, tutorials, etc. All about the art of music recording.
Colin Newman: Wire, Gilthead and solo
by Larry Crane
"I'm fundamentally a musician, although I've fallen into being sort of... I hate to refer to myself as a producer because I think there's a lot of pretension around that name. But I've learned how...
Jon Baker: GeeJam Studios in Jamaica
by Peter Zaremba
I found hip-hop/dance music pioneer Jon Baker residing in Port Antonio, Jamaica — a town he decided to settle in after experiencing a blazing a career in New York and London. With a past that...
Soichiro Nakamura & Peace Music: Vintage Japanese Fuzz Box
by Greg Sullivan
With a career spanning over 20 years of recording some of the loudest rock in Japan, Soichiro Nakamura is a warm, sincere and very humble jack-of all-trades. From the compact space of his Peace...
Jon Baker (bonus): Working With The Jolly Boys
by Peter Zaremba
I found hip-hop/dance music pioneer Jon Baker at his GeeJam Studios, an exclusive residential recording studio and hotel in Port Antonio. Jon has recently been working with the legendary Jamaican...
Jacquire King (bonus): KIngs of Leon, Norah Jones, Tom Waits
by Larry Crane
We talked to Jacquire King briefly in Tape Op #45 when he was working with producer Eric Valentine, but in the seven years since that time Jacquire has been involved with an impressive roster of...
Glenn Coleman: Behind the Gear with Coleman Audio
by Holly Lane
I became acquainted with Glenn Coleman when we shared a week together at the Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES) in New York. Glenn's early employer, MCI, was a leading manufacturer of pro...
Kevin Renick: Not So Up In the Air
by Larry Crane
Your career of playing music is kind of more recent to the public eye. Well, yeah, I was described as going through the looking glass, 'cause for many years, even though I did music as a hobby...
Eli Crews: tUnE-yArDs, Deerhoof, Why?
by Jonah Strauss
A longtime San Francisco Bay Area engineer and producer, Eli Crews has been quietly churning out utterly unique albums for the past decade. He is probably best known for his work with Deerhoof,...
Liam Watson (bonus)
by Larry Crane
In issue #15 we ran a rather brief interview with Liam Watson about his London-based Toe Rag Studios. In the following 12 years I always remarked that Tape Op needed to revisit Toe Rag and chat with...
Cellophane Rechordings: The Lost and Found World of Jesse Roy
by Luther Russell
While outsider music isn't for everyone, the genuine article speaks to the outsider in all of us. By its very definition, the genre is strange and impenetrable and yet inviting the same way we...
Steve Albini: Nirvana, Pixies, Stooges, PJ Harvey
by Larry Crane
He’s just a really great engineer.Illustration by Miles Hermann In issue #10 of Tape Op we ran an interview with Steve Albini by my pal John Chandler. Being that the piece was actually done for...