We’re proud to announce the upcoming publication of a new Tape Op book, coming in September of this year! Titled, Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers, it will be published by our pals at Akashic Books in New York. We’re hoping to host a series of books under the Making Music title, covering engineers and artists as well. Interviews will include content from our print edition and podcast, plus new thoughts, intros, and extensive editing – think of it as a remastered Greatest Hits collection of Tape Op!
We’re very excited to have a book as one of the ways to celebrate 30 years of doing this magazine. It’s quite different from the two compendium books we did years ago – 2000’s Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording, and its Vol. II companion in 2007 – as it’s focused (as much as one can) on a topic and pulls from the last 30 years of content. It’s been an incredible journey so far, and we’re looking forward to sharing more with you.
-Larry Crane, Editor & Founder
You can preorder a signed copy of Making Music and get a limited edition T-shirt here:
https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/tape-op-preorder/
Tape Op is a bi-monthly magazine devoted to the art of record making.
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