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WE TALK AT LENGTH WITH RECORD-MAKERS ABOUT HOW THEY MAKE RECORDS.

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Sacred Travels

BY Eli Crews
ISSUE #75
Cover for Issue 75
Jan 2010
Oz has also made his own record, entitled All Around the World. It is an audio document of sacred spaces, capturing their acoustic and consciousness-altering properties. It is also the creation of new ambient spaces and new realities through audio collage, juxtaposition and cut-up techniques.

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Recording Nona Invie’s <i>Self-soothing</I>
Issue #167 · Apr 2025

Recording Nona Invie’s Self-soothing

By John Baccigaluppi

On Friday mornings I go to the new releases page on Tidal and wade through the new music released each week. I’ll check out records from artists I know, but what I really enjoy is finding new music from an artist I’m not familiar with that resonates with me. On the last day of February 2025, the very last album listed in my new releases feed was Nona...

Daniel Tashian
Issue #166 · Mar 2025

Daniel Tashian

By Larry Crane

In 2017, one of my best friends, Craig Alvin [Tape Op #137], kept texting me about a record he was engineering. He was saying how amazing the process was, and how awesome the results were. The album turned out to be Kacey Musgraves'

Tim Oliver
Issue #166 · Mar 2025

Tim Oliver

By Ian Brennan

Tim Oliver is the "Senior Consulting Engineer” at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios [Tape Op #63] in the English countryside. With over 40 years of experience, Oliver has worked with a who’s who of British rock, including Robert Plant, Brian Eno [#85],...

Thai Long Ly
Issue #166 · Mar 2025

Thai Long Ly

By Andy Hong

I first met Thai Long Ly several years ago at a NAMM Show in Anaheim. He asked me, "What do you ride?" when he noticed the Kriega-branded motorcycling accessories on my backpack. We geeked out about motorcycles for 15 minutes before he offered to lend me one of his bikes for the remainder of my L.A. trip. At the time, Thai had a side gig as a motorcycle...

Jarrett Pritchard
Issue #166 · Mar 2025

Jarrett Pritchard

By Avinash Mittur

Jarrett Pritchard has seen some shit. After coming up in Florida’s extreme music scene, he slugged it out as an educator, live sound engineer, and re-recording mixer for television before getting called back into action for loud and heavy bands. The likes of 1349, Exhumed, and Gruesome have invoked his ears and technical mind on the road and in the...

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