Welcome to issue #69 of Tape Op.

Look at the history of UK pop music over the last twenty-five years and you will invariably come across popular singles and albums that have seen the touch of producer/engineer Stephen Street. Bands l...

It's a warm, sunny, February day in Los Angeles as I take the Vine street exit off the Hollywood freeway. Immediately on my left is the Columbia Records tower, one of this city's many "temples of soun...

At some point, I realized there was a brotherly link between drummer/engineer Dennis Dragon of The Surf Punks, one of silliest yet competent new wave/punk bands ever, and keyboardist Daryl Dragon, the...

Tokyo's style capitol of Naka Meguro has been the long-time base of operations for Japan's foremost musical ambassador of cool, Keigo Oyamada, known to most as Cornelius. I spoke with him at his priva...

I met with Christina Files on a crisp sunny afternoon at Peninsula Park in Northeast Portland. We discussed her past and present experiences as a live sound engineer, studio engineer and musician. Mos...

In 1999 Universal Audio, the company founded by the esteemed Bill Putnam Sr., was re-launched by his sons, Bill Jr. and Jim Putnam [Tape Op #24]. In addition to re-creating some of the classic audio e...