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New tracks uploaded, Demo-CD released

First things first: June/July will be a busy time for us, so if you'd like us to record/produce/mix your stuff any time soon, you better hurry. Second (but winner of all hearts): Back in February, when the winter revealed his true face yet again, the brave Squiggles recorded 10 tracks in two days. It was all live in one room, all amps turned to the wall, drums surrounded by some dash panels - still loud as hell. Surprisingly the seperation of all these instruments went really well, so no problems during mix sessions later. We tried analog mixing with the band listening to it right away, that partially worked out but sometimes it did not. So we ended up mixing stems in the box, then summing those on the X-Desk with some dbx, Toft and Prime compression to it.

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 Preliminary anouncements, business as usual

I just call to say that there is really nothing more to do than to announce quite a lot of new songs to be uploaded by the end of this month. Among those there are some recordings we did with bands we know you don’t know but are still super good. Some tracks we did ourselves (okay, Christian did). So because I’m lazy you’ll get more information next time. Ah, I forgot, we added a small price list to our Services page.

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Name dropping and shit, self referencing, looking for bands

Repeatedly we went down in the studio with the guys from Brothers In Love – be they Michael Nadjé & Ricardo Esposito or Joshua Ford & Max K. – to get their stuff mixed on analog gear. First thing we did this month was a remix of Philipp Boston’s “Serious Disco” to be released on White The Label anytime soon. Next we had Nadjé’s & Esposito’s “Sorry” remixed, but by the latter mentioned gentlemen (and blockstudio’s own humble personnel), all for the BIL 002 EP. In this context I’d like to announce the announcement of the release of BIL 001 on facebook dynamically quoting our site, which quotation we link as such right here. Let’s see what’s happening!

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As there is nothing in particular to announce before holidays

Any sexual implications here? And this is just a catalogue cover from Primo Microphones around 1980. Got this from Preservation Sound, a marvelous blog. Wish I could make a record over there at Gold Coast Recorders, that’s the guy’s studio. But I’ll stay here in Berlin watching Christian produce The Gash’s next demo album instead. And helping them out of course, using a bunch of classic dynamics (M88 TG, M201N, N/D868, GDM 316, e 840, MD 421, MD 441, 565 SD, SM57). Though probably not as sexy as Primo’s these are the ones I’d really liked to have.

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Tracks uploaded, mastering for ortloff, mixing BIL002, Making-Of Probezeit

More than once we promised to show some work we’ve done in the studio and here it is (on the right side of our site or directly at SoundCloud). Among the chosen tracks you’ll find the Probezeit demo songs, and some electronic moody wave industrial ambient made by Christian himself (highly recommended as a soundtrack for video and video games). You’ll also have some sessions where we recorded the musicians alltogether, mixed just a little, and put it together for private listening.

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Record Store Day in Berlin, Probezeit in the studio

Mastering and mixing electronic music used to be our main business so far, that said we’re more than happy to start with serious recordings now. Probezeit is the name, punk emo rock the game, we’ll upload their songs as soon as the mix is done. And maybe we’ll even get some video footage ready, at least we saw a camera around during session. All in all we had a very good time – thank you guys! Man, I love those Gretsch bass drums.

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Mixing with Max K. (not in the picture), mastering for Cuthead

Lately we had the opportunity to use our new gear for mixing purposes. House/Techno/Ambient inspired work by Max K. found its way on the desk and passed some analog processing and summing back into the DAW. This might be the first release for a new and fresh Label from Berlin called “Brothers In Love”, an EP named “Exceeding My Own Incompetence”. And that was the kind of work I really like to do, mixing great tracks I mean. We’ll have you informed, when the music’s up and out (although on vinyl only).

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Studio finished, drums on the roll, UV006 in the making and “Gregula” out

It took us roughly a year to build up the studio, so we’re really happy to have it up and running now. And here we go … Having checked most of the relevant signal paths we started fiddling on our recording setup. Although quite pleased with the test results, especially concerning guitar tones, we’re still in search for a punchy drum sound beyond the natural, uncoloured flavours which we reproduced with lesser effort already. Get in contact with us if you’re interested in our work!

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On stage with psychedelic rock, Natural Born Grinders, The Gash and Shrike

Back in town from the Auenland Festival in Empfertshausen/Turingia where we did some live sessions (see the video above) while managing the PA-setup for the show. Which consisted mainly of two drum microphones (kick, snare), and one for percussions, and a vocal microphone amped via a single active stage box and two passive monitors linked to it. Not to forget the trusty Behringer Eurorack desk inbetween. Guitar and bass amps on their own.

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Hello everybody, blockstudio is coming! And so is Jacob Korn’s “She” …

Our very own music studio gets finished probably till the end of this month. A dream comes true, I can tell you . Right now, Christian does the cabling on studio equippment like the SSL X-Desk, the D.A.V. BG No. 8 pre, the Toft Audio ATC-2, to name but a few. From thereon we go straight into recording our first sessions, most likely with The Gash – these guys use one of our rehearsal rooms as well, and they rock like hell (no, it’s not a cliché).

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