© 2008 Electric Lady Studios

Issue No. 1, Volume MMVIII



Kanye West,
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album from Kanye West, released November 22, 2010 on Roc-A-Fella Records.

The album was named 'Album of the Year' by Rolling Stone magazine in their recently released year-end issue, and received rave reviews from the magazine, notching a five-star rating. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 496,000 copies in its first week in the United States.

Recording sessions took place primarily at Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii and at Electric Lady Studios in New York.


API Mix Suite To Electric Lady Legacy

Electric Lady Studios is pleased to announce an expansion with the addition of our API Mix Suite. The newly constructed space features a custom built, vintage API 3288 with original 550As - completely refurbished to like-new condition before install - and, an extensive array of brand new outboard equipment & monitoring speakers.

Unique to our facility, our first dedicated mix room stylishly features exposed brick walls, dark cherry floors, and an abundance of natural light - complete with a view over Greenwich Village's, West 8th Street.









Rolling Stones Reissue 
Some Girls

Some Girls is the 14th British and 16th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978 on Rolling Stones Records. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, and remains the band's best-selling album with 6 million plus copies sold. The album was re-issued on 21 November 2011 in a 2 CD Deluxe edition, including 12 previously unreleased songs from that era.

Originally recorded in Paris and New York’s, Electric Lady Studios (1978), Keith Richards returned to Electric Lady’s Studio A with producer Don Was in September of 2011 to overdub guitar parts for the reissue release.

Electric Lady Welcomes Neve 8078 to Studio A

Electric Lady’s classic Neve 8078 was lovingly and painstakingly restored to like-new condition by Vintage King Audio. Newly installed, ours has a long history of its own, having recorded - Bob Dylan’s Love & Theft, Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, and film scores like The Aviator and No Country for Old Men. The 8078 was the last of the 80 Series hand-wired mixing consoles and is considered the best sounding tracking console ever produced - now ready for new life at the center of Electric Lady Studios. Click here for video of the Neve installation.




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please contact:

Studio Manager Lee Foster 

lee.foster@electricladystudios.com

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The Strokes

Once miscast as game-changing saviors of the underground, The Strokes have proven once again with Angles that they are actually one of the era’s top mainstream pop-rock acts, uniquely gifted at crafting catchy, radio-ready rock songs at a time when such a thing seems like a quaint remnant of a distant past.

Just as 2001 needed a record of straightforward classicist pleasures like Is This It, 2011 could use more songs like “Life Is Simple In The Moonlight,” where Casablancas’ affected detachment can’t hide his inner romantic or his way with a heart-melting melody. “It’s “just” another Strokes-sounding track among many on Angles, and that’s a very good place to be.” – A.V. Club


Coldplay

Mylo Xyloto (pronounced /ˈmaɪloʊ ˈzaɪlətoʊ/) is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was released worldwide on 24 October 2011 by EMI. It was preceded by the lead single, "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall", on 3 June 2011. Internationally, the album charted at number one in seventeen countries. In the United Kingdom, Mylo Xyloto became their fifth album to debut at number one, selling 208,000 units in its first week.

Coldplay spent the entire month of June 2010 recording inside Electric Lady Studios’ A & C rooms with producers Markus Dravs, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson.