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STUDIO B.

recording history

True Detective Theme & Cues, Composed by T Bone Burnett, Mixed in Studio B.

Credit: HBO & Warner Bros. Television Distribution

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Smashing Pumpkins, Analog Tapes from "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness", 1995.

Credit: MTV & UMG

"It is a means to an end," Corgan says wearily the next day during a break from mixing another Mellon Collie firecracker, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings." "It's not the best means to an end. It's not the shortest distance between two points. But it is a means to an end.

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"In a weird kind of way," Corgan says, "music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me."

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It is sometimes hard to tell how much Corgan truly enjoys his work. Surprisingly tall and broad shouldered, he walks with a gangly, elastic stride, his head bowed in a slight hunch as if he were wearing some great, invisible yoke around his neck. Corgan's hair, cut short and dyed jet black, gives his boyish, porcelain-white features an even more ghostly pallor. And when he joins the album's other co-producer, Alan Moulder, behind the board to work on "Bullet," Corgan's face goes dead blank as he loses himself in the song's tidal roar."

- David Fricke, Rolling Stone, 1995.

AlunaGeorge with Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW, 2013.

Snoop Dogg, 2017.

Credit: @snoopdogg

“When ‘The Chronic’ came out it was the first time I remember having things to say about the production,” adds Royce. “It was the first time I remember people talking about beats. I didn’t even realise that that could even be a conversation until ‘The Chronic’ dropped.”

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But more than just the slick production, the soundbites from comedian Rudy Ray Moore, the Led Zeppelin and Isaac Hayes samples, and the comic relief of skits like ‘The $20 Sack Pyramid’, the lyrics on ‘The Chronic’ were utterly timely, acting as a sort of CNN report from the streets."

"A 4/20 deep dive into the album that changed hip-hop forever" - NME

Dramarama, "Up To Here". 2020.

Photo Credit: Dramarama

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