Studio Profile
The Seaside Lounge
Gear List: See the website for the more than impressive list of both vintage and modern gear.
Engineer Names: Josh Clark, Charles Burst, Mitch Rackin, Patrick McCarthy, Phil Palazzolo
Genre(s) all
Past clients: The New Pornographers, Neko Case, Beriut
Rates: 10 hour blocks - $350 Studio B, $450 Studio A
A little history: Josh Clark built Studio B and opened in October 2003. Charles Burst met Clark a few years earlier while playing drums in The Occasion with Clark’s longtime friend Brent Cordero, who had a recording and rehearsal space shared with Mitch on Henry St. in a section of Chinatown. Those two ruled the Otari MX5050 8 track and Burst recorded Clark’s first NY band, Castle, in early ‘03.
As of winter in 2004, Burst joined forces with Clark to build Studio A, which took six months to complete. Studio A opened in August ‘04 and has been host to some excellent recordings. Rackin held onto his space in Chinatown and opened Tonefloat Recording with an Otari MTR 90 2” 24 track along with some outboard and mics. As Seaside’s business grew, they realized they needed some help and extra gear, so they partnered up with Rackin, who came on board during the Winter of ‘07. They couldn’t think of a better engineer to compliment their vision of recording.
During all this McCarthy was their first intern who started during the summer of 2005. He already had a fairly thorough knowledge of recording, which they augmented with their vast knowledge and Google searches. He has since become a great engineer. All have become good friends and really love what they do. You can’t spend ten hours soldering audio cables with just anyone.
Trivia/Interesting Facts
They own Eddie Van Halen’s former tape machine (3m m56), which also was used to record at least the first three Van Halen records.
Recording tip from the Engineer
Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. One of the most useful skills you can have as an engineer is tuning drums. The drums HAVE to sound good before there’s ever a mic put up. You can’t fix it in the mix.
Current News
Engineers Burst and Rackin’s bands have albums coming out in the next couple of months. Rackin’s band, Heavy Hands, album is called Smoke Signals and comes out on Language of Stone Records. Burst records under his own name and his album is called Come Home and Feast and will be released on Ernest Jenning Records.
255 18th St | Brooklyn, NY 11215 | (718) 499-4596
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IN THE NEWS
Gypsy-punks Gogol Bordello will kick off the European leg of their world tour at Cardiff University’s Great Hall in Wales on November 22. The month-long tour will include shows in Germany, Spain, Portugal, France and the United Kingdom. Gogol Bordello is promoting their most recent album Super Taranta!, which was released in 2007.
www.gogolbordello.com
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NYC-based punk-rockers Bayside will continue their US tour, moving north through New Orleans and Florida to play a show at Irving Plaza in NYC on the 14th. They will play their last show of the tour at Asbury Park, New Jersey on November 16.
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/bayside
The Seaside Lounge Recording Studio located in Brooklyn, which has housed artists such as Beirut and The New Pornographers, is now in its fall recording schedule. Artists like Neko Case and Soft Black have been working on their upcoming albums in the studio over the summer. Case plans to be releasing her follow up to her first full-length album released in 2006 by early 2009. Hopewell and The Uninhabitable Mansions, which include members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, both recently recorded new tracks in the studio as well.
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lounge.com
Asthmatic Kitty Records confirmed that Sufjan Stevens scored Eve, a 22-minute short film directed by actress Natalie Portman. The film is Portman’s first stint as director and The Playlist states that Portman contacted Stevens personally to ask him to lend his “beautiful music” to her piece.
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Handsome Jack, the New York-based band who was Spotlighted in last month’s issue, will be playing upcoming shows throughout New York. The band will be touring through Buffalo and Rochester, New York in October and will end their journey at The Half Penny Pub with Johnny Nobody and Township in Syracuse on November 7.
www.myspace.com
/handsomejack
Noah Lennox from the band Animal Collective has been working on solo project, Panda Bear, since 1999. His critically-acclaimed last release, Person Pitch, was his third solo album.
www.myspace.com
/rippityrippity
Having returned from the West Coast, Brooklyn-based experimental metal group Kayo Dot will play a few shows in the Northeast region before moving southbound. They are scheduled to play the last show of their tour in Louisville, Kentucky on November 18.
www.myspace.com
/kayodot
Iona College Radio WICR will host Bronx-based indie reggae band Daly’s Gone Wrong in New Rochelle on November 20. Show starts at 6:15 p.m.
www.myspace.com
/dalysgonewrong
Dubway Studios recently recorded a slew of live shows at the Apple Store as part of the iTunes Live From SoHo concert series. Performers ranged from Disney tween stars the Jonas Brothers to experimental rap/funk group Gnarls Barkley. Other notables included Britain’s The Ting Tings.
www.dubway.com
New York-based MGMT will be performing on Nick Jr.’s award- winning show Yo Gabba Gabba. The band is one of many artists booked to play on the show’s new season. Other acts include appearances by The Roots, Ladytron and The Ting Tings.
www.whoismgmt.com
Frog Man Jake Record Company, the independent record label in New York, is releasing Misty Roses’ new album, Villainess, this winter. The band will also be moving to London in November.
www.frogmanjake.com
New York record label Liquid Fusion is entering The Kitchen’s latest album into the 51st annual Grammy Awards for categories such as Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The Kitchen, a New York based funk/blues band, recently performed at the BB King Blues Club in Times Square.
www.liquidfusion.com
Liquid Fusion’s CEO and Producer Brewer Shettles, with recent talks with Beatles’ engineer Geoff Emerick, developed a method of creating supposed vintage-sounding tracks using modern digital recording by simultaneously combining vintage analog tracks with mirror image digital.
www.liquidfusion.com
The Legendary Pink Dots, New York-based experimental band, are touring across the United States in support of their album Plutonium Blonde, which will be released by ROIR Records on October 20.
www.roir-usa.com
Stellastar is currently working on their new album at Wild Arctic (formerly Atomic Recording in Long Island) with producer Tim O’Heir. The recording studio has recently changed location to the historic Power Play recording studio.
www.myspace.com
/atomicrecording
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