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What do Guster,
Jessica Simpson, Dido, Usher, Café Tacuba, Damien Rice, REM,
and Ricki Lee Jones have in common? Established
in 1968 in a 30,000 square foot former Masonic Temple, The Village
is a multi-story, multi-studio complex featuring the best of both
vintage and modern gear. Its historic Studio D, one of the largest
studios in Los Angeles, has a spacious live recording room with
five iso booths connected, via audio and video tie lines, to the
building’s second floor 4000 square foot performance space,
complete with stage and chandeliers. Studio D was
the first studio in the world to purchase the acclaimed Neve 88R
console.
To be a fly
on The Village’s walls would make one a witness to legendary
recording sessions of Rock and Roll history, including The Rolling
Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup, Fleetwood Mac’s
Tusk, Eric Clapton’s landmark, After Midnight,
as well as his Grammy Award-winning Tears in Heaven, most
Steely Dan records including Aja, numerous Bob Dylan records,
as well as modern blockbusters including the last three Smashing
Pumpkins releases, The Wallflowers, Rage Against The Machine, Melissa
Etheridge, The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ By the Way, the
Foo Fighters’ One By One, and Nelly’s blockbuster
Nellyville.
The recent buzz
at The Village is due, in part, to almost daily live recordings
in the facility's Neve 88R-equipped Studio D, where the nation’s
hottest radio program, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, broadcasts
some of the most exciting music to be found on the air--or on the
‘Net. Helmed by influential tastemaker Nic Harcourt, the morning
sessions at The Village are not only broadcast in real time but
are also simulcast and archived on KCRW.com.
In one recent week alone, Village staff engineer Jason Wormer recorded
Morning Becomes Eclectic sets by The Eels, Seal, and red hot up-and-comers
East Sound Mountain, The 88s, The Frames and Butterfly Boucher. "Long before the Apple Computer Company revolutionized the way people listened to music with the iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Music Store, The Village was using Apple Computers exclusively to record the hits that would eventually wind up on millions of iPods," says Greenberg. According to Jeff, The Village was one of the very first professional recording studios in the country to completely embrace the Apple platform.
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Sarah Mclachlan and Nic Harcourt For the past three years, The Village has been nominated as studio of by the year the readers of Mix magazine. 
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Jeff states, “Our Storage Area Network is a centralized server that sends all of the sessions through fiber to a secure block of hard disks with a RAID configuration. A dedicated Apple Macintosh G5 CPU backs-up all of the data on a nightly basis, ensuring security and redundancy for all of our sessions.”  studio D with Neve 88R All Village
Studios use Apple Macintosh G5 with an Apple Cinema Display, again
running ProTools, with all sessions recorded to the Storage Area
Network. Studio F (designed
by Vincent VanHaaf) recorded Missy Elliot’s Under Construction,
and Nelly’s Nellyville, two of the most successful hip-hop
albums of 2002/2003.
Ricki Lee Jones’ new CD, The Evening of My Best Day, was recorded and mixed entirely at The Village produced by Jones and David Kalesh and recorded by Jason Wormer and Mark Johnson, with Joe Chiccarelli on board mixing. Jones’ first album of original material in six years, the long-awaited CD is released on the V2 label.
Most recently the score for Russell Crowe’s Master and Commander (the 200-million-dollar epic) was recorded in Studio D with Ry Cooder producing with Rail Rogut engineering.
Other engineers and producers hard at work at The Village on recent projects have been producer Steve Berlin with engineer Robert Carranza recording Los Lobos, R&B giants Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis producing Usher with Ian Cross engineering.
Contact: Darren
Frank, Studio Manager
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Open
the door and enter The Village! 
