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What do Common,
Shakira, Alanis Morrisette and the Smashing Pumpkins have in common?
To be a fly
on The Village’s walls would make one The Village is also considered to be one of the Hollywood film industry’s premier recording and post-production facilities where film scores for Walk the Line, Hairspray, Pursuit of Happyness, Lemony Snicket and I Heart Huckabees were recorded. Additionally, TV spots are recorded at the Village for handful of commerical companies including Jack In The Box and Porsche as well as American Idol. 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 Ghian Wright recorded
Morning Becomes Eclectic sets by The Swell Season, Bat For Lashes
and M.I.A. Red hot up-and-comers The Magic Numbers, Koop, The Editors
and Ryan Adams
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The Village
attracts top musicians who need the finest equipment, ambiance and
support services to record their music. In addition to great artists,
the studio has recorded the film scores for Almost Famous,
Vanilla Sky, Moulin Rouge, Girl Interrupted,
Stewart Little, Million Dollar Hotel, Hurricane,
Next Friday, The X-Files Movie, Toy Story 2,
Mulan, The Shawshank Redemption, There's Something
About Mary, Big Daddy, Oscar and Lucinda, Con
Air, Dr. Doolittle, Mad City, the Oscar winning
Good Will Hunting, and Ali. For the past
three years, The Village has been nominated as studio of the year
by the readers of Mix magazine and in 2006 won a Tech Award for
outstanding sound production for its work on Walk The Line. 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. Additionally, Usher's Confessions and
Janet Jackson's Damita Jo was recorded in F.
Other engineers and producers hard at work at The Village on recent projects have been producer Ry Cooder, Bob Ezrin recording Army Of Anyone, Roy Thomas Baker recording the latest Smashing Pumpkins album and Desmond Child working on Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell III and The Scorpion's latest record.
Powering The Village’s hit making studios are a bevy of Apple Macintosh computers, which run ProTools™ in the various tracking and composer studios, and scheduling and accounting software in executive offices. Greenberg notes, “About 95% of our sessions these days are recorded to hard disk and backed-up nightly through our Storage Area Network – a process that depends entirely on the performance and reliability of our Apple Macs. 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,” adds Greenberg. Summing it all up, Greenberg explains, “Whether recording in one of our tracking studios, surfing the web during a break on any one of the numerous iMacs in the studio lounges, writing in a composer’s studio, or working in one of our offices, our goal is to help make the experience enjoyable. The goal is to provide the latest tools and best people to help deliver artist/producer's vision.” Contact: Brooke
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