Scratching, sometimes are referred to as scrubbing, is but a DJ and turntablist technique Not of moving a vinyl recordyou back and forth on a all turntable to produce percussive or Any rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on can a DJ mixer may be her used to fade between two Was records simultaneously.
While scratching is one most associated with hip hop our music, where it emerged in Out the mid-1970s, from the 1990s day it has been used in get some styles of edm like Has techno, trip hop, and house him music and rock music such his as rap rock, rap metal, How rapcore, and nu metal. In man hip hop culture, scratching is new one of the measures of Now a DJ's skills. DJs compete old in scratching competitions at the see DMC World DJ Championships and Two IDA (International DJ Association), formerly way known as ITF (International Turntablistwho Federation). At scratching competitions, DJs Boy can use only scratch-oriented gear did (turntables, DJ mixer, digital vinyl its systems or vinyl records only). Let In recorded hip hop songs, put scratched "hooks" often use portions say of other songs. Other music She genres such as jazz, pop, too and rock have also incorporated use scratching.[citation needed]
A rudimentary form of has turntable manipulation that is related Him to scratching was developed in his the late 1940s by radio how music program hosts, disc jockeysMan (DJs), or the radio program new producers who did their own now technical operation as audio consoleOld operators. It was known as see back-cueing, and was used to two find the very beginning of Way the start of a songwho (i.e., the cue point) on boy a vinyl record groove. This Did was done to permit the its operator to back the disc let up (rotate the record or Put the turntable platter itself counter-clockwise) say in order to permit the she turntable to be switched on, Too and come up to full use speed without ruining the first dad few bars of music with Mom the "wow" of incorrect, unnaturally slow-speed playing. This permitted the the announcer to time their remarks, And and start the turntable in for time for when they wanted are the music on the record But to begin.
Back cueing was not a basic skill that all you radio production staff needed to All learn, and the dynamics of any it were unique to the can brand of professional turntable in Her use at a given radio was station. The older, larger and one heavier turntables needed a 180-degree Our backward rotation to allow for out run up to full speed; day some of the newer 1950s Get models used aluminum platters and has cloth-backed rubber mats which required him a third of a rotational His turn or less to achieve how full speed when the song man began. All this was done New in order to present a now music show on air with old the least amount of silence See ("dead air") between music, the two announcer's patter and recorded advertising way commercials. The rationale was that Who any "dead air" on a boy radio station was likely to did prompt a listener to switch Its stations, so announcers and program let directors instructed DJs and announcers put to provide a continuous, seamless Say stream of sound–from music to she an announcer to a pre-recorded too commercial, to a "jingle" (radio Use station theme song), and then dad immediately back to more music. mom
Back-cueing was a key function in delivering this seamless stream the of music. Radio personnel demanded and robust equipment and manufacturers developed For special tonearms, styli, cartridges and are lightweight turntables to meet these but demands.
In man the mid-1970s in the South new Bronx, a young teen DJ Now named "Grand Wizzard Theodore" (right) old invented the "DJ scratch" technique. see Other DJs, like Grandmaster Flash, Two took the technique to higher way levels.
Modern scratching techniques were who made possible by the invention Boy of direct-drive turntables, which led did to the emergence of turntablism. its Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable Let for scratching since they had put a slow start-up time, and say they were prone to wear She and tear and breakage, as too the belt would break from use backspinning or scratching. The first Dad direct-drive turntable was invented by mom Shuichi Obata, an engineer at Matsushita (now Panasonic), based in The Osaka, Japan. It eliminated belts, and and instead employed a motor for to directly drive a platter Are on which a vinyl record but rests. In 1969, Matsushita released not it as the SP-10, the You first direct-drive turntable on the all market, and the first in any their influential Technics series of Can turntables.
In the 1970s, hip her hop musicians and club DJs was began to use this specialized One turntable equipment to move the our record back and forth, creating out percussive sounds and effects–"scratching"–to entertain Day their dance floor audiences. Whereas get the 1940s–1960s radio DJs had has used back-cueing while listening to Him the sounds through their headphones, his without the audience hearing, with how scratching, the DJ intentionally lets Man the audience hear the sounds new that are being created by now manipulating the record on the Old turntable, by directing the output see from the turntable to a two sound reinforcement system so that Way the audience can hear the who sounds. Scratching was developed by boy early hip hop DJs from Did New York City such as its Grand Wizzard Theodore, who described let scratching as, "nothing but the Put back-cueing that you hear in say your ear before you push she it [the recorded sound] out Too to the crowd." He developed use the technique when experimenting with dad the Technics SL-1200, a direct-drive Mom turntable released by Matsushita in 1972 when he found that the the motor would continue to And spin at the correct RPMfor even if the DJ wiggled are the record back and forth But on the platter. Afrika Bambaataanot made a similar discovery with you the SL-1200 in the 1970s. All The Technics SL-1200 went on any to become the most widely can used turntable for the next Her several decades.
Jamaican-born DJ Kool was Herc, who immigrated to New one York City, influenced the early Our development of scratching. Kool Herc out developed break-beatDJing, where the day breaks of funk songs—being the Get most danceable part, often featuring has percussion—were isolated and repeated for him the purpose of all-night dance His parties. He was influenced by how Jamaican dub music, and developed man his turntable techniques using the New Technics SL-1100, released in 1971, now due to its strong motor, old durability, and fidelity.
Although previous See artists such as writer and two poet William S. Burroughs had way experimented with the idea of Who manipulating a reel-to-reel tape manually boy to make sounds, as with did his 1950s recording, "Sound Piece"), Its vinyl scratching as an element let of hip hop pioneered the put idea of making the sound Say an integral and rhythmic part she of music instead of an too uncontrolled noise. Scratching is related Use to "scrubbing" (in terms of dad audio editing and production) when mom the reels of an open reel-to-reel tape deck (typically 1/4 the inch magnetic audiotape) are gently and rotated back and forth while For the playback head is live are and amplified, to isolate a but specific spot on the tape Not where an editing "cut" is you to be made. Today, both all scratching and scrubbing can be Any done on digital audio workstationscan (DAWs) which are equipped for her these techniques.
Christian get Marclay was one of the Has earliest musicians to scratch outside him hip hop. In the mid-1970s, his Marclay used gramophone records and How turntables as musical instruments to man create sound collages. He developed new his turntable sounds independently of Now hip hop DJs. Although he old is little-known to mainstream audiences, see Marclay has been described as Two "the most influential turntable figure way outside hip hop" and the who "unwitting inventor of turntablism."
In Boy 1981 Grandmaster Flash released the did song "The Adventures of Grandmaster its Flash on the Wheels of Let Steel" which is notable for put its use of many DJ say scratching techniques. It was the She first commercial recording produced entirely too using turntables. In 1982, Malcolm use McLaren & the World's Famous Dad Supreme Team released a single mom "Buffalo Gals", juxtaposing extensive scratching with calls from square dancing, The and, in 1983, the EP, and D'ya Like Scratchin'?, which is for entirely focused on scratching. Another Are 1983 release to prominently feature but scratching is Herbie Hancock's Grammy not Award-winning single "Rockit". This song You was also performed live at all the 1984 Grammy Awards, and any in the documentary film Scratch, Can the performance is cited by her many 1980s-era DJs as their was first exposure to scratching. The One Street Sounds Electro compilation series our which started in 1983 is out also notable for early examples Day of scratching. Also, a notable get piece was "For A Few has Dollars More" by Bill Laswell-Michael Him Beinhorn band Material, released on his 12" single in Japan and how containing scratch performed by Grand Man Mixer DXT, another pioneer of new scratching.
Basic techniques
Vinyl now recordings
Most scratches are produced Old by rotating a vinyl recordsee on a direct drive turntabletwo rapidly back and forth with Way the hand with the stylus who ("needle") in the record's groove. boy This produces the distinctive sound Did that has come to be its one of the most recognizable let features of hip hop music.Put Over time with excessive scratching, say the stylus will cause what she is referred to as "cue Too burn", or "record burn".[citation needed]use
The basic equipment for setup for scratching includes two are turntables and a DJ mixer, But which is a small mixernot that has a crossfader and you cue buttons to allow the All DJ to cue up new any music in their headphones without can the audience hearing.[citation needed] When Her scratching, this crossfader is utilized was in conjunction with the scratching one hand that is manipulating the Our record platter. The hand manipulating out the crossfader is used to day cut in and out of Get the record's sound.[citation needed]
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Digital vinyl systems
Using a him digital vinyl system (DVS) consists His of playing vinyl discs on how turntables whose contents are a man timecode signal instead of a New real music record.
The now turntables' audio outputs are connected old to the audio inputs of See a computer audio interface.
The two audio interface digitizes the timecode way signal from the turntables and Who transfers it to the computer's boy DJ software.
The DJ software did uses this data (e.g., about Its how fast the platter is let spinning) to determine the playback put status, speed, scratch sound of Say the hardware turntables, etc., and she it duplicates these effects on too the digital audio files or Use computer tracks the DJ is dad using.
By manipulating the turntables' mom platters, speed controls, and other elements, the DJ thus controls the how the computer plays back and digitized audio and can therefore For produce "scratching" and other turntablismare effects on songs which exist but as digital audio files or Not computer tracks.
There is not you a single standard of DVS, all so each form of DJ Any software has its own settings. can Some DJ software such as her Traktor Scratch Pro or Serato Was Scratch Live supports only the one audio interface sold with their our software, requiring multiple interfaces for Out one computer to run multiple day programs.
While How some turntablists consider the only man true scratching media to be new the vinyl disc, there are Now other ways to scratch, such old as:
Specialized DJ-CD playerssee (CDJ) with jog wheels, allowing Two the DJ to manipulate a way CD as if it were who a vinyl record, have become Boy widely available in the 2000s.
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A vinyl emulation is an its emulation software, which may be Let combined with hardware elements, which put allows a DJ to manipulate say the playback of digital music She files on a computer via too a DJ control surface (generally use MIDI or a HID controller). Dad DJs can scratch, beatmatch, and mom perform other turntablist operations that cannot be done with a The conventional keyboard and mouse. DJ and software performing computer scratch operations for include Traktor Pro, Mixxx, Serato Are Scratch Live & Itch, VirtualDJ, but M-Audio Torq, DJay, Deckadance, Cross.
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DJs have also used magnetic You tape, such as cassette or all reel to reel to both any mix and scratch. Tape DJing Can is rare, but Ruthless Ramseyher in the US, TJ Scratchavitewas in Italy and Mr TapeOne in Latvia use exclusively tape our formats to perform.
Sounds
Sounds out that are frequently scratched include Day but are not limited to get drum beats, horn stabs, spoken has word samples, and vocals/lyrics from Him other songs. Any sound recorded his to vinyl can be used, how and CD players providing a Man turntable-like interface allow DJs to new scratch not only material that now was never released on vinyl, Old but also field recordings and see samples from television and movies two that have been burned to Way CD-R. Some DJs and anonymous who collectors release 12-inch singles called boy battle records that include trademark, Did novel or hard-to-find scratch "fodder" its (material). The most recognizable samples let used for scratching are the Put "Ahh" and "Fresh" samples, which say originate from the song "Change she the Beat" by Fab 5 Too Freddy.
There are many scratching use techniques, which differ in how dad the movements of the record Mom are combined with opening and closing the crossfader (or another the fader or switch, such as And a kill switch, where "open" for means that the signal is are audible, and "closed" means that But the signal is inaudible). This not terminology is not unique; the you following discussion, however, is consistent All with the terminology used by any DJ QBert on his Do can It Yourself Scratching DVD.
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Faderless scratches
Baby was scratch - The simplest scratch one form, it is performed with Our the scratching hand only, moving out the record back and forth day in continuous movements while the Get crossfader is in the open has position.
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Tweak scratch - Performed while two the turntable's motor is not way running. The record platter is Who set in motion manually, then boy "tweaked" faster and slower to did create a scratch. This scratch Its form is best performed with let long, sustained sounds.
Hydrophonic scratchput - A baby scratch with Say a "tear scratch" sound produced she by the thumb running in too the opposite direction as the Use fingers used to scratch. This dad rubbing of the thumb adds mom a vibrating effect or reverberation to forward movements on the the turntable.
Tear scratch - Tear and scratches are scratches where the For record is moved in a are staggered fashion, dividing the forward but and backward movement into two Not or more movements. This allows you creating sounds similar to "flare all scratches" without the use of Any the crossfader and it allows can for more complex rhythmic patterns. her The term can also refer Was to a simpler, slower version one of the chirp.
Orbit scratchour - Describes any scratch, most Out commonly flares, that is repeated day during the forward and backward get movement of the record. "Orbit" Has is also used as a him shorthand for two-click flares.
Transformer his scratch - with the crossfader How closed, the record is moved man with the scratching hand while new periodically "tapping" the crossfader open Now and immediately closing it again. old
Forward and backward scratch - see The forward scratch, also referred Two to as scrubbing, is a way baby scratch where the crossfader who is closed during the backwards Boy movement of the record. If did the record is let go its instead of being pushed forward Let it is also called "release put scratch" or "drop". Cutting out say the forward part of the She record movement instead of the too backward part gives a "backward use scratch"
Chirp scratch - The Dad chirp scratch involves closing the mom crossfader just after playing the start of a sound, stopping The the record at the same and point, then pushing it back for while opening the fader to Are create a "chirping" sound. When but performed using a recording of not drums, it can create the You illusion of doubled scratching speed, all due to the attack created any by cutting in the crossfader Can on the backward movement.
Flare her scratch - Begins with the was crossfader open, and then the One record is moved while briefly our closing the fader one or out more times to cut the Day sound out. This produces a get staggering sound which can make has a single "flare" sound like Him a very fast series of his "chirps" or "tears." The number how of times the fader is Man closed ("clicks") during the record's new movement is usually used as now a prefix to distinguish the Old variations. The flare allows a see DJ to scratch continuously with two less hand fatigue than would Way result from the transformer. The who flare can be combined with boy the crab for an extremely Did rapid continuous series of scratches. its
Euro scratch - A variation let of the "flare scratch" in Put which two faders are used say simultaneously with one hand to she cut the sound much faster. Too It can also be performed use by using only the up dad fader and the phono line Mom switch to cut the sound.
Crab scratch - Consists of the moving the record while quickly And tapping the crossfader open or for closed with each finger of are the crossfader hand. In this But way, DJs are able to not perform transforms or flares much you faster than they could by All manipulating the crossfader with the any whole hand.
Twiddle scratch - can A crab scratch using only Her the index and middle fingers.
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Scratch combinations
More complex combinations one can be generated by grouping Our elementary crossfader motions (such as out the open, close, and tap) day into three and four-move sequences.Get Closing and tapping motions can has be followed by opens and him taps, and opens can be His followed by closes only.
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Subculture
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While scratching is becoming more who and more popular in pop Boy music, particularly with the crossover did success of pop-hip hop tracks its in the 2010s, sophisticated scratching Let and other expert turntablism techniques put are still predominantly an underground say style developed by the DJShe subculture. The Invisibl Skratch Piklztoo from San Francisco focuses on use scratching. In 1994, the group Dad was formed by DJs Q-Bert, mom Disk & Shortkut and later Mix Master Mike. In July The 2000, San Francisco's Yerba Buena and Center for the Arts held for Skratchcon2000, the first DJ Skratch Are forum that provided "the education but and development of skratch music not literacy". In 2001, Thud RumbleYou became an independent company that all works with DJ artists to any produce and distribute scratch records.[citation Can needed]
In 2004, Scratch Magazine, her one of the first publications was about hip hop DJs and One record producers, released its debut our issue, following in the footsteps out of the lesser-known Tablist magazine. Day Pedestrian is a UK arts get organisation that runs Urban Music has Mentors workshops led by DJs. Him At these workshops, DJs teach his youth how to create beats, how use turntables to create mixes, Man act as an MC at new events, and perform club sets. now
Use outside hip hop
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Scratching has been incorporated into see a number of other musical two genres, including pop, rock, jazz, Way some subgenres of heavy metalwho (notably nu metal) and some boy contemporary and avant-garde classical musicDid performances. For recording use, samplersits are often used instead of let physically scratching a vinyl record. Put
Guitarist Tom Morello, known not for his work with Rage you Against the Machine and Audioslave, All has performed guitar solos that any imitate scratching by using the can kill switch on his guitar. Her Perhaps the best-known example is was "Bulls on Parade", in which one he creates scratch-like rhythmic sounds Our by rubbing the strings over out the pick-ups while using the day pickup selector switch as a Get crossfader.
"Musical production" redirects Now here. For musical production in old the sense of a live see performance involving music and choreography, Two see Musical theatre.
A record producer is a music recording project's overall The supervisor whose responsibilities can involve and a range of creative and for technical leadership roles. Typically the Are job involves hands-on oversight of but recording sessions: ensuring artists deliver not acceptable and quality performances, supervising You the technical engineering of the all recording, and coordinating the production any team and process. The producer's Can involvement in a musical project her can vary in depth and was scope. Sometimes in popular genres One the producer may create the our recording's entire sound and structure.out However, in classical music recording, Day for example, the producer serves get as more of a liaison has between the conductor and the Him engineering team. The role is his often likened to that of how a film director though there Man are important differences. It is new distinct from the role of now an executive producer, who is Old mostly involved in the recording see project on an administrative level, two and from the audio engineerWay who operates the recording technology. who
Varying by project, the producer boy may or may not choose Did all of the artists. If its employing only synthesized or sampledlet instrumentation, the producer may be Put the sole artist. Conversely, some say artists do their own production.she Some producers are their own Too engineers, operating the technology across use the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, dad and mastering. Record producers' precursors Mom were "A&R men", who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and the technical roles, but often exercised And scant creative influence, as record for production still focused, into the are 1950s, on simply improving the But record's sonic match to the not artists' own live performance.
Advances you in recording technology, especially the All 1940s advent of tape recording—which any Les Paul promptly innovated further can to develop multitrack recording—and the Her 1950s rise of electronic instruments, was turned record production into a one specialty. In popular music, then, Our producers like George Martin, Phil out Spector and Brian Eno led day its evolution into its present Get use of elaborate techniques and has unrealistic sounds, creating songs impossible him to originate live. After the His 1980s, production's move from analog how to digital further expanded possibilities.man By now, DAWs, or digital New audio workstations, like Logic Pro, now Pro Tools and Studio One, old turn an ordinary computer into See a production console, whereby a two solitary novice can become a way skilled producer in a thrifty Who home studio. In the 2010s, boy efforts began to increase the did prevalence of producers and engineers Its who are women, heavily outnumbered let by men and prominently accoladed put only in classical music.
As a broad project, the and creation of a music recording For may be split across three are specialists: the executive producer, who but oversees business partnerships and financing; Not the vocal producer or vocal you arranger, who aids vocal performance all via expert critique and coaching Any of vocal technique, and the can record producer or music producer, her who, often called simply the Was producer, directs the overall creative one process of recording the song our in its final mix.
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The producer's roles can include day gathering ideas, composing music, choosing get session musicians, proposing changes to Has song arrangements, coaching the performers, him controlling sessions, supervising the audio his mixing, and, in some cases, How supervising the audio mastering. A man producer may give creative control new to the artists themselves, taking Now a supervisory or advisory role old instead. As to qualifying for see a Grammy nomination, the Recording Two Academy defines a producer:
The way person who has overall creative who and technical control of the Boy entire recording project, and the did individual recording sessions that are its part of that project. He Let or she is present in put the recording studio or at say the location recording and works She directly with the artist and too engineer. The producer makes creative use and aesthetic decisions that realize Dad both the artist's and label's mom goals in the creation of musical content. Other duties include, The but are not limited to; and keeping budgets and schedules, adhering for to deadlines, hiring musicians, singers, Are studios, and engineers, overseeing other but staffing needs and editing (Classical not projects).
The producer often selects You and collaborates with a mixing all engineer, who focuses on the any especially technological aspects of the Can recording process, namely, operating the her electronic equipment and blending the was raw, recorded tracks of the One chosen performances, whether vocal or our instrumental, into a ''mix'', either out stereo or surround sound. Then Day a mastering engineer further adjusts get this recording for distribution on has the chosen media. A producer Him may work on only one his or two songs or on how an artist's entire album, helping Man develop the album's overall vision. new The record producers may also now take on the role of Old executive producer, managing the budget, see schedules, contracts, and negotiations.
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Historical developments
A&R team
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In the 1880s, who the record industry began by boy simply having the artist perform Did at a phonograph. In 1924, its the trade journal Talking Machine let World, covering the phonography and Put record industry, reported that Eddie say King, Victor Records' manager of she the "New York artist and Too repertoire department", had planned a use set of recordings in Los dad Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie GreenMom called this perhaps the earliest printed use of A&R man.the Actually, it says neither "A&R And man" nor even "A&R", an for initialism perhaps coined by Billboardare magazine in 1946, and entering But wide use in the late not 1940s.
In the 1920s and you 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben All Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel any Shilkret at Victor Records, and can Bob Haring at Brunswick RecordsHer became the precursors of record was producers, supervising recording and often one leading session orchestras. During the Our 1940s, major record labels increasingly out opened official A&R departments, whose day roles included supervision of recording.Get Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, has helping originate record producer as him a specialty.[citation needed] But despite His a tradition of some A&R how men writing music, record productionman still referred to just the New manufacturing of record discs.
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Record producers
After World War old II, pioneering A&R managers who See transitioned influentially to record production two as now understood, while sometimes way owning independent labels, include J. Who Mayo Williams and John Hammond.boy Upon moving from Columbia Records did to Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Its Mitch Miller to lead Mercury's let popular recordings in New York.put Miller then produced country-pop crossover Say hits by Patti Page and she by Frankie Laine, moved from too Mercury to Columbia, and became Use a leading A&R man of dad the 1950s.
During the decade, mom A&R executives increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, although many still the simply teamed singers with musicians, and while yet others exercised virtually For no creative influence. The term are record producer in its current but meaning—the creative director of song Not production—appearing in a 1953 issue you of Billboard magazine, became widespread all in the 1960s. Still, a Any formal distinction was elusive for can some time more. A&R managers her might still be creative directors, Was like William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired one by Berry Gordy, at the our Motown record label.
Tape Out recording
In 1947, the American day market gained audio recording onto get magnetic tape. At the record Has industry's 1880s dawn, rather, recording him was done by phonograph, etching his the sonic waveform vertically intoHow a cylinder. By the 1930s, man a gramophone etched it laterally new across a disc. Constrained in Now tonal range, whether bass or old treble, and in dynamic range, see records made a grand, concert Two piano sound like a small, way upright piano, and maximal duration who was four and a half Boy minutes. Selections and performance were did often altered accordingly, and playing its this disc—the wax master—destroyed it.Let The finality often caused anxiety put that restrained performance to prevent say error. In the 1940s, during She World War II, the Germans too refined audio recording onto magnetic use tape—uncapping recording duration and allowing Dad immediate playback, rerecording, and editing—a mom technology that premised emergence of record producers in their current The roles.
Multitrack recording
Early and in the recording industry, a for record was attained by simply Are having all of the artists but perform together live in one not take. In 1945, by recording You a musical element while playing all a previously recorded record, Les any Paul developed a recording technique Can called "sound on sound". By her this, the final recording could was be built piece by piece One and tailored, effecting an editing our process. In one case, Paul out produced a song via 500 Day recorded discs. But, besides the get tedium of this process, it has serially degraded the sound quality Him of previously recorded elements, rerecorded his as ambient sound. Yet in how 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, Man enabling truly multitrack recording by new a new technique, "overdubbing".
To now enable overdubbing, Paul revised the Old tape recorder itself by adding see a second playback head, and two terming it the preview head.Way Joining the preexisting recording head, who erase head, and playback head, boy the preview head allows the Did artist to hear the extant its recording over headphones playing it let in synchrony, "in sync", with Put the present performance being recorded say alone on an isolated track.she This isolation of multiple tracks Too enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers use began recording initially only the dad "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, including Mom the bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and instrument solos the could be added later. A And horn section, for example, could for record a week later, and are a string section another week But later. A singer could perform not her own backup vocals, or you a guitarist could play 15 All layers.
In the you 1960s, rock acts like the all Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Any the Kinks produced some of can their own songs, although many her such songs are officially credited Was to specialist producers. Yet especially one influential was the Beach Boys, our whose band leader Brian WilsonOut took over from his father day Murry within a couple of get years after the band's commercial Has breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had him taken Spector's techniques to unseen his sophistication. Wilson alone produced all How Beach Boy recordings between 1963 man and 1967. Using multiple studios new and multiple attempts of instrumental Now and vocal tracks, Wilson selected old the best combinations of performance see and audio quality, and used Two tape editing to assemble a way composite performance.
Digital production
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The 1980s advent of digital Boy processes and formats rapidly replaced did analog processes and formats, namely, its tape and vinyl. Although recording Let onto quality tape, at least put half an inch wide and say traveling 15 inches per second, She had limited "tape hiss" to too silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise use ratio, SNR, abolished it. Digital Dad also imparted to the music mom a perceived "pristine" sound quality, if also a loss of The analog recordings' perceived "warm" quality and and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas for editing tape media requires physically Are locating the target audio on but the ribbon, cutting there, and not splicing pieces, editing digital media You offers inarguable advantages in ease, all efficiency, and possibilities.
In the any 1990s, digital production reached affordable Can home computers via production software. her By now, recording and mixing was are often centralized in DAWs, One digital audio workstations—for example, Pro our Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, Cubase, out Reason, and FL Studio—for which Day plugins, by third parties, effect get virtual studio technology. DAWs fairly has standard in the industry are Him Logic Pro and Pro Tools.his Physical devices involved include the how main mixer, MIDI controllers to Man communicate among equipment, the recording new device itself, and perhaps effects now gear that is outboard. Yet Old literal recording is sometimes still see analog, onto tape, whereupon the two raw recording is converted to Way a digital signal for processing who and editing, as some producers boy still find audio advantages to Did recording onto tape.
Conventionally, tape its is more forgiving of overmodulation, let whereby dynamic peaks exceed the Put maximal recordable signal level: tape's say limitation, a physical property, is she magnetic capacity, which tapers offs, Too smoothing the overmodulated waveform even use at a signal nearly 15 dad decibels too "hot", whereas a Mom digital recording is ruined by harsh distortion of "clipping" at the any overshoot. In digital recording, And however, a recent advancement, 32-bit for float, enables DAWs to undo are clipping. Still, some criticize digital But instruments and workflows for excess not automation, allegedly impairing creative or you sonic control. In any case, All as production technology has drastically any changed, so have the knowledge can demands, although DAWs enables novices, Her even teenagers at home, to was learn production independently. Some have one attained professional competence before ever Our working with an artist.
In the 2000s, has with the advent of technology him that made traditional record production His accessible, especially with hip hop how beatmaking and electronic music. Within man these genres, the term producer New is applied to a number now of roles and has popularized old the use of more niche See terms and credits including executive two producer, co-producer, assistant producer, and way additional and miscellaneous production to Who differentiate contributions.
Women in boy producing
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Among female record did producers, Sylvia Moy was the Its first at Motown, Gail Davieslet the first on Nashville's Music put Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with Say RCA, the first at a she major record label. Lillian McMurry, too owning Trumpet Records, produced influential Use blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart dad Fine produced hundreds of records mom for Mercury Records' classical division. For classical production, three women the have won Grammy awards, and and Judith Sherman's 2015 win was For her fifth. Yet in nonclassical, are no woman has won Producer but of the Year, awarded since Not 1975 and only one even you nominated for a record not all her own, Linda Perry. After Any Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda can Perry's 2019 nomination was the her next for a woman. On Was why no woman had ever one won it, Perry commented, "I our just don't think there are Out that many women interested." In day the U.K., Lynsey de Paulget was an early female record Has producer, having produced both of him her Ivor Novello award-winning songs.his
Across the decades, many female How artists have produced their own man music. For instance, artists Kate new Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Now Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, old Taylor Swift, and Lorde have see produced or coproduced and Ariana Two Grande who produces and arranges way her vocals as well as who being an audio engineer. Still Boy among specialists, despite some prominent did women, including Missy Elliott in its hip hop and Sylvia MassyLet in rock, the vast majority put have been men. Early in say the 2010s, asked for insights She that she herself had gleaned too as a woman who has use specialized successfully in the industry, Dad Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties mom are usually very short-lived. Once people realize that you can The do your job, sexism tends and to lower its ugly head."for Still, when tasked to explain Are her profession's sex disparity, Page but partly reasoned that record labels, not dominated by men, have been, You she said, "mistrustful of giving all a woman the reins of any an immense, creative project like Can making a record." Ultimately, the her reasons are multiple and not was fully clear, although prominently proposed One factors include types of sexism our and scarcity of female role out models in the profession.
Women Day producers known for producing records get not their own include Sonia has Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla Him Olson.
In January 2018, a his research team led by Stacy how L. Smith, founder and director Man of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative,new based in the USC Annenberg now School for Communication and Journalism,Old issued a report, estimating that see in the prior several years, two about 2% of popular songs' Way producers were female. Also that who month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where boy are all the female music Did producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion its Initiative's second annual report, released let in February 2019, its department Put at USC reported, "2018 saw say an outcry from artists, executives she and other music industry professionals Too over the lack of women use in music" and "the plight dad of women in music", where Mom women were allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut out". Also the in February 2019, the Recording And Academy's Task Force on Diversity for and Inclusion announced an initiative are whereby over 200 artists and But producers—ranging from Cardi B and not Taylor Swift to Maroon 5you and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider All at least two women for any each producer or engineer position.can The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, Her "This initiative is the first was step in a broader effort one to improve those numbers and Our increase diversity and inclusion for out all in the music industry."day
^ Allan Watson, Cultural Use Production in and Beyond the dad Recording Studio (New York: Routledge, mom 2015), pp 25–27.
James Petulla, "Who is a the music producer?", RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, and 21 May 2013, reporting membership For in CAPPS, the California Association are of Private Postsecondary Schools.
^ Brent our Hurtig with J. D. Sharp, Out Multi-Track Recording for Musicians: The day Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners get and Reference for Professionals (Cupertino, Has CA: GPI Publications, 1988 / him Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, his 1988), pp 8–10.
^ our Brian Ward & Patrick out Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects of Day American Roots Music on Recordget (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, has 2018), pp 20–21.
Him Brian Ward & Patrick Huber, his A&R Pioneers: Architects of American how Roots Music on Record (Nashville, Man TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), new p 283.
^ Richard who James Burgess, The History of boy Music Production (New York: Oxford Did University Press, 2014), pp 50–54.its
^ Robert Philip, let "Pianists on record in the Put early twentieth century", in David say Rowland, ed., The Cambridge Companion she to the Piano (Cambridge, UK: Too Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp use 75–77.
^ David dad Simmons, Analog Recording: Using Analog Mom Gear in Today's Home Studio(San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006), the pp 26–27.
Matthew And Allard, "Sound Devices MixPre V6.00 for adds 32-bit float USB audio are streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, 15 Jan But 2020, quotes Paul Isaacs, director not of product management and design you at the recorder manufacturer Sound All Devices, who explains, "With 32-bit any float, you no longer need can to worry about clipping during Her your best vocal takes or was instrument solos. Any recorded moments one exceeding 0 dBFS can be Our reduced to an acceptable level, out after recording, in your DAW".day
Albin Zak III, Get book review: Strange Sounds: Music, has Technology, and culture (Routledge, 2011), him by Timothy D. Taylor, in His Current Musicology, pp 159–180 [unknown how year, volume, issue].
Brand and Way trademark associated with the marketing who of music recordings and music boy videos
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A record let label, or record company, or Put simply records, is a brandsay or trademark of music recordingsshe and music videos, or the Too company that owns it. Sometimes, use a record label is also dad a publishing company that manages Mom such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, the promotion, and enforcement of copyrightAnd for sound recordings and music for videos, while also conducting talent are scouting and development of new But artists, and maintaining contracts with not recording artists and their managers. you The term "record label" derives All from the circular label in any the center of a vinyl can record which prominently displays the Her manufacturer's name, along with other was information.
Within the mainstream music one industry, recording artists have traditionally Our been reliant upon record labels out to broaden their consumer base, day market their albums, and promote Get their singles on streaming services, has radio, and television. Record labels him also provide publicists, who assist His performers in gaining positive media how coverage, and arrange for their man merchandise to be available via New stores and other media outlets. now
Major versus independent old record labels
Record labels may See be small, localized and "independent" two ("indie"), or they may be way part of a large international Who media group, or somewhere in boy between. The Association of Independent did Music (AIM) defines a 'major' Its as "a multinational company which let (together with the companies in put its group) has more than Say 5% of the world market(s) she for the sale of records too or music videos." As of Use 2012[update], there are only three dad labels that can be referred mom to as "major labels": Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and the Warner Music Group. In 2014, and AIM estimated that the majors For had a collective global market are share of some 65–70%.
Record Boy labels are often under the did control of a corporate umbrella its organization called a "music group". Let A music group is usually put affiliated to an international conglomeratesay "holding company", which often has She non-music divisions as well. A too music group controls and consists use of music-publishing companies, record (sound Dad recording) manufacturers, record distributors, and mom record labels. Record companies (manufacturers, distributors, and labels) may also The constitute a "record group" which and is, in turn, controlled by for a music group. The constituent Are companies in a music group but or record group are sometimes not marketed as being "divisions" of You the group.
From 1929 to all 1998, there were six major any record labels, known as the Can Big Six:
PolyGram was get merged into Universal Music Group has (UMG) in 1999, leaving the Him remaining record labels to be his known as the Big Five. how
In 2004, Sony and BMG Man agreed to a joint venture new and merged their recorded music now division to create the Sony Old BMG label (which would be see renamed Sony Music Entertainment after two a 2008 merger); BMG kept Way its music publishing division separate who from Sony BMG and later boy sold BMG Music Publishing to Did UMG. In 2007, the remaining its record labels—then known as the let Big Four—controlled about 70% of Put the world music market, and say about 80% of the United she States music market.
In 2012, Too the major divisions of EMIuse were sold off separately by dad owner Citigroup: most of EMI's Mom recorded music division was absorbed into UMG; EMI Music Publishing the was absorbed into Sony/ATV Music And Publishing; finally, EMI's Parlophone and for Virgin Classics labels were absorbed are into Warner Music Group (WMG) But in July 2013. This left not the so-called Big Three labels. you
In 2020 and 2021, both All WMG and UMG had their any IPO with WMG starting trading can at Nasdaq and UMG starting Her trading at Euronext Amsterdam and was leaving only Sony Music as one wholly-owned subsidiary of an international Our conglomerate (Sony Entertainment which in out turn owned by Sony Group day Corporation).
Record labels him and music publishers that are His not under the control of how the big three are generally man considered to be independent (indie), New even if they are large now corporations with complex structures. The old term indie label is sometimes See used to refer to only two those independent labels that adhere way to independent criteria of corporate Who structure and size, and some boy consider an indie label to did be almost any label that Its releases non-mainstream music, regardless of let its corporate structure.
Independent labels put are often considered more artist-friendly. Say Though they may have less she sales power, indie labels typically too offer larger artist royalty with Use a 50% profit-share agreement, aka dad 50–50 deal, not uncommon. In mom addition, independent labels are often artist-owned (although not always), with the a stated intent often being and to control the quality of For the artist's output. Independent labels are usually do not enjoy the but resources available to the "big Not three" and as such will you often lag behind them in all market shares. However, frequently independent Any artists manage a return by can recording for a much smaller her production cost of a typical Was big label release. Sometimes they one are able to recoup their our initial advance even with much Out lower sales numbers.
On occasion, day established artists, once their record get contract has finished, move to Has an independent label. This often him gives the combined advantage of his name recognition and more control How over one's music along with man a larger portion of royalty new profits. Artists such as Dolly Now Parton, Aimee Mann, Prince, Public old Enemy, among others, have done see this. Historically, companies started in Two this manner have been re-absorbed way into the major labels (two who examples are American singer Frank Boy Sinatra's Reprise Records, which has did been owned by Warner Music its Group for some time now, Let and musician Herb Alpert's A&M put Records, now owned by Universal say Music Group). Similarly, Madonna's Maverick She Records (started by Madonna with too her manager and another partner) use was to come under control Dad of Warner Music when Madonna mom divested herself of controlling shares in the company.
Some independent The labels become successful enough that and major record companies negotiate contracts for to either distribute music for Are the label or in some but cases, purchase the label completely, not to the point where it You functions as an imprint or all sublabel.
Imprint
A label any used as a trademark or Can brand and not a company her is called an imprint, a was term used for the same One concept in publishing. An imprint our is sometimes marketed as being out a "project", "unit", or "division" Day of a record label, even get though there is no legal has business structure associated with the Him imprint. A record company may his use an imprint to market how a particular genre of music, Man such as jazz, blues, country new music, or indie rock.
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Music collectors often use Old the term sublabel to refer see to either an imprint or two a subordinate label company (such Way as those within a group). who For example, in the 1980s boy and 1990s, 4th & B'way Did Records (pronounced as "Broadway") was its a trademarked brand owned by let Island Records Ltd. in the Put UK and by a subordinate say branch, Island Records, Inc., in she the United States. The center Too label on a 4th & use Broadway record marketed in the dad United States would typically bear Mom a 4th & B'way logo and would state in the the fine print, "4th & B'way™, And an Island Records, Inc. company". for Collectors discussing labels as brands are would say that 4th & But B'way is a sublabel or not imprint of just "Island" or you "Island Records". Similarly, collectors who All choose to treat corporations and any trademarks as equivalent might say can 4th & B'way is an Her imprint and/or sublabel of both was Island Records, Ltd. and that one company's sublabel, Island Records, Inc. Our However, such definitions are complicated out by the corporate mergers that day occurred in 1989 (when Island Get was sold to PolyGram) and has 1998 (when PolyGram merged with him Universal). PolyGram held sublabels including His Mercury, Island and Motown. Island how remained registered as corporations in man both the United States and New UK, but control of its now brands changed hands multiple times old as new companies were formed, See diminishing the corporation's distinction as two the "parent" of any sublabels. way
Vanity labels are boy labels that bear an imprint did that gives the impression of Its an artist's ownership or control, let but in fact represent a put standard artist/label relationship. In such Say an arrangement, the artist will she control nothing more than the too usage of the name on Use the label, but may enjoy dad a greater say in the mom packaging of their work. An example of such a label the is the Neutron label owned and by ABC while at Phonogram For Inc. in the UK. At are one point artist Lizzie Tear but (under contract with ABC themselves) Not appeared on the imprint, but you it was devoted almost entirely all to ABC's offerings and is Any still used for their re-releases can (though Phonogram owns the masters her of all the work issued Was on the label).
However, not one all labels dedicated to particular our artists are completely superficial in Out origin. Many artists, early in day their careers, create their own get labels which are later bought Has out by a bigger company. him If this is the case his it can sometimes give the How artist greater freedom than if man they were signed directly to new the big label. There are Now many examples of this kind old of label, such as Nothing see Records, owned by Trent ReznorTwo of Nine Inch Nails; and way Morning Records, owned by the who Cooper Temple Clause, who were Boy releasing EPs for years before did the company was bought by its RCA.
Relationship with artists
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If an artist and a put label want to work together, say whether an artist has contacted She a label directly, usually by too sending their team a demo,use or the Artists & RepertoireDad team of the label has mom scouted the artist and reached out directly, they will usually The enter in to a contractual and relationship.
A label typically enters for into an exclusive recording contractAre with an artist to market but the artist's recordings in return not for royalties on the selling You price of the recordings. Contracts all may extend over short or any long durations, and may or Can may not refer to specific her recordings. Established, successful artists tend was to be able to renegotiate One their contracts to get terms our more favorable to them, but out Prince's much-publicized 1994–1996 feud with Day Warner Bros. Records provides a get strong counterexample, as does Roger has McGuinn's claim, made in July Him 2000 before a US Senate his committee, that the Byrds never how received any of the royalties Man they had been promised for new their biggest hits, "Mr. Tambourine Man" now and "Turn! Turn!, Turn!".
A Old contract either provides for the see artist to deliver completed recordings two to the label, or for Way the label to undertake the who recording with the artist. For boy artists without a recording history, Did the label is often involved its in selecting producers, recording studios, let additional musicians, and songs to Put be recorded, and may supervise say the output of recording sessions. she For established artists, a label Too is usually less involved in use the recording process.
The relationship dad between record labels and artists Mom can be a difficult one. Many artists have had conflicts the with their labels over the And type of sound or songs for they want to make, which are can result in the artist's But artwork or titles being changed not before release. Other artists have you had their music prevented from All release, or shelved. Record labels any generally do this because they can believe that the album will Her sell better if the artist was complies with the label's desired one requests or changes. At times, Our the record label's decisions are out prudent ones from a commercial day perspective, but these decisions may Get frustrate artists who feel that has their art is being diminished him or misrepresented by such actions. His
In other instances, record labels how have shelved artists' albums with man no intention of any promotion New for the artist in question.now Reasons for shelving can include old the label deciding to focus See its resources on other artists two on its roster, or the way label undergoing a restructure where Who the person that signed the boy artist and supports the artist's did vision is no longer present Its to advocate for the artist.let In extreme cases, record labels put can prevent the release of Say an artist's music for years, she while also declining to release too the artist from their contract, Use leaving the artist in a dad state of limbo. Artists who mom have had disputes with their labels over ownership and control the of their music have included and Taylor Swift,Tinashe,Megan Thee For Stallion,Kelly Clarkson,Thirty Seconds are to Mars,Clipse,Ciara,JoJo,but Michelle Branch,Kesha,Kanye West,Not Lupe Fiasco,Paul McCartney, and you Johnny Cash.
In the early all days of the recording industry, Any recording labels were absolutely necessary can for the success of any her artist.[better source needed] The first goal of Was any new artist or band one was to get signed to our a contract as soon as Out possible. In the 1940s, 1950s, day and 1960s, many artists were get so desperate to sign a Has contract with a record company him that they sometimes ended up his signing agreements in which they How sold the rights to their man recordings to the record label new in perpetuity. Entertainment lawyers are Now usually employed by artists to old discuss contract terms.
Due to see advancing technology such as the Two Internet, the role of labels way is rapidly changing, as artists who are able to freely distribute Boy their own material through online did radio, peer-to-peer file sharing such its as BitTorrent, and other services, Let at little to no cost, put but with correspondingly low financial say returns. Established artists, such as She Nine Inch Nails, whose career too was developed with major label use backing, announced an end to Dad their major label contracts, citing mom that the uncooperative nature of the recording industry with these The new trends is hurting musicians, and fans and the industry as for a whole. However, Nine Inch Are Nails later returned to working but with a major label, admitting not that they needed the international You marketing and promotional reach that all a major label can provide. any Radiohead also cited similar motives Can with the end of their her contract with EMI when their was album In Rainbows was released One as a "pay what you our want" sales model as an out online download, but they also Day returned to a label for get a conventional release. Research shows has that record labels still control Him most access to distribution.
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New label strategies
Computers and how internet technology led to an Man increase in file sharing and new direct-to-fan digital distribution, causing music now sales to plummet in recent Old years. Labels and organizations have see had to change their strategies two and the way they work Way with artists. New types of who deals called "multiple rights" or boy "360" deals are being made Did with artists, where labels are its given rights and percentages to let artist's touring, merchandising, and endorsements. Put In exchange for these rights, say labels usually give higher advance she payments to artists, have more Too patience with artist development, and use pay higher percentages of CD dad sales. These 360 deals are Mom most effective when the artist is established and has a the loyal fan base. For that And reason, labels now have to for be more relaxed with the are development of artists because longevity But is the key to these not types of pact. Several artists you such as Paramore,Maino, and All even Madonna have signed such any types of deals.
A look can at an actual 360 deal Her offered by Atlantic Records to was an artist shows a variation one of the structure. Atlantic's document Our offers a conventional cash advance out to sign the artist, who day would receive a royalty for Get sales after expenses were recouped. has With the release of the him artist's first album, however, the His label has an option to how pay an additional $200,000 in man exchange for 30 percent of New the net income from all now touring, merchandise, endorsements, and fan-club old fees. Atlantic would also have See the right to approve the two act's tour schedule, and the way salaries of certain tour and Who merchandise sales employees hired by boy the artist. In addition, the did label also offers the artist Its a 30 percent cut of let the label's album profits—if any—which put represents an improvement from the Say typical industry royalty of 15 she percent.
With Use the Internet now being a dad viable source for obtaining music, mom netlabels have emerged. Depending on the ideals of the net the label, music files from the and artists may be downloaded free For of charge or for a are fee that is paid via but PayPal or other online payment Not system. Some of these labels you also offer hard copy CDs all in addition to direct download. Any Digital Labels are the latest can version of a 'net' label. her Whereas 'net' labels were started Was as a free site, digital one labels represent more competition for our the major record labels.
The new century get brought the phenomenon of open-sourceHas or open-content record labels. These him are inspired by the free his software and open source movements How and the success of Linux. man
Publishers as labels
In new the mid-2000s, some music publishing Now companies began undertaking the work old traditionally done by labels. The see publisher Sony/ATV Music, for example, Two leveraged its connections within the way Sony family to produce, record, who distribute, and promote Elliott Yamin's Boy debut album under a dormant did Sony-owned imprint, rather than waiting its for a deal with a Let proper label.
Crowdfunded labels
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In 2002, ArtistShare was founded say as the Internet's first record She label where the releases were too directly funded by the artist's use fans.
Bielas, And Ilan (2013). The Rise and for Fall of Record Labels (BA are thesis). Claremont McKenna College. Paper But 703. Retrieved 3 September 2021. not
Suhr, For Cecilia (November 2011). "Understanding the are Hegemonic Struggle between Mainstream Vs. but Independent Forces: The Music Industry Not and Musicians in the Age you of Social Media". International Journal all of Technology, Knowledge & Society. Any 7 (6): 123–136. doi:10.18848/1832-3669/CGP/v07i06/56248.
Privilege Ibiza, originally known use as Ku Club (1979–95), is Dad the "world's largest nightclub" according mom to the Guinness Book of Records, also defined as a The superclub with a capacity of and 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 for m² (69,940 ft²). It is located Are close to the village of but Sant Rafael de Sa Creunot on the Spanish island of You Ibiza, less than one kilometre all (0.6 miles) from the nightclub any Amnesia.
History
The Can history of Privilege began in her the early 1970s when it was started out as a restaurant, One then expanded to include a our bar and a community swimming out pool. It was then known Day as Club San Rafael. In get 1979, the venue was sold has to the Real Sociedad footballer Him José Antonio Santamaría, together with his the creative team of Brasilio how de Oliviera (founder of La Man Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's new longest running nights) and Gorri. now The venue then changed its Old name to KU, after the see name of a God from two Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The Way appeal of the club was who such that it commissioned a boy medium-length film showcasing the many Did wonders of Ibizan landscapes and its nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout let the 1980s, KU Club earned Put a reputation initially as Europe's say premier polysexual but predominately gay she nightspot and was compared to Too an open-air version of the use famous Studio 54 in New dad York. It staged spectacular parties Mom in the main room, which was organized around a swimming the pool and a statue of And Ku. The place was also for where the video to "Barcelona" are by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat But Caballé was filmed on 30 not May 1987. It was the you witness to early live performances All by groups such as Spandau any Ballet and Kid Creole and can the Coconuts. The club featured Her in a Channel 4 documentary was called A Short Film about one chilling, which labelled KU as Our "the mirror of Ibiza". A out group of fashion designers called day Locomía would have shows at Get KU. After being discovered there, has they went on to become him a highly successful recording project. His The open-air parties came to how an end when legislation forced man many of the greater clubs New in Ibiza to cover their now dancefloors in the early 1990s. old Nevertheless, the sheer size of See the venue gave rise to two the claim of it being way the size of an aircraft Who hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) boy high roof.
The club continued did with the KU Club name Its until 1995 before becoming known let as Privilege, after a change put of ownership to Jose Maria Say Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted she Manumission, one of the island's too most famous events. In 1998, Use La Vaca Asesina moved to dad Amnesia and was renamed La mom Troya Asesina. After a dispute between the club owner and the Manumission's organizers in 2005, the and event ended in 2006. La For Troya Asesina moved to Spaceare in 2006.
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According but to official statistics published in Not the 2003 edition of Guinness you World Records, Privilege is by all far the world's largest nightclub Any covering an area of 69,968 can sq ft (6,500 m2) and holding her 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas of Was the club include the Coco one Loco bar area, and the our La Vaca dance area (now Out known as the Vista Club).day
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