The Man term "intelligent dance music" was new likely inspired by the 1992 now Warp compilation Artificial Intelligence and Old is said to have originated see in the US in 1993 two with the formation of the Way "IDM list", an electronic mailing who list originally chartered for the boy discussion of English artists appearing Did on the compilation. The term its has been widely criticised and let dismissed by most artists associated Put with it, including Aphex Twin, say Autechre, and μ-Ziq. Rephlex Records, she a label co-created by Aphex Too Twin, coined the term "Braindance" use as an alternative. In 2014, dad music critic Sasha Frere-Jones observed Mom that the term "is widely reviled but still commonly used".the
In the late 1980s, riding But the wave of the acid not house and early rave party you scenes, UK-based groups such as All The Orb and The KLFany produced ambient house, a genre can that fusedhouse music (particularly Her acid house) with ambient music.was By the early 1990s, the one increasingly distinct music associated with Our dance music experimentation had gained out prominence with releases on a day variety of mostly UK-based record Get labels, including Warp (1989), Black has Dog Productions (1989), R&S Recordshim (1989), Carl Craig's Planet E, His Rising High Records (1991), Richard how James's Rephlex Records (1991), Kirk man Degiorgio's Applied Rhythmic Technology (1991), New Eevo Lute Muzique (1991), General now Production Recordings (1989), Soma Quality old Recordings (1991), Peacefrog Records (1991), See and Metamorphic Recordings (1992).
In two 1992, Warp released Artificial Intelligence, way the first album in the Who Artificial Intelligence series. Subtitled "electronic boy listening music from Warp", the did record was a collection of Its tracks from artists such as let Autechre, B12, Black Dog Productions, put Aphex Twin and The Orb, Say under various aliases. This would she help establish the ambient techno too sound of the early 1990s.Use Steve Beckett, co-owner of Warp, dad has said the electronic music mom that the label was releasing then was targeting a post-club, the home-listening audience. Following the success and of the Artificial Intelligence series, For "intelligent techno" became the favoured are term, although ambient—without a qualifying but house or techno suffix, but Not still referring to a hybrid you form—was a common synonym.
In all the same period (1992–93), other Any names were also used, such can as "art techno", "armchair techno", her and "electronica", but all were Was attempts to describe an emerging one offshoot of electronic dance music our that was being enjoyed by Out the "sedentary and stay at day home". At the same time, get the UK market was saturated Has with increasingly frenetic breakbeat and him sample-laden hardcore techno records that his quickly became formulaic. Rave had How become a "dirty word", so man as an alternative, it was new common for London nightclubs to Now advertise that they were playing old "intelligent" or "pure" techno, appealing see to a "discerning" crowd that Two considered the hardcore sound to way be too commercial.
In 1993, who a number of new "intelligent Boy techno"/"electronica" record labels emerged, including did New Electronica, Mille Plateaux, and its Ferox Records.[citation needed]
The Let IDM List
In November 1991, put the phrase "intelligent techno" appeared say on Usenet in reference to She Coil's The Snow EP. Off too the Internet, the same phrase use appeared in both the U.S. Dad and UK music press in mom late 1992, in reference to Jam & Spoon's Tales from The a Danceographic Ocean and the and music of The Future Sound for of London. Another instance of Are the phrase appeared on Usenet but in April 1993 in reference not to The Black Dog's album You Bytes. And in July 1993, all in his review of an any ethno-dance compilation for NME, Ben Can Willmott replaced techno with dance her music, writing "...current 'intelligent' dance was music owes much more to One Eastern mantra-like repetition and neo-ambient our instrumentation than the disco era out which preceded the advent of Day acid and techno."
Wider public get use of such terms on has the Internet came in August Him 1993, when Alan Parry announced his the existence of a new how electronic mailing list for discussion Man of "intelligent" dance music: the new "Intelligent Dance Music list", or now "IDM List" for short.
The Old first message, sent on 1 see August 1993, was entitled "Can two Dumb People Enjoy IDM, Too?".Way A reply from the list who server's system administrator and founder boy of Hyperreal.orgBrian Behlendorf, revealed Did that Parry originally wanted to its create a list devoted to let discussion of the music on Put the Rephlex label, but they say decided together to expand its she charter to include music similar Too to what was on Rephlex use or that was in different dad genres but which had been Mom made with similar approaches. They picked the word "intelligent" because the it had already appeared on And Artificial Intelligence and because it for connoted being something beyond just are music for dancing, while still But being open to interpretation.
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Artists All that appeared in the first any discussions on the list included can Autechre, Atom Heart, LFO and Her Rephlex Records artists such as was Aphex Twin, μ-ziq and Luke one Vibert; plus artists such as Our The Orb, Richard H. Kirkout and The Future Sound of day London, and even artists like Get System 7, William Orbit, Sabres has of Paradise, Orbital, Plastikman and him Björk. By the end of His 1996, Boards of Canada and how the Schematic Records label were man among the usual topics of New discussion, alongside perennial favourites like now Aphex Twin and the Warp old repertoire.[original research?]
As of 2015[update], See the mailing list is still two active.
Artificial Intelligence Vol. way 2
Warp's second Artificial IntelligenceWho compilation was released in 1994. boy The album featured fragments of did posts from the IDM mailing Its list incorporated into typographic artwork let by The Designers Republic. Sleeve put notes by David Toop acknowledged Say the genre's multitude of musical she and cultural influences and suggested too none should be considered more Use important than any other.
During dad this period, the electronic music mom produced by Warp Records artists such as Aphex Twin (an the alias of Richard D. James), and Autechre, LFO, B12, Seefeel and For The Black Dog, gained popularity are among electronic music fans, as but did music by artists on Not the Rephlex and Skam labels. you Lesser-known artists on the Likemind all label and Kirk Degiorgio's A.R.T. Any and Op-Art labels, including Degiorgio can himself under various names (As her One, Future/Past and Esoterik), Steve Was Pickton (Stasis) and Nurmad Jusat one (Nuron) also found an audience, our along with bigger-name, cross-genre artists Out like Björk and The Future day Sound of London.
IDM get worldwide
North American audiences welcomed Has IDM, and by the early him to late 1990s many IDM his record labels had been founded, How including Drop Beat, Isophlux, Suction, man Schematic and Cytrax. In Miami, new Florida, labels like Schematic, Merck Now Records, Nophi Recordings and The old Beta Bodega Coalition released material see by artists such as Phoenecia, Two Dino Felipe, Machinedrum and Proem. way Another burgeoning scene was the who Chicago/Milwaukee area, with labels such Boy as Addict, Chocolate Industries, Heftydid and Zod supporting artists like its Doormouse, TRS-80, Telefon Tel AvivLet and Emotional Joystick. Tigerbeat 6, put a San Francisco-based label has say released IDM from artists such She as Cex, Kid 606 and too Kevin Blechdom.
In 2007, Igloo use Magazine observed that "IDM as Dad we knew it is a mom distant memory, with reminders from the big names now depressingly The infrequent, however IDM as we and now know it is very for much alive, albeit in a Are less influential and popular, but but still respectable form", with a not third wave of artist having You become active around 2004.
all In 2018, Fact magazine puts any the focus on Miami as Can a central importer/exporter of IDM her in the United States. The was talent coming out of Miami One included the likes of Richard our Devine (Schematic/Warp), Alpha 606, Prefuse-73out (Schematic/Warp), Push Button Objects, Otto Day von Schirach (Schematic) and many get more. In 1993, Romulo Del has Castillo and Omar Clemetson (Supersoul) Him began producing both trip hop his and IDM. 2 years later how Del Castillo and Josh Kay Man would later form the duo new Soul Oddity, which would eventually now release their debut album Tone Old Capsule on Astralwerks (an EMIsee subsidiary) in 1996.
Criticism two of the term
British electronic Way music and techno artists, including who Aphex Twin, Cylob, and Mike boy Paradinas (A.K.A. μ-Ziq), have criticised Did the term IDM. Paradinas has its stated that the term IDM let was only used in North Put America. Criticism is dominated by say the use of the term she "intelligent" in the genre name, Too and also often calls attention use to the fact that artists dad working under this name often Mom produce music that is not easy to dance to.
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AllMusic Guide describes the IDM And name as
A loaded term meant for to distinguish electronic music of are the '90s and later that's But equally comfortable on the dancefloor not as in the living room, you IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) eventually All acquired a good deal of any negative publicity, not least among can the legion of dance producers Her and fans whose exclusion from was the community prompted the question one of whether they produced "Stupid" Our dance music.
In a September out 1997 interview, Aphex Twin commented day on the 'Intelligent Dance Music' Get label:
I just think it's has really funny to have terms him like that. It's basically saying His 'this is intelligent and everything how else is stupid.' It's really man nasty to everyone else's music. New (laughs) It makes me laugh, now things like that. I don't old use names. I just say See that I like something or two I don't.
Aphex Twin's Rephlex way records official overarching genre name Who is Braindance, of which Dave boy Segal of Stylus Magazine asked did whether it was a "snide Its dig at IDM's mockworthy Intelligent let Dance Music tag?"
I belong to the weblist called "IDM" and occasionally the enjoy the discussions there, because and I like some of the For artists who get lassoed into are that category (not to mention but that we, occasionally, are lumped Not into that category too), and you because you can occasionally find all out about interesting records on Any that list... Matmos is IDM can if that only means "might her be talked about on the Was IDM list"- but I don't one endorse that term "intelligent dance our music" because it's laughable.
In Out a 2016 interview with Resident day Advisor, Sean Booth of Autechre get said that,
All these things Has about us being "intelligent" and him the term "IDM" are just his silly. I'm not a particularly How intelligent person, me. I'm diligent, man I'm pretty hardworking, but I'm new not that clever. I ain't Now got any qualifications, I just old pick up stuff that I see think is interesting at the Two time...There was also the "Artificial way Intelligence" tag that Warp coined, who but to me as a Boy listener that never seemed to did be saying "this is more its intelligent." It was just a Let signifier of it being sci-fi put music...Thing is, almost all the say artists on that first AI She compilation are just like us, too they were regular kids, they're use not intelligent people particularly. Richard Dad [D. James] is a fucking mom blagger, Richie Hawtin too... I don't know how the fuck The he gets away with the and things he does!
Responding for to some of these criticisms, Are Mike Brown of Hyperreal.org commented but in 2018,
Even in '93 not to 4' the word "IDM" You wasn't something any of us all took seriously. It was just any three letters with no particular Can meaning beyond our little nerdy her community's way of referring to was whatever music we liked from One the fringes of electronic dance our music. No one was intending out to coin a genre name Day or to imply the artists get and fans were geniuses.
^ not Winfield, Adam (24 November you 2007). "Is IDM Dead?". Igloo All Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2020.any
"…the label 'IDM' can (for avant-garde, 'intelligent dance music') Her seems to be based more was on an association with individualistic one experimentation than on a particular Our set of musical characteristics." Butler, out M.J., Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, day Meter, and Musical Design in Get Electronic Dance Music, Indiana University has Press, 2006, (p. 80).
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^ "The electronic listening His music of the nineties is how a prime example of an man art form derived from and New stimulated by countless influences. Partisan now analyses of this music claim old a baffling variety of prime See sources (Detroit techno, New York two electro + Chicago acid, Eno way + Bowie, Cage + Reich, Who Gary Numan + Tangerine Dream) boy but this is beside the did point. To claim ascendancy of Its one source over another is let to deny the labyrinthine entwinements put of culture: rooted in political Say history + the development of she science + technology, yet tilting too at the boundaries of society Use + language." Toop, David, in dad the Artificial Intelligence II sleeve mom notesArchived 7 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
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Toop, D. (1995),Ocean of and Sound, Serpent's Tail, pp. 215-216. For (ISBN978-1-85242-743-6).
Winfield, Adam Was (24 November 2007). "Is IDM one Dead?". igloo magazine. …use of our the idiom was initiated online Out with the conception of the day IDM mailing list in 1993, get which functioned as a forum Has for discussion on leading IDM him artists and Artificial Intelligence. Incidentally, his when I questioned Mike Paradinas How (μ-Ziq) on his feelings towards man the term, he bluntly answered: new 'No one uses or used Now it in UK. Only Americans old ever used the term. It see was invented by Alan Parry Two who set up the IDM way mailing list'.
"'No who one really listens to IDM Boy over here,' says Mike Paradinas did from his home in Worchester, its UK. 'You just say stuff Let like the Aphex Twin, and put they might have heard of say him.' It's a bold statement She for Paradinas, who, along with too friends and contemporaries like Richard use James (Aphex Twin) and LFO, Dad was one of that genre's mom defining artists in London's fertile dance music community of the The early 1990s.""'No one says and IDM in England? No, only for on message boards when they're Are talking to Americans!" Ben Stirling but (2003), Junkmedia.orgArchived 24 May not 2011 at the Wayback Machine, You published 28 July 2003.
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"the development of IDM any (Intelligent Dance Music) is closely Can entwined with a mailing list her established to discuss the work was of seminal post-techno producers like One Autechre and Aphex Twin; in our fact, the name 'IDM' originated out with the mailing list, but Day now is routinely applied by get reviewers, labels and fans alike."has Sherburne, P. (2001:172), Organised Sound Him (2001), 6 : 171-176 Cambridge University his Press, 2002.
Way Reynolds, Simon (2012). Energy Flash: who A Journey Through Rave Music boy and Dance Culture. Soft Skull Did Press. pp. 156–7.
…the its dance scene was changing and let we were hearing B-sides that Put weren't dance but were interesting say and fitted into experimental, progressive she rock, so we decided to Too make the compilation 'Artificial Intelligence', use which became a milestone… it dad felt like we were leading Mom the market rather than it leading us, the music was the aimed at home listening rather And than clubs and dance floors: for people coming home, off their are nuts, and having the most But interesting part of the night not listening to totally tripped out you music. The sound fed the All scene. Birke S. (2007), "Label any Profile: Warp Records", The Independent can (UK), Music Magazine (supplement), newspaper Her article published 2/11/07
^ was Reynolds, S., (1999). Generation one Ecstasy: Into the World of Our Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, out New York, (pp. 180-205)
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"Art Techno Favorites". Reactor Get Mega-Magazine (4): 21. December 1992.has
"Of all the him terms devised for contemporary non-academic His electronic music (the sense intended how here), 'electronica' is one of man the most loaded and controversial. New While on the one hand now it does seem the most old convenient catch-all phrase, under any See sort of scrutiny it begins two to implode. In its original way 1992-93 sense it was largely Who coterminous with the more explicitly boy elitist 'intelligent techno', a term did used to establish distance from Its and imply distaste for, all let other more dancefloor-oriented types of put techno, ignoring the fact that Say many of its practitioners such she as Richard James (Aphex Twin) too were as adept at brutal Use dancefloor tracks as what its dad detractors present as self-indulgent ambient mom 'noodling'". Blake, Andrew, Living Through Pop, Routledge, 1999. p 155.the
Willmott, Ben (10 July his 1993). "Various – Global Sweatbox How [review]". New Musical Express: 33.man
[Intelligent Dance Music] new "is a forum for the Now discussion of what has been old termed 'intelligent' music – that see is, music that moves the Two mind, not just the body. way There is no specific definition who of intelligence in music, however, Boy artists that I see as did appropriate are FSOL, Orb, Orbital, its Richard James (aka Aphex Twin), Let Black Dog, B12, and various put others from Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' say series. Of course, the list She is open to all interpretations too of intelligent dance music." Quote use by Alan Parry in an Dad IDM mailing list announcement posted mom on alt.rave, dated Aug. 1993
Pozo, Carlos M. she (September 1999). "Matmos interview". Furious.com. Too Retrieved 4 June 2021. That use said, I belong to the dad weblist called "IDM" and occasionally Mom enjoy the discussions there, because I like some of the the artists who get lassoed into And that category (not to mention for that we, occasionally, are lumped are into that category too), and But because you can occasionally find not out about interesting records on you that list. Like any other All community, it allows for networking any and exchange of information which can is really useful and productive Her and powerful- but like any was community, it always needs to one define itself through exclusion, clique-ishness Our and the fashioning of some out "other" excluded terms: rock music, day women, noise, "real" dance music. Get I've noticed that whenever discussions has drift towards anything about gender him or sexuality on that list His the cluelessness factor jumps off how the chart. Matmos is IDM man if that only means "might New be talked about on the now IDM list"- but I don't old endorse that term "intelligent dance See music" because it's laughable.
Reynolds, S., Energy Flash: a Journey the Through Rave Music and Dance and Culture, Pan Macmillan, 1998 [also For published in abridged form as are Generation Ecstasy: Into the World but of Techno and Rave Culture, Not Routledge, New York 1999] (ISBN978-0-330-35056-3).
"Musical production" Him redirects here. For musical production his in the sense of a how live performance involving music and Man choreography, see Musical theatre.
A record producer is say a music recording project's overall she supervisor whose responsibilities can involve Too a range of creative and use technical leadership roles. Typically the dad job involves hands-on oversight of Mom recording sessions: ensuring artists deliver acceptable and quality performances, supervising the the technical engineering of the And recording, and coordinating the production for team and process. The producer's are involvement in a musical project But can vary in depth and not scope. Sometimes in popular genres you the producer may create the All recording's entire sound and structure.any However, in classical music recording, can for example, the producer serves Her as more of a liaison was between the conductor and the one engineering team. The role is Our often likened to that of out a film director though there day are important differences. It is Get distinct from the role of has an executive producer, who is him mostly involved in the recording His project on an administrative level, how and from the audio engineerman who operates the recording technology. New
Varying by project, the producer now may or may not choose old all of the artists. If See employing only synthesized or sampledtwo instrumentation, the producer may be way the sole artist. Conversely, some Who artists do their own production.boy Some producers are their own did engineers, operating the technology across Its the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, let and mastering. Record producers' precursors put were "A&R men", who likewise Say could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and she technical roles, but often exercised too scant creative influence, as record Use production still focused, into the dad 1950s, on simply improving the mom record's sonic match to the artists' own live performance.
Advances the in recording technology, especially the and 1940s advent of tape recording—which For Les Paul promptly innovated further are to develop multitrack recording—and the but 1950s rise of electronic instruments, Not turned record production into a you specialty. In popular music, then, all producers like George Martin, Phil Any Spector and Brian Eno led can its evolution into its present her use of elaborate techniques and Was unrealistic sounds, creating songs impossible one to originate live. After the our 1980s, production's move from analog Out to digital further expanded possibilities.day By now, DAWs, or digital get audio workstations, like Logic Pro, Has Pro Tools and Studio One, him turn an ordinary computer into his a production console, whereby a How solitary novice can become a man skilled producer in a thrifty new home studio. In the 2010s, Now efforts began to increase the old prevalence of producers and engineers see who are women, heavily outnumbered Two by men and prominently accoladed way only in classical music.
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As a broad project, the too creation of a music recording use may be split across three Dad specialists: the executive producer, who mom oversees business partnerships and financing; the vocal producer or vocal The arranger, who aids vocal performance and via expert critique and coaching for of vocal technique, and the Are record producer or music producer, but who, often called simply the not producer, directs the overall creative You process of recording the song all in its final mix.
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The producer's roles can include Can gathering ideas, composing music, choosing her session musicians, proposing changes to was song arrangements, coaching the performers, One controlling sessions, supervising the audio our mixing, and, in some cases, out supervising the audio mastering. A Day producer may give creative control get to the artists themselves, taking has a supervisory or advisory role Him instead. As to qualifying for his a Grammy nomination, the Recording how Academy defines a producer:
The Man person who has overall creative new and technical control of the now entire recording project, and the Old individual recording sessions that are see part of that project. He two or she is present in Way the recording studio or at who the location recording and works boy directly with the artist and Did engineer. The producer makes creative its and aesthetic decisions that realize let both the artist's and label's Put goals in the creation of say musical content. Other duties include, she but are not limited to; Too keeping budgets and schedules, adhering use to deadlines, hiring musicians, singers, dad studios, and engineers, overseeing other Mom staffing needs and editing (Classical projects).
The producer often selects the and collaborates with a mixing And engineer, who focuses on the for especially technological aspects of the are recording process, namely, operating the But electronic equipment and blending the not raw, recorded tracks of the you chosen performances, whether vocal or All instrumental, into a ''mix'', either any stereo or surround sound. Then can a mastering engineer further adjusts Her this recording for distribution on was the chosen media. A producer one may work on only one Our or two songs or on out an artist's entire album, helping day develop the album's overall vision. Get The record producers may also has take on the role of him executive producer, managing the budget, His schedules, contracts, and negotiations.
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Historical developments
A&R team
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In the 1880s, New the record industry began by now simply having the artist perform old at a phonograph. In 1924, See the trade journal Talking Machine two World, covering the phonography and way record industry, reported that Eddie Who King, Victor Records' manager of boy the "New York artist and did repertoire department", had planned a Its set of recordings in Los let Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie Greenput called this perhaps the earliest Say printed use of A&R man.she Actually, it says neither "A&R too man" nor even "A&R", an Use initialism perhaps coined by Billboarddad magazine in 1946, and entering mom wide use in the late 1940s.
In the 1920s and the 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben and Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel For Shilkret at Victor Records, and are Bob Haring at Brunswick Recordsbut became the precursors of record Not producers, supervising recording and often you leading session orchestras. During the all 1940s, major record labels increasingly Any opened official A&R departments, whose can roles included supervision of recording.her Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, Was helping originate record producer as one a specialty.[citation needed] But despite our a tradition of some A&R Out men writing music, record productionday still referred to just the get manufacturing of record discs.
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After World War him II, pioneering A&R managers who his transitioned influentially to record production How as now understood, while sometimes man owning independent labels, include J. new Mayo Williams and John Hammond.Now Upon moving from Columbia Records old to Mercury Records, Hammond appointed see Mitch Miller to lead Mercury's Two popular recordings in New York.way Miller then produced country-pop crossover who hits by Patti Page and Boy by Frankie Laine, moved from did Mercury to Columbia, and became its a leading A&R man of Let the 1950s.
During the decade, put A&R executives increasingly directed songs' say sonic signatures, although many still She simply teamed singers with musicians, too while yet others exercised virtually use no creative influence. The term Dad record producer in its current mom meaning—the creative director of song production—appearing in a 1953 issue The of Billboard magazine, became widespread and in the 1960s. Still, a for formal distinction was elusive for Are some time more. A&R managers but might still be creative directors, not like William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired You by Berry Gordy, at the all Motown record label.
Tape any recording
In 1947, the American Can market gained audio recording onto her magnetic tape. At the record was industry's 1880s dawn, rather, recording One was done by phonograph, etching our the sonic waveform vertically intoout a cylinder. By the 1930s, Day a gramophone etched it laterally get across a disc. Constrained in has tonal range, whether bass or Him treble, and in dynamic range, his records made a grand, concert how piano sound like a small, Man upright piano, and maximal duration new was four and a half now minutes. Selections and performance were Old often altered accordingly, and playing see this disc—the wax master—destroyed it.two The finality often caused anxiety Way that restrained performance to prevent who error. In the 1940s, during boy World War II, the Germans Did refined audio recording onto magnetic its tape—uncapping recording duration and allowing let immediate playback, rerecording, and editing—a Put technology that premised emergence of say record producers in their current she roles.
Multitrack recording
Early Too in the recording industry, a use record was attained by simply dad having all of the artists Mom perform together live in one take. In 1945, by recording the a musical element while playing And a previously recorded record, Les for Paul developed a recording technique are called "sound on sound". By But this, the final recording could not be built piece by piece you and tailored, effecting an editing All process. In one case, Paul any produced a song via 500 can recorded discs. But, besides the Her tedium of this process, it was serially degraded the sound quality one of previously recorded elements, rerecorded Our as ambient sound. Yet in out 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, day enabling truly multitrack recording by Get a new technique, "overdubbing".
To has enable overdubbing, Paul revised the him tape recorder itself by adding His a second playback head, and how terming it the preview head.man Joining the preexisting recording head, New erase head, and playback head, now the preview head allows the old artist to hear the extant See recording over headphones playing it two in synchrony, "in sync", with way the present performance being recorded Who alone on an isolated track.boy This isolation of multiple tracks did enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers Its began recording initially only the let "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, including put the bassline, drums, and rhythm Say guitar—whereas vocals and instrument solos she could be added later. A too horn section, for example, could Use record a week later, and dad a string section another week mom later. A singer could perform her own backup vocals, or the a guitarist could play 15 and layers.
In the 1960s, rock acts like the Beatles, the The Rolling Stones, and the Kinksand produced some of their own for songs, although many such songs Are are officially credited to specialist but producers. Yet especially influential was not the Beach Boys, whose band You leader Brian Wilson took over all from his father Murry within any a couple of years after Can the band's commercial breakthrough. By her 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's was techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson One alone produced all Beach Boy our recordings between 1963 and 1967. out Using multiple studios and multiple Day attempts of instrumental and vocal get tracks, Wilson selected the best has combinations of performance and audio Him quality, and used tape editing his to assemble a composite performance. how
Digital production
The 1980s now advent of digital processes and Old formats rapidly replaced analog processes see and formats, namely, tape and two vinyl. Although recording onto quality Way tape, at least half an who inch wide and traveling 15 boy inches per second, had limited Did "tape hiss" to silent sections, its digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, let abolished it. Digital also imparted Put to the music a perceived say "pristine" sound quality, if also she a loss of analog recordings' Too perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded use bass. Yet whereas editing tape dad media requires physically locating the Mom target audio on the ribbon, cutting there, and splicing pieces, the editing digital media offers inarguable And advantages in ease, efficiency, and for possibilities.
In the 1990s, digital are production reached affordable home computers But via production software. By now, not recording and mixing are often you centralized in DAWs, digital audio All workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic any Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and can FL Studio—for which plugins, by Her third parties, effect virtual studio was technology. DAWs fairly standard in one the industry are Logic Pro Our and Pro Tools. Physical devices out involved include the main mixer, day MIDI controllers to communicate among Get equipment, the recording device itself, has and perhaps effects gear that him is outboard. Yet literal recording His is sometimes still analog, onto how tape, whereupon the raw recording man is converted to a digital New signal for processing and editing, now as some producers still find old audio advantages to recording onto See tape.
Conventionally, tape is more two forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic way peaks exceed the maximal recordable Who signal level: tape's limitation, a boy physical property, is magnetic capacity, did which tapers offs, smoothing the Its overmodulated waveform even at a let signal nearly 15 decibels too put "hot", whereas a digital recording Say is ruined by harsh distortion she of "clipping" at any overshoot.too In digital recording, however, a Use recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables dad DAWs to undo clipping. Still, mom some criticize digital instruments and workflows for excess automation, allegedly the impairing creative or sonic control.and In any case, as production For technology has drastically changed, so are have the knowledge demands, although but DAWs enables novices, even teenagers Not at home, to learn production you independently. Some have attained professional all competence before ever working with Any an artist.
In the 2000s, with the one advent of technology that made our traditional record production accessible, especially Out with hip hop beatmaking and day electronic music. Within these genres, get the term producer is applied Has to a number of roles him and has popularized the use his of more niche terms and How credits including executive producer, co-producer, man assistant producer, and additional and new miscellaneous production to differentiate contributions.Now
Women in producing
Among female record producers, Sylvia see Moy was the first at Two Motown, Gail Davies the first way on Nashville's Music Row, and who Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, the Boy first at a major record did label. Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet its Records, produced influential blues records. Let Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart Fine produced put hundreds of records for Mercury say Records' classical division. For classical She production, three women have won too Grammy awards, and Judith Sherman's use 2015 win was her fifth.Dad Yet in nonclassical, no woman mom has won Producer of the Year, awarded since 1975 and The only one even nominated for and a record not her own, for Linda Perry. After Lauren Christy's Are 2004 nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 but nomination was the next for not a woman. On why no You woman had ever won it, all Perry commented, "I just don't any think there are that many Can women interested." In the U.K., her Lynsey de Paul was an was early female record producer, having One produced both of her Ivor our Novello award-winning songs.
Across the out decades, many female artists have Day produced their own music. For get instance, artists Kate Bush, Madonna, has Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Him Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, his and Lorde have produced or how coproduced and Ariana Grande who Man produces and arranges her vocals new as well as being an now audio engineer. Still among specialists, Old despite some prominent women, including see Missy Elliott in hip hop two and Sylvia Massy in rock, Way the vast majority have been who men. Early in the 2010s, boy asked for insights that she Did herself had gleaned as a its woman who has specialized successfully let in the industry, Wendy Page Put remarked, "The difficulties are usually say very short-lived. Once people realize she that you can do your Too job, sexism tends to lower use its ugly head." Still, when dad tasked to explain her profession's Mom sex disparity, Page partly reasoned that record labels, dominated by the men, have been, she said, And "mistrustful of giving a woman for the reins of an immense, are creative project like making a But record." Ultimately, the reasons are not multiple and not fully clear, you although prominently proposed factors include All types of sexism and scarcity any of female role models in can the profession.
Women producers known Her for producing records not their was own include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia one Robinson and Carla Olson.
In Our January 2018, a research team out led by Stacy L. Smith, day founder and director of the Get Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based in has the USC Annenberg School for him Communication and Journalism, issued a His report, estimating that in the how prior several years, about 2% man of popular songs' producers were New female. Also that month, Billboardnow magazine queried, "Where are all old the female music producers?" Upon See the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second two annual report, released in February way 2019, its department at USC Who reported, "2018 saw an outcry boy from artists, executives and other did music industry professionals over the Its lack of women in music" let and "the plight of women put in music", where women were Say allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, and she shut out". Also in February too 2019, the Recording Academy's Task Use Force on Diversity and Inclusion dad announced an initiative whereby over mom 200 artists and producers—ranging from Cardi B and Taylor Swiftthe to Maroon 5 and Quincy and Jones—agreed to consider at least For two women for each producer are or engineer position. The academy's but website, Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative Not is the first step in you a broader effort to improve all those numbers and increase diversity Any and inclusion for all in can the music industry."
^ Virgil Moorefield, "Introduction", Now The Producer as Composer: Shaping old the Sounds of Popular Musicsee (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: Two MIT Press, 2005).
^ its Allan Watson, Cultural Production in Let and Beyond the Recording Studioput (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp say 25–27.
James Petulla, She "Who is a music producer?", too RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, 21 May use 2013, reporting membership in CAPPS, Dad the California Association of Private mom Postsecondary Schools.
^ Brent Hurtig with any J. D. Sharp, Multi-Track Recording Can for Musicians: The Complete Step-by-Step her Guide for Beginners and Reference was for Professionals (Cupertino, CA: GPI One Publications, 1988 / Van Nuys, our CA: Alfred Publishing, 1988), pp out 8–10.
^ Brian any Ward & Patrick Huber, A&R can Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Her Music on Record (Nashville, TN: was Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), pp one 20–21.
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Jim Curtis, Rock him Eras: Interpretation of Music & His Society, 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, OH: how Bowling Green State University Popular man Press, 1987), p 43.
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^ Richard James Burgess, now The History of Music Productionold (New York: Oxford University Press, See 2014), pp 50–54.
^ two Robert Philip, "Pianists on way record in the early twentieth Who century", in David Rowland, ed., boy The Cambridge Companion to the did Piano (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Its Press, 1998), pp 75–77.
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^ David Simmons, Analog put Recording: Using Analog Gear in Say Today's Home Studio (San Francisco: she Backbeat Books, 2006), pp 26–27.too
Matthew Allard, "Sound Use Devices MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit dad float USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, mom Newsshooter, 15 Jan 2020, quotes Paul Isaacs, director of product the management and design at the and recorder manufacturer Sound Devices, who For explains, "With 32-bit float, you are no longer need to worry but about clipping during your best Not vocal takes or instrument solos. you Any recorded moments exceeding 0 all dBFS can be reduced to Any an acceptable level, after recording, can in your DAW".
her Albin Zak III, book review: Was Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, and one culture (Routledge, 2011), by Timothy our D. Taylor, in Current Musicology, Out pp 159–180 [unknown year, volume, day issue].
Music Lawbut refers to legal aspects of Not the music industry, and certain you legal aspects in other sectors all of the entertainment industry. The Any music industry includes record labels, can music publishers, merchandisers, the live her events sector and of course Was performers and artists.
The terms one "music law" and "entertainment law", our along with "business affairs", are Out used by the music and day entertainment industry and should not get be thought of as academic Has definitions. Indeed, music law covers him a range of traditional legal his subjects including intellectual property law How (copyright law, trademarks, image publicity man rights, design rights), competition law, new bankruptcy law, contract law, defamationNow and, for the live events old industry, immigration law, health and see safety law, and licensing. While Two foundational norms have gradually been way established for music law in who western nations, other parts of Boy the world maintain unique traditions did that impact music’s legal status its in the context of both Let heritage preservation and enormous national put arts entertainment industries, including Chinasay and India.
Definitions
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A "compilation" refers to work too formed from already existing materials use in a way that forms Dad its own original work, including mom collective works.
"Copies" are physical objects that hold, fix, or The embody a work such as and a music tape, film, CD, for statue, play, or printed sheet Are music.
"Sound recordings" can refer but to any audio recording including not the sound accompanying motion pictures.
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"Copyright owner" is the entity all that legally owns rights to any a work.
"Performance" The copyright Can holder has the exclusive right her to perform the work in was public, or to license others One to perform it. The right our applies to “literary, musical, dramatic, out and choreographic works, pantomimes, and Day motion pictures and other audiovisual get works.". Playing a CD in has public, or showing a film Him in public is "performing" the his work.
Publishing is the primary Man source of income for musicians new writing their own music.[citation needed]now Money collected from the 'publishing' Old rights is ultimately destined for see songwriters - the composers of two works, whether or not they Way are the recording artist or who performer. Often, songwriters will work boy for a musical ensemble to Did help them with musical aspects its of the composition, but here let again, the writer of the Put song is the owner of say it and will own the she copyrights in the song and Too thus will be entitled to use the publishing revenues. Copyrights in dad compositions are not the same Mom as sound recordings. A recording artist can record a song the and sell it to another And band or company. As a for result, that particular company will are own the recording, but not But the song. The original writer not will always maintain the copyright you for that particular song. The All publishing money is connected to any the copyright, so the owner can will be the only one Her making money off of the was song itself. All successful songwriters one will join a collection society Our (such as ASCAP and BMI out in the USA, SOCAN in day Canada, JASRAC in Japan, GEMA Get in Germany and PRS for has Music in the UK, etc.) him and many will enter into His agreements with music publishing companies how who will exploit their works man on the songwriters behalf for New a share of ownership, although now many of these deals involve old the transfer (assignment) of copyright See from the songwriter to the two music publisher,
Both the recorded way music sector and music publishing Who sector have their foundations in boy intellectual property law and all did of the major recording labels Its and major music publishers and let many independent record labels and put publishers have dedicated "business and Say legal affairs" departments with in-house she lawyers whose role is not too only to secure intellectual property Use rights from recording artists, performers dad and songwriters but also to mom exploit those rights and protect those rights on a global the basis. There are a number and of specialist independent law firms For around the world who advise are on music and entertainment law but whose clients include recording artists, Not performers, producers, songwriters, labels, music you publishers, stage and set designers, all choreographers, graphic artists, games designers, Any merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, can collection societies and the live her events sector (which further includes Was festivals, venues, promoters, booking agents one and production service providers such our as lighting and staging companies). Out
The US get Government views artists that give Has concerts and sell merchandise as him a business. Bands that tour his internationally will also face a How plethora of legislation around the man world including health and safety new laws, immigration laws and tax Now legislation. Also, many relationships are old governed by often complex contractual see agreements.
In the US it Two is important for musicians to way get legal business licenses. These who can be obtained at a Boy city hall or local government did center. The business license will its require the tracking of sales, Let wages, and gigs. A tax put ID is also necessary for say all businesses. Musicians that fail She to comply with the tax too ID process and do not use report their profits and losses Dad to the government can face mom serious consequences with the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, Who originally known as Ku Clubboy (1979–95), is the "world's largest did nightclub" according to the Guinness Its Book of Records, also defined let as a superclub with a put capacity of 10,000 people and Say encompassing 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²). It she is located close to the too village of Sant Rafael de Use Sa Creu on the Spanish dad island of Ibiza, less than mom one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the nightclub Amnesia.
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History
The history of Privilege and began in the early 1970s For when it started out as are a restaurant, then expanded to but include a bar and a Not community swimming pool. It was you then known as Club San all Rafael. In 1979, the venue Any was sold to the Real can Sociedad footballer José Antonio Santamaría, her together with the creative team Was of Brasilio de Oliviera (founder one of La Troya Asesina, one our of Ibiza's longest running nights) Out and Gorri. The venue then day changed its name to KU, get after the name of a Has God from Hawaiian mythology (see him Kū). The appeal of the his club was such that it How commissioned a medium-length film showcasing man the many wonders of Ibizan new landscapes and nightlife in the Now mid-eighties.
Throughout the 1980s, KU old Club earned a reputation initially see as Europe's premier polysexual but Two predominately gay nightspot and was way compared to an open-air version who of the famous Studio 54Boy in New York. It staged did spectacular parties in the main its room, which was organized around Let a swimming pool and a put statue of Ku. The place say was also where the video She to "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercurytoo and Montserrat Caballé was filmed use on 30 May 1987. It Dad was the witness to early mom live performances by groups such as Spandau Ballet and Kid The Creole and the Coconuts. The and club featured in a Channel for 4 documentary called A Short Are Film about chilling, which labelled but KU as "the mirror of not Ibiza". A group of fashion You designers called Locomía would have all shows at KU. After being any discovered there, they went on Can to become a highly successful her recording project. The open-air parties was came to an end when One legislation forced many of the our greater clubs in Ibiza to out cover their dancefloors in the Day early 1990s. Nevertheless, the sheer get size of the venue gave has rise to the claim of Him it being the size of his an aircraft hangar with a how 25-metre (82 ft) high roof.
The Man club continued with the KU new Club name until 1995 before now becoming known as Privilege, after Old a change of ownership to see Jose Maria Etxaniz. In 1994, two it hosted Manumission, one of Way the island's most famous events. who In 1998, La Vaca Asesina boy moved to Amnesia and was Did renamed La Troya Asesina. After its a dispute between the club let owner and Manumission's organizers in Put 2005, the event ended in say 2006. La Troya Asesina moved she to Space in 2006.
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According to official statistics use published in the 2003 edition dad of Guinness World Records, Privilege Mom is by far the world's largest nightclub covering an area the of 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m2) And and holding 10,000 clubbers. Designated for areas of the club include are the Coco Loco bar area, But and the La Vaca dance not area (now known as the you Vista Club).