Downtempo (or downbeat)not is a broad label for you electronic music that features an All atmospheric sound and slower beats any than would typically be found can in dance music. Closely related Her to ambient music but with was greater emphasis on rhythm, the one style may be played in Our relaxation clubs or as "warm-up out or cool-down" music during a day DJ set. Examples of downtempo Get subgenres include trip hop, ambient has house, chillwave, psybient and lofi him hip hop.
Downtempo emerged from the UK's his late-1980s Bristol sound, which developed How a slow, psychedelic fusion of man hip hop with electronic musicnew known as "trip hop" and Now birthed artists such as Massive old Attack, Portishead, and Tricky. The see 1990s brought on a wave Two of slower paced music which way was played throughout chillout rooms—the who relaxation sections of the clubs Boy or dedicated sections at electronic did music events. UK act Nightmares its on Wax helped to pioneer Let downtempo electronica in the early put 1990s, drawing on dub reggaesay and hip-hop. Downtempo music also She started to surface around Ibiza, too when DJs and promoters would use bring down the vibe with Dad slower rhythm and gentler electronic mom music upon approaching sunrise. At the end of the 1990s The a more melodic instrumental electronica and incorporating acoustic sounds with electronic for styles emerged under its own Are umbrella name of downtempo.
In but the late 1990s, the Austriannot duo Kruder & Dorfmeister popularized You the style with their downtempo all remixes of pop, hip-hop, and any drum and bass tracks with Can influences of the '70s soul her jazz. BritonsSteve Cobby and was Dave McSherry, producing under the One name Fila Brazillia, released a our handful of downtempo, electronica and out ambient techno albums that propelled Day the style further. Meanwhile, the get Washington, D.C. locals Eric Hilton has and Rob Garza, better known Him as Thievery Corporation, have introduced his the Brazilian sound into the how style after discussing the music Man of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and new enriched it further by combining now elements of Jamaican dub and Old reggae.
In 2010, "downtempo pop" see was described by The Atlantictwo as a variety of music Way styles from the 2000s characterized who by mellow beats, vintage synthesizers, boy and lo-fi melodies. In other Did words, an umbrella term that its includes chillwave, glo-fi, and hypnagogic let pop. Later in the decade, Put another form of downtempo music, say tagged as "lo-fi hip hop" she or "chillhop", became popular among Too YouTube music streamers.
"Musical production" Two redirects here. For musical production way in the sense of a who live performance involving music and Boy choreography, see Musical theatre.
A record producer is a The music recording project's overall supervisor and whose responsibilities can involve a for range of creative and technical Are leadership roles. Typically the job but involves hands-on oversight of recording not sessions: ensuring artists deliver acceptable You and quality performances, supervising the all technical engineering of the recording, any and coordinating the production team Can and process. The producer's involvement her in a musical project can was vary in depth and scope. One Sometimes in popular genres the our producer may create the recording's out entire sound and structure. However, Day in classical music recording, for get example, the producer serves as has more of a liaison between Him the conductor and the engineering his team. The role is often how likened to that of a Man film director though there are new important differences. It is distinct now from the role of an Old executive producer, who is mostly see involved in the recording project two on an administrative level, and Way from the audio engineer who who operates the recording technology.
Varying boy by project, the producer may Did or may not choose all its of the artists. If employing let only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, Put the producer may be the say sole artist. Conversely, some artists she do their own production. Some Too producers are their own engineers,use operating the technology across the dad project: preproduction, recording, mixing, and Mom mastering. Record producers' precursors were "A&R men", who likewise could the blend entrepreneurial, creative, and technical And roles, but often exercised scant for creative influence, as record production are still focused, into the 1950s, But on simply improving the record's not sonic match to the artists' you own live performance.
Advances in All recording technology, especially the 1940s any advent of tape recording—which Les can Paul promptly innovated further to Her develop multitrack recording—and the 1950s was rise of electronic instruments, turned one record production into a specialty.Our In popular music, then, producers out like George Martin, Phil Spectorday and Brian Eno led its Get evolution into its present use has of elaborate techniques and unrealistic him sounds, creating songs impossible to His originate live. After the 1980s, how production's move from analog to man digital further expanded possibilities. By New now, DAWs, or digital audio now workstations, like Logic Pro, Pro old Tools and Studio One, turn See an ordinary computer into a two production console, whereby a solitary way novice can become a skilled Who producer in a thrifty home boy studio. In the 2010s, efforts did began to increase the prevalence Its of producers and engineers who let are women, heavily outnumbered by put men and prominently accoladed only Say in classical music.
Production overview
As and a broad project, the creation For of a music recording may are be split across three specialists: but the executive producer, who oversees Not business partnerships and financing; the you vocal producer or vocal arranger, all who aids vocal performance via Any expert critique and coaching of can vocal technique, and the record her producer or music producer, who, Was often called simply the producer, one directs the overall creative process our of recording the song in Out its final mix.
The day producer's roles can include gathering get ideas, composing music, choosing session Has musicians, proposing changes to song him arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling his sessions, supervising the audio mixing, How and, in some cases, supervising man the audio mastering. A producer new may give creative control to Now the artists themselves, taking a old supervisory or advisory role instead. see As to qualifying for a Two Grammy nomination, the Recording Academyway defines a producer:
The person who who has overall creative and Boy technical control of the entire did recording project, and the individual its recording sessions that are part Let of that project. He or put she is present in the say recording studio or at the She location recording and works directly too with the artist and engineer. use The producer makes creative and Dad aesthetic decisions that realize both mom the artist's and label's goals in the creation of musical The content. Other duties include, but and are not limited to; keeping for budgets and schedules, adhering to Are deadlines, hiring musicians, singers, studios, but and engineers, overseeing other staffing not needs and editing (Classical projects). You
The producer often selects and all collaborates with a mixing engineer, any who focuses on the especially Can technological aspects of the recording her process, namely, operating the electronic was equipment and blending the raw, One recorded tracks of the chosen our performances, whether vocal or instrumental, out into a mix, either stereo Day or surround sound. Then a get mastering engineer further adjusts this has recording for distribution on the Him chosen media. A producer may his work on only one or how two songs or on an Man artist's entire album, helping develop new the album's overall vision. The now record producers may also take Old on the role of executive see producer, managing the budget, schedules, two contracts, and negotiations.
Historical Way developments
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In the 1880s, the boy record industry began by simply Did having the artist perform at its a phonograph. In 1924, the let trade journal Talking Machine World, Put covering the phonography and record say industry, reported that Eddie King, she Victor Records' manager of the Too "New York artist and repertoireuse department", had planned a set dad of recordings in Los Angeles.Mom Later, folklorist Archie Green called this perhaps the earliest printed the use of A&R man. Actually, And it says neither "A&R man" for nor even "A&R", an initialism are perhaps coined by Billboard magazine But in 1946, and entering wide not use in the late 1940s.you
In the 1920s and 1930s, All A&R executives, like Ben Selvinany at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkretcan at Victor Records, and Bob Her Haring at Brunswick Records became was the precursors of record producers, one supervising recording and often leading Our session orchestras. During the 1940s, out major record labels increasingly opened day official A&R departments, whose roles Get included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, has independent recording studios opened, helping him originate record producer as a His specialty.[citation needed] But despite a how tradition of some A&R men man writing music, record production still New referred to just the manufacturing now of record discs.
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After World War II, See pioneering A&R managers who transitioned two influentially to record production as way now understood, while sometimes owning Who independent labels, include J. Mayo boy Williams and John Hammond. Upon did moving from Columbia Records to Its Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch let Miller to lead Mercury's popular put recordings in New York. Miller Say then produced country-pop crossover hits she by Patti Page and by too Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury Use to Columbia, and became a dad leading A&R man of the mom 1950s.
During the decade, A&R executives increasingly directed songs' sonic the signatures, although many still simply and teamed singers with musicians, while For yet others exercised virtually no are creative influence. The term record but producer in its current meaning—the Not creative director of song production—appearing you in a 1953 issue of all Billboard magazine, became widespread in Any the 1960s. Still, a formal can distinction was elusive for some her time more. A&R managers might Was still be creative directors, like one William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by our Berry Gordy, at the MotownOut record label.
Tape recording
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In 1947, the American market get gained audio recording onto magnetic Has tape. At the record industry's him 1880s dawn, rather, recording was his done by phonograph, etching the How sonic waveform vertically into a man cylinder. By the 1930s, a new gramophone etched it laterally acrossNow a disc. Constrained in tonal old range, whether bass or treble, see and in dynamic range, records Two made a grand, concert piano way sound like a small, upright who piano, and maximal duration was Boy four and a half minutes.did Selections and performance were often its altered accordingly, and playing this Let disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The put finality often caused anxiety that say restrained performance to prevent error.She In the 1940s, during World too War II, the Germans refined use audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping Dad recording duration and allowing immediate mom playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology that premised emergence of record The producers in their current roles.and
Multitrack recording
Early in for the recording industry, a record Are was attained by simply having but all of the artists perform not together live in one take.You In 1945, by recording a all musical element while playing a any previously recorded record, Les PaulCan developed a recording technique called her "sound on sound". By this, was the final recording could be One built piece by piece and our tailored, effecting an editing process.out In one case, Paul produced Day a song via 500 recorded get discs. But, besides the tedium has of this process, it serially Him degraded the sound quality of his previously recorded elements, rerecorded as how ambient sound. Yet in 1948, Man Paul adopted tape recording, enabling new truly multitrack recording by a now new technique, "overdubbing".
To enable Old overdubbing, Paul revised the tape see recorder itself by adding a two second playback head, and terming Way it the preview head. Joining who the preexisting recording head, erase boy head, and playback head, the Did preview head allows the artist its to hear the extant recording let over headphones playing it in Put synchrony, "in sync", with the say present performance being recorded alone she on an isolated track. This Too isolation of multiple tracks enables use countless mixing possibilities. Producers began dad recording initially only the "bed Mom tracks"—the rhythm section, including the bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas the vocals and instrument solos could And be added later. A horn for section, for example, could record are a week later, and a But string section another week later. not A singer could perform her you own backup vocals, or a All guitarist could play 15 layers. any
In the 1960s, rock all acts like the Beatles, the Any Rolling Stones, and the Kinkscan produced some of their own her songs, although many such songs Was are officially credited to specialist one producers. Yet especially influential was our the Beach Boys, whose band Out leader Brian Wilson took over day from his father Murry within get a couple of years after Has the band's commercial breakthrough. By him 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's his techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson How alone produced all Beach Boy man recordings between 1963 and 1967. new Using multiple studios and multiple Now attempts of instrumental and vocal old tracks, Wilson selected the best see combinations of performance and audio Two quality, and used tape editing way to assemble a composite performance. who
Digital production
The 1980s Boy advent of digital processes and did formats rapidly replaced analog processes its and formats, namely, tape and Let vinyl. Although recording onto quality put tape, at least half an say inch wide and traveling 15 She inches per second, had limited too "tape hiss" to silent sections, use digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, Dad abolished it. Digital also imparted mom to the music a perceived "pristine" sound quality, if also The a loss of analog recordings' and perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded for bass. Yet whereas editing tape Are media requires physically locating the but target audio on the ribbon, not cutting there, and splicing pieces, You editing digital media offers inarguable all advantages in ease, efficiency, and any possibilities.
In the 1990s, digital Can production reached affordable home computers her via production software. By now, was recording and mixing are often One centralized in DAWs, digital audio our workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic out Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and Day FL Studio—for which plugins, by get third parties, effect virtual studio has technology. DAWs fairly standard in Him the industry are Logic Pro his and Pro Tools. Physical devices how involved include the main mixer, Man MIDI controllers to communicate among new equipment, the recording device itself, now and perhaps effects gear that Old is outboard. Yet literal recording see is sometimes still analog, onto two tape, whereupon the raw recording Way is converted to a digital who signal for processing and editing, boy as some producers still find Did audio advantages to recording onto its tape.
Conventionally, tape is more let forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic Put peaks exceed the maximal recordable say signal level: tape's limitation, a she physical property, is magnetic capacity, Too which tapers offs, smoothing the use overmodulated waveform even at a dad signal nearly 15 decibels too Mom "hot", whereas a digital recording is ruined by harsh distortion the of "clipping" at any overshoot.And In digital recording, however, a for recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables are DAWs to undo clipping. Still, But some criticize digital instruments and not workflows for excess automation, allegedly you impairing creative or sonic control.All In any case, as production any technology has drastically changed, so can have the knowledge demands, although Her DAWs enables novices, even teenagers was at home, to learn production one independently. Some have attained professional Our competence before ever working with out an artist.
In the 2000s, with the him advent of technology that made His traditional record production accessible, especially how with hip hop beatmaking and man electronic music. Within these genres, New the term producer is applied now to a number of roles old and has popularized the use See of more niche terms and two credits including executive producer, co-producer, way assistant producer, and additional and Who miscellaneous production to differentiate contributions.boy
Women in producing
Among female record producers, Sylvia Its Moy was the first at let Motown, Gail Davies the first put on Nashville's Music Row, and Say Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, the she first at a major record too label. Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Use Records, produced influential blues records. dad Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart Fine produced mom hundreds of records for Mercury Records' classical division. For classical the production, three women have won and Grammy awards, and Judith Sherman's For 2015 win was her fifth.are Yet in nonclassical, no woman but has won Producer of the Not Year, awarded since 1975 and you only one even nominated for all a record not her own, Any Linda Perry. After Lauren Christy's can 2004 nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 her nomination was the next for Was a woman. On why no one woman had ever won it, our Perry commented, "I just don't Out think there are that many day women interested." In the U.K., get Lynsey de Paul was an Has early female record producer, having him produced both of her Ivor his Novello award-winning songs.
Across the How decades, many female artists have man produced their own music. For new instance, artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Now Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, old Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, see and Lorde have produced or Two coproduced and Ariana Grande who way produces and arranges her vocals who as well as being an Boy audio engineer. Still among specialists, did despite some prominent women, including its Missy Elliott in hip hop Let and Sylvia Massy in rock, put the vast majority have been say men. Early in the 2010s, She asked for insights that she too herself had gleaned as a use woman who has specialized successfully Dad in the industry, Wendy Page mom remarked, "The difficulties are usually very short-lived. Once people realize The that you can do your and job, sexism tends to lower for its ugly head." Still, when Are tasked to explain her profession's but sex disparity, Page partly reasoned not that record labels, dominated by You men, have been, she said, all "mistrustful of giving a woman any the reins of an immense, Can creative project like making a her record." Ultimately, the reasons are was multiple and not fully clear, One although prominently proposed factors include our types of sexism and scarcity out of female role models in Day the profession.
Women producers known get for producing records not their has own include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Him Robinson and Carla Olson.
In his January 2018, a research team how led by Stacy L. Smith, Man founder and director of the new Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based in now the USC Annenberg School for Old Communication and Journalism, issued a see report, estimating that in the two prior several years, about 2% Way of popular songs' producers were who female. Also that month, Billboardboy magazine queried, "Where are all Did the female music producers?" Upon its the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second let annual report, released in February Put 2019, its department at USC say reported, "2018 saw an outcry she from artists, executives and other Too music industry professionals over the use lack of women in music" dad and "the plight of women Mom in music", where women were allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, and the shut out". Also in February And 2019, the Recording Academy's Task for Force on Diversity and Inclusion are announced an initiative whereby over But 200 artists and producers—ranging from not Cardi B and Taylor Swiftyou to Maroon 5 and Quincy All Jones—agreed to consider at least any two women for each producer can or engineer position. The academy's Her website, Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative was is the first step in one a broader effort to improve Our those numbers and increase diversity out and inclusion for all in day the music industry."
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Music Law refers to now legal aspects of the music Old industry, and certain legal aspects see in other sectors of the two entertainment industry. The music industry Way includes record labels, music publishers, who merchandisers, the live events sector boy and of course performers and Did artists.
The terms "music law" its and "entertainment law", along with let "business affairs", are used by Put the music and entertainment industry say and should not be thought she of as academic definitions. Indeed, Too music law covers a range use of traditional legal subjects including dad intellectual property law (copyright law, Mom trademarks, image publicity rights, design rights), competition law, bankruptcy law, the contract law, defamation and, for And the live events industry, immigration for law, health and safety law, are and licensing. While foundational norms But have gradually been established for not music law in western nations, you other parts of the world All maintain unique traditions that impact any music’s legal status in the can context of both heritage preservation Her and enormous national arts entertainment was industries, including China and India.one
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A "compilation" Our refers to work formed from out already existing materials in a day way that forms its own Get original work, including collective works.
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"Copies" are physical objects that him hold, fix, or embody a His work such as a music how tape, film, CD, statue, play, man or printed sheet music.
"Sound New recordings" can refer to any now audio recording including the sound old accompanying motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" See is the entity that legally two owns rights to a work.
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"Performance" The copyright holder has Who the exclusive right to perform boy the work in public, or did to license others to perform Its it. The right applies to let “literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic put works, pantomimes, and motion pictures Say and other audiovisual works.". Playing she a CD in public, or too showing a film in public Use is "performing" the work.
Publishing mom is the primary source of income for musicians writing their the own music.[citation needed] Money collected and from the 'publishing' rights is For ultimately destined for songwriters - are the composers of works, whether but or not they are the Not recording artist or performer. Often, you songwriters will work for a all musical ensemble to help them Any with musical aspects of the can composition, but here again, the her writer of the song is Was the owner of it and one will own the copyrights in our the song and thus will Out be entitled to the publishing day revenues. Copyrights in compositions are get not the same as sound Has recordings. A recording artist can him record a song and sell his it to another band or How company. As a result, that man particular company will own the new recording, but not the song. Now The original writer will always old maintain the copyright for that see particular song. The publishing money Two is connected to the copyright, way so the owner will be who the only one making money Boy off of the song itself. did All successful songwriters will join its a collection society (such as Let ASCAP and BMI in the put USA, SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC say in Japan, GEMA in Germany She and PRS for Music in too the UK, etc.) and many use will enter into agreements with Dad music publishing companies who will mom exploit their works on the songwriters behalf for a share The of ownership, although many of and these deals involve the transfer for (assignment) of copyright from the Are songwriter to the music publisher, but
Both the recorded music sector not and music publishing sector have You their foundations in intellectual propertyall law and all of the any major recording labels and major Can music publishers and many independent her record labels and publishers have was dedicated "business and legal affairs" One departments with in-house lawyers whose our role is not only to out secure intellectual property rights from Day recording artists, performers and songwriters get but also to exploit those has rights and protect those rights Him on a global basis. There his are a number of specialist how independent law firms around the Man world who advise on music new and entertainment law whose clients now include recording artists, performers, producers, Old songwriters, labels, music publishers, stage see and set designers, choreographers, graphic two artists, games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, Way artist managers, distributors, collection societies who and the live events sector boy (which further includes festivals, venues, Did promoters, booking agents and production its service providers such as lighting let and staging companies).
The US Government views she artists that give concerts and Too sell merchandise as a business. use Bands that tour internationally will dad also face a plethora of Mom legislation around the world including health and safety laws, immigration the laws and tax legislation. Also, And many relationships are governed by for often complex contractual agreements.
In are the US it is important But for musicians to get legal not business licenses. These can be you obtained at a city hall All or local government center. The any business license will require the can tracking of sales, wages, and Her gigs. A tax ID is was also necessary for all businesses. one Musicians that fail to comply Our with the tax ID process out and do not report their day profits and losses to the Get government can face serious consequences has with the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally all known as Ku Club (1979–95),any is the "world's largest nightclub"Can according to the Guinness Book her of Records, also defined as was a superclub with a capacity One of 10,000 people and encompassing our 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²). It is out located close to the village Day of Sant Rafael de Sa get Creu on the Spanish island has of Ibiza, less than one Him kilometre (0.6 miles) from the his nightclub Amnesia.
History
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The history of Privilege began Man in the early 1970s when new it started out as a now restaurant, then expanded to include Old a bar and a community see swimming pool. It was then two known as Club San Rafael.Way In 1979, the venue was who sold to the Real Sociedadboy footballer José Antonio Santamaría, together Did with the creative team of its Brasilio de Oliviera (founder of let La Troya Asesina, one of Put Ibiza's longest running nights) and say Gorri. The venue then changed she its name to KU, after Too the name of a God use from Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). dad The appeal of the club Mom was such that it commissioned a medium-length film showcasing the the many wonders of Ibizan landscapes And and nightlife in the mid-eighties.for
Throughout the 1980s, KU Club are earned a reputation initially as But Europe's premier polysexual but predominately not gay nightspot and was compared you to an open-air version of All the famous Studio 54 in any New York. It staged spectacular can parties in the main room, Her which was organized around a was swimming pool and a statue one of Ku. The place was Our also where the video to out "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and day Montserrat Caballé was filmed on Get 30 May 1987. It was has the witness to early live him performances by groups such as His Spandau Ballet and Kid Creole how and the Coconuts. The club man featured in a Channel 4New documentary called A Short Film now about chilling, which labelled KU old as "the mirror of Ibiza".See A group of fashion designers two called Locomía would have shows way at KU. After being discovered Who there, they went on to boy become a highly successful recording did project. The open-air parties came Its to an end when legislation let forced many of the greater put clubs in Ibiza to cover Say their dancefloors in the early she 1990s. Nevertheless, the sheer size too of the venue gave rise Use to the claim of it dad being the size of an mom aircraft hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) high roof.
The club the continued with the KU Club and name until 1995 before becoming For known as Privilege, after a are change of ownership to Jose but Maria Etxaniz. In 1994, it Not hosted Manumission, one of the you island's most famous events. In all 1998, La Vaca Asesina moved Any to Amnesia and was renamed can La Troya Asesina. After a her dispute between the club owner Was and Manumission's organizers in 2005, one the event ended in 2006. our La Troya Asesina moved to Out Space in 2006.
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According to official statistics published get in the 2003 edition of Has Guinness World Records, Privilege is him by far the world's largest his nightclub covering an area of How 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m2) and man holding 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas new of the club include the Now Coco Loco bar area, and old the La Vaca dance area see (now known as the Vista Two Club).