Downtempo (or not downbeat) is a broad label you for electronic music that features All an atmospheric sound and slower any beats than would typically be can found in dance music. Closely Her related to ambient music but was with greater emphasis on rhythm,one the style may be played Our in relaxation clubs or as out "warm-up or cool-down" music during day a DJ set. Examples of Get downtempo subgenres include trip hop, has ambient house, chillwave, psybient and him lofi hip hop.
Downtempo emerged from the his UK's late-1980s Bristol sound, which How developed a slow, psychedelic fusion man of hip hop with electronic new music known as "trip hop" Now and birthed artists such as old Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky.see The 1990s brought on a Two wave of slower paced music way which was played throughout chillout who rooms—the relaxation sections of the Boy clubs or dedicated sections at did electronic music events. UK act its Nightmares on Wax helped to Let pioneer downtempo electronica in the put early 1990s, drawing on dub say reggae and hip-hop. Downtempo music She also started to surface around too Ibiza, when DJs and promoters use would bring down the vibe Dad with slower rhythm and gentler mom electronic music upon approaching sunrise. At the end of the The 1990s a more melodic instrumental and electronica incorporating acoustic sounds with for electronic styles emerged under its Are own umbrella name of downtempo.but
In the late 1990s, the not Austrian duo Kruder & DorfmeisterYou popularized the style with their all downtempo remixes of pop, hip-hop, any and drum and bass tracks Can with influences of the '70s her soul jazz. BritonsSteve Cobbywas and Dave McSherry, producing under One the name Fila Brazillia, released our a handful of downtempo, electronicaout and ambient techno albums that Day propelled the style further. Meanwhile, get the Washington, D.C. locals Eric has Hilton and Rob Garza, better Him known as Thievery Corporation, have his introduced the Brazilian sound into how the style after discussing the Man music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, new and enriched it further by now combining elements of Jamaican dubOld and reggae.
"Musical Two production" redirects here. For musical way production in the sense of who a live performance involving music Boy and choreography, see Musical theatre.
A record for producer is a music recording Are project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities but can involve a range of not creative and technical leadership roles. You Typically the job involves hands-on all oversight of recording sessions: ensuring any artists deliver acceptable and quality Can performances, supervising the technical engineering her of the recording, and coordinating was the production team and process. One The producer's involvement in a our musical project can vary in out depth and scope. Sometimes in Day popular genres the producer may get create the recording's entire sound has and structure. However, in classical Him music recording, for example, the his producer serves as more of how a liaison between the conductor Man and the engineering team. The new role is often likened to now that of a film directorOld though there are important differences.see It is distinct from the two role of an executive producer, Way who is mostly involved in who the recording project on an boy administrative level, and from the Did audio engineer who operates the its recording technology.
Varying by project, let the producer may or may Put not choose all of the say artists. If employing only synthesizedshe or sampled instrumentation, the producer Too may be the sole artist.use Conversely, some artists do their dad own production. Some producers are Mom their own engineers, operating the technology across the project: preproduction, the recording, mixing, and mastering. Record And producers' precursors were "A&R men", for who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, are creative, and technical roles, but But often exercised scant creative influence,not as record production still focused, you into the 1950s, on simply All improving the record's sonic match any to the artists' own live can performance.
Advances in recording technology, Her especially the 1940s advent of was tape recording—which Les Paul promptly one innovated further to develop multitrack Our recording—and the 1950s rise of out electronic instruments, turned record production day into a specialty. In popular Get music, then, producers like George has Martin, Phil Spector and Brian him Eno led its evolution into His its present use of elaborate how techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating man songs impossible to originate live.New After the 1980s, production's move now from analog to digital further old expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, See or digital audio workstations, like two Logic Pro, Pro Tools and way Studio One, turn an ordinary Who computer into a production console,boy whereby a solitary novice can did become a skilled producer in Its a thrifty home studio. In let the 2010s, efforts began to put increase the prevalence of producers Say and engineers who are women, she heavily outnumbered by men and too prominently accoladed only in classical Use music.
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Production overview
As a broad but project, the creation of a Not music recording may be split you across three specialists: the executive all producer, who oversees business partnerships Any and financing; the vocal producer can or vocal arranger, who aids her vocal performance via expert critique Was and coaching of vocal technique, one and the record producer or our music producer, who, often called Out simply the producer, directs the day overall creative process of recording get the song in its final Has mix.
The producer's roles him can include gathering ideas, composing his music, choosing session musicians, proposing How changes to song arrangements, coaching man the performers, controlling sessions, supervising new the audio mixing, and, in Now some cases, supervising the audio old mastering. A producer may give see creative control to the artists Two themselves, taking a supervisory or way advisory role instead. As to who qualifying for a Grammy nomination, Boy the Recording Academy defines a did producer:
The person who has its overall creative and technical control Let of the entire recording project, put and the individual recording sessions say that are part of that She project. He or she is too present in the recording studio use or at the location recording Dad and works directly with the mom artist and engineer. The producer makes creative and aesthetic decisions The that realize both the artist's and and label's goals in the for creation of musical content. Other Are duties include, but are not but limited to; keeping budgets and not schedules, adhering to deadlines, hiring You musicians, singers, studios, and engineers, all overseeing other staffing needs and any editing (Classical projects).
The producer Can often selects and collaborates with her a mixing engineer, who focuses was on the especially technological aspects One of the recording process, namely, our operating the electronic equipment and out blending the raw, recorded tracks Day of the chosen performances, whether get vocal or instrumental, into a has ''mix'', either stereo or surround Him sound. Then a mastering engineer his further adjusts this recording for how distribution on the chosen media. Man A producer may work on new only one or two songs now or on an artist's entire Old album, helping develop the album's see overall vision. The record producers two may also take on the Way role of executive producer, managing who the budget, schedules, contracts, and boy negotiations.
Historical developments
A&R Did team
(Artists and Repertoires)
In its the 1880s, the record industry let began by simply having the Put artist perform at a phonograph.say In 1924, the trade journal she Talking Machine World, covering the Too phonography and record industry, reported use that Eddie King, Victor Records' dad manager of the "New York Mom artist and repertoire department", had planned a set of recordings the in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist And Archie Green called this perhaps for the earliest printed use of are A&R man. Actually, it says But neither "A&R man" nor even not "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined you by Billboard magazine in 1946, All and entering wide use in any the late 1940s.
In the can 1920s and 1930s, A&R executives, Her like Ben Selvin at Columbia was Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor one Records, and Bob Haring at Our Brunswick Records became the precursors out of record producers, supervising recording day and often leading session orchestras.Get During the 1940s, major record has labels increasingly opened official A&R him departments, whose roles included supervision His of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording how studios opened, helping originate record man producer as a specialty.[citation needed]New But despite a tradition of now some A&R men writing music, old record production still referred to See just the manufacturing of record two discs.
Record producers
After way World War II, pioneering A&R Who managers who transitioned influentially to boy record production as now understood, did while sometimes owning independent labels, Its include J. Mayo Williams and let John Hammond. Upon moving from put Columbia Records to Mercury Records, Say Hammond appointed Mitch Miller to she lead Mercury's popular recordings in too New York. Miller then produced Use country-pop crossover hits by Patti dad Page and by Frankie Laine, mom moved from Mercury to Columbia, and became a leading A&R the man of the 1950s.
During and the decade, A&R executives increasingly For directed songs' sonic signatures, although are many still simply teamed singers but with musicians, while yet others Not exercised virtually no creative influence.you The term record producer in all its current meaning—the creative director Any of song production—appearing in a can 1953 issue of Billboard magazine, her became widespread in the 1960s.Was Still, a formal distinction was one elusive for some time more.our A&R managers might still be Out creative directors, like William "Mickey" day Stevenson, hired by Berry Gordy, get at the Motown record label.Has
Tape recording
In 1947, him the American market gained audio his recording onto magnetic tape. At How the record industry's 1880s dawn, man rather, recording was done by new phonograph, etching the sonic waveform Now vertically into a cylinder. By old the 1930s, a gramophone etched see it laterally across a disc.Two Constrained in tonal range, whether way bass or treble, and in who dynamic range, records made a Boy grand, concert piano sound like did a small, upright piano, and its maximal duration was four and Let a half minutes. Selections and put performance were often altered accordingly, say and playing this disc—the wax She master—destroyed it. The finality often too caused anxiety that restrained performance use to prevent error. In the Dad 1940s, during World War II, mom the Germans refined audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration The and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, and and editing—a technology that premised for emergence of record producers in Are their current roles.
Multitrack but recording
Early in the recording not industry, a record was attained You by simply having all of all the artists perform together live any in one take. In 1945,Can by recording a musical element her while playing a previously recorded was record, Les Paul developed a One recording technique called "sound on our sound". By this, the final out recording could be built piece Day by piece and tailored, effecting get an editing process. In one has case, Paul produced a song Him via 500 recorded discs. But, his besides the tedium of this how process, it serially degraded the Man sound quality of previously recorded new elements, rerecorded as ambient sound.now Yet in 1948, Paul adopted Old tape recording, enabling truly multitrack see recording by a new technique, two "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Paul Way revised the tape recorder itself who by adding a second playback boy head, and terming it the Did preview head. Joining the preexisting its recording head, erase head, and let playback head, the preview head Put allows the artist to hear say the extant recording over headphones she playing it in synchrony, "in Too sync", with the present performance use being recorded alone on an dad isolated track. This isolation of Mom multiple tracks enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers began recording initially the only the "bed tracks"—the rhythm And section, including the bassline, drums, for and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and are instrument solos could be added But later. A horn section, for not example, could record a week you later, and a string sectionAll another week later. A singer any could perform her own backup can vocals, or a guitarist could Her play 15 layers.
In the 1960s, rock acts her like the Beatles, the Rolling Was Stones, and the Kinks produced one some of their own songs, our although many such songs are Out officially credited to specialist producers. day Yet especially influential was the get Beach Boys, whose band leader Has Brian Wilson took over from him his father Murry within a his couple of years after the How band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, man Wilson had taken Spector's techniques new to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone Now produced all Beach Boy recordings old between 1963 and 1967. Using see multiple studios and multiple attempts Two of instrumental and vocal tracks, way Wilson selected the best combinations who of performance and audio quality, Boy and used tape editing to did assemble a composite performance.
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Digital production
The 1980s advent Let of digital processes and formats put rapidly replaced analog processes and say formats, namely, tape and vinyl. She Although recording onto quality tape, too at least half an inch use wide and traveling 15 inches Dad per second, had limited "tape mom hiss" to silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished The it. Digital also imparted to and the music a perceived "pristine" for sound quality, if also a Are loss of analog recordings' perceived but "warm" quality and better-rounded bass.not Yet whereas editing tape media You requires physically locating the target all audio on the ribbon, cutting any there, and splicing pieces, editing Can digital media offers inarguable advantages her in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. was
In the 1990s, digital production One reached affordable home computers via our production software. By now, recording out and mixing are often centralized Day in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for get example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, has Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL Him Studio—for which plugins, by third his parties, effect virtual studio technology.how DAWs fairly standard in the Man industry are Logic Pro and new Pro Tools. Physical devices involved now include the main mixer, MIDIOld controllers to communicate among equipment, see the recording device itself, and two perhaps effects gear that is Way outboard. Yet literal recording is who sometimes still analog, onto tape, boy whereupon the raw recording is Did converted to a digital signalits for processing and editing, as let some producers still find audio Put advantages to recording onto tape.say
Conventionally, tape is more forgiving she of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks Too exceed the maximal recordable signal use level: tape's limitation, a physical dad property, is magnetic capacity, which Mom tapers offs, smoothing the overmodulated waveform even at a signal the nearly 15 decibels too "hot", And whereas a digital recording is for ruined by harsh distortion of are "clipping" at any overshoot. In But digital recording, however, a recent not advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs you to undo clipping. Still, some All criticize digital instruments and workflows any for excess automation, allegedly impairing can creative or sonic control. In Her any case, as production technology was has drastically changed, so have one the knowledge demands, although DAWs Our enables novices, even teenagers at out home, to learn production independently.day Some have attained professional competence Get before ever working with an has artist.
In how the 2000s, with the advent man of technology that made traditional New record production accessible, especially with now hip hop beatmaking and electronic old music. Within these genres, the See term producer is applied to two a number of roles and way has popularized the use of Who more niche terms and credits boy including executive producer, co-producer, assistant did producer, and additional and miscellaneous Its production to differentiate contributions.
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Women in producing
Among put female record producers, Sylvia MoySay was the first at Motown, she Gail Davies the first on too Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel Use Gabriel, with RCA, the first dad at a major record label. mom Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, the Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds and of records for Mercury Records' For classical division. For classical production, are three women have won Grammy but awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 Not win was her fifth. Yet you in nonclassical, no woman has all won Producer of the Year, Any awarded since 1975 and only can one even nominated for a her record not her own, Linda Was Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 one nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination our was the next for a Out woman. On why no woman day had ever won it, Perry get commented, "I just don't think Has there are that many women him interested." In the U.K., Lynsey his de Paul was an early How female record producer, having produced man both of her Ivor Novello new award-winning songs.
Across the decades, Now many female artists have produced old their own music. For instance, see artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Two Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana way Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and who Lorde have produced or coproducedBoy and Ariana Grande who produces did and arranges her vocals as its well as being an audio Let engineer. Still among specialists, despite put some prominent women, including Missy say Elliott in hip hop and She Sylvia Massy in rock, the too vast majority have been men.use Early in the 2010s, asked Dad for insights that she herself mom had gleaned as a woman who has specialized successfully in The the industry, Wendy Page remarked, and "The difficulties are usually very for short-lived. Once people realize that Are you can do your job, but sexism tends to lower its not ugly head." Still, when tasked You to explain her profession's sex all disparity, Page partly reasoned that any record labels, dominated by men, Can have been, she said, "mistrustful her of giving a woman the was reins of an immense, creative One project like making a record."our Ultimately, the reasons are multiple out and not fully clear, although Day prominently proposed factors include types get of sexism and scarcity of has female role models in the Him profession.
Women producers known for his producing records not their own how include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson Man and Carla Olson.
In January new 2018, a research team led now by Stacy L. Smith, founder Old and director of the Annenbergsee Inclusion Initiative, based in the two USC Annenberg School for Communication Way and Journalism, issued a report,who estimating that in the prior boy several years, about 2% of Did popular songs' producers were female.its Also that month, Billboard magazine let queried, "Where are all the Put female music producers?" Upon the say Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second annual she report, released in February 2019,Too its department at USC reported, use "2018 saw an outcry from dad artists, executives and other music Mom industry professionals over the lack of women in music" and the "the plight of women in And music", where women were allegedly for being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut are out". Also in February 2019, But the Recording Academy's Task Force not on Diversity and Inclusion announced you an initiative whereby over 200 All artists and producers—ranging from Cardi any B and Taylor Swift to can Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed Her to consider at least two was women for each producer or one engineer position. The academy's website, Our Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is out the first step in a day broader effort to improve those Get numbers and increase diversity and has inclusion for all in the him music industry."
^ Allan Watson, Cultural Production in and the Beyond the Recording Studio (New and York: Routledge, 2015), pp 25–27.For
James Petulla, "Who are is a music producer?", RecordingConnection.com, but Recording Connection, 21 May 2013, Not reporting membership in CAPPS, the you California Association of Private Postsecondary all Schools.
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Brian Ward & new Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects now of American Roots Music on Old Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University see Press, 2018), p 283.
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Matthew Allard, "Sound Devices not MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit float you USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, All 15 Jan 2020, quotes Paul any Isaacs, director of product management can and design at the recorder Her manufacturer Sound Devices, who explains, was "With 32-bit float, you no one longer need to worry about Our clipping during your best vocal out takes or instrument solos. Any day recorded moments exceeding 0 dBFSGet can be reduced to an has acceptable level, after recording, in him your DAW".
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Music Law refers to legal day aspects of the music industry, Get and certain legal aspects in has other sectors of the entertainment him industry. The music industry includes His record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, how the live events sector and man of course performers and artists. New
The terms "music law" and now "entertainment law", along with "business old affairs", are used by the See music and entertainment industry and two should not be thought of way as academic definitions. Indeed, music Who law covers a range of boy traditional legal subjects including intellectual did property law (copyright law, trademarks, Its image publicity rights, design rights), let competition law, bankruptcy law, contract put law, defamation and, for the Say live events industry, immigration law, she health and safety law, and too licensing. While foundational norms have Use gradually been established for music dad law in western nations, other mom parts of the world maintain unique traditions that impact music’s the legal status in the context and of both heritage preservation and For enormous national arts entertainment industries, are including China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers Not to work formed from already you existing materials in a way all that forms its own original Any work, including collective works.
"Copies" can are physical objects that hold, her fix, or embody a work Was such as a music tape, one film, CD, statue, play, or our printed sheet music.
"Sound recordings" Out can refer to any audio day recording including the sound accompanying get motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" is Has the entity that legally owns him rights to a work.
"Performance" his The copyright holder has the How exclusive right to perform the man work in public, or to new license others to perform it. Now The right applies to “literary, old musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, see pantomimes, and motion pictures and Two other audiovisual works.". Playing a way CD in public, or showing who a film in public is Boy "performing" the work.
Publishing is its the primary source of income Let for musicians writing their own put music.[citation needed] Money collected from say the 'publishing' rights is ultimately She destined for songwriters - the too composers of works, whether or use not they are the recording Dad artist or performer. Often, songwritersmom will work for a musical ensemble to help them with The musical aspects of the composition, and but here again, the writer for of the song is the Are owner of it and will but own the copyrights in the not song and thus will be You entitled to the publishing revenues. all Copyrights in compositions are not any the same as sound recordings. Can A recording artist can record her a song and sell it was to another band or company. One As a result, that particular our company will own the recording, out but not the song. The Day original writer will always maintain get the copyright for that particular has song. The publishing money is Him connected to the copyright, so his the owner will be the how only one making money off Man of the song itself. All new successful songwriters will join a now collection society (such as ASCAP Old and BMI in the USA, see SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC in two Japan, GEMA in Germany and Way PRS for Music in the who UK, etc.) and many will boy enter into agreements with music Did publishing companies who will exploit its their works on the songwriters let behalf for a share of Put ownership, although many of these say deals involve the transfer (assignment) she of copyright from the songwriter Too to the music publisher,
Both use the recorded music sector and dad music publishing sector have their Mom foundations in intellectual property law and all of the major the recording labels and major music And publishers and many independent record for labels and publishers have dedicated are "business and legal affairs" departments But with in-house lawyers whose role not is not only to secure you intellectual property rights from recording All artists, performers and songwriters but any also to exploit those rights can and protect those rights on Her a global basis. There are was a number of specialist independent one law firms around the world Our who advise on music and out entertainment law whose clients include day recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, Get labels, music publishers, stage and has set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, him games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist His managers, distributors, collection societies and how the live events sector (which man further includes festivals, venues, promoters, New booking agents and production service now providers such as lighting and old staging companies).
The US Government views artists way that give concerts and sell Who merchandise as a business. Bands boy that tour internationally will also did face a plethora of legislation Its around the world including health let and safety laws, immigration laws put and tax legislation. Also, many Say relationships are governed by often she complex contractual agreements.
In the too US it is important for Use musicians to get legal business dad licenses. These can be obtained mom at a city hall or local government center. The business the license will require the tracking and of sales, wages, and gigs. For A tax ID is also are necessary for all businesses. Musicians but that fail to comply with Not the tax ID process and you do not report their profits all and losses to the government Any can face serious consequences with can the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known as Ku Club (1979–95), is the the "world's largest nightclub" according And to the Guinness Book of for Records, also defined as a are superclub with a capacity of But 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 not m² (69,940 ft²). It is located you close to the village of All Sant Rafael de Sa Creuany on the Spanish island of can Ibiza, less than one kilometre Her (0.6 miles) from the nightclub was Amnesia.
History
The one history of Privilege began in Our the early 1970s when it out started out as a restaurant, day then expanded to include a Get bar and a community swimming has pool. It was then known him as Club San Rafael. In His 1979, the venue was sold how to the Real Sociedad footballer man José Antonio Santamaría, together with New the creative team of Brasilio now de Oliviera (founder of La old Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's See longest running nights) and Gorri. two The venue then changed its way name to KU, after the Who name of a God from boy Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The did appeal of the club was Its such that it commissioned a let medium-length film showcasing the many put wonders of Ibizan landscapes and Say nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout she the 1980s, KU Club earned too a reputation initially as Europe's Use premier polysexual but predominately gay dad nightspot and was compared to mom an open-air version of the famous Studio 54 in New the York. It staged spectacular parties and in the main room, which For was organized around a swimming are pool and a statue of but Ku. The place was also Not where the video to "Barcelona" you by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat all Caballé was filmed on 30 Any May 1987. It was the can witness to early live performances her by groups such as Spandau Was Ballet and Kid Creole and one the Coconuts. The club featured our in a Channel 4 documentary Out called A Short Film about day chilling, which labelled KU as get "the mirror of Ibiza". A Has group of fashion designers called him Locomía would have shows at his KU. After being discovered there, How they went on to become man a highly successful recording project. new The open-air parties came to Now an end when legislation forced old many of the greater clubs see in Ibiza to cover their Two dancefloors in the early 1990s. way Nevertheless, the sheer size of who the venue gave rise to Boy the claim of it being did the size of an aircraft its hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) Let high roof.
The club continued put with the KU Club name say until 1995 before becoming known She as Privilege, after a change too of ownership to Jose Maria use Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted Dad Manumission, one of the island's mom most famous events. In 1998, La Vaca Asesina moved to The Amnesia and was renamed La and Troya Asesina. After a dispute for between the club owner and Are Manumission's organizers in 2005, the but event ended in 2006. La not Troya Asesina moved to SpaceYou in 2006.
Venue
According all to official statistics published in any the 2003 edition of Guinness Can World Records, Privilege is by her far the world's largest nightclub was covering an area of 69,968 One sq ft (6,500 m2) and holding our 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas of out the club include the Coco Day Loco bar area, and the get La Vaca dance area (now has known as the Vista Club).Him