Record producer

Engineer with audio put console, at a recording session say at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Occupation
Names	Music She producer, record producer
Occupation type	Profession
Activity sectors	Music too industry
Description
Competencies	Instrumental skills, keyboard knowledge, arranging, use vocal coaching
Fields of employment	Recording studios
Related jobs	Music Dad executive, recording engineer, executive producer, mom film producer, A&R

A record producer is a music recording The project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities and can involve a range of for creative and technical leadership roles. Are Typically the job involves hands-on but oversight of recording sessions: ensuring not artists deliver acceptable and quality You performances, supervising the technical engineering all of the recording, and coordinating any the production team and process. Can The producer's involvement in a her musical project can vary in was depth and scope. Sometimes in One popular genres the producer may our create the recording's entire sound out and structure. However, in classical Day music recording, for example, the get producer serves as more of has a liaison between the conductor Him and the engineering team. The his role is often likened to how that of a film director Man though there are important differences. new It is distinct from the now role of an executive producer, Old who is mostly involved in see the recording project on an two administrative level, and from the Way audio engineer who operates the who recording technology.

Varying by project, boy the producer may or may Did not choose all of the its artists. If employing only synthesized let or sampled instrumentation, the producer Put may be the sole artist. say Conversely, some artists do their she own production. Some producers are Too their own engineers, operating the use technology across the project: preproduction, dad recording, mixing, and mastering. Record Mom producers' precursors were "A&R men", who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, the creative, and technical roles, but And often exercised scant creative influence, for as record production still focused, are into the 1950s, on simply But improving the record's sonic match not to the artists' own live you performance.

Advances in recording technology, All especially the 1940s advent of any tape recording—which Les Paul promptly can innovated further to develop multitrack Her recording—and the 1950s rise of was electronic instruments, turned record production one into a specialty. In popular Our music, then, producers like George out Martin, Phil Spector and Brian day Eno led its evolution into Get its present use of elaborate has techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating him songs impossible to originate live. His After the 1980s, production's move how from analog to digital further man expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, New or digital audio workstations, like now Logic Pro, Pro Tools and old Studio One, turn an ordinary See computer into a production console, two whereby a solitary novice can way become a skilled producer in Who a thrifty home studio. In boy the 2010s, efforts began to did increase the prevalence of producers Its and engineers who are women, let heavily outnumbered by men and put prominently accoladed only in classical Say music.

Production overview

As a broad and project, the creation of a For music recording may be split are across three specialists: the executive but producer, who oversees business partnerships Not and financing; the vocal producer you or vocal arranger, who aids all vocal performance via expert critique Any and coaching of vocal technique, can and the record producer or her music producer, who, often called Was simply the producer, directs the one overall creative process of recording our the song in its final Out mix.

The producer's roles day can include gathering ideas, composing get music, choosing session musicians, proposing Has changes to song arrangements, coaching him the performers, controlling sessions, supervising his the audio mixing, and, in How some cases, supervising the audio man mastering. A producer may give new creative control to the artists Now themselves, taking a supervisory or old advisory role instead. As to see qualifying for a Grammy nomination, Two the Recording Academy defines a way producer:

The person who has who overall creative and technical control Boy of the entire recording project, did and the individual recording sessions its that are part of that Let project. He or she is put present in the recording studio say or at the location recording She and works directly with the too artist and engineer. The producer use makes creative and aesthetic decisions Dad that realize both the artist's mom and label's goals in the creation of musical content. Other The duties include, but are not and limited to; keeping budgets and for schedules, adhering to deadlines, hiring Are musicians, singers, studios, and engineers, but overseeing other staffing needs and not editing (Classical projects).

The producer You often selects and collaborates with all a mixing engineer, who focuses any on the especially technological aspects Can of the recording process, namely, her operating the electronic equipment and was blending the raw, recorded tracks One of the chosen performances, whether our vocal or instrumental, into a out ''mix'', either stereo or surround Day sound. Then a mastering engineer get further adjusts this recording for has distribution on the chosen media. Him A producer may work on his only one or two songs how or on an artist's entire Man album, helping develop the album's new overall vision. The record producers now may also take on the Old role of executive producer, managing see the budget, schedules, contracts, and two negotiations.

Historical developments

A&R Way team

(Artists and Repertoires)

In who the 1880s, the record industry boy began by simply having the Did artist perform at a phonograph. its In 1924, the trade journal let Talking Machine World, covering the Put phonography and record industry, reported say that Eddie King, Victor Records' she manager of the "New York Too artist and repertoire department", had use planned a set of recordings dad in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Mom Archie Green called this perhaps the earliest printed use of the A&R man. Actually, it says And neither "A&R man" nor even for "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined are by Billboard magazine in 1946, But and entering wide use in not the late 1940s.

In the you 1920s and 1930s, A&R executives, All like Ben Selvin at Columbia any Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor can Records, and Bob Haring at Her Brunswick Records became the precursors was of record producers, supervising recording one and often leading session orchestras. Our During the 1940s, major record out labels increasingly opened official A&R day departments, whose roles included supervision Get of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording has studios opened, helping originate record him producer as a specialty.^{[citation needed]} His But despite a tradition of how some A&R men writing music, man record production still referred to New just the manufacturing of record now discs.

Record producers

After old World War II, pioneering A&R See managers who transitioned influentially to two record production as now understood, way while sometimes owning independent labels, Who include J. Mayo Williams and boy John Hammond. Upon moving from did Columbia Records to Mercury Records, Its Hammond appointed Mitch Miller to let lead Mercury's popular recordings in put New York. Miller then produced Say country-pop crossover hits by Patti she Page and by Frankie Laine, too moved from Mercury to Columbia, Use and became a leading A&R dad man of the 1950s.

During mom the decade, A&R executives increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, although the many still simply teamed singers and with musicians, while yet others For exercised virtually no creative influence. are The term record producer in but its current meaning—the creative director Not of song production—appearing in a you 1953 issue of Billboard magazine, all became widespread in the 1960s. Any Still, a formal distinction was can elusive for some time more. her A&R managers might still be Was creative directors, like William "Mickey" one Stevenson, hired by Berry Gordy, our at the Motown record label. Out

Tape recording

In 1947, day the American market gained audio get recording onto magnetic tape. At Has the record industry's 1880s dawn, him rather, recording was done by his phonograph, etching the sonic waveform How vertically into a cylinder. By man the 1930s, a gramophone etched new it laterally across a disc. Now Constrained in tonal range, whether old bass or treble, and in see dynamic range, records made a Two grand, concert piano sound like way a small, upright piano, and who maximal duration was four and Boy a half minutes. Selections and did performance were often altered accordingly, its and playing this disc—the wax Let master—destroyed it. The finality often put caused anxiety that restrained performance say to prevent error. In the She 1940s, during World War II, too the Germans refined audio recording use onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration Dad and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, mom and editing—a technology that premised emergence of record producers in The their current roles.

Multitrack and recording

Early in the recording for industry, a record was attained Are by simply having all of but the artists perform together live not in one take. In 1945, You by recording a musical element all while playing a previously recorded any record, Les Paul developed a Can recording technique called "sound on her sound". By this, the final was recording could be built piece One by piece and tailored, effecting our an editing process. In one out case, Paul produced a song Day via 500 recorded discs. But, get besides the tedium of this has process, it serially degraded the Him sound quality of previously recorded his elements, rerecorded as ambient sound. how Yet in 1948, Paul adopted Man tape recording, enabling truly multitrack new recording by a new technique, now "overdubbing".

To enable overdubbing, Paul Old revised the tape recorder itself see by adding a second playback two head, and terming it the Way preview head. Joining the preexisting who recording head, erase head, and boy playback head, the preview head Did allows the artist to hear its the extant recording over headphones let playing it in synchrony, "in Put sync", with the present performance say being recorded alone on an she isolated track. This isolation of Too multiple tracks enables countless mixing use possibilities. Producers began recording initially dad only the "bed tracks"—the rhythm Mom section, including the bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and the instrument solos could be added And later. A horn section, for for example, could record a week are later, and a string section But another week later. A singer not could perform her own backup you vocals, or a guitarist could All play 15 layers.

Electronic any instruments

Across the 1960s, Her popular music increasingly switched from was acoustic instruments, like piano, upright one bass, acoustic guitar, and brass Our instruments, to electronic instruments, like out electric guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers, day employing instrument amplifiers and speakers. Get These could mimic acoustic instruments has or create utterly new sounds. him Soon, by combining the capabilities His of tape, multitrack recording, and how electronic instruments, producers like Phil man Spector, George Martin, and Joe New Meek rendered sounds unattainable live. now Similarly, in jazz fusion, Teo old Macero, producing Miles Davis's 1970 See album Bitches Brew, spliced sections two of extensive improvisation sessions.

Performer-producer

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In the Not 1960s, rock acts like the you Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and all the Kinks produced some of Any their own songs, although many can such songs are officially credited her to specialist producers. Yet especially Was influential was the Beach Boys, one whose band leader Brian Wilson our took over from his father Out Murry within a couple of day years after the band's commercial get breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had Has taken Spector's techniques to unseen him sophistication. Wilson alone produced all his Beach Boy recordings between 1963 How and 1967. Using multiple studios man and multiple attempts of instrumental new and vocal tracks, Wilson selected Now the best combinations of performance old and audio quality, and used see tape editing to assemble a Two composite performance.

Digital production

The 1980s advent of digital did processes and formats rapidly replaced its analog processes and formats, namely, Let tape and vinyl. Although recording put onto quality tape, at least say half an inch wide and She traveling 15 inches per second, too had limited "tape hiss" to use silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise Dad ratio, SNR, abolished it. Digital mom also imparted to the music a perceived "pristine" sound quality, The if also a loss of and analog recordings' perceived "warm" quality for and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas Are editing tape media requires physically but locating the target audio on not the ribbon, cutting there, and You splicing pieces, editing digital media all offers inarguable advantages in ease, any efficiency, and possibilities.

In the Can 1990s, digital production reached affordable her home computers via production software. was By now, recording and mixing One are often centralized in DAWs, our digital audio workstations—for example, Pro out Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Day Reason, and FL Studio—for which get plugins, by third parties, effect has virtual studio technology. DAWs fairly Him standard in the industry are his Logic Pro and Pro Tools. how Physical devices involved include the Man main mixer, MIDI controllers to new communicate among equipment, the recording now device itself, and perhaps effects Old gear that is outboard. Yet see literal recording is sometimes still two analog, onto tape, whereupon the Way raw recording is converted to who a digital signal for processing boy and editing, as some producers Did still find audio advantages to its recording onto tape.

Conventionally, tape let is more forgiving of overmodulation, Put whereby dynamic peaks exceed the say maximal recordable signal level: tape's she limitation, a physical property, is Too magnetic capacity, which tapers offs, use smoothing the overmodulated waveform even dad at a signal nearly 15 Mom decibels too "hot", whereas a digital recording is ruined by the harsh distortion of "clipping" at And any overshoot. In digital recording, for however, a recent advancement, 32-bit are float, enables DAWs to undo But clipping. Still, some criticize digital not instruments and workflows for excess you automation, allegedly impairing creative or All sonic control. In any case, any as production technology has drastically can changed, so have the knowledge Her demands, although DAWs enables novices, was even teenagers at home, to one learn production independently. Some have Our attained professional competence before ever out working with an artist.

Hip hop production

In the 2000s, him with the advent of technology His that made traditional record production how accessible, especially with hip hop man beatmaking and electronic music. Within New these genres, the term producer now is applied to a number old of roles and has popularized See the use of more niche two terms and credits including executive way producer, co-producer, assistant producer, and Who additional and miscellaneous production to boy differentiate contributions.

Women in did producing

Among female record Its producers, Sylvia Moy was the let first at Motown, Gail Davies put the first on Nashville's Music Say Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with she RCA, the first at a too major record label. Lillian McMurry, Use owning Trumpet Records, produced influential dad blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart mom Fine produced hundreds of records for Mercury Records' classical division. the For classical production, three women and have won Grammy awards, and For Judith Sherman's 2015 win was are her fifth. Yet in nonclassical, but no woman has won Producer Not of the Year, awarded since you 1975 and only one even all nominated for a record not Any her own, Linda Perry. After can Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda her Perry's 2019 nomination was the Was next for a woman. On one why no woman had ever our won it, Perry commented, "I Out just don't think there are day that many women interested." In get the U.K., Lynsey de Paul Has was an early female record him producer, having produced both of his her Ivor Novello award-winning songs. How

Across the decades, many female man artists have produced their own new music. For instance, artists Kate Now Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet old Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, see Taylor Swift, and Lorde have Two produced or coproduced and Ariana way Grande who produces and arranges who her vocals as well as Boy being an audio engineer. Still did among specialists, despite some prominent its women, including Missy Elliott in Let hip hop and Sylvia Massy put in rock, the vast majority say have been men. Early in She the 2010s, asked for insights too that she herself had gleaned use as a woman who has Dad specialized successfully in the industry, mom Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties are usually very short-lived. Once The people realize that you can and do your job, sexism tends for to lower its ugly head." Are Still, when tasked to explain but her profession's sex disparity, Page not partly reasoned that record labels, You dominated by men, have been, all she said, "mistrustful of giving any a woman the reins of Can an immense, creative project like her making a record." Ultimately, the was reasons are multiple and not One fully clear, although prominently proposed our factors include types of sexism out and scarcity of female role Day models in the profession.

Women get producers known for producing records has not their own include Sonia Him Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla his Olson.

In January 2018, a how research team led by Stacy Man L. Smith, founder and director new of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, now based in the USC Annenberg Old School for Communication and Journalism, see issued a report, estimating that two in the prior several years, Way about 2% of popular songs' who producers were female. Also that boy month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where Did are all the female music its producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion let Initiative's second annual report, released Put in February 2019, its department say at USC reported, "2018 saw she an outcry from artists, executives Too and other music industry professionals use over the lack of women dad in music" and "the plight Mom of women in music", where women were allegedly being "stereotyped, the sexualized, and shut out". Also And in February 2019, the Recording for Academy's Task Force on Diversity are and Inclusion announced an initiative But whereby over 200 artists and not producers—ranging from Cardi B and you Taylor Swift to Maroon 5 All and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider any at least two women for can each producer or engineer position. Her The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, was "This initiative is the first one step in a broader effort Our to improve those numbers and out increase diversity and inclusion for day all in the music industry." Get

See also

• Audio now engineering
• Electronic music
• Hip hop old production
• Music executive
• Musician

References

Further has reading

• Gibson, David and Maestro Him Curtis. "The Art of Producing". his 1st. Ed. US. ArtistPro Publishing, how 2004. ISBN 1-931140-44-8
• Burgess, Richard James. Man The Art of Music Production. new 4th Ed. UK. Music Sales, now 2005. ISBN 1-84449-431-4
• Edmondson, Jacqueline, ed. Old (2013). Music in American Life: see An Encyclopedia of the Songs, two Styles, Stars, and Stories that Way Shaped our Culture. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39348-8.
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• Hewitt, Michael. Music Theory for boy Computer Musicians. 1st Ed. US. Did Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 1598635034
• Gronow, its Pekka and Ilpo Saunio (1998). let An International History of the Put Recording Industry. Cited in Moorefield say (2005).
• Moorefield, Virgil (2005). The she Producer as Composer: Shaping the Too Sounds of Popular Music.
• Olsen, use Eric et al. (1999). The dad Encyclopedia of Record Producers. ISBN 978-0-8230-7607-9
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• Zak, Albin. The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records. the Berkeley: University of California Press, And 2001.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help the improve this article by adding And citations to reliable sources. Unsourced for material may be challenged and are removed. Find sources: "Music law" – news · newspapers · books · But scholar · JSTOR (December 2017) (Learn not how and when to remove you this template message)

Music Law was refers to legal aspects of one the music industry, and certain Our legal aspects in other sectors out of the entertainment industry. The day music industry includes record labels, Get music publishers, merchandisers, the live has events sector and of course him performers and artists.

The terms His "music law" and "entertainment law", how along with "business affairs", are man used by the music and New entertainment industry and should not now be thought of as academic old definitions. Indeed, music law covers See a range of traditional legal two subjects including intellectual property law way (copyright law, trademarks, image publicity Who rights, design rights), competition law, boy bankruptcy law, contract law, defamation did and, for the live events Its industry, immigration law, health and let safety law, and licensing. While put foundational norms have gradually been Say established for music law in she western nations, other parts of too the world maintain unique traditions Use that impact music’s legal status dad in the context of both mom heritage preservation and enormous national arts entertainment industries, including China the and India.

Definitions

• A "compilation" refers to work For formed from already existing materials are in a way that forms but its own original work, including Not collective works.
• "Copies" are physical you objects that hold, fix, or all embody a work such as Any a music tape, film, CD, can statue, play, or printed sheet her music.
• "Sound recordings" can refer Was to any audio recording including one the sound accompanying motion pictures.
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• "Copyright owner" is the entity Out that legally owns rights to day a work.
• "Performance" The copyright get holder has the exclusive right Has to perform the work in him public, or to license others his to perform it. The right How applies to “literary, musical, dramatic, man and choreographic works, pantomimes, and new motion pictures and other audiovisual Now works.". Playing a CD in old public, or showing a film see in public is "performing" the Two work.

Copyright

Publishing

Publishing is the primary who source of income for musicians Boy writing their own music.^{[citation needed]} did Money collected from the 'publishing' its rights is ultimately destined for Let songwriters - the composers of put works, whether or not they say are the recording artist or She performer. Often, songwriters will work too for a musical ensemble to use help them with musical aspects Dad of the composition, but here mom again, the writer of the song is the owner of The it and will own the and copyrights in the song and for thus will be entitled to Are the publishing revenues. Copyrights in but compositions are not the same not as sound recordings. A recording You artist can record a song all and sell it to another any band or company. As a Can result, that particular company will her own the recording, but not was the song. The original writer One will always maintain the copyright our for that particular song. The out publishing money is connected to Day the copyright, so the owner get will be the only one has making money off of the Him song itself. All successful songwriters his will join a collection society how (such as ASCAP and BMI Man in the USA, SOCAN in new Canada, JASRAC in Japan, GEMA now in Germany and PRS for Old Music in the UK, etc.) see and many will enter into two agreements with music publishing companies Way who will exploit their works who on the songwriters behalf for boy a share of ownership, although Did many of these deals involve its the transfer (assignment) of copyright let from the songwriter to the Put music publisher,

Both the recorded say music sector and music publishing she sector have their foundations in Too intellectual property law and all use of the major recording labels dad and major music publishers and Mom many independent record labels and publishers have dedicated "business and the legal affairs" departments with in-house And lawyers whose role is not for only to secure intellectual property are rights from recording artists, performers But and songwriters but also to not exploit those rights and protect you those rights on a global All basis. There are a number any of specialist independent law firms can around the world who advise Her on music and entertainment law was whose clients include recording artists, one performers, producers, songwriters, labels, music Our publishers, stage and set designers, out choreographers, graphic artists, games designers, day merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, Get collection societies and the live has events sector (which further includes him festivals, venues, promoters, booking agents His and production service providers such how as lighting and staging companies). man

Performance Licensing

Business

The US now Government views artists that give old concerts and sell merchandise as See a business. Bands that tour two internationally will also face a way plethora of legislation around the Who world including health and safety boy laws, immigration laws and tax did legislation. Also, many relationships are Its governed by often complex contractual let agreements.

In the US it put is important for musicians to Say get legal business licenses. These she can be obtained at a too city hall or local government Use center. The business license will dad require the tracking of sales, mom wages, and gigs. A tax ID is also necessary for the all businesses. Musicians that fail and to comply with the tax For ID process and do not are report their profits and losses but to the government can face Not serious consequences with the IRS. you

References

Further reading

• Hill, Iain; Kemp, Chris The (Eds). Health & Safety Aspects and in the Live Music Industry, for Cambridge: Entertainment Technology Press. ISBN 1-904031-22-6
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• Schulenberg, Richard. Legal Aspects of but the Music Industry, New York: not Billboard Books (Watson-Guptill publications). ISBN 0-8230-8364-0
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• Kanaar, Nicholas; Phillips, Chris. Music all Business Agreements London: Sweet & any Maxwell, 3rd Edition. ISBN 978-1-84703-905-7
• Rosen, Can Ronald S. Music and Copyright, her Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-533836-7
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• Harrison, Ann. Music The Business One London: Virgin Books, 3rd Edition. our ISBN 1-85227-013-6
• Lindenbaum, John. "Music Sampling out and Copyright Law." Princeton University Day Center for the Arts and get Cultural Studies, April 1999 (online)
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• Standler, Ronald B. "Music Copyright Him Law in the USA." 2008-2009 his (online)
• Richard, Phillip, "Lawyers in how the Music Industry", No Bullshit Man Management, Nov. 2012 (online)
• Music: new Copyright Law. Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. now 1997 (online)
• Frith, Simon; Lee Old Marshall (Eds). Music and Copyright, see Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2nd two Edition. ISBN 978-0-7486-1813-2

External links

• Music Way Law Updates
• International Association of who Entertainment Lawyers
• Independent Federation of boy Phonographic Industries

Privilege

Privilege Nightclub
Former names	Ku
Location	San Rafael, Put Ibiza, Spain
Owner	Jose Maria Etxaniz
Type	Nightclub, music say venue
Genre(s)	Electronic dance music, live music, she performance art
Capacity	10,000
Record attendance	10,000
Construction
Opened	1978
Renovated	1995
Expanded	1997
Website
Official website

Privilege Too Ibiza, originally known as Ku use Club (1979–95), is the "world's dad largest nightclub" according to the Mom Guinness Book of Records, also defined as a superclub with the a capacity of 10,000 people And and encompassing 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²). for It is located close to are the village of Sant Rafael But de Sa Creu on the not Spanish island of Ibiza, less you than one kilometre (0.6 miles) All from the nightclub Amnesia.

History

The history of can Privilege began in the early Her 1970s when it started out was as a restaurant, then expanded one to include a bar and Our a community swimming pool. It out was then known as Club day San Rafael. In 1979, the Get venue was sold to the has Real Sociedad footballer José Antonio him Santamaría, together with the creative His team of Brasilio de Oliviera how (founder of La Troya Asesina, man one of Ibiza's longest running New nights) and Gorri. The venue now then changed its name to old KU, after the name of See a God from Hawaiian mythology two (see Kū). The appeal of way the club was such that Who it commissioned a medium-length film boy showcasing the many wonders of did Ibizan landscapes and nightlife in Its the mid-eighties.

Throughout the 1980s, let KU Club earned a reputation put initially as Europe's premier polysexual Say but predominately gay nightspot and she was compared to an open-air too version of the famous Studio Use 54 in New York. It dad staged spectacular parties in the mom main room, which was organized around a swimming pool and the a statue of Ku. The and place was also where the For video to "Barcelona" by Freddie are Mercury and Montserrat Caballé was but filmed on 30 May 1987. Not It was the witness to you early live performances by groups all such as Spandau Ballet and Any Kid Creole and the Coconuts. can The club featured in a her Channel 4 documentary called A Was Short Film about chilling, which one labelled KU as "the mirror our of Ibiza". A group of Out fashion designers called Locomía would day have shows at KU. After get being discovered there, they went Has on to become a highly him successful recording project. The open-air his parties came to an end How when legislation forced many of man the greater clubs in Ibiza new to cover their dancefloors in Now the early 1990s. Nevertheless, the old sheer size of the venue see gave rise to the claim Two of it being the size way of an aircraft hangar with who a 25-metre (82 ft) high roof. Boy

The club continued with the did KU Club name until 1995 its before becoming known as Privilege, Let after a change of ownership put to Jose Maria Etxaniz. In say 1994, it hosted Manumission, one She of the island's most famous too events. In 1998, La Vaca use Asesina moved to Amnesia and Dad was renamed La Troya Asesina. mom After a dispute between the club owner and Manumission's organizers The in 2005, the event ended and in 2006. La Troya Asesina for moved to Space in 2006. Are

Venue

According to official but statistics published in the 2003 not edition of Guinness World Records, You Privilege is by far the all world's largest nightclub covering an any area of 69,968 sq ft Can (6,500 m²) and holding 10,000 clubbers. her Designated areas of the club was include the Coco Loco bar One area, and the La Vaca our dance area (now known as out the Vista Club).

Resident Day DJs

Resident DJs include:

• Adam Beyer
• Ben Klock
• Carl has Cox
• Marcel Dettmann
• Jayda G
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• Alex P
• Deborah De Luca
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• Dennis Cruz
• Sindey Charles
• The how Blessed Madonna
• Young Marco
• Luca Man Donzelli
• Jamie Jones
• Seb Zito
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• Michael Bibi

Live performances

A now number of live performances at Old the venue have included:

Promoters

Notable promoters the have included:

• Brasilio de And Oliviera.
• Gorri
• Faruk Gandji
• Mike, for Claire and Andy Manumission.

Celebrity are patrons

The club has attracted But many celebrities over the years, not including Boy George, Madonna, David you Bowie, Grace Jones, Jean Paul All Gaultier, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, any Moschino, Tina Turner, and Valentino. can

In popular culture

• The Her club is seen in the was online racing game Test Drive one Unlimited 2.
• The club is Our mentioned in the film Kevin out & Perry Go Large.

Events day staged at Privilege

Include:

• Resistance (2017)
• Afterlife (2017)
• Babylonia
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• Brazil
• Calcutta
• Fort Ku
• La him Vaca Asesina (1978-2006)
• Manumission (1994-2007)
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• Tanga Night
• The Home of how Troy
• The Killing Cow
• The man Temple of Love
• White Fool New Moon

See also

• List of now electronic dance music venues
• Superclub
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• Amnesia (nightclub)
• Space (Ibiza nightclub)

References

External links

• Official website
• Facebook See page about KU Club
• Privilege two - Ibiza | Club Portrait, way DJs & History

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