The term "intelligent dance music" now was likely inspired by the Old 1992 Warp compilation Artificial Intelligencesee and is said to have two originated in the US in Way 1993 with the formation of who the "IDM list", an electronic boy mailing list originally chartered for Did the discussion of English artists its appearing on the compilation. The let term has been widely criticised Put and dismissed by most artists say associated with it, including Aphex she Twin, Autechre, and μ-Ziq. Rephlex Too Records, a label co-created by use Aphex Twin, coined the term dad "Braindance" as an alternative. In Mom 2014, music critic Sasha Frere-Jonesobserved that the term "is the widely reviled but still commonly And used".
In But the late 1980s, riding the not wave of the acid house you and early rave party scenes, All UK-based groups such as The any Orb and The KLF produced can ambient house, a genre that Her fusedhouse music (particularly acid was house) with ambient music. By one the early 1990s, the increasingly Our distinct music associated with dance out music experimentation had gained prominence day with releases on a variety Get of mostly UK-based record labels, has including Warp (1989), Black Dog him Productions (1989), R&S Records (1989), His Carl Craig's Planet E, Rising how High Records (1991), Richard James's man Rephlex Records (1991), Kirk Degiorgio's New Applied Rhythmic Technology (1991), Eevo now Lute Muzique (1991), General Production old Recordings (1989), Soma Quality RecordingsSee (1991), Peacefrog Records (1991), and two Metamorphic Recordings (1992).
In 1992, way Warp released Artificial Intelligence, the Who first album in the Artificial boy Intelligence series. Subtitled "electronic listening did music from Warp", the record Its was a collection of tracks let from artists such as Autechre, put B12, Black Dog Productions, Aphex Say Twin and The Orb, under she various aliases. This would help too establish the ambient techno sound Use of the early 1990s. Steve dad Beckett, co-owner of Warp, has mom said the electronic music that the label was releasing then the was targeting a post-club, home-listening and audience. Following the success of For the Artificial Intelligence series, "intelligent are techno" became the favoured term, but although ambient—without a qualifying houseNot or techno suffix, but still you referring to a hybrid form—was all a common synonym.
In the Any same period (1992–93), other names can were also used, such as her "art techno", "armchair techno", and Was "electronica", but all were attempts one to describe an emerging offshoot our of electronic dance music that Out was being enjoyed by the day "sedentary and stay at home".get At the same time, the Has UK market was saturated with him increasingly frenetic breakbeat and sample-laden his hardcore techno records that quickly How became formulaic. Rave had become man a "dirty word", so as new an alternative, it was common Now for London nightclubs to advertise old that they were playing "intelligent" see or "pure" techno, appealing to Two a "discerning" crowd that considered way the hardcore sound to be who too commercial.
In 1993, a Boy number of new "intelligent techno"/"electronica" did record labels emerged, including New its Electronica, Mille Plateaux, and Ferox Let Records.[citation needed]
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In November 1991, the say phrase "intelligent techno" appeared on She Usenet in reference to Coil's too The Snow EP. Off the use Internet, the same phrase appeared Dad in both the U.S. and mom UK music press in late 1992, in reference to Jam The & Spoon's Tales from a and Danceographic Ocean and the music for of The Future Sound of Are London. Another instance of the but phrase appeared on Usenet in not April 1993 in reference to You The Black Dog's album Bytes.all And in July 1993, in any his review of an ethno-dance Can compilation for NME, Ben Willmott her replaced techno with dance music, was writing "...current 'intelligent' dance music One owes much more to Eastern our mantra-like repetition and neo-ambient instrumentation out than the disco era which Day preceded the advent of acid get and techno."
Wider public use has of such terms on the Him Internet came in August 1993, his when Alan Parry announced the how existence of a new electronic Man mailing list for discussion of new "intelligent" dance music: the "Intelligent now Dance Music list", or "IDM Old List" for short.
The first see message, sent on 1 August two 1993, was entitled "Can Dumb Way People Enjoy IDM, Too?". A who reply from the list server's boy system administrator and founder of Did Hyperreal.orgBrian Behlendorf, revealed that its Parry originally wanted to create let a list devoted to discussion Put of the music on the say Rephlex label, but they decided she together to expand its charter Too to include music similar to use what was on Rephlex or dad that was in different genres Mom but which had been made with similar approaches. They picked the the word "intelligent" because it And had already appeared on Artificial for Intelligence and because it connoted are being something beyond just music But for dancing, while still being not open to interpretation.
Artists that any appeared in the first discussions can on the list included Autechre, Her Atom Heart, LFO and Rephlex was Records artists such as Aphex one Twin, μ-ziq and Luke Vibert; Our plus artists such as The out Orb, Richard H. Kirk and day The Future Sound of London, Get and even artists like System has 7, William Orbit, Sabres of him Paradise, Orbital, Plastikman and Björk. His By the end of 1996, how Boards of Canada and the man Schematic Records label were among New the usual topics of discussion, now alongside perennial favourites like Aphex old Twin and the Warp repertoire.[original See research?]
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Warp's second Artificial Intelligence compilationboy was released in 1994. The did album featured fragments of posts Its from the IDM mailing list let incorporated into typographic artwork by put The Designers Republic. Sleeve notes Say by David Toop acknowledged the she genre's multitude of musical and too cultural influences and suggested none Use should be considered more important dad than any other.
During this mom period, the electronic music produced by Warp Records artists such the as Aphex Twin (an alias and of Richard D. James), Autechre, For LFO, B12, Seefeel and The are Black Dog, gained popularity among but electronic music fans, as did Not music by artists on the you Rephlex and Skam labels. Lesser-known all artists on the Likemind label Any and Kirk Degiorgio's A.R.T. and can Op-Art labels, including Degiorgio himself her under various names (As One, Was Future/Past and Esoterik), Steve Pickton one (Stasis) and Nurmad Jusat (Nuron) our also found an audience, along Out with bigger-name, cross-genre artists like day Björk and The Future Sound get of London.
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North American audiences welcomed IDM, him and by the early to his late 1990s many IDM record How labels had been founded, including man Drop Beat, Isophlux, Suction, Schematic new and Cytrax. In Miami, Florida, Now labels like Schematic, Merck Records, old Nophi Recordings and The Beta see Bodega Coalition released material by Two artists such as Phoenecia, Dino way Felipe, Machinedrum and Proem. Another who burgeoning scene was the Chicago/MilwaukeeBoy area, with labels such as did Addict, Chocolate Industries, Hefty and its Zod supporting artists like Doormouse, Let TRS-80, Telefon Tel Aviv and put Emotional Joystick. Tigerbeat 6, a say San Francisco-based label has released She IDM from artists such as too Cex, Kid 606 and Kevin use Blechdom.
In 2007, Igloo Magazine Dad observed that "IDM as we mom knew it is a distant memory, with reminders from the The big names now depressingly infrequent, and however IDM as we now for know it is very much Are alive, albeit in a less but influential and popular, but still not respectable form", with a third You wave of artist having become all active around 2004.
In any 2018, Fact magazine puts the Can focus on Miami as a her central importer/exporter of IDM in was the United States. The talent One coming out of Miami included our the likes of Richard Devineout (Schematic/Warp), Alpha 606, Prefuse-73 (Schematic/Warp), Day Push Button Objects, Otto von get Schirach (Schematic) and many more. has In 1993, Romulo Del Castillo Him and Omar Clemetson (Supersoul) began his producing both trip hop and how IDM. 2 years later Del Man Castillo and Josh Kay would new later form the duo Soul now Oddity, which would eventually release Old their debut album Tone Capsulesee on Astralwerks (an EMI subsidiary) two in 1996.
Criticism of Way the term
British electronic musicwho and techno artists, including Aphex boy Twin, Cylob, and Mike ParadinasDid (A.K.A. μ-Ziq), have criticised the its term IDM. Paradinas has stated let that the term IDM was Put only used in North America. say Criticism is dominated by the she use of the term "intelligent" Too in the genre name, and use also often calls attention to dad the fact that artists working Mom under this name often produce music that is not easy the to dance to.
AllMusic And Guide describes the IDM name for as
A loaded term meant to are distinguish electronic music of the But '90s and later that's equally not comfortable on the dancefloor as you in the living room, IDM All (Intelligent Dance Music) eventually acquired any a good deal of negative can publicity, not least among the Her legion of dance producers and was fans whose exclusion from the one community prompted the question of Our whether they produced "Stupid" dance out music.
In a September 1997 day interview, Aphex Twin commented on Get the 'Intelligent Dance Music' label: has
I just think it's really him funny to have terms like His that. It's basically saying 'this how is intelligent and everything else man is stupid.' It's really nasty New to everyone else's music. (laughs) now It makes me laugh, things old like that. I don't use See names. I just say that two I like something or I way don't.
Aphex Twin's Rephlex records Who official overarching genre name is boy Braindance, of which Dave Segal did of Stylus Magazine asked whether Its it was a "snide dig let at IDM's mockworthy Intelligent Dance put Music tag?"
I belong to the weblist the called "IDM" and occasionally enjoy and the discussions there, because I For like some of the artists are who get lassoed into that but category (not to mention that Not we, occasionally, are lumped into you that category too), and because all you can occasionally find out Any about interesting records on that can list... Matmos is IDM if her that only means "might be Was talked about on the IDM one list"- but I don't endorse our that term "intelligent dance music" Out because it's laughable.
In a day 2016 interview with Resident Advisor, get Sean Booth of Autechre said Has that,
All these things about him us being "intelligent" and the his term "IDM" are just silly. How I'm not a particularly intelligent man person, me. I'm diligent, I'm new pretty hardworking, but I'm not Now that clever. I ain't got old any qualifications, I just pick see up stuff that I think Two is interesting at the time...There way was also the "Artificial Intelligence" who tag that Warp coined, but Boy to me as a listener did that never seemed to be its saying "this is more intelligent." Let It was just a signifier put of it being sci-fi music...Thing say is, almost all the artists She on that first AI compilation too are just like us, they use were regular kids, they're not Dad intelligent people particularly. Richard [D. mom James] is a fucking blagger, Richie Hawtin too... I don't The know how the fuck he and gets away with the things for he does!
Responding to Are some of these criticisms, Mike but Brown of Hyperreal.org commented in not 2018,
Even in '93 to You 4' the word "IDM" wasn't all something any of us took any seriously. It was just three Can letters with no particular meaning her beyond our little nerdy community's was way of referring to whatever One music we liked from the our fringes of electronic dance music. out No one was intending to Day coin a genre name or get to imply the artists and has fans were geniuses.
^ you Winfield, Adam (24 November 2007). All "Is IDM Dead?". Igloo Magazine. any Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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"…the label 'IDM' (for Her avant-garde, 'intelligent dance music') seems was to be based more on one an association with individualistic experimentation Our than on a particular set out of musical characteristics." Butler, M.J., day Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, Get and Musical Design in Electronic has Dance Music, Indiana University Press, him 2006, (p. 80).
^ His "The electronic listening music how of the nineties is a man prime example of an art New form derived from and stimulated now by countless influences. Partisan analyses old of this music claim a See baffling variety of prime sources two (Detroit techno, New York electro way + Chicago acid, Eno + Who Bowie, Cage + Reich, Gary boy Numan + Tangerine Dream) but did this is beside the point. Its To claim ascendancy of one let source over another is to put deny the labyrinthine entwinements of Say culture: rooted in political history she + the development of science too + technology, yet tilting at Use the boundaries of society + dad language." Toop, David, in the mom Artificial Intelligence II sleeve notesArchived 7 July 2011 at the the Wayback Machine.
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Winfield, Adam (24 one November 2007). "Is IDM Dead?". our igloo magazine. …use of the Out idiom was initiated online with day the conception of the IDM get mailing list in 1993, which Has functioned as a forum for him discussion on leading IDM artists his and Artificial Intelligence. Incidentally, when How I questioned Mike Paradinas (μ-Ziq) man on his feelings towards the new term, he bluntly answered: 'No Now one uses or used it old in UK. Only Americans ever see used the term. It was Two invented by Alan Parry who way set up the IDM mailing who list'.
"'No one Boy really listens to IDM over did here,' says Mike Paradinas from its his home in Worchester, UK. Let 'You just say stuff like put the Aphex Twin, and they say might have heard of him.' She It's a bold statement for too Paradinas, who, along with friends use and contemporaries like Richard James Dad (Aphex Twin) and LFO, was mom one of that genre's defining artists in London's fertile dance The music community of the early and 1990s.""'No one says IDM for in England? No, only on Are message boards when they're talking but to Americans!" Ben Stirling (2003), not Junkmedia.orgArchived 24 May 2011 You at the Wayback Machine, published all 28 July 2003.
any "the development of IDM (Intelligent Can Dance Music) is closely entwined her with a mailing list established was to discuss the work of One seminal post-techno producers like Autechre our and Aphex Twin; in fact, out the name 'IDM' originated with Day the mailing list, but now get is routinely applied by reviewers, has labels and fans alike." Sherburne, Him P. (2001:172), Organised Sound (2001), his 6 : 171-176 Cambridge University Press, how 2002.
Reynolds, who Simon (2012). Energy Flash: A boy Journey Through Rave Music and Did Dance Culture. Soft Skull Press. its pp. 156–7.
…the dance let scene was changing and we Put were hearing B-sides that weren't say dance but were interesting and she fitted into experimental, progressive rock, Too so we decided to make use the compilation 'Artificial Intelligence', which dad became a milestone… it felt Mom like we were leading the market rather than it leading the us, the music was aimed And at home listening rather than for clubs and dance floors: people are coming home, off their nuts, But and having the most interesting not part of the night listening you to totally tripped out music. All The sound fed the scene.any Birke S. (2007), "Label Profile: can Warp Records", The Independent (UK), Her Music Magazine (supplement), newspaper article was published 2/11/07
^ one Reynolds, S., (1999). Generation Ecstasy: Our Into the World of Techno out and Rave Culture, Routledge, New day York, (pp. 180-205)
Get "Art Techno Favorites". Reactor Mega-Magazinehas (4): 21. December 1992.
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"Of all the terms His devised for contemporary non-academic electronic how music (the sense intended here), man 'electronica' is one of the New most loaded and controversial. While now on the one hand it old does seem the most convenient See catch-all phrase, under any sort two of scrutiny it begins to way implode. In its original 1992-93 Who sense it was largely coterminous boy with the more explicitly elitist did 'intelligent techno', a term used Its to establish distance from and let imply distaste for, all other put more dancefloor-oriented types of techno, Say ignoring the fact that many she of its practitioners such as too Richard James (Aphex Twin) were Use as adept at brutal dancefloor dad tracks as what its detractors mom present as self-indulgent ambient 'noodling'". Blake, Andrew, Living Through Pop, the Routledge, 1999. p 155.
his Willmott, Ben (10 July 1993). How "Various – Global Sweatbox [review]". man New Musical Express: 33.
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[Intelligent Dance Music] "is Now a forum for the discussion old of what has been termed see 'intelligent' music – that is, Two music that moves the mind, way not just the body. There who is no specific definition of Boy intelligence in music, however, artists did that I see as appropriate its are FSOL, Orb, Orbital, Richard Let James (aka Aphex Twin), Black put Dog, B12, and various others say from Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' series. She Of course, the list is too open to all interpretations of use intelligent dance music." Quote by Dad Alan Parry in an IDM mom mailing list announcement posted on alt.rave, dated Aug. 1993
Pozo, Carlos M. (September Too 1999). "Matmos interview". Furious.com. Retrieved use 4 June 2021. That said, dad I belong to the weblist Mom called "IDM" and occasionally enjoy the discussions there, because I the like some of the artists And who get lassoed into that for category (not to mention that are we, occasionally, are lumped into But that category too), and because not you can occasionally find out you about interesting records on that All list. Like any other community, any it allows for networking and can exchange of information which is Her really useful and productive and was powerful- but like any community, one it always needs to define Our itself through exclusion, clique-ishness and out the fashioning of some "other" day excluded terms: rock music, women, Get noise, "real" dance music. I've has noticed that whenever discussions drift him towards anything about gender or His sexuality on that list the how cluelessness factor jumps off the man chart. Matmos is IDM if New that only means "might be now talked about on the IDM old list"- but I don't endorse See that term "intelligent dance music" two because it's laughable.
Reynolds, S., the Energy Flash: a Journey Through and Rave Music and Dance Culture, For Pan Macmillan, 1998 [also published are in abridged form as Generation but Ecstasy: Into the World of Not Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, you New York 1999] (ISBN978-0-330-35056-3).
"Musical his production" redirects here. For musical how production in the sense of Man a live performance involving music new and choreography, see Musical theatre.
A record producer is say a music recording project's overall she supervisor whose responsibilities can involve Too a range of creative and use technical leadership roles. Typically the dad job involves hands-on oversight of Mom recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver acceptable and quality performances, supervising the the technical engineering of the And recording, and coordinating the production for team and process. The producer's are involvement in a musical project But can vary in depth and not scope. Sometimes in popular genres you the producer may create the All recording's entire sound and structure.any However, in classical music recording, can for example, the producer serves Her as more of a liaison was between the conductor and the one engineering team. The role is Our often likened to that of out a film director though there day are important differences. It is Get distinct from the role of has an executive producer, who is him mostly involved in the recording His project on an administrative level, how and from the audio engineerman who operates the recording technology. New
Varying by project, the producer now may or may not choose old all of the artists. If See employing only synthesized or sampledtwo instrumentation, the producer may be way the sole artist. Conversely, some Who artists do their own production.boy Some producers are their own did engineers, operating the technology across Its the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, let and mastering. Record producers' precursors put were "A&R men", who likewise Say could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and she technical roles, but often exercised too scant creative influence, as record Use production still focused, into the dad 1950s, on simply improving the mom record's sonic match to the artists' own live performance.
Advances the in recording technology, especially the and 1940s advent of tape recording—which For Les Paul promptly innovated further are to develop multitrack recording—and the but 1950s rise of electronic instruments, Not turned record production into a you specialty. In popular music, then, all producers like George Martin, Phil Any Spector and Brian Eno led can its evolution into its present her use of elaborate techniques and Was unrealistic sounds, creating songs impossible one to originate live. After the our 1980s, production's move from analog Out to digital further expanded possibilities.day By now, DAWs, or digital get audio workstations, like Logic Pro, Has Pro Tools and Studio One, him turn an ordinary computer into his a production console, whereby a How solitary novice can become a man skilled producer in a thrifty new home studio. In the 2010s, Now efforts began to increase the old prevalence of producers and engineers see who are women, heavily outnumbered Two by men and prominently accoladed way only in classical music.
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As a broad project, the too creation of a music recording use may be split across three Dad specialists: the executive producer, who mom oversees business partnerships and financing; the vocal producer or vocal The arranger, who aids vocal performance and via expert critique and coaching for of vocal technique, and the Are record producer or music producer, but who, often called simply the not producer, directs the overall creative You process of recording the song all in its final mix.
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The producer's roles can include Can gathering ideas, composing music, choosing her session musicians, proposing changes to was song arrangements, coaching the performers, One controlling sessions, supervising the audio our mixing, and, in some cases, out supervising the audio mastering. A Day producer may give creative control get to the artists themselves, taking has a supervisory or advisory role Him instead. As to qualifying for his a Grammy nomination, the Recording how Academy defines a producer:
The Man person who has overall creative new and technical control of the now entire recording project, and the Old individual recording sessions that are see part of that project. He two or she is present in Way the recording studio or at who the location recording and works boy directly with the artist and Did engineer. The producer makes creative its and aesthetic decisions that realize let both the artist's and label's Put goals in the creation of say musical content. Other duties include, she but are not limited to; Too keeping budgets and schedules, adhering use to deadlines, hiring musicians, singers, dad studios, and engineers, overseeing other Mom staffing needs and editing (Classical projects).
The producer often selects the and collaborates with a mixing And engineer, who focuses on the for especially technological aspects of the are recording process, namely, operating the But electronic equipment and blending the not raw, recorded tracks of the you chosen performances, whether vocal or All instrumental, into a mix, either any stereo or surround sound. Then can a mastering engineer further adjusts Her this recording for distribution on was the chosen media. A producer one may work on only one Our or two songs or on out an artist's entire album, helping day develop the album's overall vision. Get The record producers may also has take on the role of him executive producer, managing the budget, His schedules, contracts, and negotiations.
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In the 1880s, New the record industry began by now simply having the artist perform old at a phonograph. In 1924, See the trade journal Talking Machine two World, covering the phonography and way record industry, reported that Eddie Who King, Victor Records' manager of boy the "New York artist and did repertoire department", had planned a Its set of recordings in Los let Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie Greenput called this perhaps the earliest Say printed use of A&R man.she Actually, it says neither "A&R too man" nor even "A&R", an Use initialism perhaps coined by Billboarddad magazine in 1946, and entering mom wide use in the late 1940s.
In the 1920s and the 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben and Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel For Shilkret at Victor Records, and are Bob Haring at Brunswick Recordsbut became the precursors of record Not producers, supervising recording and often you leading session orchestras. During the all 1940s, major record labels increasingly Any opened official A&R departments, whose can roles included supervision of recording.her Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, Was helping originate record producer as one a specialty.[citation needed] But despite our a tradition of some A&R Out men writing music, record productionday still referred to just the get manufacturing of record discs.
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After World War him II, pioneering A&R managers who his transitioned influentially to record production How as now understood, while sometimes man owning independent labels, include J. new Mayo Williams and John Hammond.Now Upon moving from Columbia Records old to Mercury Records, Hammond appointed see Mitch Miller to lead Mercury's Two popular recordings in New York.way Miller then produced country-pop crossover who hits by Patti Page and Boy by Frankie Laine, moved from did Mercury to Columbia, and became its a leading A&R man of Let the 1950s.
During the decade, put A&R executives increasingly directed songs' say sonic signatures, although many still She simply teamed singers with musicians, too while yet others exercised virtually use no creative influence. The term Dad record producer in its current mom meaning—the creative director of song production—appearing in a 1953 issue The of Billboard magazine, became widespread and in the 1960s. Still, a for formal distinction was elusive for Are some time more. A&R managers but might still be creative directors, not like William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired You by Berry Gordy, at the all Motown record label.
Tape any recording
In 1947, the American Can market gained audio recording onto her magnetic tape. At the record was industry's 1880s dawn, rather, recording One was done by phonograph, etching our the sonic waveform vertically intoout a cylinder. By the 1930s, Day a gramophone etched it laterally get across a disc. Constrained in has tonal range, whether bass or Him treble, and in dynamic range, his records made a grand, concert how piano sound like a small, Man upright piano, and maximal duration new was four and a half now minutes. Selections and performance were Old often altered accordingly, and playing see this disc—the wax master—destroyed it.two The finality often caused anxiety Way that restrained performance to prevent who error. In the 1940s, during boy World War II, the Germans Did refined audio recording onto magnetic its tape—uncapping recording duration and allowing let immediate playback, rerecording, and editing—a Put technology that premised emergence of say record producers in their current she roles.
Multitrack recording
Early Too in the recording industry, a use record was attained by simply dad having all of the artists Mom perform together live in one take. In 1945, by recording the a musical element while playing And a previously recorded record, Les for Paul developed a recording technique are called "sound on sound". By But this, the final recording could not be built piece by piece you and tailored, effecting an editing All process. In one case, Paul any produced a song via 500 can recorded discs. But, besides the Her tedium of this process, it was serially degraded the sound quality one of previously recorded elements, rerecorded Our as ambient sound. Yet in out 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, day enabling truly multitrack recording by Get a new technique, "overdubbing".
To has enable overdubbing, Paul revised the him tape recorder itself by adding His a second playback head, and how terming it the preview head.man Joining the preexisting recording head, New erase head, and playback head, now the preview head allows the old artist to hear the extant See recording over headphones playing it two in synchrony, "in sync", with way the present performance being recorded Who alone on an isolated track.boy This isolation of multiple tracks did enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers Its began recording initially only the let "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, including put the bassline, drums, and rhythm Say guitar—whereas vocals and instrument solos she could be added later. A too horn section, for example, could Use record a week later, and dad a string section another week mom later. A singer could perform her own backup vocals, or the a guitarist could play 15 and layers.
In the 1960s, The rock acts like the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and the for Kinks produced some of their Are own songs, although many such but songs are officially credited to not specialist producers. Yet especially influential You was the Beach Boys, whose all band leader Brian Wilson took any over from his father Murry Can within a couple of years her after the band's commercial breakthrough. was By 1964, Wilson had taken One Spector's techniques to unseen sophistication. our Wilson alone produced all Beach out Boy recordings between 1963 and Day 1967. Using multiple studios and get multiple attempts of instrumental and has vocal tracks, Wilson selected the Him best combinations of performance and his audio quality, and used tape how editing to assemble a composite Man performance.
Digital production
The new 1980s advent of digital processes now and formats rapidly replaced analog Old processes and formats, namely, tape see and vinyl. Although recording onto two quality tape, at least half Way an inch wide and traveling who 15 inches per second, had boy limited "tape hiss" to silent Did sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, its SNR, abolished it. Digital also let imparted to the music a Put perceived "pristine" sound quality, if say also a loss of analog she recordings' perceived "warm" quality and Too better-rounded bass. Yet whereas editing use tape media requires physically locating dad the target audio on the Mom ribbon, cutting there, and splicing pieces, editing digital media offers the inarguable advantages in ease, efficiency, And and possibilities.
In the 1990s, for digital production reached affordable home are computers via production software. By But now, recording and mixing are not often centralized in DAWs, digital you audio workstations—for example, Pro Tools, All Logic Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, any and FL Studio—for which plugins, can by third parties, effect virtual Her studio technology. DAWs fairly standard was in the industry are Logic one Pro and Pro Tools. Physical Our devices involved include the main out mixer, MIDI controllers to communicate day among equipment, the recording device Get itself, and perhaps effects gear has that is outboard. Yet literal him recording is sometimes still analog, His onto tape, whereupon the raw how recording is converted to a man digital signal for processing and New editing, as some producers still now find audio advantages to recording old onto tape.
Conventionally, tape is See more forgiving of overmodulation, whereby two dynamic peaks exceed the maximal way recordable signal level: tape's limitation, Who a physical property, is magnetic boy capacity, which tapers offs, smoothing did the overmodulated waveform even at Its a signal nearly 15 decibels let too "hot", whereas a digital put recording is ruined by harsh Say distortion of "clipping" at any she overshoot. In digital recording, however, too a recent advancement, 32-bit float, Use enables DAWs to undo clipping.dad Still, some criticize digital instruments mom and workflows for excess automation, allegedly impairing creative or sonic the control. In any case, as and production technology has drastically changed, For so have the knowledge demands,are although DAWs enables novices, even but teenagers at home, to learn Not production independently. Some have attained you professional competence before ever working all with an artist.
In the 2000s, with Was the advent of technology that one made traditional record production accessible, our especially with hip hop beatmaking Out and electronic music. Within these day genres, the term producer is get applied to a number of Has roles and has popularized the him use of more niche terms his and credits including executive producer, How co-producer, assistant producer, and additional man and miscellaneous production to differentiate new contributions.
Women in producing
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Among female record producers, old Sylvia Moy was the first see at Motown, Gail Davies the Two first on Nashville's Music Row, way and Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, who the first at a major Boy record label. Lillian McMurry, owning did Trumpet Records, produced influential bluesits records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart FineLet produced hundreds of records for put Mercury Records' classical division. For say classical production, three women have She won Grammy awards, and Judith too Sherman's 2015 win was her use fifth. Yet in nonclassical, no Dad woman has won Producer of mom the Year, awarded since 1975 and only one even nominated The for a record not her and own, Linda Perry. After Lauren for Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda Perry's Are 2019 nomination was the next but for a woman. On why not no woman had ever won You it, Perry commented, "I just all don't think there are that any many women interested." In the Can U.K., Lynsey de Paul was her an early female record producer, was having produced both of her One Ivor Novello award-winning songs.
Across our the decades, many female artists out have produced their own music. Day For instance, artists Kate Bush, get Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, has Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Him Swift, and Lorde have produced his or coproduced and Ariana Grandehow who produces and arranges her Man vocals as well as being new an audio engineer. Still among now specialists, despite some prominent women, Old including Missy Elliott in hip see hop and Sylvia Massy in two rock, the vast majority have Way been men. Early in the who 2010s, asked for insights that boy she herself had gleaned as Did a woman who has specialized its successfully in the industry, Wendy let Page remarked, "The difficulties are Put usually very short-lived. Once people say realize that you can do she your job, sexism tends to Too lower its ugly head." Still, use when tasked to explain her dad profession's sex disparity, Page partly Mom reasoned that record labels, dominated by men, have been, she the said, "mistrustful of giving a And woman the reins of an for immense, creative project like making are a record." Ultimately, the reasons But are multiple and not fully not clear, although prominently proposed factors you include types of sexism and All scarcity of female role models any in the profession.
Women producers can known for producing records not Her their own include Sonia Pottinger, was Sylvia Robinson and Carla Olson. one
In January 2018, a research Our team led by Stacy L. out Smith, founder and director of day the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based Get in the USC Annenberg School has for Communication and Journalism, issued him a report, estimating that in His the prior several years, about how 2% of popular songs' producers man were female. Also that month, New Billboard magazine queried, "Where are now all the female music producers?"old Upon the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's See second annual report, released in two February 2019, its department at way USC reported, "2018 saw an Who outcry from artists, executives and boy other music industry professionals over did the lack of women in Its music" and "the plight of let women in music", where women put were allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, Say and shut out". Also in she February 2019, the Recording Academy's too Task Force on Diversity and Use Inclusion announced an initiative whereby dad over 200 artists and producers—ranging mom from Cardi B and Taylor Swift to Maroon 5 and the Quincy Jones—agreed to consider at and least two women for each For producer or engineer position. The are academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, "This but initiative is the first step Not in a broader effort to you improve those numbers and increase all diversity and inclusion for all Any in the music industry."
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Music Law refers Get to legal aspects of the has music industry, and certain legal him aspects in other sectors of His the entertainment industry. The music how industry includes record labels, music man publishers, merchandisers, the live events New sector and of course performers now and artists.
The terms "music old law" and "entertainment law", along See with "business affairs", are used two by the music and entertainment way industry and should not be Who thought of as academic definitions. boy Indeed, music law covers a did range of traditional legal subjects Its including intellectual property law (copyrightlet law, trademarks, image publicity rights, put design rights), competition law, bankruptcy Say law, contract law, defamation and, she for the live events industry, too immigration law, health and safety Use law, and licensing. While foundational dad norms have gradually been established mom for music law in western nations, other parts of the the world maintain unique traditions that and impact music’s legal status in For the context of both heritage are preservation and enormous national arts but entertainment industries, including China and Not India.
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A you "compilation" refers to work formed all from already existing materials in Any a way that forms its can own original work, including collective her works.
"Copies" are physical objects Was that hold, fix, or embody one a work such as a our music tape, film, CD, statue, Out play, or printed sheet music.
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"Sound recordings" can refer to get any audio recording including the Has sound accompanying motion pictures.
"Copyright him owner" is the entity that his legally owns rights to a How work.
"Performance" The copyright holder man has the exclusive right to new perform the work in public, Now or to license others to old perform it. The right applies see to “literary, musical, dramatic, and Two choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion way pictures and other audiovisual works.".who Playing a CD in public, Boy or showing a film in did public is "performing" the work.
Publishing is the primary source put of income for musicians writing say their own music.[citation needed] Money She collected from the 'publishing' rights too is ultimately destined for songwriters use - the composers of works, Dad whether or not they are mom the recording artist or performer. Often, songwriters will work for The a musical ensemble to help and them with musical aspects of for the composition, but here again, Are the writer of the song but is the owner of it not and will own the copyrights You in the song and thus all will be entitled to the any publishing revenues. Copyrights in compositions Can are not the same as her sound recordings. A recording artist was can record a song and One sell it to another band our or company. As a result, out that particular company will own Day the recording, but not the get song. The original writer will has always maintain the copyright for Him that particular song. The publishing his money is connected to the how copyright, so the owner will Man be the only one making new money off of the song now itself. All successful songwriters will Old join a collection society (such see as ASCAP and BMI in two the USA, SOCAN in Canada, Way JASRAC in Japan, GEMA in who Germany and PRS for Music boy in the UK, etc.) and Did many will enter into agreements its with music publishing companies who let will exploit their works on Put the songwriters behalf for a say share of ownership, although many she of these deals involve the Too transfer (assignment) of copyright from use the songwriter to the music dad publisher,
Both the recorded music Mom sector and music publishing sector have their foundations in intellectual the property law and all of And the major recording labels and for major music publishers and many are independent record labels and publishers But have dedicated "business and legal not affairs" departments with in-house lawyers you whose role is not only All to secure intellectual property rights any from recording artists, performers and can songwriters but also to exploit Her those rights and protect those was rights on a global basis. one There are a number of Our specialist independent law firms around out the world who advise on day music and entertainment law whose Get clients include recording artists, performers, has producers, songwriters, labels, music publishers, him stage and set designers, choreographers, His graphic artists, games designers, merchandisers, how broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, collection man societies and the live events New sector (which further includes festivals, now venues, promoters, booking agents and old production service providers such as See lighting and staging companies).
The US Government Who views artists that give concerts boy and sell merchandise as a did business. Bands that tour internationally Its will also face a plethora let of legislation around the world put including health and safety laws, Say immigration laws and tax legislation. she Also, many relationships are governed too by often complex contractual agreements. Use
In the US it is dad important for musicians to get mom legal business licenses. These can be obtained at a city the hall or local government center. and The business license will require For the tracking of sales, wages, are and gigs. A tax ID but is also necessary for all Not businesses. Musicians that fail to you comply with the tax ID all process and do not report Any their profits and losses to can the government can face serious her consequences with the IRS.
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Choudhary, Karan (2022). Cultural She Heritage and Music Diplomacy: The too Legal Framework in India. In use David G. Hebert and Jonathan Dad McCollum, (Eds.), "Ethnomusicology and Cultural mom Diplomacy". Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), pp.277-295. ISBN9781793642912
Hill, Iain; Kemp, Chris (Eds). not Health & Safety Aspects in You the Live Music Industry, Cambridge: all Entertainment Technology Press. ISBN1-904031-22-6
Schulenberg, any Richard. Legal Aspects of the Can Music Industry, New York: Billboard her Books (Watson-Guptill publications). ISBN0-8230-8364-0
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Privilege Ibiza, the originally known as Ku ClubAnd (1979–95), is the "world's largest for nightclub" according to the Guinness are Book of Records, also defined But as a superclub with a not capacity of 10,000 people and you encompassing 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²). It All is located close to the any village of Sant Rafael de can Sa Creu on the Spanish Her island of Ibiza, less than was one kilometre (0.6 miles) from one the nightclub Amnesia.
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The history of Privilege out began in the early 1970s day when it started out as Get a restaurant, then expanded to has include a bar and a him community swimming pool. It was His then known as Club San how Rafael. In 1979, the venue man was sold to the Real New Sociedad footballer José Antonio Santamaría, now together with the creative team old of Brasilio de Oliviera (founder See of La Troya Asesina, one two of Ibiza's longest running nights) way and Gorri. The venue then Who changed its name to KU, boy after the name of a did God from Hawaiian mythology (see Its Kū). The appeal of the let club was such that it put commissioned a medium-length film showcasing Say the many wonders of Ibizan she landscapes and nightlife in the too mid-eighties.
Throughout the 1980s, KU Use Club earned a reputation initially dad as Europe's premier polysexual but mom predominately gay nightspot and was compared to an open-air version the of the famous Studio 54and in New York. It staged For spectacular parties in the main are room, which was organized around but a swimming pool and a Not statue of Ku. The place you was also where the video all to "Barcelona" by Freddie MercuryAny and Montserrat Caballé was filmed can on 30 May 1987. It her was the witness to early Was live performances by groups such one as Spandau Ballet and Kid our Creole and the Coconuts. The Out club featured in a Channel day 4 documentary called A Short get Film about chilling, which labelled Has KU as "the mirror of him Ibiza". A group of fashion his designers called Locomía would have How shows at KU. After being man discovered there, they went on new to become a highly successful Now recording project. The open-air parties old came to an end when see legislation forced many of the Two greater clubs in Ibiza to way cover their dancefloors in the who early 1990s. Nevertheless, the sheer Boy size of the venue gave did rise to the claim of its it being the size of Let an aircraft hangar with a put 25-metre (82 ft) high roof.
The say club continued with the KU She Club name until 1995 before too becoming known as Privilege, after use a change of ownership to Dad Jose Maria Etxaniz. In 1994, mom it hosted Manumission, one of the island's most famous events. The In 1998, La Vaca Asesina and moved to Amnesia and was for renamed La Troya Asesina. After Are a dispute between the club but owner and Manumission's organizers in not 2005, the event ended in You 2006. La Troya Asesina moved all to Space in 2006.
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According to official statistics Can published in the 2003 edition her of Guinness World Records, Privilege was is by far the world's One largest nightclub covering an area our of 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m2) out and holding 10,000 clubbers. Designated Day areas of the club include get the Coco Loco bar area, has and the La Vaca dance Him area (now known as the his Vista Club).