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Two New Records from Ben Goldberg

Two New Records from Ben Goldberg

Ben Goldberg released two new records mastered here at Spleenless Mastering, “Unfold Ordinary Mind,” with a quintet including the guitarist Nels Cline and two tenor saxophonists, Ellery Eskelin and Rob Sudduth; and “Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues,” including the tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, the trumpeter Ron Miles and the bassist Devin Hoff. Both really great jazz records with a louder modern… Read more →

New 'Tin Hat' record out now

New ‘Tin Hat’ record out now

Earlier this summer I finished mastering the new Tin Hat record, the rain is a handsome animal (New Amsterdam Records). It’s 17 songs from the poetry of ee cummings. Its a fresh record from Tin Hat thats a bit of departure from their signature sound bringing in more vocal arrangements to their quirky sound. It also utilizes Apples new “Mastered… Read more →

Whats up with "Mastered for iTunes"??

Whats up with “Mastered for iTunes”??

“Can you make them sound better?” Making special masters for digital delivery is in fact nothing new. Long before Apple offered official guidelinesfor audio engineers to follow, mastering engineers already made their own attempts to create master recordings that sounded “better” when compressed into the standard iTunes Plus format. Even in the early days of the MP3’s rise to popularity, mastering… Read more →

New K record

New K record

I just finished mastering a new record by “K.” , also know as Karla Schickele. It’s really well written and fun record. I’m not sure when its going to come out but be sure to have a listen when it does!

Cory Arcangel at the Whitney Museum

Cory Arcangel at the Whitney Museum

Cory Arcangel has a solo show at the Whitney Museum in New York. The show is called “Pro Tools”, a well played title. I’ve worked on several of Cory’s Projects over the years. In this show is a piece called “Paganini’s 5th Caprice”. Its hundreds of youtube videos edited together to play one of the hardest classical pieces to perform…. Read more →

Sonic Hauntology

Sonic Hauntology

I generally don’t post about my art projects on my mastering website, but this may be of interest to a lot of you. I’m in a research collective on sonic weapons, called AUDiNT together with Toby Heyes (Cocosolidciti), and Steve Goodman (Kode9 + Hyperdub). We have a show opening up in New York at Art in General called the “Dead Record… Read more →

New PT. Juncture WA record out

New PT. Juncture WA record out

The new Pt. Juncture WA record is out that I mastered in February. Pick it up. It’s really one of their best records, and I believe the third record that I’ve mastered for them. They are one of my favorite bands to work with. Congrats P.J. WA! http://mtfujirecords.com/mtfuji/releases/handsome-orders/