Ricardo Tejada founded his EDM club, Hardpop, with the aim of making it a dance music mecca, but found resistance from high-end DJs he wanted to hire, who presumed a club in a Mexican strip mall would have a lousy sound system. In recent times, the club has hosted name acts like James Lavelle, Magda, Damian Lazarus and Deadmau5, and some of that success can be attributed to the club's system.
by Clive Young FrKings of heavy rock since the early Nineties, Clutch went into the studio in early 2015 with producer/engineer Machine (Lamb of God, Every Time I Die) to record its latest album, Psychic Warfare. While they'd worked together on earlier records, it was a brand-new recording experience, as the producer's Machine Shop Recording Studios had recently relocated from New Jersey to Dripping Springs, TX, 25 miles outside of Austin. It's a great-sounding record, so we went to Machine himself to find out more about the album's recording process.
"What I try and do is enhance the hooks and push those things up. People buy tickets, have a good time and that's it; it's gone. They're not going to listen to it again."Nigel Green, FOH engineer, Shania Twain