Audiotrack

NEW YORK

At the Magic Shop, Elektra act Spacehog tracked and mixed with producer Bryce Goggin and assistant Joe Warda; Fun Lovin' Criminals, newly signed to Capitol Records, tracked the song 'Big Nite Out' for the 'Scream 2' soundtrack with engineer Tim Latham and assistant Juan Garcia; and Latham and Stretch Armstrong produced 2 Skinee J's, a new act signed to Capricorn, with Garcia assisting . . . At Sweetfish Recording Studios in Argyle, N.Y., the Boys Choir Of Harlem overdubbed tracks for a Christmas album on Unencumbered Records with producer Vaughn Halyard, engineer Marc Fuller, and choir founder Dr. Walter Turnbull. The 26 boys--aged 8 through 18--recorded choral arrangements of 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,' sung by Jewel, and the narrative piece 'The Night Before Christmas,' read by Hillary Clinton . . . At Bearsville Sound Studios in Bearsville, N.Y., Elektra rock band Phish mixed a live album with producer Steve Lillywhite and engineer John Siket. Island recording artist Salif Keita and producer Vernon Reid, of Living Colour fame, used the Bearsville Theater for pre-production, and the B-52's used the same theater to rehearse for upcoming performances.
LOS ANGELES
At Scream, producer/engineer David Kahne mixed the track 'Shattered' for alternative rock act Fishbone for a Warner Bros. project; Jim Ebert mixed Meredith Brooks' 'What Would Happen' for Capitol; and Capitol act Megadeth remixed material with producer T-Ray. All sessions were assisted by Doug Trantow.
NASHVILLE
Lionel Richie overdubbed and tracked a Mercury project at the Castle with producers James Carmichael and Lloyd Tolbert; Ralph Sutton engineered, assisted by Mike Purcell. Also at the Castle, new Arista artist Brad Paisley mixed with producer Frank Rogers, engineer John Kelton, and assistant Paula Montondo.
OTHER LOCATIONS
Greg Allman booked Criteria Recording Studios in Miami to record his upcoming release for 550 Music with longtime producer Tom Dowd; Criteria staffer Chris Carroll assisted. Also at Criteria, Columbia rockers Soul Asylum tracked an album with veteran producer Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones, the Cure) and engineer David Nicholas (INXS); the project was cut in Criteria's Neve 8078, Augspurger-equipped room onto a Studer analog recorder and a Digidesign ProTools digital workstation . . . Atlantic act Bad Religion recorded its upcoming album at Pyramid Sound Recording Studios in Ithaca, N.Y., on a Neve VR console. The project is being co-produced by Alex Perialas and Bad Religion, engineered by Ronnie Kimball, and assisted by Jason Arnold.
Earache recording act Morbid Angel has been at Morrisounds Studios in Tampa, Fla., recording 'Formulas Fatal To The Flesh.' The band's composer/guitarist, Trey Azagthoth, is handling production, with engineering by Tom Morris (Seven Mary Three, Dixie Dregs) and Mark Prator (KC & the Sunshine Band). The project is being recorded and mixed on Morrisounds' SSL G+ board and Otari MTR-90 analog multitrack . . . At Unintentional Music in Blue Hill, Maine, studio owner and independent producer/engineer John Dyer has been producing metal band Fly; local favorites the Beatroots; Nantucket, Mass., act Broken Messiah; and newcomers Face.
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