Psych rock @ Daptone Studios?

SPlDEY

Just discovered that part of the new King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album was recorded at Daptone studios in Brooklyn. I've always thought of Daptone as having purist sensibilities, and something like this is a very surprising change of pace for Daptone. I was wondering what other weird projects were coming out of that studio?

an excerpt from an Interview with Stu Mackenzie:

[strong]You recorded some of it at Daptone Records – a studio in Brooklyn, New York, specialising in soul, funk, afrobeats and gospel. How did you end up recording there given you’re not quite the typical gospel act?[/strong]
I’ve got a friend who works for them, so we met some of their people through him. We thought it would be really cool to record there, and the Daptone people were really into it. Wayne Gordon, the guy who engineered the album for us, was a bit of a garage psych head so he got really into it. There’s a few souly, chilled out songs on the record, but ironically they weren’t actually recorded at Daptone. The more full-on rockier and heavier tracks, those were the ones we did at Daptone.

[strong]What was the Daptone experience like?[/strong]
It was really old school, there were actually no computers in the whole studio. We were cutting quarter inch bits of tape with scalpels, it was pretty cool.

- spidey

SPlDEY

I guess the response to this thread speaks volumes to the interest the average Soulstrutter has in projects coming out of Daptone Studios these days.

- spidey

klezmer electro-thug beats

I myself am still checking Daptone's output regularly but it's been a long while since they did my little-dude catnip of raw amateurish instrumental funk 45s. Not to denigrate what they do put out, but it's not as ridiculous as stuff like "Haaaa-sheeesh" on Soul Fire which was so roughly recorded and performed I can hardly think of a parallel from any era. I unapologetically ride. Truth & Soul is still hitting the right buttons for me on occasion. Just less interested in nice studio clean Sharon Jones LPs.

That said, I like the sound these psych guys got out of Daptone and it's an interesting direction/one-off.

willie_fugal

i'm pretty sure there was a project that Rod Stewart was recording at Daptone at one point, but i think it got shelved? i feel like there are a couple of other examples like that too?

can't think of anything this "un-daptone" that's actually been released though.

mrmatthew

those last few budos band records have been getting pretty heavy and psych-ish.

LaserWolf

I am under the impression that analog is all the rage and daptone has one of the best fully analog/vintage equipment studios.
Makes sense that it would be fully booked.

Delay

daptone is down the block from my studio, and they seem to be booked pretty solid. turning away enough work so some overflow lands with us. they definitely do it right.