http://vishkhanna.com/2013/08/16/ep-24-steve-albini/ Steve Albini is a man who lives in Chicago, Illinois and owns and operates the really remarkable Electrical Audio Recording facility. He is the guitar player and primary singer in the band Shellac and he makes a mean cup of fluffy coffee. The 1993 album In Utero by the Washington-State-based band Nirvana is among the thousands of records that Albini has engineered over the course of his time doing that sort of thing and earlier this summer he gave the songs from those sessions fresh mixes for the 20th anniversary edition of In Utero, which is due out in North America on September 24. In our past midnight conversation, Steve discussed his interesting history with Kurt Cobain, his abandoned work with Fugazi, the stories behind making In Utero, why the new edition of the record was mastered to sound the best it possibly can, the highs and lows of the relatively recent rash of remastered reissues that record buyers face each and every day, the mostly good but surprisingly sad and surreal professional aftermath of making In Utero, how it might have changed his life, how the new Shellac LP???s test pressings are on route to the band and artwork is close to finalized (also the new Bottomless Pit record is done!), and why he doesn???t care about Breaking Bad but can tolerate The Newsroom.
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Duderonomy, thanks for posting this.
I'm sure all of the Strutters who were deeply disturbed by the child porn jokes Saba and I exchanged will be all over this moron for his use of the bad c word.
Yeah, sure, and free OGs of Heitkotter and Boscoe and the Bachs will show up in my mailbox tomorrow.
wrong forum Brocephus
You censored Boscoe, you bigot!
Wow, Steve Albini is a precise speaker. There's no ambiguity in anything he says. It makes for slightly boring listening sometimes but I overall enjoyed hearing this podcast. Happy to hear that band had a blast (for 14 days max!) making this album. "Butt grabbing".
I need to go back to the vinyl thread to re-read what Thes had to say about Direct Metal Mastering in the light of what Steve Albini says about cutting to copper.
Props to Steve Albini for not marketing the remastered Big Black albums.
Got me a bit misty eyed about the late 80's American underground rock movement.
b/w
"Fuck every single on of those people"
"I have nothing to say about that woman"
Yeah, would be interested to hear Thes's opinion on that. Did the remastering at Abbey Road, so I guess that equals no expense spared.
"You're still talking about her!"
:lol:
I might buy this record on the strength of what he's saying about it being as close to the experience the band had listening in the studio.
I just checked the 'Rising cost of new vinyl' thraed and all Thes seems to be saying is DMM is shitty. Steve Albini says doing it this way gets rid of many of the shortcomings/ undesirable foibles you get when you cut lacquers. Maybe these artifacts are desirable to some people in the same sort of way you can saturate magnetic tape and get nice warmth.