Masterdisk Hosts Sessions for Metallica, John Zorn, “Smash,” “Godspell”
Scott Hull’s Masterdisk saw its West Side suites buzzing with a plethora of recent projects.
Mark Santangelo (l) hosted The BB Bats live and in person at Masterdisk.
The man in command, Scott Hull, mastered three new Tzadik album releases: John Zorn’s Mount Analogue, Terry Riley’s Aleph and Zeena Parkins’ Double Dupe Down. Hull also mastered the new Broadway Cast Recording of Godspell on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records, and Madi Diaz’s Plastic Moon, produced by John Alagia and released on Small Horse Records.
Vlado Meller was back with the masters of metal, Metallica, finishing Beyond Magnetic for release on CD, as well as mastering for iTunes by Vlado Meller. Meller has also been mastering songs for the NBC series “Smash” (Sony/Columbia), which are released on iTunes. Also in Meller’s suite was Labrinth’s upcoming album Electronic Earth on Syco/Sony; U.S. artist Mona’s debut album on Zion Noiz/Mercury; and artist Kristina Maria plus producer Vito Luprano attended their mastering session at Meller’s suite.
Alex DeTurk cut two LPs for releases off the Readymate label, founded by Brendan Benson of the Raconteurs, plus the upcoming album for Savoir Adore.
Randy Merrill hosted Greg Naughton from The Sweet Remains, along with mix engineer Carl Barc. Barc was also in the suite with Merrill for a new Boots Factor release.
In Matt Agoglia’s room, Matt mastered an EP for the Rochester artist Joywave, plus the Joey Ramone track “Rock and Roll is the Answer” slated for release on the album “Ya Know?”
Mark Santangelo complemented his work assisting Vlado Meller by mastering the new BB Batts album this month.
The monitors in Tony Dawsey’s suite were filled with the sounds of Machine Gun Kelly’s “Wild Boys” and Red Cafe “Let It Go (Dope Boy),” plus “Untouchable” by DJ Absolut.
Jeff Reeves was the mastering engineer for Carla Prather’s latest release “Chronicles of a Soul Sistah,” and Sharrie Williams “Out of the Dark” (winner of the Blues Album of the Year award from Paris’ L’Academie du Jazz).
And lastly (but not leastly!) Tim Boyce took a turn from assisting Tony Dawsey to master the French Montana track “Shot Caller.”
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