Portal:Record production
The Record Production Portal


This portal is focused on music production within the era of written records through sound recordings, digital downloads, and beyond. Its scope includes articles that document the considerations and mechanisms used by, and consistent with, the purview of the production element. As an art form, music predates transcription and simultaneously transcends descriptive limitations. As an industry, music has demonstrated consistent viability over time. The record producer conjoins these potential, and serves as a broker to bridge the demand (spawned by their aspirations) with supply and satisfaction. The results are measurable and attributable, derived from effort and skillful application of craft, to a manifestation of the art in its melodic form. (Read more)
The music industry consists of the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who write songs and musical compositions; the singers, musicians, conductors, and bandleaders who perform the music; the record labels, music publishers, recording studios, music producers, audio engineers, retail and digital music stores, and performance rights organizations who create and sell recorded music and sheet music; and the booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew, and audio engineers who help organize and sell concerts. (Read more)
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- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... that Light Vessel 95 is now a recording studio?
- ... that until the release of the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, sexual abuse claims involving record producer Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
- ... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
- ... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: February 20
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and social activist, turns 84.
- Anthony Davis, American opera and film score composer, turns 74.
- Uwe Kropinski, German session musician (guitar) with Volker Schlott, David Friesen, John Stowell, Cecil McBee, and Pheeroan Aklaff, turns 73.
- Jon Brant, 12-string bass player with Cheap Trick, turns 71.
- Mark Reilly, Brit vocalist with Matt Bianco, turns 65.
- Ian Brown, Brit vocalist with The Stone Roses, turns 62.
- Neil Primrose, Brit drummer with Travis, turns 53.
- Brian Littrell, American boy band vocalist of Backstreet Boys fame, turns 50.
- Edwin Graham, Australian drummer with The Darkness, turns 48.
- Yulia Volkova, Russian girl group vocalist of t.A.T.u. fame, turns 40.
- Rihanna, Barbadian singer and song writer, turns 37.
- Olivia Rodrigo, American singer and song writer, turns 22.
- Kurt Cobain (Record production, 1967 –April 05, 1994), American guitarist and vocalist of Nirvana fame, would have turned 58 this year.
- Randy California (Record production, 1951 –January 02, 1997), (born Randy Craig Wolfe) American guitarist, singer, and songwriter with Spirit, would have turned 74 this year.
- Walter Becker (Record production, 1950–September 03, 2017), American composer and multi-instrumentalist of Steely Dan fame, would have turned 75 this year.
- J. Geils (born John Warren Geils Jr.) (Record production, 1946 –April 11, 2017), American guitarist with The J. Geils Band, would have turned 79 this year.
- Alan Hull (Record production, 1945 –November 17, 1995), Brit guitarist, singer, and songwriter of Lindisfarne fame, would have turned 80 this year.
- Lew Soloff (Record production, 1944–March 08, 2015), American trumpeter with Blood, Sweat & Tears, would have turned 81 this year.
- Nancy Wilson (Record production, 1937–December 13, 2018), American jazz singer and Jazz Profiles host, would have turned 88 this year.
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