Portal:Record production
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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 one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... 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 the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... 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?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: July 28
- Jim Hughart, American bassist, turns 88.
- George Cummings, American steel guitarist with Dr. Hook, turns 86.
- Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor, turns 83.
- Jonathan Edwards, American folk singer, performer, and songwriter , turns 78.
- Simon Kirke, Brit drummer with Free, Bad Company, turns 75.
- Nnenna Freelon, American jazz vocalist, turns 70.
- Steve Morse, American guitarist and member of Deep Purple, turns 70.
- Gerald Veasley, American bassist, turns 69.
- Gregg Giuffria, guitarist for Giuffria, House of Lords, turns 69.
- Dan Warton, Brit drummer with Ned's Atomic Dustbin, turns 62.
- Rachel Sweet, American vocalist, turns 62.
- Michael Gassmann, American trumpet player, turns 60.
- Tex Axile, British keyboardist, turns 59.
- Taka Hirose, Japanese bassist with Feeder, turns 56.
- Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist with Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, turns 54.
- Stephen Lynch, American actor, comic and singer, turns 53.
- Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer, turns 49.
- Jacoby Shaddix, American singer with Papa Roach, turns 48.
- Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer, turns 45.
- Lee Min Woo, Korean singer with Shinhwa , turns 45.
- Noel Sullivan, Brit vocalist and member of pop group Hear'Say , turns 44.
- Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer, turns 42.
- Steve Peregrin Took (Record production, 1949 –October 27, 1980), Brit drummer of T. Rex, would have turned 75 this year.
- Rick Wright (Record production, 1945 –September 15, 2008), British pianist and keyboardist for Pink Floyd, would have turned 79 this year.
- Mike Bloomfield (Record production, 1943 –February 15, 1981), American guitarist, would have turned 81 this year.
- Jim Galloway (Record production, 1936 –December 30, 2014), Scottish tenor saxophone player and clarinetist, would have turned 88 this year.
- Junior Kimbrough (Record production, 1930 –January 17, 1998), American blues musician, would have turned 94 this year.
- Frankie Yankovic (Record production, 1915 –October 14, 1998), American Grammy Award-winning musician, would have turned 109 this year.
- Carmen Dragon (Record production, 1914 –March 28, 1984), American composer, would have turned 110 this year.
- Rudy Vallée (Record production, 1901 –July 03, 1986), American singer, would have turned 123 this year.
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