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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Motionless in White
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Motionless in White, often abbreviated MIW, is a metalcore band from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2005, the band consists of Chris Motionless Cerulli, Ricky Horror Olson, Devin Ghost Sola, Ryan Sitkowski, the band has stated that their band name derived from the Eighteen Visions song Motionless and White. In July 2016, the band signed to Roadrunner Records, achieving their lifelong dream of signing with the company, in October 2016, the band announced that they will be releasing their new album, Graveyard Shift, in early 2017. In January 2017, the band announced a new single Eternally Yours, along with the date for the record. On 3rd March the band released the track list and album art, followed by the release of their new single. Motionless in White was founded in 2005 by members Chris Motionless and they incepted many other titles into the group until finally settling on what would be Motionless in White. Chris Motionless and other members have noted such as, Poison the Well, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode. In 2005 they released their self-distributed demo. the band was discovered by Zach Neil while performing at a night club called The Staircase. Zach signed the band first to management and then later to his record label Masquerade recordings and they recorded their first EP The Whorror which was produced by Zach Neil and mixed by Dan Malsch and released it through Masquerade Recordings/Warner music group in 2007 group. After touring in-support of the The Whorror, Motionless in White had written enough songs to complete a full-length album, the album was named When Love Met Destruction. Zach added the band to his stage on the Warped tour with the new record in hand, shortly thereafter Bob Becker of Fearless Records contacted Zach Neil to make an offer to buy the bands recording contract and sign the band to Fearless. The band and Zach agreed and Tragic Hero was offered to incubate the first official release to help grow the band leading up to their Fearless debut, the band was never actually signed to tragic hero records. The band parted ways with guitarist Michael Costanza and brought in current guitarist Ryan Sitkowski as his replacement. Despite being signed to Fearless before the leading up to the release of the EP form of When Love Met Destruction. The song Ghost in the Mirror was made as the bands first ever single and had a video produced for it. Months later, Motionless in White entered the studio during May 2010 to record their debut full-length, the records first single, Abigail, was released premiered on Revolver Magazine in August 30 and was the released on iTunes the day after. Creatures was released on October 12,2010 through Fearless, and claimed the 175th slot on the Billboard Top 200 charts, on Wednesday May 4,2011, guitarist Thomas Joseph TJ Bell was fired from the band. This action forced the band to be without their rhythm guitar parts during their performances, Motionless in White stated If our live performance didn’t heavily depend on having 2 guitarists then it wouldn’t have been a huge deal to us
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Ocala, Florida
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Ocala is a city located in Northern Florida. As of the 2013 census, its population, estimated by the United States Census Bureau, was 57,468, making it the 45th most populated city in Florida. It is the seat of Marion County and the city of the Ocala, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Archeological investigation has revealed that the area was inhabited by varying cultures of peoples from as early as 6500 B. C. The second lasted through 500 A. D, in early historic times, the Timucua inhabited the area. Ocala is located near what is thought to have been the site of Ocale or Ocali, the modern city takes its name from the historical village, the name of which is believed to mean Big Hammock in the Timucua language. The Spaniard Hernando de Sotos expedition recorded Ocale in 1539 during his exploration through what is today the southeastern United States, Ocale is not mentioned in later Spanish accounts, it appears to have been abandoned in the wake of de Sotos attack. In the late eighteenth and early centuries, Creek people and other Native Americans. After foreign colonial rule shifted between Spain and Great Britain and back again, in 1821 the United States acquired the territory of Florida, the fort was an important base during the Second Seminole War and later served in 1844 as the first courthouse for Marion County. The modern city of Ocala, which was established in 1849, greater Ocala is known as the Kingdom of the Sun. Plantations and other agricultural development dependent on labor were prevalent in the region. Ocala was an important center of production until the Great Freeze of 1894–1895. Rail service reached Ocala in June 1881, encouraging economic development with access to markets for produce. Two years later, much of the Ocala downtown area was destroyed by fire on Thanksgiving Day,1883, the city encouraged rebuilding with brick, granite and steel rather than lumber. By 1888, Ocala was known statewide as The Brick City, in December 1890, the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, a forerunner of the Populist Party, held its national convention in Ocala. At the convention, the Alliance adopted a platform that would become known as the Ocala Demands, most of the Ocala Demands were to become part of the Populist Party platform. The first thoroughbred horse farm in Florida was developed in 1943 by Carl G. Rose, when he ran into problems with asphalt, he improvised and experimented with limestone, an abundant resource in the state which he realized supported good pasture for raising strong horses. In 1943, Rose bought land along State Highway 200, at $10 per acre, the next year one of his horses, Gornil, won at Miamis Tropical Park, becoming the first Florida-raised thoroughbred to win a Florida race
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Metalcore
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Metalcore is a broad fusion genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The word is a blend of the names of the two genres, among other genres blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages that are conducive to moshing. Pantera and Sepultura have been influential to the development of metalcore in the 2000s. Black Flag and Bad Brains, among the originators of hardcore, British street punk groups such as Discharge and the Exploited also took inspiration from heavy metal. The Misfits put out the Earth A. D. album, nonetheless, punk and metal cultures and music remained fairly separate through the first half of the 1980s. Cross-pollination between metal and hardcore eventually birthed the crossover thrash scene, which gestated at a Berkeley club called Ruthies, the term metalcore was originally used to refer to these crossover groups. Hardcore punk groups Corrosion of Conformity, D. R. I. and Suicidal Tendencies played alongside thrash metal groups like Metallica and Slayer. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York hardcore, which began in 1984. The Cro-Mags were among the most influential of these bands, drawing equally from Bad Brains, Motörhead, Cro-Mags also embraced straight edge and Krishna consciousness. Another New York metal-influenced straight edge group of time period is the Crumbsuckers. 1985 saw the development of the breakdown, an amalgamation of Bad Brains reggae and metal backgrounds. Agnostic Fronts 1986 album Cause for Alarm, a collaboration with Peter Steele, was a watershed in the intertwining of hardcore, between 1984 and 1995, a new wave of bands emerged. Hogans Heroes are the earliest metallic hardcore group and were formed in 1984. Other bands include Integrity, Biohazard, Hoods, Earth Crisis, Converge, Shai Hulud, All Out War, Madball, Starkweather, Judge, Strife, Rorschach, Vision of Disorder Hatebreed, and Disembodied. Integrity drew influence from the hardcore band G. I. S. M. Earth Crisis, Converge and Hatebreed borrowed from hardcore punk and death metal. Earth Crisiss 1995 album Destroy the Machines was particularly influential to the development of the genre, Biohazard, Coalesce and Overcast were also important early metalcore groups. Journalist Lars Gotrich wrote, Along with key records by The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch, at the risk of sounding too reductive — metalcore was the natural progression where extreme metal and hardcore met, but with spiraling time signatures that somehow felt more aggressive. Shai Huluds 1997 album Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion became especially influential in the part of the decade
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Gothic metal
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Gothic metal is a fusion genre combining the heaviness of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe originally as an outgrowth of death-doom, lyrics are generally dark and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences. Pioneers of gothic metal include Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema, other pioneers from the first half of the 1990s include Type O Negative from the United States, Tiamat from Sweden, and The Gathering from the Netherlands. During the mid-1990s, Moonspell, Theatres des Vampires and Cradle of Filth brought the gothic approach to black metal, by the end of the decade, a symphonic metal variant of gothic metal had been developed by Tristania and Within Temptation. Nightwish also integrated elements of metal into their well-known mix of symphonic metal. In the US, however, only a few such as Type O Negative, HIM, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence. The term gothic entered heavy metal music with the release of Paradise Losts Gothic album in 1991, since then, fans have often been at odds with one another as to which bands are, or most definitely are not, authentically Goth. Some musicians have disputed the gothic label associated with their bands, including Rozz Williams of Christian Death, in the gothic metal subgenre, members from such groups as After Forever, HIM and Nightwish have similarly downplayed or dismissed the gothic label from their music. The music of gothic metal is characterised by its dark atmospheres. The adjective dark is used to describe gothic music in general while other terms that are less frequently used include deep, romantic, passionate. Gothic metal has sometimes been viewed as a combination of the darkness. Gothic metal is a genre with bands pursuing many different directions, from slow and crushing variations to orchestral. The doom metal background of early pioneers like Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride has been taken up by groups like Artrosis, Ava Inferi, there is also a diverse range of vocal styles in gothic metal. Male singers in the range from the guttural growls and black metal shrieks of Dani Filth and Morten Veland to the clean baritone vocals of Østen Bergøy. There are more female singers in gothic metal than there are in any heavy metal subgenre. Liv Kristine of Theatre of Tragedy and Leaves Eyes notes that the tag is often misinterpreted. The genre is known to attract more female fans relative to other subgenres of heavy metal music
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Post-hardcore
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Like post-punk, the term has been applied to a broad constellation of groups. Hardcore punk typically features very fast tempos, loud volume, and heavy bass levels, additionally, many of these bands vocalists were just as likely to deliver their lyrics with a whispered croon as they were a maniacal yelp. Allmusic also claims that post-hardcore bands find creative ways to build and release tension rather than airing their dirty laundry in short, sharp, british post-punk of the late 1970s and early 1980s has been seen as influential on the musical development of post-hardcore bands. As the genre progressed some of these groups also experimented with an array of influences, including soul, dub, funk, jazz. Groups such as Saccharine Trust, Naked Raygun, and The Effigies, during the early to mid-1980s, the desire to experiment with hardcores basic template expanded to many musicians that had been associated with the genre or had strong roots in it. Many of these also took inspiration from the 1980s noise rock scene pioneered by Sonic Youth. Some bands signed to the independent label Homestead Records, including Squirrel Bait, a reviewer noted that the groups 1989s release Wrong was one of the most aggressive and powerful opuses in post-hardcore ever made. During the years 1984 and 1985 in the scene, a new movement had swept over. When The Faith put out the EP Subject to Change in 1983 it marked an evolution in the sound of D. C. hardcore. This movement has been widely known as the Revolution Summer. Other bands have been perceived as taking inspiration from such as funk. According to Eric Grubbs, a nickname was developed for the new sound, with some considering it post-harDCore, the latter, mentioned in skateboarding magazine Thrasher, would come up in discussions around the D. C. area. In the nearby state of Maryland, similar bands that are categorized now as post-hardcore would also emerge and this group has also been considered as one of the earliest emo acts. The second half of the 1980s saw the formation of bands in D. C. which included Shudder to Think, Jawbox, The Nation of Ulysses. MacKaye described this period as the busiest that the Dischord Records label had ever seen. Most of these acts, along with ones, would contribute to the 1989 compilation State of the Union. It has also noted that the groups ever-evolving sound would signal a more experimental turn in hardcore that paved the way for later Dischord releases. Similarly, the debut studio album, 1990s Repeater, has also been generally regarded as a classic
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Dee Snider
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Daniel Dee Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor. Snider came to prominence in the early 1980s as lead singer of the metal band Twisted Sister. He was ranked 83 in the Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time, born in Astoria, Queens, New York, Snider grew up in nearby Baldwin, Long Island, and graduated from Baldwin Senior High School in 1973. His father, Bob, is a retired New York State Trooper and Nassau County court clerk and his father was Jewish and his mother was from a Catholic family of Swiss descent. Snider and his siblings were raised as Episcopalians after his mother joined the church, as a child, he sang in a church choir, several school choruses and the Baldwin High School Concert Choir. Snider was also selected for the All-State Chorus for singing, in early 1976, Snider joined Twisted Sister and became the sole songwriter of the band thereafter. The group released their first studio album, Under the Blade, in September 1982, less than a year later, Twisted Sister released their sophomore effort, You Cant Stop Rock n Roll. Their third album, Stay Hungry, hit shelves on May 10,1984 and this would become the bands most successful record with the hits Were Not Gonna Take It and I Wanna Rock. To emphasize the twisted sister image, Snider adopted a persona of metal-inspired drag with long blond hair, an excessive amount of eye shadow and rouge. During the mid-1980s, before the premiere of Headbangers Ball, the first MTV program to consist entirely of metal videos was Heavy Metal Mania. The first episode aired in June 1985 and was hosted by Dee Snider and it featured metal news, interviews with metal artists, and in-studio co-hosts. That same year in November, Twisted Sister released Come Out, in 1985, a Senate hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center, who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all albums containing offensive material. The system was to include identifying the type of objectionable content to be found in each album. Dee Snider, John Denver, and Frank Zappa all testified against censorship, such a system was never implemented, but the result of the hearing brought about what is now the generic Parental Advisory, Explicit Content label. The PMRC was initially formed by the wives of Washington, D. C. power brokers Senator Al Gore, tipper Gore in particular became the face of the PMRC and a public foil for Snider in the hearings. A fifth Twisted Sister album would be made in 1987s Love Is for Suckers, the record was originally planned to be a Dee Snider solo effort, but Atlantic Records encouraged a release under the Twisted Sister name. Touring lasted only into October that year and on the 12th of that month and it was during this time that Snider formed Desperado, a band featuring ex-Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, ex-Gillan guitarist Bernie Torme, and bassist Marc Russel. The groups only album, Ace, has never officially released
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Las Vegas Valley
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The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area located in the southern part of the U. S. state of Nevada. The largest urban agglomeration in the state, it is the heart of the Las Vegas–Paradise-Henderson, the Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a 600 sq mi basin area surrounded by mountains to the north, south, east and west of the metropolitan area. The Valley is home to the three largest incorporated cities in Nevada, Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas, six unincorporated towns governed by the Clark County government are part of the Las Vegas Township and constitute the largest community in the state of Nevada. Since the 1990s the Las Vegas Valley has seen exponential growth, in 2014, a record breaking 41 million visited the Las Vegas area, producing a gross metropolitan product of more than $100 billion. The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829. Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, including Rivera, in the 19th century, areas of the valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas, or meadows, hence the name Las Vegas. The area was settled by Mormon farmers in 1854 and later became the site of a United States Army fort in 1864. Since the 1930s, Las Vegas has generally been identified as a center as well as a resort destination. Nellis Air Force Base is located in the northeast corner of the valley, the ranges that the Nellis pilots use and various other land areas used by various federal agencies, limit growth of the valley in terms of geographic area. Businessman Howard Hughes arrived in the late 1960s and purchased many casino hotels, as well as television, legitimate corporations began to purchase casino hotels as well, and the mob was run out by the federal government over the next several years. The constant stream of tourist dollars from the hotels and casinos was augmented by a new source of money from the establishment of what is now Nellis Air Force Base. The influx of personnel and casino job-hunters helped start a land building boom which is now leveling off. The Las Vegas area remains one of the top entertainment destinations. The valley is contained in the Las Vegas Valley landform and this includes the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson, and the unincorporated towns of Paradise, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor, Enterprise, Winchester, and Whitney. The valley is located within the larger metropolitan area, as the metropolitan area covers all of Clark County -including parts that do not fall within the valley. The government of Clark County has an Urban Planning Area of Las Vegas and this definition is a roughly rectangular area, about 20 mi from east to west and 30 miles from north to south. Notable exclusions from the Urban Planning Area include Red Rock, Blue Diamond, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is the largest police department in the valley and the state and exercises jurisdiction in the entire county. The department does not exercise jurisdiction in areas with separate police forces such as North Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, Nellis Air Force Base
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A Day to Remember
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A Day to Remember is an American rock band from Ocala, Florida, founded in Spring 2003 by guitarist Tom Denney and drummer Bobby Scruggs. They are known for their amalgamation of metalcore and pop punk. The band currently consists of vocalist Jeremy McKinnon, rhythm guitarist Neil Westfall, bassist Joshua Woodard, percussion and drummer Alex Shelnutt, signing with Indianola Records for their first album, And Their Name Was Treason, Scruggs was replaced by Shelnutt in 2006. Later that year the band recorded For Those Who Have Heart for Victory Records and they embarked on several tours of the UK and U. S. and played at several festivals, before recording and releasing Homesick. While promoting Homesick on tour, Denney was replaced by Skaff, soon after releasing their next album, What Separates Me from You, the band went on a worldwide tour to promote it. Beginning in 2011, the band has been involved in a lawsuit with Victory Records over their recording contract, in October 2013 the band was given the right to self-release a new album until a final verdict is reached. They released their album, Common Courtesy, the same month. Soon after, the band embarked onto playing well over 200 shows in their first year of touring, making a name for themselves, the band self-released an independent EP titled, Halos for Heroes, Dirt for the Dead in 2004, which was sold at their live shows. Their epononymous and second EP was released in January of 2005 and they were signed to Indianola in February 2005, for which they released their debut album, And Their Name Was Treason in May that year, going on to sell over 8,000 copies. Woodard said A friend of mine said he had the AIM screenname of someone at Victory Records, I didnt believe him, but I still started communicating with the guy. We IMed back and forth for about six months, and it happened that we were playing in a town outside of Chicago. It was our first time we played in Illinois, yet the 50–60 kids there were singing along to our tunes like they’d been fans all their lives. Soon after signing with Victory, the band with their new drummer Alex Shelnutt went into Zing Studios to record their second album, the album, titled For Those Who Have Heart was released in January 2007 on Victory and peaked at number 17 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart. In September 2007, they put a cover of Kelly Clarksons song and this was later featured on the re-release of For Those Who Have Heart, released in February 2008 and charted at number 43 on the Top Independent Albums chart. A Day to Remember toured the UK for the first time ever in January 2008, awards, but lost to Black Tide. Afterwards, the band had a tour opening for Silverstein along with The Devil Wears Prada. Before playing the Download Festival, they toured the UK with The Devil Wears Prada, in mid-2008, the band played all the U. S. dates of the Easycore Tour along with New Found Glory, Four Year Strong, Crime in Stereo and International Superheroes of Hardcore. A remastered version of their first album, And Their Name Was Treason, later that month, the band recorded their third studio album, Homesick
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
