Mixer/producer Skip Saylor has
been keeping busy at his San
Fernando Valley area compound
doing a variety of his own
projects including mixing tracks
for former Club Nouveau founding
member Jay King's upcoming solo
release on Classic Nuvo Records,
mixing the Mack 10 produced
theme song for Oxygen channel's
'Prime Time Love' starring Deion
and Pilar Sanders and album
mixing for Russian phenom Rock
artist Katya's debut album.
Saylor’s studio also continues
to be sought after by noted
engineers and mixers such as
Toby Wright, who mixed the new
2008 Tantric album 'The End
Begins' at the facility.
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April 22, 2008 -
The new TANTRIC record, "The End Begins" has
been released and had its debut at number 91 on
the Billboard album chart its first week out of
the gate. This album ROCKS and was mixed
here at the studio. A particular favorite
song of ours from the album is "The One", which
features Kevin Martin of Candlebox. Click
the album cover to hear clips of the entire
record or visit
iTunes.
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Noted Italian hard
rock band LINEA 77 has recently completed
recording and mixing of their new album with
noted mixer/producer TOBY WRIGHT (Korn,
Three Doors Down, Alice in Chains, Fear Factory,
The Wallflowers, Black Sabbath) at our facility.
The resulting album is entitled
"HORROR
VACUI" and was released on
February 8th, 2008
through
Universal Music.
Here are a few photos from the sessions
(courtesy Toby Wright, who is pictured standing
far right with the band below):
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Skip Saylor was a
2 time invited guest speaker at the Los Angeles
Recording School in November 2007, where he shared
some valuable insights on what it takes to
become successful in the music industry.
See this link
for a page dedicated by the school to his
appearance.
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June 2007: ROBBY
TAKAC of the GOO GOO DOLLS was at Skip Saylor's
working on his side project called "AMUNGUS".
Here he is pictured in the studio's control room
with
Lynn Carey Saylor.
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May 31, 2007: The Skip Saylor produced debut
album "MUCH LOVE" by Auckland, NZ based
band SPACIFIX wins BEST PACIFIC ALBUM
OF THE YEAR at the New Zealand Pacific Music
Awards show. The group also swept all 3 awards
they were nominated for and Spacifix had the
most nominations of any artist or group!
Their other wins were for BEST PACIFIC SONG
(for "GOTTA GET LIKE THIS", see the
video on our
VIDEOS PAGE)
and BEST PACIFIC GROUP.
The Pacific Music Awards are given by the
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
and is a national event. SPACIFIX will be
honored for their best album win at the 2007 New
Zealand Music Awards (NZ's equivalent of the
GRAMMY AWARDS) in October.
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Internationally known Blues guitar phenom
JONNY LANG was in the studio May 7, 2007
playing on a track for Grammy winning artist ISRAEL HOUGHTON OF ISRAEL HOUGHTON & NEW BREED
(Clockwise
from top: Lang, Lynn Carey Saylor, Skip Saylor,
engineer Danny Duncan and Houghton.
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Notable
engineer/mixers who also brought projects to the Skip
Saylor Studio during the month of May 2007
included ROB CHIARELLI (Christina
Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Ray Charles, Pink, Will
Smith, Leann Rimes), TOBY WRIGHT and
TOMMY D
(Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre,
2Pac, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Paul McCartney).
