SKIP SAYLOR NEWS:

June 2008

 


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.       

 

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).

 

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