Music 4

Music 4 have created some fun new jingles (or should we say mini songs) for BBC Radio 1's Sunday Surgery with Aled. The show is aimed at a young audience and aims to tackle listeners problems ranging from embarrassing spots right through to more serious concerns such as drug addiction.

These new jingles have been commissioned to promote the opening of the phone lines and are broadcast on a Sunday night around 8.30pm. They are all produced in the styles of current chart songs.

For the past six weeks, Music 4's MD Sandy Beech has been locked in the studio working on the forthcoming album from Chris Moyles. Chris Moyles - The Parody Album will be released on Sony Records on the 23rd of November but is available to pre-order now from HMV, Amazon or Play for delivery on the day of release.

Sandy believes people are going to really enjoy this album.

"Chris and I have worked very hard to rework the most popular parody songs played out on his Radio 1 show and take them to a whole new level. Every track has been recorded from scratch and several tracks feature guest appearances from the likes of Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Calvin Harris and more. In addition, we've written a number of brand new tracks including the very catchy 'It's Never Gonna Snow At Christmas' which should get everyone in a festive mood! Whether you are familiar with Chris's parody songs or not, this album will make you laugh out loud"

Chris Moyles - The Parody Album was produced by Sandy Beech and Chris Moyles, recorded, mixed and mastered here at Music 4 Studios with additional recording undertaken at Abbey Road Studios.

For a full track listing and more details click here

PS: look out for a very funny bonus 'behind the scenes' video which will be available on iTunes once the album is released on November the 23rd.

It's been a good few days for 'star spotting' here at Music 4 Studios with visits from Enrique Inglesias, Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) and Brit Award winning Adele. Enrique Inglesias made a return visit to Music 4 to promote his new “Greatest Hits” album due for release November 17th. Enrique undertook several ISDN interviews to regional radio stations as well as face-to-face interviews. Both Enrique and his entourage had fun on our Nintendo Wii afterwards!

Actress and singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) also came into the studios this week to promote her newly released album “Breakout”. Miley Cyrus has been nominated for Best New Act at the forthcoming MTV Europe Music Awards on November 6th (co-incidentally, we recently mixed nomination packages for this MTV show, news to follow shortly). She has our vote! Unfortunately though, we didn't manage to grab a picture for our guest gallery. Maybe next time!

We were also delighted to welcome back Brit Award winner Adele for her third visit to promote her new single “Make You Feel My Love”. Adele performed a number of songs from her number 1 platinum selling album “19”. We set our vocal booth up to accommodate Adele on vocals alongside her guitarist and pianist.

After mixing the tracks on our fab SSL mixing console, we then continued with ISDN and face-to-face interviews in conjunction with delivering the recorded tracks to various radio stations. We were delighted to receive great feedback from the record company and radio stations for the overall sound and mix on her tracks and we look forward to recording more performances here at Berners Street.

For a highlight of "Make You Feel My Love" please click the link below.

La Cigale in Paris recently hosted the 3rd global Smirnoff Experience event unveiling live performances of Mark Ronson's reworkings of Duran Duran's classics along with some songs from their new album. Ronson also performed tracks from his hit album 'Version' with guest vocals from Simon Le Bon, Daniel Merriweather and other guests.

Music 4 Studios completed the TV mix which aired Friday July 18th on Channel 4. Once again, our brand new SSL AWS900+ enabled mix room (Studio 2) has breezed through this high profile music project despite the tight turnaround deadline...
Our brand new SSL AWS900+ mixing consoles, combined with Pro Tools HD3 systems, Blue Sky monitoring and TC6000 mastering systems provide our engineers with everything needed to record, edit and mix to world class standards on each and every project. Most of the biggest hit records ever recorded were mixed on SSL desks and the AWS900+ is setting new standards providing SuperAnalogue signal processing, comprehensive and accurate monitoring and superb workflow-oriented ergonomics making creative mixing and mastering fast, simple and inspiring.

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