Sleeper Agent CD and Artwork Giveaway on Facebook

We’re having a contest over at our Facebook page! In cooperation with Mom+Pop Records and Rolling Stone “band to watch” Sleeper Agent, we’ll be giving away 5 copies of the band’s new CD “Celabrasion,” each with a numbered, hand made (and in some cases, signed) 11×17″ poster!

The Masterdisk Facebook page: facebook.com/masterdisk

Sleeper Agent is a young band from Kentucky who play an ecstatic brand of rock-pop. Spin magazine called their album “Celabrasion” “a dozen deliriously catchy gems… it’s the sound of high fives and Maker’s Mark spilling from the speakers.”

Celabrasion was mastered at Masterdisk by Matthew Agoglia. In the video, Matt discusses the process of mastering the album and his approach to mastering in general.

To enter to win one of the 5 CD/poster packages, all you have to do is to name your favorite energetic rock/pop song — from any era — and the artist that recorded it in the comments on the Facebook post. We’ll choose 5 winners at random on Thursday, 11/10 at 1 p.m. (New York time). At the end of the contest I’ll create a Spotify playlist with all the song entries.

These are the posters we’re giving away:

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Jane’s Addiction’s “The Great Escape Artist” Debuts on iTunes Today

Cover of the album The Great Escape ArtistCapitol Records announced that the new Jane’s Addiction album, The Great Escape Artist, debuts today on iTunes! Vlado Meller mastered the album here at Masterdisk, and created an additional, unique, iTunes-optimized version. Here’s a great quote from the Capitol Records press release about The Great Escape Artist:

JANE’S ADDICTION lead guitarist DAVE NAVARRO says, “We are psyched that people will have a chance to hear our whole album before they buy it and we applaud iTunes for standing up for great audio too.”

Step right up here to stream the album in full, for free! http://www.itunes.com/JanesAddiction

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Art in Odd Places with Harvey Loves Harvey and Masterdisk

Art in Odd Places GraphicWe’re excited about a crazy event we’re participating in tomorrow. It’s called Live! From 14th Street! An Event from Harvey Loves Harvey. I’ll link to all the info below, but in a nutshell, there are 4 bands playing live at 14th St and 10th Ave, NYC. The audio is being beamed up to us here at the studio, and we’re going to cut it live to lacquer. Then, the lacquer disc will be sped downtown to be played on a turntable for everyone at the band site. Yeah.

http://7inches.blogspot.com/2011/10/live-from-14th-street-with-art-in-odd.html

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Facebook Vinyl Giveaway: Javelin’s “Canyon Candy” EP

Head on over to the Masterdisk Facebook page to enter to win a copy of the limited edition vinyl 10″ release of Javelin’s Canyon Candy on the Luaka Bop label!

Photo of the Canyon Candy label

Canyon Candy Side B

Photo of Scott Hull with Canyon Candy

Mastering engineer Scott Hull with Canyon Candy in the Masterdisk back lounge.

Photo of Alex DeTurk with Javelin's Canyon Candy

Cutting engineer Alex DeTurk with Canyon Candy in front of the lathe.

photo of the Canyon Candy runoff groove with Masterdisk stamp.

Note the MASTERDISK stamp in the deadwax and Alex's initials to the right.

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The Cuddle Magic All-Analog Vinyl Project

Here at Masterdisk HQ today Scott Hull has been mastering the all-analog LP version of Info Nympho, a new album by Brooklyn/Philly band and songwriting collective Cuddle Magic.

This is the real deal – the old school way to make an LP.

As you can see from the photos below, Scott first spliced together the master from the original 1/4″ tape in his mastering room. Then, once the master was edited together, Scott took the tape to the cutting room, where he and Alex DeTurk got it ready to go onto lacquer. They then listened closely, familiarizing themselves with the program and taking note of any adjustments they might need to make during the cut.

Alex did the cutting once all of the mastering decisions were made.

While hanging around documenting the process, I’ve happily heard many of the songs, a few times each. It’s a beautiful recording and the LP is going to sound fantastic.

I should mention that Info Nympho is a Kickstarter project — one that successfully raised its funding goal on September 1. Sweet! Check out what they did here. Find more about Cuddle Magic at their website: http://www.cuddle-magic.com/

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