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WINTER 2007
Rob recently recorded Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora for a new version of the classic Hank Williams song “All My Rowdy Friends” for ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
Rob mixed and mastered a newly produced version of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns theme. This powerful piece of music was written by Dan Lessner and produced by Dan and his Skanda partner Will Richter.
Rob took great pleasure in remastering the score from the famous movie “Caligula” which starred Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren. This soundtrack CD will be included with a newly restored DVD to be released this year from Image Entertainment.
Mastered the new solo release "Forty Marshas" from Goo Goo Dolls drummer Mike Malinin.
Recent projects for APM: mixing and mastering new releases for the SIREN and END GAME titles including "Deadly Intent", a collection of intense action orchestral tracks from composer Richard Jacques.
Recent Projects for Killer Tracks include these releases: “Hot Vocal Hooks”, “Wacky Tacky”, “DJ Happy”, “Big Back Ends”, “News Themes” and “Rage-O-Matic” among others.
Recent Projects for Network include these releases: SLAM! 45 “Urban Drop Squad”, SLAM! 46 “Ipop”, SLAM! 47 “Chaos Rock Show” and SLAM! 49 “Atomic Funk”.
Recent projects with Beacon Street Studios: commercials for Coke, Budweiser, Miller, KIA, Burger King, McDonalds, Del Taco, Sprite (LeBron James) and many, many more.
Rob mixed and mastered "Message Of The Blues", the alter-ego of Beacon Street duo Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau. The music almost defies description – think AIR meets Robert Johnson. The CD is available now on I Tunes.
Mixed and mastered woodwind great Mark Hollingsworth’s new record "Chasing The Sun".
Mixed and mastered the new CD “Vanilla” from Thai rockers Flure for Sony Music.
Rob mastered the new record from Epitaph Records artist Orange. The new CD entitled “Escape From LA” was produced by Phil Jaurgui and mixed by Warren Huart at Swinghouse Studios.
Mastered Cris Velasco’s score for the new Clive Barker video game "Jericho".
Mastered Rednote Audio’s (Rod Abernathy & Jason Graves) score for the video game "Silent Hunter 4."
Rob mixed and mastered the debut of “Two Of Cups”, the duo of Leta Lucy (Twilight Singers) and Denver Dalley (Statistics & Intramural). The Record was produced by Jason Brahms and Denver.
Mastered new releases for Riptide Music including "Bad Ass Drums 2 & 3" and “Dynamedia Orchestra & Choir”.
Rob mastered new comedy releases for Levity Entertainment including Comedy Central stars Jeff Dunham and Gabriel Iglesias as well as The Axis of Evil Comedy tour and The Jameson Whiskey Comedy tour.
Mastered the new record for “Jazz Criminals,” the duo of famed and eclectic composers Jim Lang and Pat Gleeson.
Rob Mastered “The Best Of The Best”, a new release feature tracks from some of the finest composers in the video game industry including Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall, Jesper Kyd, Billy Martin and many more. The CD is the brainchild of manager Bob Rice who handles all of these very talented artists.
Rob mixes the theme for ESPN’s Monday Night Football. The new version was recorded in Seattle & Los Angeles and was arranged by Cris Velasco, and produced by APM’s Erin Collins.More football…Rob also tracked Roots drummer ?uestlove on a newly produced version of the classic Hank Willams song “All My Rowdy Friends”. Watch for the new video, featuring an All Star band, when it debut’s on September 11th.
Rob mixes the opening theme for the new ABC series “Schooled” starring Jesse McCartney. The theme was composed by John Nau and Andrew Feltenstein of Beacon Street Studios.
Much more music at Beacon Street…Rob mixes new Burger King spots including, “Manthem” and “NASCAR Chicken Changer”. Both ads were Ad Critic's “spots of the week”. Crispin, Porter + Boguski was the agency. Rob also mixed a new Beacon Street production of the classic BTO song “Takin’ Care of Business” for Office Depot.
Rob mastered a number of new releases for BMG / Killer Tracks including…”Coolset Vocal Hooks”, “Drop SLAM” and the 5.1 release “Trailer Trash”. A hearty thank you to Kat Green, Gregg Lehrman and Carl Peel for bringing me in on these cool projects.
Rob mixed and mastered 5 new songs for the ever unique and eclectic band Kinky.
Rob mixed and mastered singer songwriter John Stauffer’s debut. This killer record of 11 delicious songs (think AM Gold) was smartly produced by Jason Brahms.
Rob mixes LA fav’s The Groovy Rednecks new record, “Loud Mouth Drunks”.
Rob mastered the Quincy Jones project “We Are The Future”. The benefit concert for needy children world-wide was shot and recorded in Rome and features superstars from all over the world including Herbie Hancock, Ennio Morricone, Carlos Santana, Josh Groban and many more. The music was mixed by Jim Faraci at Triage Entertainment.
Rob mixed music by Veigar Margeirsson for a number of film trailers including “Batman Begins”, “Waiste Deep” and “ATL”.
Rob mastered the 3rd CD by Los Angeles based solo artist Chance.
"Chance: 11-15" is available now.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2005
On a personal note, I’m very thankful to report that I was able to reach my friends in New Orleans. Chris, Vinny, Jay & Kyle are all alright…although Kyle lost his home and Vinny and Jay have been unable to return. Chris’s home on the West bank suffered only some wind damage, but it was 5 weeks before he and his family could return. Ironically, Chris’s chain of music stores - 5 in New Orleans, 1 in Baton Rouge and 1 in Hattiesberg, MS - all survived EXCEPT the Mississippi store. Chris tells me it’s still a devastated place with plenty of uncertainty.
As for me, I’ve been fortunate enough to have plenty of work to keep me out of trouble…recent film trailers have included Peter Jackson’s new King Kong (Universal), Chicken Little (Walt Disney Pix), North Country (Warner Bros.), Dreamer (Dreamworks) and Underworld 2 (Screen Gems). I’ve also had the pleasure of working with my always busy friends at Beacon Street Studios on a number of commercials, including…the funny NFL Big Man Dance Competition (Triple Double), a series of new Burger King spots (Crispin, Porter and Boguski), Sony X-Box and the G4 Network (72 and Sunny), Time Warner (Ogilvy NY) and Comcast (Goodby, Silverstein and Partners).
I also recently completed mixing Bay Area singer-songwriter Jeff Rolka’s new record. This 10 song gem was exquisitely produced by Andrew Griffin and Jeff and features some great playing from Max Butler and Kevin White (of Chuck Prophet’s band), Rich McCulley and Andrew himself. Check out Jeff at www.jeffrolka.com.
Radar Records Anthony Cordova and John Stockton popped by to remix Poverty’s latest and master Curtains new single. I also mixed and mastered Jared Barkan’s new 7 song release.
There’s been plenty of mastering work as well, including…International superstar Sun Ho’s newest project “Cross”. Handled both the 5.1 and stereo mastering of this live concert DVD. Live’s Adam Kowalczyk also cruised by between tour stops to put the final touches on his new solo record. I also mastered new library releases for RipTide Music, including the ferocious sounding “Bad Ass Drums” and “Silkscreen Songs”.
And I must say congratulations to Flure, whose Sony record I mixed and mastered this past summer. The bands first single is currently #6 in Thailand and the record is quickly approaching platinum status…cool.
Until next time, be thankful…I am.
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AUGUST 31, 2005
In 1991 I had the great pleasure of going to the city of New Orleans for 6 weeks to produce a band called Exhorder. I instantly fell in love with the place. Now people throw the word “vibe” around all the time…mostly in an exaggerated way. New Orleans had vibe…and culture, history and beauty…and MUSIC and ART and FOOD.
Since my first visit, I’ve traveled back a number of times. In fact the city has become my favorite place to visit. As a matter of fact, my wife and I had a trip planned for next March. And with every trip, was a get together with my buddies from Exhorder where we would feast and drink and my stomach would ache afterward…not from eating but from laughing.
It’s absolutely brutal watching what’s happened there on TV. So many people left with nothing…if they were lucky, and the sobering reality that the city of New Orleans will most likely never be the same.
I’m thinking of my friends Chris, Jay, Vinnie and Kyle and praying to God that they and their families are alright…although I’ve been unable to reach any of them at the moment.
I’d ask everyone to think of the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area. Say a prayer to your God for them…or just a thought from your heart. A donation to the Red Cross sure wouldn’t hurt either.
And I hope someday, I can go back to New Orleans and love being there, just like I used to.
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JUNE 2005
Just been informed that it’s now June. Can’t believe it. Half the year has passed, and most of it has been a blur. Apparently, here’s what’s happened over the past 6 months…
Rob’s been spending an awful lot of time with the outrageously hot (not like that) Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau of Beacon Street Studios. The duo’s success with commercials over the past 18 months has been phenomenal. Recent projects have included…a new national campaign for KIA and their clever KIA fest rock concert spots (David & Goliath)…Direct TV’s NFL Sunday Ticket (Triple Double) featuring the vocal talents of “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” Jeff Garland as well as NFL stars Peyton Manning & Dick Butkus…A new Spike Jonze directed spot for The GAP featuring a wonderful remake of the classic Disney song “Whistle While You Work” (Crispin, Porter + Boguski)…Mini Cooper’s popular “Top Down” spots (C,P+B), for which the Beacon guys won an ADDY award…and commercials for Motorola (Ogilvy NY), Bacardi (David & Goliath), and spots for Six Flags (Doner) with composer Craig Dobbin…Rob also helped Andrew and John produce 3 songs for “Alias” star Mia Maestro.
Recent trailers include “Batman Begins” (Christian Bale & Katie Holmes) for Warner Brothers and “The Man” (Samuel L. Jackson & Eugene Levy) for New Line Cinema. Both were done with composer Veigar Margeirsson. And congratulations to Veigar, who was nominated for a Golden Trailer award for his work on last years “Ocean’s Twelve”.
Rob also had the pleasure of mastering international super-star Robi Draco Rosa’s new live concert DVD for Sony Music. The show was expertly recorded and mixed by the very talented Ed Cherney. Other mastering projects included…Bay Area rapper ShoTyme’s new release which features The Game on one track…a new EP from Chance & The Choir (in my humble opinion, the best band in LA right now)…and composer Jeff Rona’s beautiful score “A Thousand Roads” for release on the Reincarnate label.
Rob also mixed and mastered smooth jazz artist Mark Hollingsworth’s new CD, which included Tal Bergman on drums and co-producer James Wirrick on guitar. Currently, Rob’s mixing the Thai rock group Flure’s new record for BMG / Bakery Records…and after that, looking forward to a much needed vacation in sunny Florida.
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JANUARY 2005
After a nice Holiday break, the new year opened with a bang…
January saw Rob tracking and mixing 3 more songs for Geffen artist Res’s upcoming record. The tracks were recorded at Cherokee and mixed at The POD…Rob also mixed a couple of tracks and mastered singer songwriter Rich McCulley’s new CD…mixing and mastering Veigar Margeirsson’s score for the film, Sweet William, which stars Frank Langella, and mastering a record for the ever so quirky and cool Jeremy Buck. Check him out at: www.jeremybuck.com.
Rob also spent some time at Beacon Street recording and mixing a number of commercial’s including, the clever Burger King crispy chicken ranch spot which featured Hootie & The Blowfish singer Darius Rucker, a new campaign for KIA (David & Goliath) and national spots for Pepperidge Farms (Brighthouse Atlanta).
February projects included…mixing Latin Soul Syndicates new record…tracking drummer John Ferraro for singer songwriter Dan McKenzie’s new record and working on Jeff Rona’s new score for the film Slow Burn which stars Ray Liotta and Taye Diggs.
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DECEMBER 2004
Wishing everyone another Happy Holiday…and thanks to everybody that I’ve had the pleasure to know, meet and work with this past year. Here’s what’s been happening…
Rob is currently producing LA duo Sci-Fi Lullaby, who have been selected by Microsoft’s new internet music store as one of the world’s 5 most promising unsigned artists. The Microsoft site will compete head to head with Apple’s I tunes store. Sci-Fi’s songs will be available at the site, and the exposure will benefit these great songwriters immensely.
Rob also recently mastered legendary rockers the Doobie Brothers new concert DVD “Live at Wolftrap” for Sanctuary Records. Rob handled the 5.1 portion with DNA’s Dave Donnelly mastering the stereo mixes…Blizzard Entertainment composer / producer Jason Hayes came by to mix and master original music for the hugely successful video game World Of Warcraft…One of our favorite composer’s, Jeff Rona brought by his latest score for the Sci-Fi channel’s new mini series “Earthsea.” Rob mastered the soundtrack for release on the Varese Sarabande label.
Recent film trailer work includes…”Ocean’s Twelve”, “Vera Drake”, “Blade Trinity”, “The Forgotten” and a new trailer for Oliver Stone’s epic “Alexander.” Rob also mixed the theme for the new Disney animated series “American Dragon” with former Dada guitarist Michael Gurley.
Commercial projects include a number of spots with my pal’s at Beacon Street including work for the NFL, Borders Books, American Airlines, video game maker SRS, and the very funny Burger King pay-per-view style Ultimate Chicken Championship spot.
And not to be neglected, record projects have been plentiful as well, including…mixing and mastering former Zoo People member John Jakubek’s new project Electrobek…recording and mixing a track for Geffen artist Res with producer (and former NWA cohort) Colin Wolfe…mixing and mastering 2 new cuts for English rockers The Plastic Heroes for Swinghouse Records…mixing and mastering the new record from LA’s DUFF…and cutting a track with famed director Tony Kaye (American History X) that included fab drummer Joey Waronker.
Until next year…
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JUNE 2004
Despite repeated attempts to update the news page quarterly, it looks like now we're going to try semi-annually...so here goes.
January and February were mostly spent completing Adam Cohen's new record "Melancolista" for EMI Canada. Rob mixed the record in the friendly confines of The Pod.
Speaking of The Pod, March saw a "swan-like" metamorphosis of technology with a new G5 running a Pro Tools HD3 Accel system, plus a few things I've always wanted...like some API mic pre's and EQ's and a couple of UA 1176 limiters. There was also all new wiring done and the installation of a tt patchbay.
Once I got everything working...thank you Bill Storkson...the new room was christened with mixing composer Chris Anderson's wickedly cool score for the film "Keep Your Distance," and mastering a new library for Music Junkies called "The Savage Tongue" which features 22 unbelievable orchestral/choir pieces in both 5.1 and stereo.
April brought lots of great projects with my friends John and Andrew at Beacon Street, including national add campaigns for Burger King, BMW and Virgin Airlines (Crispin, Porter & Bukowski), Ore-Ida (Ogilvy Mather) and Ponds (BBDO), as well as the very pleasant task of recording the great Clive Barker reading excerpts from his new book Abarat.
Projects in May include mixing a trailer for Oliver Stone's new epic "Alexander The Great" and mixing and mastering more original music for Associated Production Music and the Ant Farm.
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DECEMBER 2003
I'd like to wish everyone a very Happy Holiday season and a wonderful New Year. I would also like to thank all the composers, artists, bands, musicians and producers that I've had the pleasure of working with and getting to know this past year. Thank you all for making me a part of your music.
As 2003 winds down, the work continues: October brought famed film composer Jeff Rona to The Pod to master music for a 6 hour TV adaptation of the hit film Traffic.
November projects included working with Beacon Street's John Nau and Andrew Feltenstein on the main title for the hit CBS series "The Handler", and with producer Gregg Lehrman on M Audio's new "Trip Hop Funk" sample library. The tracks were recorded at Swinghouse Studios in Hollywood (www.swinghouse.com), and featured the amazing talents of drummer Joel Taylor and bass player Jimmy Earl. Rob also mixed tracks for soulful singer Rebecca Carlish, which featured Jon Nau on keys and drummer Rodan Van Orden, and completed mixing and mastering for San Francisco thrash pioneers Heathen's new record.
Moving to December, Rob's mixing and mastering cues for Veigar Margeirsson's wonderful score of director Eric Shaffer's new movie "Mind The Gap" which stars Jill Sobule and Alan King. Veigar is a fantastic composer, who's brilliant knack for writing themes and melodies never ceases to amaze me.
Check him out for yourself at www.veigar.com. Mastering projects included Northern Cal favorites Thirst and Hippie Aggression.
Projects on tap for early next year include, mixing singer-songwriter Adam Cohen's new album for Virgin Records.
More news as it happens!
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SEPTEMBER 2003
It’s been a hot, hot summer for Rob in 2003. May found Rob at composer Ray Bunch’s Beverly Hills studio recording tracks for the Showtime original movie “Jack” starring Ron Silver and Stockard Channing…Recording and Mixing Sarod master Rajeeve Taranath’s new record for Golden Horn…Mixing commercials for Beacon Street, including national campaigns for “Zocor” and “Purina”… Mastering projects included records for locals F, Rick Boston and Orange Peal Records and their fantastic 2 disc compilation “Orange Co. NY vs Orange Co. Calif. which features some great bands like Autopilot Off, Avenged Sevenfold and Cell Block 5. Check out Orange Peal at www.orangepeal.com .
Moving to June & July, projects included…Mixing a couple of tracks, and Mastering L.A. fav’s Portable’s new record. These guys are GREAT! and must be seen live. Visit them at www.portablemusic.com…Mixing songs for smooth jazz guitarist Blake Aaron’s upcoming Innervision Records release…Location recording and post mixing for world renown vocal coach Roger Love’s Razor & Tie Records instructional DVD…Putting together Associated Production Music’s “Siren Music Library” which featured more than a dozen talented composers. Rob’s contribution included mixing nearly 30 of the cues and mastering all 110! Film Trailer projects included Hidalgo (Viggo Mortensen), Secondhand Lions (Robert Duvall) and Gigli (well…you know who).
With no let up came August and mixing cues for composer John Nau’s fabulously creepy score for Columbia Tristar’s “Wild Things ll”…Mixing and Mastering music for composers Thom Rotella and Matt Ender for the 2003 season of the NBC entertainment magazine show Extra, which is seen nationally 7 nights a week…
And as we head into September…Rob’s recording Singer Adam Cohen’s new record for Virgin which includes such great players as Joey Waronker on drums and Larry Klein on bass…Other upcoming projects include mixing San Francisco thrashers Heathen’s first new release in nearly a decade. The record will include guests John Sykes on guitar and Whitesnake’s Marco Mendoza on bass.
More news as it develops…
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