Studio City (album)

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Studio City
Electric Company - Studio City.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 10, 1998
RecordedLab of Happy Dreams; North Hollywood Police Tactical Zone
Genre IDM
Length55:13
Label Supreme/Island/PolyGram Records
524 482
Producer Brad Laner
Brad Laner chronology
Cherry Flavor Night Time
(1997)
Studio City
(1998)
The Story of Personal Electronics
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pitchfork Media (5.6/10) [2]

Studio City is the second album by Electric Company, released on March 10, 1998, on Island Records.

Brad Laner is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with the shoegaze band Medicine, which he founded and led.

Island Records British international record label of Jamaican origin; imprint of Island Records Ltd.

Island Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island in particular having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Brad Laner, except "Darken An' Slobbering", "Greenland" and "Born Algebra Skinned" co-written with Kenneth James Gibson.

Kenneth James Gibson, is a musician, record producer, composer, singer, and songwriter who has been releasing records since 1994. He founded the electronic music record label Adjunct Audio in early 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro, through Kompakt records. He releases music under the aliases [a]pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules, dubLoner, The Premature Wig, Men in Slippers, Cascabel Gentz, KJ Gibbs, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Electronic Music Composer, and Hiss & Buzz. Gibson founded the 1990s noise pop band Furry Things, who released most of its material on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint.

No.TitleLength
1."Arbor Sirens"1:26
2."Star Klang"4:40
3."Darken An' Slobbering"4:59
4."Greenland"4:01
5."Throb Ear"5:12
6."Second Serve"4:26
7."Appendix"9:14
8."Born Algebra Skinned"8:56
9."Yard Disturb"2:28
10."Soundcard"9:51

Personnel

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

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References

  1. Raggett, Ned. "Studio City". Allmusic. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
  2. Mirov, Nick. "Electric Company: Studio City". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on December 23, 2001. Retrieved June 16, 2013.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)