(s)Hit Factory

Hello!

I’ve got a project I need some help with. First a little background…

I’m in the process of buying the studio I work at along with my co-engineer and good buddy Rich. I’ll no doubt put another post about all that as soon as it’s all gone through. To be honest, my brain hurts just thinking about it. If you’re ever considering starting a business then please heed this warning – it will make you a bit mental.  Anyway, I was thinking about the studio and some things I wanted to do and one thing has been appealing to me for ages so I think I’ll give it a go.

I want to produce an album of other peoples songs. In a similar vein to the old industry model of artist and repertoire I want to build a band for each song based on where I want to take it and work out a whole production schedule for each one. Kind of like they did at Motown or Stax Records.

Here is where you come in. I need songs. The criteria is simple and is as follows:

• May only contain the instruments you wrote it on, i.e. Guitar and vocals. No additions!
• I need a text copy of any lyrics
• I get complete license to do what I like with your song, even if you think it’s shit
• You are to be of the understanding that you won’t be playing on it or singing it – if you can’t stand someone else singing your words then don’t apply

Other than that it can be whatever you want. Ideally I want this to be a really great pop album so songs about buggering corpses might not make it on (unless they’re as good as ‘Chrissie Kissed The Corpse’ by Of Montreal).

So if you’d like to take part then just email me an mp3 of the song and any lyrics or additional info that might be helpful to rob DOT pandaz AT gmail DOT com

Happy songwriting!

You Slut! pics from live session recording

The fantastic You Slut! recently signed up for a deal to sell their album in Japan and had to record some extras for it. We decided to just set them up and record a live session in our studio. Jump to me flickr to see some really blurry shots of them ROCKING OUT.