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Autobodies came and recorded an awesome record here last year! It is now available on CD or in classic digital formats on their bandcamp.

This is a song about being possessed by the power of dance, not something I have ever had to worry about, but luckily AB frame it in a way that is accessible for me.

Check out and buy Power, Heat and Light here:

Autobodies Bandcamp

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Dream Nails - Bully Girl

Here we have quite a new band from London.

I would say this recording exhibits Mark Jasper’s now customary airy-drum tones, keeping the cymbals a little bit soft, with that lively floor tom and a guitar the tone of which makes clear the microphone has been carefully positioned. The band is not scared to have the vocal front and centre and to leave one main guitar as the focus, resisting the temptation to layer it up, which I feel adds to the impact here.

Then the surprising and ebullient backing vocals arrive with some humour and hyperactivity, one appears to be intoning ‘I wanna see your face again I found you on the internet’ which is great.

From a nostalgic point of view, this reminds me slightly of the band Angelica whose song Bring Back Her Head was a minor John Peel hit in about 1999. Henry

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Here is a long sentence about this new Dignan Porch song:

I have recorded an EP or LP every year with Dignan Porch since 2011's Deluded which is the one everyone seems to love from my old studio which closed down but this new Album we're making is the first one where we've done the whole thing in the fully operational Sound Savers Mk II, this is the first song to be finished, the lyrics are dignified, a tambourine runs throughout, you can hear our new Pultec EQ clone on the drums on this track which, I'm sure you'll agree, is the new distinctive timbre of this summer.

The next song we'll be disseminating has reverse hand claps so look out for it.

Dignan Porch are on tour until April 9th http://dignanporch.com/post/141723286224

There's a video for this song here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xvAw6koPU

-Henry Withers

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I either write in the third person, or I just get on it with it.. This is my (Mark’s) band Witching Waves. We just released our second album, in the UK on Soft Power, in the US on Happy Happy Birthday To Me. This is a song from it.

The whole album was recorded and mixed by me at Sound Savers, it took a long time if you compare it to some of the albums I have recorded here, and it took a very short time if you compare it with Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk.

Doing a record on your own is hard work, and often you are coming from such a subjective place that you can’t figure out whether something is good or just a total disaster.

In general, I’m pleased with how it came out. I hope you like it too.

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This song was recorded at our studio last year by my business partner and fellow engineer Mark Jasper. Mark is a very modest person very unlikely to blow his own trumpet so it falls to me to do it for him; I even felt compelled to upload an image to his discogs profile recently so that admirers may see his face.

What I like about this recording is that it treads the fine line between being controlled in terms of clarity and being blown-out in terms of natural distortion being applied during mixing or through the tube pre-amp during recording, and so on. I would suggest this is the holy grail of the hybrid recording process which combines in our case a Tascam 388 1/4" tape machine and a reasonably hi-fi Pro Tools rig with an iMac and associated bells and whistles. Some punk records in my view fall too far either side of this fine balance.

The album seems to be appearing on a lot of end of year lists not to mention being a favourite of BBC's popular pop music dj Marc Riley for whom SY have recorded approximately 17 sessions. We can only hope that it will take its deserved place in the top 10 of Village Voice's coveted 'Pazz & Jop poll' at year's end.

-Henry

Buy the forthcoming 7" "The Bridge" here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/product/sauna-youth-the-bridge-7

Or the album "Distractions" here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/product/sauna-youth-distractions-lp-cd-pre-order

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Recorded at Sound Savers this year, recorded and mixed by Mark Jasper. Then mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory. Every song is a total banger! Get it!

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This is an amazing new song by Gloss Rejection and recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Jasper at Sound Savers.

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New Actual Crimes track recorded at Sound Savers!!!

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New Actual Crimes tape! Recorded with us last year!

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Puppy are currently recording a lot of music at Sound Savers. This is one of the songs, Forever is a heavy metal classic behind a beautiful and haunting melodic indie rock song, and the video does it great justice. Have a look for yourselves.

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Fresh from the now legendary First Timers event, Primetime have wasted no time at all. Not only have they played tons of great gigs with tons of wonderful bands but they have also recorded this magnificent 7". Recorded at Sound Savers with Mark 'Knuckles' Jasper and out out on La Vida Es Un Mus Records this 7" is four fist fighting head bobbing punk rock anthems. Check it out for yourselves!

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VIRGIN KIDS

This is one of some recent tracks recorded at Sound Savers by Virgin Kids!

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Bad Paintings have just released a tape compilation of Guided By Voices covers. The covers features Fawn Spots, Keel Her, Finnmark and whole host of great bands. We had the pleasure of mixing and mastering the H Grimace GBV cover, so you should definitely check it out! BUY THE TAPE

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CASSELS Cassels are two brothers who recently came and knocked two songs out in an afternoon. There was literally no messing about. This tune has a sort of political theme, which I find to be refreshing when so many people are talking absolute nonsense in most songs. This song and Rinse and Repeat make up a double A sided single out soon on Grebo records. Have a look why don't you: http://greborecords.co.uk/Grebo-Releases/Cassels-Single

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Listen to: Los Cripis- Falling by Tuff Enuff Records Tuff Enuff Records have just released the third in the series of their Riots Not Diets compilations. Representing some of the greatest Queer/Feminist/DIY punk bands around, this compilation is a a really great slice of some of the great stuff that is going on right now. CHECK IT OUT.

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Listen/download: MONOTONY by Monotony Sauna Youth are in Sound Savers this week recording their album but instead of just recording one album in a month they thought they’d record two. This was recorded a few weeks ago with each member of the band on different instruments, it features the second song about Wetherspoons recorded at Sound Savers and it’s called Monotony monotony monotony monotony monotony monotony tonomoy onotomny motnooy monotony monotony…

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Exclusive selection 'Got To Fly' from new DIgnan Porch LP

Our long time collaborators Dignan Porch, newly of Brighton's taste blazing Faux Discx records, have given us an exclusive of this album track from this month's 'Observatory' - the band has a 6 piece line-up now which is evidenced by this number which has a certain swagger and confidence in its delivery. Whilst retaining the wooziness and deceptively simple chord sequences I would say make them what they are. Listen Here:

Preorder 'Observatory' Here: http://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/observatory