FADER TV: Studio Time With Eric Broucek
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Former DFA in house engineer Eric Broucek recently left the label to start his own studio. Draped in Navajo fabric and long stemmed plants, Broucek built the Brooklyn studio from scratch, designing all the rooms, adding floating rubber under the floor and asymmetrical plastic curly thingies to perfect sound. Being a new studio, much of Broucek’s work has yet to come out (and he is currently at work at some bananas shit), but we trust it will be good because he’s had a hand in records by LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean, Hercules and Love Affair, as well as recording as the fantastic and too overlooked Babytalk. We promise you he’s major.
Schnipper’s Slept On
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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Babytalk’s “Chance” 12-inch. Listen to the tracks from the record on his label’s MySpace, buy the music ($2.97!) there and read Schnipper’s thoughts on the record after the jump.
Audio: Babytalk, “Keep on Move”
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Babytalk, aka DFA-ite Eric Broucek started his own label, Sticky Disc, and released the kind of record we wish was put out in 1981 on some French Canadian pig farmer’s daughter’s label in a pressing of 300 distributed through French Canadian Cracker Jacks and as a prize when you bought a lot of chewing tobacco, because then it would make our weekends when we found it at the Avenue A flea market for three fifty when we knew it was really worth hundreds (we stay reading Popsike), both in real dollars and those of joyous musical lore. But, instead, it’s out on 12-inch now, almost eight years into the aughts. “Keep on Move” is a disco track by someone that definitely likes house music, smushes them together with quiltmaker’s care, seamless melange of sparkle dub.
