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Urchin Studios

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Welcome to Urchin Studios - A new standard in quality, affordable recording for London.
Nestled in the hub of east end's Cable Street, Urchin is a rare breed of professional recording studio; superb facilities, relaxed atmosphere and a team who are committed to realising your project's full potential. Operating in collaboration with legendary Strokes producer Gordon Raphael, Urchin Studios provides a wealth of artistic knowledge and creativity.
The studio was conceived with a simple ethos – to create a comfortable, affordable studio environment that puts the needs of the artist first.
Services offered include: Pre-Production, Recording, Mixing, Podcasting, Songwriting, Arranging...
For recording rates and further info please visit: http://www.urchinstudios.co.uk
About Our Audio Samples:
The excerpt from Only You is taken from Tallulah Rendall’s debut solo album Libellus, which was recorded at Urchin Studios during the summer of ’07. The album was produced by Marius DeVries with Matt Ingram and Tallulah, and was engineered by Dan Cox. Libellus is currently out on Transducer Records.
Jamie Croft, front-man of Berlin residents The Myriad Creatures recorded his first solo offering at Urchin Studios during what was a frenetic burst of creativity in the first ten day of January 2009. The album was produced, engineered and mixed by Dan Cox and Matt Ingram.
White Collar Weapons are the brain child of east London singer/songwriter Kieran Rafferty. Their debut EP was co-produced, engineered and mixed at Urchin by Matt Ingram and Dan Cox and will be out shortly on 360 Records.
The Jason Hart clips are taken from the former Spiritualised guitar player's debut EP which was produced, engineered and mixed by Matt Ingram and Dan Cox.
Other artists who have recorded at Urchin Studios include -
Fyfe Dangerfield
Emmy The Great
The Red Krayola
Skin
Cerys Mathews
Paloma Faith
Jeremy Warmsley
The Subways
Adam Ficek (Babyshambles)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/01/2007
Band Website: http://www.urchinstudios.co.uk
Band Members: Matt Ingram

Dan Cox

Gordon Raphael
Influences: AKG c414's, NEVE preamps, vintage guitars, Hayman drumkits, progressive rock, the Beatles, Aphex Twin and strong cups of tea.
Sounds Like: A well recorded session
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Urchin Radio

Urchin Radio is an idea (probably not a very original idea) to showcase a collection of the things we have been recording here over the last few years. Rather than put up whole tracks, this is a way o...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:18:00 GMT

Spring has Sprung...

Spring has sprung, and we here at Urchin Studios are admiring the daffodils and looking fondly over a musically rich winter season. Highlights of which include mixing the quite extraordinary Three Tra...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:58:00 GMT

’08

The arrival of 2008 brings an end to what has been a wonderful year for us at Urchin Studios. Check out the featured article about the studio in December's edition of Play Music magazine. Here's to mo...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:46:00 GMT

Autumn Again

Again, all has been full steam ahead upon the good ship Urchin, most notably with the construction of a brand new acoustically treated floating floor, which was lovingly installed by the studios own ...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:47:00 GMT

The White Album diet

Greetings Myspace-ers,Here at Urchin Studios we love a good discussion/argument/punch-up over the Beatles. And when this one came up we thought we'd let it spill out onto the sunny streets of myspace....
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:22:00 GMT

Suck The Fun

It's been a couple of marvellous months of music making (and alliteration) here at Urchin Studios. Despite on going sessions with the likes Skin, Emmy The Great and Tallu...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:57:00 GMT

Discoveries

Saturday was a good day at Urchin Studios for we discovered that two hands and a close miked knee is a quite amazing replacement for a snare drum and a pair of brushes. Check out the re...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:34:00 GMT

Welcome Friends

So after two months of planning, painting (both the walls and ourselves), wiring, feng shui-ing, Ikea-ing (NOOOOOOOO!), last night Urchin Studio opened in a very modest, cheap cava induced blaze of gl...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:57:00 GMT