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Leopard Studio

About Me

We are a recording studio in a beautiful private setting near New Paltz NY, started and run by musician/engineer/producer Jimmy Goodman. We have really nice high end gear and a totally relaxing vibe. After relocating from NYC in 2001, over 110 different artists have recorded here, and we have been doing all kinds of music.
Before moving up here, we were known as TransporterraumNYC, located on 2nd st. and Avenue A, East village, NYC. That wonderful studio was a partnership of myself, Gordon Raphael and Anna Mercedes (of London's Demeter). At that studio the Strokes recorded their album IS This It? and Blonde Redhead recorded Melodie Citronique, Mad Juana recorded In Your Blood.
Truly, it is better in the country though. Studio website: Leopardstudio.com . Much love to all helping us out here: Nik, Kelly, Claw, Praveen, Kol Marshall, Joe K, Jamie, Alex,Kenny, Wulvina, Pancake... We do love creativity. We have accommodations, so just move in......

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/10/2005
Band Website: www.leopardstudio.com
Influences: General: Blur, Bjork, Supergrass, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Elliott Smith, The Clash, R.E.M., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dirty Pretty Things, Regina Spektor, Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubauten, Keren Ann, Blonde Redhead, AC/DC, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Sinead O'Connor, Kings of Leon, The Strokes, P Funkadelic, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Radiohead, Apoptygma Berzerk.
Jazz Artists: Bobby Hutcherson, Duke Ellington, Milt Jackson, Jimmy Smith, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Ware, Elvin Jones, Ella & Billie.
Classical: Stravinsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Messian.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sony's Liberation Music Releases Broderick Smith Record!!!

And they were smart to do it, cause it is quite good. "Classic?" Maybe.....Why do we care? Because we recorded the tracks done by Garth Hudson, and sent them all the way over to Australia to be mix...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:26:00 GMT

King of Beasts Records/Twin Berlin Album update

Leopard Studio's new boutique label, King of Beasts Records is finishing up the first 9 songs for the forthcoming CD, with the band Twin Berlin. Things are looking very fine from here. We have a coo...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:30:00 GMT

Super Cool Umbrella Brigade Video!!

Here is a great video, by Peter Benedetti, of a song called Artful Dodging by the group Umbrella Brigade, from the album "Ex Nihilo", recorded at Leopard Studio and Produced by Jimmy. This is really ...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:39:00 GMT

New review for Viberattos "Beautiful". Its a "Gorgeous Whirlpool"

Viberatto, the person project of Jimmy Goodman, released it's first EP this summer. We just got reviewed in Roll Magazine, by Peter Aaron. Read it Here:http://www.rollmagazine.com/dec2008/viberatto....
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:06:00 GMT

We’ve started a record label!!! "King of Beasts Records"

More details to follow, but we are very excited and you will be too when you hear the music!!!
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:37:00 GMT

Cole Armocida Rocks

And she does it here. We are completing a great 13 song album here at the Studio. Great Songs, Great Playing, Great Singing, Great People, Great Food. Could it be better than this? No, not really....
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:00 GMT

Viberatto is Back, with Jimmy Garth and Tony plus

Viberatto has been busy in the studio working on the follow up to "Beautiful" (you have it right?). This time around is still the same type of stuff, yet we managed to get some help from our friends...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Jimmys Viberatto EP "Beautiful" is available and reviewed

I did my own EP CD and released it Aug 17th with a show here at the studio. The disk has 5 tunes, is all instrumental, and I did the composing, mixing, etc. I played vibraphone, acoustic piano, synt...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:09:00 GMT

Rent a PA system from us!!

Leopard Studio is renting out locally our new Fender Passport 250 Plus sound system!! Included is a 6 channel powered mixer with eq and reverb, with a built in CD player, two powerful and great sound...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:27:00 GMT

Another Garth Hudson Recording Finished

Leopard Studio has just finished another Garth Hudson recording!! This one is for Australian blues guitarist "Broderick Smith", who sent his protools files to us to have Mr. Hudson add his keyboards ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:37:00 GMT