El Guincho's released another free single, "FM Tan Sexy," from his upcoming September 14th full-length, Pop Negro. Pablo Díaz-Reixa recently chatted with Frantik Mag about the record and had some incredibly specific insights to share:"...Production is based on hi-fi aesthetics from the golden era of recordings. I did some research on radio hits/big selling singles in North America, South America, England and Spain in the late 70′s, 80′s and early 90′s. I found out that a massive percentage of these hits were engineered (sometimes also produced) by just around 40/50 different guys.
I started studying what makes them different but also what they had in common and I found out some really interesting coincidences. The reverbs they used (except for more 'so-eighties' kind of tracks, all the rest were more keen on using different tap tempo delays as verbs rather tan proper springs/halls); the backing vocals production (there are super interesting coincidences between Michael Jackson/Quincy, U2, Bryan Ferry/Rhett Davies era productions, Mariah Carey/Walter Afanasyev, Nile Rodgers, Teddy Riley, Paco Trinidad in Spain, etc.); the way most of these guys used line + reamping style instead of mic’ing everything when tracking; the way they used stereo image and how they distributed sounds on space (this is where I found less coincidences and was therefore more inspired). I mean, I could go on and on about this if you want, I’ve been obsessed with this for last 3 years..."
Read the rest of the interview here.
El Guincho - "FM Tan Sexy" (from Pop Negro)
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