Alexander Johnston,
The Criminal Cartel Production team,
Mamma Freedom,
CMI Music Group,
Heathens from Heaven,
In Touch Entertainment,
Carlini Group,
The Family Freedom,
One&aZero,
Ben Husdan,
Trey-Paul,
New Show Media CA,
Zoe Lee
Valleyheart Productions CA
Influences
All styles and all levels of musician/singers caterd for, signed and unsigned, beginner to professional.
Alexander Johnston: Producer, Score Writer, Arranger, Executive Producer
Ben Husdan: Producer / Engineer, Writer
*70% of artists that have worked with Alexander Johnston have gone on the sign record deals, release records, sign Management deals or win Radio Competitions*
The Voodoo Suite Studio is a private studio owned by Mamma Freedom and Producer Alexander Johnston, it usually only caters for Company CMI, Carlini group, In Touch Entertainment, the band, it’s family of musicians and various projects including One&aZero and Zoe Lee.
Alexander Johnston is an Industry approved producer in the US and UK, and is Music Supervisor for a Hollywood film company and is managed by In Touch Entertainment in New York whose roster include Oscar winning film composer Ennio Morricone, Eumir Deodato and Keith Emerson. He was lucky enough recently to team up with World renowned Mixer/Engineer Tom Fletcher whose credits include Don Henley, Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Lukather, Toto, Yes, Yngwie Malmsteen and Hilary Duff to name a few and on his last trip to LA he was asked at the request of Producer Claudio Cueni to sit in on the recording of a track on the Latest Tupac record. He is joined on the Production team by his right hand man and Engineer/Producer Ben Husdan (One&aZero). With the experience and knowledge acquired over many years in the industry the Voodoo suite offers some unique qualities. We deal with all stages of musician, from the band doing their first demo, bands doing demo’s for record companies to a bands 3rd albums or 5th singles, from singers to rappers, jazz trios to full choirs, we deal with all styles too, right through to arranging, song-writing, re-mixing and session players. Unlike most of today’s studio recordings, our professional production team overlooks your sessions. Even if you’ve never sang or recorded before and want to try we offer a beginners rate too.
Most bands today are being charged sky high prices for 8 hour sessions with just an engineer and when your times up, that’s it your out, you end up coming away with a badly mixed, tinny, quiet sounding demo that you wish you could do again. Because the studio is privately owned you can specify exactly what you want and how long you want it to take, we have varying price plans to cater for our varying clients (times and session depend on the artists studio deal). It’s even possible for a band to record an albums worth of demo’s and be able to afford it, we know most bands have many tunes that they cant record due to costs, and this can sometimes lead to missed business in the industry, the tune you have recorded might not be your best, you can’t choose till you’ve heard them all recorded.
We also aim to get the very best out of the people who use our studios as the artist has paid money to sound how they want to and our production team have a reputation to uphold.
The Voodoo Suite price list 2010
BASIC STARTING HOURLY RATE £20 per Hour
Per Song Rate
£150 for Vocal recording and Mixing (5 Hours).
Best for: Artists who have the song tracks already recorded and want to record vocals on top and have it professionally mixed on a limited budget.
Basic Rate
£200 for 8 hour session plus Engineer, 2 song maximum.
Example:
6 hours recording time
1 hour overdubs
1 hour mixing and mastering
Best for:
Bands or artist starting out who want to put songs on the net (Myspace, Pure Volume), to get gigs with or to give out at gigs.
A&R Rate
£300 for 10 hour session plus Engineer and Producer to oversee finished product, 3 song maximum
Example:
8 hours recording
1 hour overdubs
1 hour mixing and mastering
Best for:
Bands or artists who are sending demos to record companies, agents or industry and trying to create a name or buzz about the artist.
Release Rate
£500 for 12 hour session plus Engineer and Producer to oversee all sessions and final product, 2 song maximum
Example:
8 hours recording
2 hours overdubs
2 mixing and mastering
Best for:
Bands or artists releasing singles, albums or Ep’s themselves or on a small indie labels, for radio and TV airplay, to sell at gigs and for musicians who want better than demo quality.
Pro Rate
£500 for 12 hour recording session plus 12 hours mixing, Engineer and Producer, 3 song maximum
Best for:
Bands or artists on the verge of industry deals, who want a polished professional industry approved product, or bands releasing singles on major or indie labels on a smaller budget.
Industry Rate
These rates are negotiable depending on artist, label and project size and length. Full industry approved Producer and Engineer included.
Week Session
*£1000 for one full week 7 days (16 hour working days). These do not have to be taken in a row and can be booked in a day at time if needed.
Rehearsals
*Have your rehearsals recorded for £50 per 4 hours
Remix
*Need a dance mix, house or funk mix for your song starting from £100 per song.
Home recording / Home studio / Solo Artists
*Have your own backing tracks? Want to record vocals? From £20 per hour
*Want drum tracks recording professionally for you to take back to you own studio? From £25 per hour
*Have a finished track but want to record vocals professionally? from £30 per hour.
*Need a track mixing professionally? from £50 per song.
*Need a track mastering? From £20 per hour.
All within 48hours (subject to availability)
Musicians for hire
*Need drums. brass, bass, harmonies, orchestra and more over your track. Hire some of the best in the business and email us your song, we will have the musicians recorded and sent back to you in 48 hours.
Hip Hop
*Need a hook or beat sampled or live? Hear your sample in your head? Have our musicians record it for you, no sample fees to pay.
Add ons
Extra add ons are available for
Extra Hours
Additional Production
Additional Mixing
Extra Overdubs
Because we work with all levels of the industry, our prices are there as a basic guide. There are various add ons that can be negotiated for a wide range of uses including, re-mixes, click / backing tracks put togtether for live shows, over dubs, extra mixing, mastering, Production, musician hire, instrument hire, repair service for all instruments and electrical equipment, score writing, orchestration, Brass and Choral>
Call 07740 361 376 0r 0161 834 3434 for a quote
Any Label or Signed Artist wishing to Book Alexander Johnston please Call:
Charles Carlini
In Touch Entertainment
445 Park Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
US Call:
(212) 714 7722 vox
(212) 202 7579 fax
UK Call:
(+44) 020 7084 6330
US Mobile:
001 9174064045
www.intouchhome.com
info@intouchhome.com
Music
Alexander Johnston (Executive Producer and head of CMI)
CMI Music Group
The Voodoo Suite Studio
Suite 12
New Islington Mill
Regent trading estate
Oldfield Road
Manchester
M5 4DE
00 44 (0)161 834 3434
00 44 07740 361-376
www.cmimusicgroup.com
alex@cmimusicgroup.com
www.mammafreedom.com
info@mammafreedom.com
www.myspace.com/mammafreedom
www.thevoodoosuite.com
info@thevoodoosuite.com
Lawrence Ayers
CMI USA
Hollywood
CA
00 1 818 605 8713
producer777@yahoo.com
INVITATION TO CREATE OUR FUTURE - CHASING ORA EP LANDING AUGUST 2010
We're so incredibly excited to be able to announce details of our forthcoming EP which is scheduled to be released on Friday 6th August 2010!
We are aiming to pre-sell our EP now in order to actually fund its release! Therefore by pre-buying our EP you will actually be facilitating its creation and therefore our future!
We sincerely ask for your support on this as our future is literally in your hands. Thanks so much! Nat, Chris, Darren, & Jonas AKA Chasing ORA! XX
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GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (Ireland) Now one of the best known instrumental bands they have performed all over the world including numerous sold out shows in Europe and in the US. With ambient and post-rock influences, you will certainly approve if you have remote interest in: Tortoise, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, or Do Make Say Think.
Butterfly Explosion (UK), whose increasingly epic live shows have seen them be championed by many as one of the most promising bands to emerge from Ireland in recent years.
SPECIAL GUEST: Dean McPhee (UK) "Arguably the best solo guitar record in the past few years. 10/10 " (Foxy Digitalis)
Hey.. Thank you for the friendship and hope u had a great x'mas and new year!! I should be uploading a new song this week and in the mean time, you can listen to my other songs on my profile. Happy New year!! Amanda N.G x
I'd be very happy if you leave me a comment or message so I get to know you better. And don't forget to add my songs to your profile and tell your friends about me!
am lovingthe MY QUEEN demo. tis wickid. have played it so many times today i may end up killing it. besides, need to be taking in all the other good stuff you have to offer.
Just to say that if your free on Sat 12th to come down to our xmas party at The Kings Arms in Salford for a knees up with all of us from BandsOnTours and at Good Die Young. We have some great bands on and many others just coming for the show so it is a good chance to network also. See you soon!
The flyer is below but if you let me know if your coming I will put you on the door
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
* NEW EP READY TO GO NEXT MONTH * 1ST GIG SINCE SUPPORTING LEGENDARY NEW YORK BAND - BEAR HANDS - THIS SUMMER * FRESHERS WEEK GIG SO NEW FACES IN NEW PLACES
Come hear the new songs if you havent been on myspace recently...
FUTURE EL POLICIA GIGS * 24th Sept @ Kro Bar (Friends Of Mine Gig - Kro Bar is opposite Manchester Academy) * 30th Sept @ Chicago Rock (Scruff Of The Neck Promotions) * 19th Oct @ Dry Bar (ITC Fringe Gig)
Hey friend remember us we would like to think you because wit out you we couldn't of gotten so far, we started this account 3years ago and we never would expect to go so far wit the band
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
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