Nonilex, 27 days ago

In February 1995, The WaPo described #Albini as a “post-punk barbarian.” By Sept 2023, The Post called him an “era-defining alt-rock producer.”
He was prolific, telling the Free Press Houston in 2018 that he had worked on a “couple thousand” records.
One of those was in the late 1990s w/ #RobertPlant & #JimmyPage, to create their first release of new material since #LedZeppelin broke up in 1980.

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Nonilex, 27 days ago

He engineered #rock classics — from #Nirvana’s “In Utero” to #Mclusky’s “Mclusky Do Dallas” — but he also hated that the #MusicIndustry took advantage of #artists.

#Albini laid it out in a December 1993 essay “The Problem With Music” — a piece in which he shirked the title of “#producer” & mocked music producers — writing that bands are held “hostage” by labels.

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Nonilex, 27 days ago

He began the article with an image: “I imagine a trench, about four feet wide & five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying [excrement]. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen & a contract waiting to be signed.”

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