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New Equipment Updates
We've enhanced ourselves, technically that is. New purchases of late include a magnificent UREI 1176 amplifier, which has found itself a place in our stunningly refurbished Yard mix room in Islington. The UREI is joined by a TL Audio C5021 valve compressor, and a Valley People dynamite compressor. Elsewhere, The Square has acquired itself a new Empirical Labs Distressor with Brit mode due to popular demand, as well as a Joe Meek Stereo Compressor, and there is now a new DBX 162 Compressor at Musikbox. 
Stay posted on Miloco news for further additions to our studio equipment.
Latest Miloco Releases
Released 7th April 2008 The Long Blondes - 'Couples' 
Although our good friends the Arctics make the headlines for Sheffield music, let us not forget another of the Steel City's true contemporary innovators. The Long Blondes are back in fine fettle with the follow up to debut album Someone to Drive You Home, ploughing further into their distinct field of vigorous indie synthpop. Couples was tracked by producer Erol Alkan and engineer Jimmy Robertson in The Garden in October and November 2007. www.myspace.com/ thelongblondes Released 31st March 2008 Barry Adamson - 'Back To The Cat' 
The former Magazine bassist and Bad Seed member returns once again with more experimental explorations into jazz and electronica. Back to the Cat was mixed in Miloco Five - The Yard in October 2007, with engineer Rob Kirwan. www.myspace.com/ barryadamson Released 31st March 2008 Newton Faulkner - 'I Need Something' 
More soothing surf-folk from the nattiest strummer around. Faulkner lengthens the legacy of his platinum-selling Hand Built By Robots album. Newton Faulkner's 'I Need Something' was produced by Mike Spencer at Miloco in 2007. www.myspace.com/ newtonfaulkner. Released 24th March 2008 Mystery Jets - 'Twenty One' 
Hailing from a place as fantastical-sounding as Eel Pie Island, you'd expect some intriguingly unusual twists to the Mystery Jets' strand of indie-folk, and once again they deliver with Twenty One, the follow up to 2004's Making Dens. Mystery Jets did the Miloco tour in the latter half of 2007. The Pool, The Garden, Musikbox, Sofa Sound and The Square were all used by the band, producer Erol Alkan and engineer Jimmy Robertson during the making of Twenty One. www.myspace.com/ mysteryjets Released 24th March 2008 Foals - 'Antidotes' 
The magnificent Foals hit the floor in turbo gear with the scintillating debut, Antidotes. Baby horses? These groundbreaking mathrock Oxfordians were born with the power of Roman cavalry stallions!! Antidotes was mixed in Miloco One - The Engine Room, by producer/engineer Mike Crossey in November 2007. www.myspace.com/foals To check out more Miloco releases over the last year, please look this way: www.miloco.co.uk/news/ newreleases 
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March may have landed on the weekend, but that means nothing in studio land! Two rising stars
occupied The Engine Room to start off with - Primary 1 with Interface's Joe Hirst,
and Operator Please with producer Barny. Two days later the legendary
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - accompanied by a hefty entourage - took the special
Miloco option to combine both our Engine Room and Pool studio using the bolt-on extensions
connecting the two. Nick and the band were filming an internet documentary on new album,
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!. Other great names who came to Miloco 1 were Lost Valentinos
in the company of producer Ewan Pearson and engineer Bruno Ellingham, as well as
acclaimed TV composer Howard Goodall.
Interface management's super-duo Steve Dub and Segs worked their wonders in Miloco 2
for the first half of the month with the exciting new ragga artist Aynzli Jones.
Later on in the month, producer Mike Hedges booked out the first of several
Toyshop sessions with Zarina, and Interface engineer Matt Foster grabbed a day
with Sasha. Wrapping up the month in our famous programming suite was
Keith Saunders, who was working with Interface's Martin Jenkins.
The King Blues were back for more in March, continuing work on their new album with Clive
Langer and Interface engineer Finn Eiles. It was fantastic to see the
Mercury-nominated Jamie T back within our sound-washed walls in March. Once again,
Jamie was with engineer Ben Coupland, together sprinkling more of magic on some new
tracks. Antother exciting young talent by the name of Ben Esser came to Hoxton towards
the end of the month, with engineer Alex Dromgoole.
Good times were also being had over at Miloco 4. One of the hottest new bands around,
Late of the Pier continued tracking their new album with producer Erol Alkan and
engineer Jimmy Robertson. Interface's Iain Gore was in next with the brilliant
Kid Harpoon. Pull Tiger Tail followed them a day later in the fine company of
producer Barny, and then came Interface engineer Ben Thackeray who used a
day to remix a Madness track. Bombay Bicycle Club worked over the last weekend of the
month with the legendary Jim Abbiss producing and Richard Wilkinson engineering.
Polina was in our Highbury mixing suite at the start of the month, spending a couple of
weeks with producer Alan Boyd and Interface engineer Finn Eiles. The King
Blues relocated to The Yard after their Square session, making the trip with producer
Clive Langer, and again, Finn Eiles. Other artists to use The Yard last month
were Little Boots, who's session was engineered by Interface's Ben Thackeray, and
Sasha who was again accompanied by our very own Matt Foster.
Musikbox wasn't missing out on any action either. Our Kentish Town Neve mix room played host to
Portishead's Beth Gibbons in the first week of March. Beth was mixing with Interface
engineer Joe Hirst. Long-term Miloco clients Audio Bullys popped in for a day's
work with Interface's Steve 'Dub' Jones engineering, and then current disco-fave
Sam Sparro made the trip to NW5 and got to work with producer Paul Epworth and
Interface's Mark Rankin. Towards the end of the month, garage punks The Subways
spent a few days with Interface engineer Matt Hyde up at Musikbox.
Before the Nick Cave show took over our Leroy Street HQ, In Case of Fire squeezed
in a few more days with producer Gil Norton and engineer Mark Rankin. The Bad Seeds
were back for a day of tracking a week after their documentary film, and then our
favourite goth-punks The Horrors returned to Miloco 8 with Interface engineer Ferg
Peterkin. There was still time for the exciting new singer-songwriter Josephine
Oniyama to grab a few days of tracking with producer Ben Hillier and Ferg Peterkin.
And so to the final hurdle of our studio marathon, Sofa Sound. Indie-balladeers Starsailor
followed on from the end of February, working with producer Steve Osbourne and
Interface's Ferg Peterkin for the first week of the month. The Vibrants bagged a
day over in Chiswick with engineer Jonathan Shakovsky, and they were followed by that man
again, Nick Cave, who took his seeds across to W3 from SE1. Finally, Leon Jean Marie
had a day in Miloco 9 with engineer Ash Howes to mix a single.