Amazing New Rates at El Cortijo!!
Hire one of Europe's greatest residentials
for just £390.00...
We're kicking off the final hurrah of 2009 with news of some unbelievable new rates we're introducing at El Cortijo, our stunning residential retreat
in Andalucia, Spain. This world class recording studio and villa will now be available for an unbeatable £390.00 / day
for sessions with 5 people or less. Surely there's never been a better opportunity to experience residential recording at its most
luxurious!
So here's the deal... El Cortijo can now be hired for an extremely competitive £390.00 / lockout day, but as an added bonus you get a 5-star Andalucian villa to
stay in which includes an outdoor Pool. For sessions with more than 5 people, extra people will be charged at £ 60 / person / day.
... and here's a reminder of what's in store. El Cortijo is a magnificent residential which we have been running alongside owner Trevor Morais since early 2008.
This stunning villa has been designed and constructed with total comfort in mind and offers clients a fully secure and idyllic environment to work and relax in. The house is
immersed in the hills and valleys of the Ronda National Park, so clients can enjoy complete exclusivity in a private location. The accommodation and cuisine is 5-star standard,
and guests can be assured they'll be totally looked after, allowing them to fully relax and enjoy their session.
Guests will have sole use of a 7-bedroom house with stunning views of the mountainside and Meditterranean. The house has beautiful living quarters, large gardens
with a pool and badminton court, and of course a fantastic studio based around a Trident Vector console, Pro Tools HD3 and a range of
dynamic live spaces. You'll do well to find a more inspirational recording location anywhere else in the world....
For all bookings enquiries for El Cortijo, call Tor at the Miloco office on 020-7232-0008 or email tor@miloco.co.uk
You can now view our new rates page for all the Miloco studios by visiting the following page: www.miloco.co.uk/rates.
www.miloco.co.uk/elcortijo
Hoxton Programming Suite Available
 
Christmas may have come early for an anyone out there looking for their own private long-let space this winter. Hoxton Suite 3 has become available for rent. This is one of our
single room long-term let spaces and is situated in our Hoxton Market premises. The room is daylit and comes with a large storage cupboard and use of a shared toilet. The studio
is situated on the first floor and benefits from 24-hour access. It has a red-care alarm installed which is monitored around the clock. It would be well-suited for a writer
/ programmer.
If you're interested in this great long-let space, contact the office on 020-7232-008.
www.miloco.co.uk/longterm/hoxton_suite3
Final Christmas Discount Reminder...
We should throw in a quick reminder of our seriously discounted Christmas rates, available over the fortnight between
December 21st and January 3rd. There 's still a few gaps in the calendar waiting to be snapped up, so if you want to take advantage
of this very cheap period then get in touch ASAP!
From December 21st to January 3rd...
The Engine Room - £ 300.00 / day (discounted from £ 500.00 / day)
The Bridge - £ 100.00 / day (discounted from £ 250.00 / day)
The Pool - £ 300.00 / day (discounted from £ 500.00 / day)
The Square - (closed for refurbishment)
The Yard - (closed for refurbishment)
Musikbox - £ 300.00 / day (discounted from £ 600.00 / day)
The Garden - £ 300.00 / day (discounted from £ 600.00 / day)
Assault & Battery 2 - £ 400.00 / day (discounted from £ 800.00 / day)
The Motor Museum - £ 200.00 / day (discounted from £ 450.00 / day)
The Chairworks - £ 350.00 / day (discounted from £ 500.00 / day)
Please note that in order for us to organise staff for the Christmas period, we need bookings to be made as soon as possible
Call Julia on 020-7232-0008 or email julia@miloco.co.uk, to book time.
2009... and that was the year that was!
It's been another jam packed 12 months at Miloco, with big albums, bigger refurbs and of course
some very exciting new studio launches occuring right the way through from January to December. So to wrap up
our final newsletter of the year, we thought we'd have a quick recap of 2009's best highlights...
This year we have seen eleven Miloco-made albums reach the top ten of the UK album charts, including two number 1's:
Editors' In This Light And On This Evening, produced by Flood in Assault & Battery 2, and
Calvin Harris' Ready for the Weekend, which Calvin produced in his private room at Miloco.
The other nine were N-Dubz's Against All Odds, Chipmunk's I Am Chipmunk, Newton Faulkner's Rebuilt By Humans,
Ian Brown's My Way, Jamie T's Kings and Queens, Florence and the Machine's Lungs,
Madness' The Liberty of Norton Folgate, The Enemy's Music for the People and Faryl Smith's Faryl.
In the summer we put our main Leroy Street complex under hammer and tong for our biggest refurbishment in years.
Our flagship mix room, The Engine Room, was cosmetically upgraded with a fresh makeover, and we have also enhanced the spec, re-affirming
it as one of London's very best mix environments. The Engine Room's former live room was rebuilt
and renamed The Bridge - now a multifunctional facility comprising three separate spaces, and which can be used as
an affordable, standalone recording/editing studio, or still as a live room in conjunction with The Engine Room.
The third refurb job at Leroy Street was of course The Pool, our vast live tracking room we run in partnership
with producer Ben Hillier. We built a brand new control room and drum booth, and completely overhauled the space both
cosmetically and acoustically to create the very best reinvented tracking studio in London. What is extra special about
The Pool's new design is that you can now enjoy this huge and great-sounding recording space behind the closed doors of a separate
control room, or the studio can be run with the control room equipment setup in the live space and two additional booths perfect for extreme live recording !
The Pool is now the most versatile tracking space in London... Many of you will of course still be piecing together your memories
of our Leroy Street relaunch party, which we held in September!!
Once we'd cut the ribbons in SE1, we moved up to Shoreditch to start work on our legendary band tracking room,
The Garden. Producer Craig Silvey joined a long-standing partnership between Miloco and Matt Johnson, and moved in
with his phenomenal collection of vintage analogue gear, centred around his highly-rare vintage Neve 8026 console and
stacks of outboard and microphones, which now line up alongside the studio's excellent choice of backline. We relaunched
The Garden as London's ulitmate vintage band tracking room in November.
Of course it would be very surprising and even a little sad if a year passed at Miloco without us opening
a few brand new studios to the world. But fear not, as 2009 has claimed four new studios for the Miloco group!!
At the start of the year we opened Black Rock in partnership with Kostas Kalimeris. Black Rock is our second
luxury residential retreat, located on the beautiful Greek island of Santorini and which provides clients with
an incredible 5-star recording experience. In Spring we joined forces with producer Mike Crossey to
launch the next era at the famous Liverpool studio The Motor Museum. Since unveiling The Motor Museum,
we have welcomed the likes of Blood Red Shoes, The View, Mark Ronson and The Suzukis to the studio.
By the start of the summer we had moved East to Castleford, near Leeds, to open The Chairworks alongside
Ryan Jarvis, our second Northern studio. The Chairworks is a great residential complex
which is perfect for bands and artists based in the North of England. It is an SSL studio with a fantastic selection of recording spaces
and a vibey "band house" which sleeps upto eight people. Our final studio launch of the year was back in London, where
we teamed up once more with producers Alan Moulder and Flood to represent their amazing SSL mix room, Assault & Battery 1,
based at the Battery complex in Willesden Green. Another incredibly spec'd facility, Assault & Battery 1 is where Alan does the majority
of all his mix projects, and where he has recently mixed albums by bands such as Bloc Party, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, The Big Pink and Wolfmother...
... and so that was the year that was, in a nutshell. It's been another rollercoaster for sure, but has been worth every minute of the ride.
We thank all our clients who have joined us throughout the year - its been a pleasure as always! We're looking forward to seeing you all again
in 2010, when you can also be guaranteed plenty more exciting studio developments from Miloco...
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New Pool Session Photos
The snappers have been back again, this time to capture some live shots of the Beth Jeans Houghton sessions which have been going on
in The Bridge and The Pool. We have some great session photos of Beth and the guys working in The Pool, which perfectly captures the new
vibe at the studio. The band and producer Ben Hillier opted to relocate the control room back into the live space, to recreate the room's
original 'extreme live recording' environment.
Follow the link to view the photos, plus a selection of others taken in The Pool over the last few years:
Pool Session Photos.
SSL Showcases at Battery and Chairworks
It was good to see some familiar faces down at the SSL Showcase Evening held at the Battery complex last month, and the one we held at Chairworks previous to that.
Our friends at SSL put on two great evenings, including some interesting keynote speeches from the company, ourselves and the
great Flood and Alan Moulder. We opened up the studios in the building, and a few cans of lager in the fridge, and generally
mused over the technical feats of modern-day recording studios!
A special thanks to Jim at SSL for putting on the evenings. You can catch up on more info by visiting the Solid State Logic blog:
solidstatelogic.wordpress.com/.
New Gear in The Motor Museum and Engine Room...
New Gear newsflash! There's several new toys on the spec at The Motor Musuem.
We have 2 new vintage RCA 44DX ribbon microphones and a beautiful vintage RCA 77DX (pictured).
We have also added a supreme 1972 Fender Telecaster Custom.
Meanwhile back in London, due to high demand we have enhanced The Engine Room's spec with a Summit Audio DCL200 Stereo Compressor.
www.miloco.co.uk/
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www.miloco.co.uk/
engineroom
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
So there's just two weeks to go until we're keeled over Christmas cracker jokes, clothed in
our favourite knitted woolies, whilst dosing ourselves with mulled wine.
Have a very Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year. Here's to the year of 2009, the decade known
as the noughties, and of course all the excitement that 2010 will bring.
See you next year!
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