For decades, new music technology meant a new instrument. AI may be different: it is participating in composition, identity, rights, fan interaction and performance at once. Timbaland's Stage Zero is one early answer — and VIP Ignite Live could become the stage where the rest gets tested in public.
Posts tagged as “Criteria Studios”
From James Brown in 1965 to Lil Wayne in 2008, one address in North Miami and one name from New York account for an implausible share of the American songbook. A documentary in development — executive produced by Sir Michael Fomkin and VIP Ignite Live with Abundance Studios — sets out to tell how.
Eric Clapton came to Criteria in 1970 to make a quiet record under a name nobody knew. Then he went to a benefit show on August 26, Duane Allman saw him in the crowd and stopped playing mid-solo, and the two of them went back to the studio until sunrise.
In 1974 the Bee Gees were finished. Then Robert Stigwood sent them to a rented house in Golden Beach and a studio on 149th Street — and a bad road surface on the Julia Tuttle Causeway gave them a rhythm. How Criteria Studios rebuilt the biggest band of 1978.
It started in 1969 as one room rented by a New York songwriter. Half a century later the name sat on a building in North Miami where Layla, Hotel California and the Bee Gees' 1978 were made. The history of The Hit Factory — and of Criteria, the studio it bought.