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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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Electric Lady's Secret to Making a Record

I remember I was in Electric Lady working on the cult album Electric. And I got a call from Mike and Mike said, hey, how come my record's not done yet? No, not at all. This was amazing. We were probably on Raising Hell by that point. It wasn't like there was no thought to it. The gated snare thing was like, it's interesting you bring it up because it was a moment in time. What was the art of noise was the thing that got everyone excited about this kind of drum sound.? That was probably like experimenting in that art of noisy way that led to that, is my guess.

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