What was your first studio recording experience

My first studio experience was in 1991.

I paid to go to a professional studio in Redhill. It was called F.O.R. Studios.

I spent 2 days there creating 3 hardcore/rave tunes. I have some photos I’ll try and find.

The next experience was at a studio called music garden or sound garden in Arnos Groove.

That led to the creation of a relatively famous/renound sample cd, Called Danger 1 (Dangerous CD company) + me working at Frankfurt Musikmesse launching the sample cd there.

The guy in this photo is Brian Teasdale. He was the owner of the studio & The Dangerous Cd Company. This was taken (by me) at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 91 or 92.

Here’s some info i posted a few years back, on a few other forums.

"The samples for Danger Vol 1 were recorded/compiled at a studio in Arnos Grove. The studio was called either Sound Garden or Music Garden Studios (I can’t quite remember) A lot of the samples were taken from my own record collection. The guy behind the Dangerous Cd Company is called Brian Teasdale (RED) I’m not entirely sure about the content of Volume 2 though. I think this might have been released after i stopped seeing Brian.

I first went to his studio around 91/92 to record some Hardcore demos. i was about 19 years old. When Brian heard the records i was sampling from he asked if he could borrow my collection. That’s how this sample cd came about. Together with Brian’s sister & girlfriend we went to the Frankfurt Musikmesse & launched the cd there.

That first night after Musikmesse was very bizarre. Brian & me ended up in a dodgy situation one evening. Brian liked his drink. He passed out in a bar & i was unable to rouse him. This young lady in the bar offered to take us back to her apartment. We all ended up in her bed. Then there was a knock at the door. She freaked out & ran back in saying it was her boyfriend, back from National Services. He was yelling telling me he was going to get his friends to fuck us up. I was shitting myself. Brian thought it was hilarious. We managed to get out & find a taxi but Brian said he didn’t know where we were staying. We basically drove around Frankfurt until morning & went straight back to Musikmesse. A fantastic memory now, but i barely knew Brian & the whole thing freaked me out.

I don’t think i saw much of Brian after that. Maybe a few times, but we eventually lost contact.

I tried to contact him a few years back. He’s still around but he’s had health issues. i thought it best to leave things as they were"

Here’s one of me in 1990, DJing in my bedroom. The guy in the background covering his face is Dub Techno producer G.R.I.T. All his earliest demos were created here.

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