STEPPING STONE comforted Lara Love and producer Joe Chiccarelli with engineer Daniel Mendez who also produced Lonnie Rose.

JACK ENDINO just finished a record at Ironwood/Hanzsek for Warner Brasil by the bassist of Titas, Nando Reis. Barrett Martin (Tuatara, Screaming
Trees) drummed on it, Alex Veley (Maktub) played keys. More recently,
mixed some old "live" Gits tapes at Private Radio, and recorded with TAD's new band Hog Molly.

BEAR CREEK (Woodinville, WA) had Laura Love finished tracking with Joe Chicarelli producing, Crystal Radio began tracking with Javier Garavito producing and Ryan Hadlock engineering.

XTREME/ MUSIC WORKS truck recorded the music for Battlefield Earth, a sci-fi epic with John Travolta in the starring role and a screenplay based on the novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Orchestra contractor David Sabee assembled 92 musicians in the richly reverberant St. Thomas Chapel of Bastyr University in suburban Seattle. The sessions were engineered by John Whynot with assistance from Steve Smith.

HANZSEK AUDIO's head engineer Scott Ross tracked with Thirstin' Howl at Bob Lang's Studio (Seattle)and did overdubs at Hanzsek (Seattle). Ross also worked with Loser and The Lloyds.

GRAVELVOICE (Seattle) received hazy vaporous images of Ota Prota, John Fahey, 33 Fainting Spells, SuperDuo, Edwin Torres and Sean Meehan, Lori Goldston, Land of the Loops, Jabon and Susan Balshor. All sessions engineered by Scott Colburn. Colburn also produced a surround sound mix for Ellen Fullman's Long Stringed Instrument at AMERICAN PRODUCTION SERVICES with Nick Denke engineering.


PRIVATE RADIO hosted Endorphin, St. Bushmills Choir, Jon Marshall with guitarist Henry Cooper, Loam Fear of Dolls, Mr. Smithers, Formula 5, The
Boss Martians, Hoovercain and Courtney Cook. Patrick Gray engineered all sessions.

RAINSTORM (Bellevue, WA), Aaron Lewis was in tracking his tribute
to the Columbine shootings due to be released April 20th on the anniversary
of the tragedy. Singer-songwriter Bridget Saint John began production on her
debut album. Paul Sims (formerly of Blackwater) tracking for an upcoming
release. All projects produced by Paul Speer, engineered by Steve Carter.


JACKPOT! (Portland) had Jeff Saltzman engineer sessions with Mothball and Old Joe Clarks. Larry Crane engineered sessions with The Planet The, So Sadly Fucked and Sugarboom,

GRAY RAIN (Seattle) Recorded hip-hop tracks with producer Coconut and Michael Gray for the following artists: No Good, Mack, C-Low, and Bligga. Producer Roni Madison worked with Snipe, Julie Schulman, Dank-P, and Leon Green. All sessions engineered by Nathan Smurthwaite and Michael Gray

LION DOG MUSIC (Seattle) opened their doors to Townsend and Currie, Peter Lawlor, and Rick Ruskin with Vivian Williams. Ruskin engineered all projects.

HAYWIRE (Portland) recorded with Pedro Luz, Try and Step on Her and The Prude Boys. Engineered by Jason Begin. Starter Kit, Alan Charing, Slackjaw, Brunette, and Suplex with Engineer / Producer Robert Bartleson.

VAGRANT STUDIOS got in lots of trouble with Michael Williams and Trueblue Productions, The Long Faces, and Lavender Country. All projects engineered by Erik 4-A.


MASTERING NEWS

MASTER WORKS (Seattle) beefed up tracks by Aggression Core, The Sick Bees and a compilation for UP/ Slabco featuring tracks by Modest Mouse,
Mark Pickerel, Land Of The Loops, Dynomite D, Volume All Star, Mike Johnson,
Explosion Robinson, and others. All projects mastered by Barry Corliss


Kevin Nettleingham, at Nettleingham Audio (Vancouver, WA) sweetened projects by Tom Cheek with Ramsey Embeck, Starter Kit, Emile Pandolfi, Brother Heathen, The Oregon Symphony, Jerry Hahn, John Butler and James Manuele.

DISC MAKER (Seattle) and Max Rose mastered projects by Pianist David Barela, Rapper OG Freeze, Acoustic trio The Cutters, Gideon's Press, and The Virginia Coalition, which was mixed by Mitch Easter.