Land's Air — Land's Air

Two of Boorloo’s most prolific experimentalists combine as Land's Air. The duo of Eduardo Cossio and Josten Myburgh manipulate saxophone, zithers, space, and time, feeding melody and noise into naturally reverberant spaces with patience and timbral focus.

Josten Myburgh – alto saxophone, electronics, recording.
Eduardo Cossio – zithers, electronics, harmonica, photography, design.
Released on Tone List
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

Anjo — Weekender

Anjo and friends set out on a 3-day retreat to Bon Temps, on Kaniyang Country, and came away with their debut album entitled Weekender.

Weekender has a certain energy, the kind generated by a bunch of musicians focusing on the essential in the music and following intuition above all else.

Weekender is the RTRFM Local Feature for the week starting March 6th, 2023.

Recorded by Anjo and Friends
Mixed by Jeremy Segal
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

Gap Year — Old Clothes

Gap Year’s first single of 2023 is Old Clothes, out now on Blue Grey Pink! The tune features Lee Napper’s melancholic melody floating over a rock solid rhythm section performance from Maddy Blue and Ben Santostefano, with lush guitars and synthesiser painting the harmonic backdrop.

Masterfully engineered and mixed by Rhien Tan, the track sets the band’s compass towards further recording in 2023.

Old Clothes was in the RTRFm Sound Selection for the week starting February 28th, and was the 10th most played track on RTRFm in the month of March, 2023.

Engineering and mixing by Rhien Tan
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
Artwork by Maddy Blue
Released on Blue Grey Pink

Jocelyn's Baby — Wake. Relax. Repeat Again.

New single from Jocelyn’s Baby out now on Blue Grey Pink! It’s a big “rock n roll” track, something out of the late ‘90s, early ‘00s. Special mention to Josh Rospondek on guitar for winding up a huge solo out of the breakdown and carrying it to the finale.

Stay tuned for the release of Jocelyn’s Baby’s debut full length, Are You Listening? Due in early March!!

Production and mixing by Ryan K Brennan
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
Released on Blue Grey Pink

Apple Digital Masters Certification

 
 

ENCODER Sound is now approved to provide Apple Digital Masters (ADM)*.

Artists and labels around the world are creating amazing music all the time, and the streaming providers, including Apple Music, are tasked with delivering that music to the people. This delivery requires careful handling of digital audio from the time it leaves the studio to the time it reaches the fans. On this process the Apple Digital Masters Team states:

“It is our job to faithfully and accurately deliver this music to fans around the world exactly as you [the artist] intend it to be heard.”

Mastering engineers share the same ambition and through collaboration between audio mastering engineers and the ADM Team the quality of streamed and downloaded music can be maintained.

To this end the ADM Team have developed workflows and protocols for mastering engineers to follow in order to achieve this “faithful and accurate delivery.” When hiring a mastering engineer with ADM approval you can be sure that the master you receive will meet the ADM specification and reach the ears of your fans as you intended it via Apple Music and iTunes.

Artists and labels who receive masters from ENCODER Sound and use a digital music aggregator that has ADM functionality will be able to display the ADM badge on their release in Apple Music and iTunes, giving listeners the confidence that due diligence has been served in preparing the digital master for Apple’s encoding process, ensuring that the final listening experience will be of the highest quality.

The Apple Digital Masters Badge on Arctic Monkey’s fantastic 2013 release AM.

*You can read more about delivering Apple Digital Masters here
**Apple Digital Masters (ADM) was formally known as Mastered for iTunes (MFiT)