Los Angeles based Trance legend and head honcho of record label “Garuda” Mr Gareth Emery speaks up openly about ghost production and how strong his bond with his good old friend “Ashley Wallbridge”.
In a recent Facebook post, Gareth wrote
“I frequently get asked if I produce my own music.This is a way more complex topic than people generally realize but here’s the lowdown.
Firstly, I don’t have anything against using engineers to polish up a track (even though I rarely do it myself). I mean, if an artist has written the melodies, the song, it’s no big deal having someone else work on the production. Did The Beatles produce their own music? Of course not.
Now that’s very different to artists who can’t play a single note of music and simply buy ready-made tracks off the shelf…. which is basically taking someone else’s art and passing it off as your own.
Me? On most of my good tracks I did *all* the production. Not because I’m against getting help, but because nobody else could do it how I wanted. I did all of:
Concrete Angel.
Sanctuary.
Reckless.
Mistral.
Sansa.
U.
Tokyo.
Long Way Home.
Exposure.
Metropolis.
But I’ve done some tracks, mostly remixes, where I was running out of time and someone else to do the heavy lifting to finish my demos. Alex Sonata worked on my remix of Lost Frequencies. Craig Connelly on my remix of Ferry Corsten.In those cases I wrote the music. They’re still Emery tracks. They’re just tracks I wouldn’t have got finished otherwise, On the flip side, there are about 10 tracks in the Armada / Garuda catalog that I ghost produced for others back in the day.
In all honesty I’d fucking love to find a permanent engineer to finish up my tracks.
It would allow me to focus entirely on writing music and songs, rather than spending 4 hours tuning a hi-hat that nobody notices anyway, and I’d likely release more music as a result.
But nobody else really nails it so for now, it’s me.
Side-note: my fav person to collab with is Ashley Wallbridge . We think about music in absolutely the same way, and can both do every bit of the process. On balance, he’s the better engineer, and I’m probably a bit better at melodies, but together we’re a lethal fucking team. Except to see a shit load more records from us soon!“
Usually producers out there don’t speak too much openly about this act, but this is not the first time he has done something extra-ordinary and out of the box, remember Gareth & Ashley’s project “CVNT5” ?? where they exposed the corruption behind DJ mag votings and ghost producing portraying Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, what more has to come out from the man or the duo for that lets wait and see 🙂
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