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Discoved: Craig Armstrong Wave of change

The orchestra and the electronics got bigger and bigger! It began to feel like the speakers couldn’t contain the sound.

Beat / Where was your first studio when you started out?

Craig Armstrong / It was a tiny little room off the side of a building in Glasgow called CaVa Studios which sadly isn’t there anymore. It was one of Glasgow’s main recording studios at the time and I was there in the late 90s, early 2000s. It was lined with keyboards and Akai samplers, you could hardly get in the door. It was a really happy studio, very creative and although it was tiny it had a great vibe!

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