Chung King Recording Studios, formerly known as The Chung King House Of Metal, is a New York City recording studio founded by John King that was site of many classic punk and hip hop recordings. The City of New York A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. Ideally the space is specially designed by an acoustician to achieve the desired acoustic properties (sound John King, also known as "King Gizmo" is a Music producer and one-half of the Los Angeles -based duo the Dust Brothers. Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. King started Secret Society Records in 1979 before building a studio in an old restaurant in Chinatown – Chung King, and during early work with Def Jam, Rick Rubin dubbed the studio the “Chung King House of Metal” – and therefore changed the name of the company in 1986. ||-||-||-||}The Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan &mdash (紐約華埠 a borough of New York City &mdash is an Ethnic enclave with a large Def Jam Recordings is a United States based hip-hop Record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (born March 10 1963 in Lido Beach New York) is an American Record producer and is currently
The studio gained it’s reputation in the international recording industry by the early commercial success of artists such as Run-D.M.C., The Beastie Boys and LL Cool J back when rap and hip-hop were still a "rumble in the bronx". The record industry is the part of the Music industry that sells Sound recordings of Music. Run-DMC was a pioneering hip hop group during the 1980s founded by Joseph "[The Reverend] Run" Simmons, Darryl "D James Todd Smith (born January 14 1968 better known as LL Cool J, is an American Rapper and actor Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting, or just rhyming) is the Rhythmic spoken delivery of Rhymes wordplay and Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. As a result of the affiliation of such hip hop artists and those who subsequently came to embrace Chung King, both established and upcoming, Chung King Studios came to be known as “The Abbey Road of Rap”. Abbey Road Studios, established in November 1931 by EMI in London, England, is a Recording studio located at number 3 Abbey Road, The studio is well established as the recording environment of choice for a number of top-tier artists and producers.
Today, Chung King Studios is a multi-million dollar facility located on Varick St. in SoHo and is recognized as one of the most successful and respected audio recording and production facilities in the world. Varick Street runs north-south in the Manhattan borough of New York City. This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City. For the area in London UK see Soho. The studio has several times been nominated by Mix magazine Tech Awards for Outstanding Acoustic Design and founder & owner John King has received RIAA Industry Awards and a SPARS award for recording excellence. Mix magazine is a Periodical billing itself as "the world's leading magazine for the professional Recording and sound production technology industry"
Chung King Studios has produced records that have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, generating over $5 billion in sales.
Trivia
- Punk band Judge recorded their 1989 EP at Chung King, but after an unsatisfactory recording session with a cocaine-addicted engineer, titled the effort Chung King Can Suck It. A judge, or justice, is an Official who presides over a Court of law Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of Sound through mechanical and electronic means Chung King Can Suck It is a limited-pressing colored vinyl album by New York City band Judge, containing the original version of what was to be the The album's credits stated it was as "not produced" and "engineered by some cokehead loser. "
- The studio served as a temporary home to The Lady of Rage before she joined Death Row Records. Robin Yvette Allen, better known by her stage name The Lady of Rage, ( April 12, 1971) is an American rapper and actress best Death Row Records was a Record label that was founded in 1991 by Dr
- Chubb Rock recorded the song "Three Men At Chung King" with Red Hot Lover Tone and Grand Puba for his 1992 album, I Gotta Get Mine Yo!. Chubb Rock (born Richard Simpson on May 28 1968 in Jamaica) is a New York -based Rapper who released several commercially The Trackmasters are the successful production duo of Poke (Jean-Claude Olivier and Tone (Samuel Barnes sometimes credited as Poke & Tone, perhaps best known Grand Puba is an emcee best known as a member of the group Brand Nubian.
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