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You may wonder why Future Music – a magazine that would rather holiday at a synth-packed and rain-soaked Superbooth in Berlin than lay on a beach in Bermuda sipping cocktails – would put Steve Albini, a famously stubborn anti-studio tech producer (in fact, a famously stubborn anti-producer) on any kind of pioneer-labelled pedestal.
Well, just as superheroes don’t always wear capes, so pioneering studio whiz-kids don’t always use the latest 3D softs synths, cathedral-modelling convolution reverbs, 200GB orchestral libraries and AI. Steve Albini didn’t go anywhere nearit’s this kind of anti-establishment, anti-technology, anti-normality attitude that actually Albini such a studio pioneer.