About:


Audibleoddities is a mastering house located in the heart of San Francisco. It is owned and operated by Shawn Hatfield (Twerk), recording artist for many labels including Force-Inc, Mille Plateaux, Context, Merck, Planet Rhythm, Tigerbeat6, and Ritornell.

With over 10 years of experience mastering everything from dance music, pop, hip hop, drum and bass, experimental, jazz, indie rock, spoken word, and folk, Audibleoddities has the ear for today's current trends in mastering, balanced with an understanding of both modern and past technique.

High quality digital and analog mastering services are provided at low costs bringing affordable mastering to the underground and independent music community. Costs are amongst the lowest in the industry. To save you even further money, Audibleoddities does not charge for additional modifications to a project after the initial core mastering session. This allows even the pickiest of artists to get what they want without the fears that they'll be exploding the labels mastering budget.

Internetcentric services provided to help expedite the process. We offer a unique drag-and-drop web-page uploader or secure FTP access, and download of both test versions and the final masters. Convenient web forms are available to include notes, track titles, CD Text and ISRC codes.


News:

03.29.08
New batch of de'fchild productions records completed and either already released, or slated to be soon. Artists include, Jack Dangers, Pheek, dubLoner, Ali Khan, Igor O. Vlasov, Ruoho Ruotsi, and Deadbeat.

03.25.08
Persistencebit sees the mastering of a fantastic collection of electronic musicians to accompany a book of photos by Italian artist Francesco Brunotti. This release features tracks from Wang Inc., Populous, Scanner, and Retina.it

03.20.08
Wonderful new projects from Somnia and Native State Records have made their way through the Audibleoddities studio. Look for new releases by Bluetech, Steve Nalepa, Emanual Errante, and host of remixers that include Deru, RD, and many more.

03.05.08
Two gorgeous albums from Anticipate Recordings have seen the mastering here at Audibleoddities. Klimek's "Dedications", and Sawako's "Madoromi". These are must haves.

01.06.08
I've just applied to be a Turn Me Up! certified studio. The "volume wars" have been detrimental to music and I'm glad a group of smart individuals finally came up with something that looks to change the industry as we know it. Please visit their site for more information.

11.24.07
New rates for Net releases. 25% Our usual CD and Vinyl Rates. Price includes masters delivered in both raw, and compressed formats of your choice. Tell your friends, spread the word.

10.17.07
Of all the projects I've ever received, none could be more exciting to me. Many of you don't know that in my spare time I race bicycles for a local cycling team. So it's of no surprise that when this project came in the mail I nearly pissed myself. Peloton Musique is set to release CD and Vinyl of 20 songs made by guys like Lusine, Markus Nikolai, Marshall Watson, Nordic Soul and many others all taking samples from bicycles and building tracks from them. What? Hell YES!!! More info soon.

10.09.07
Upcoming release to be mastered for Controne Records. Deep melodic IDM from guys like Lackluster and Esem.

10.05.07
The Clientele see's the re-mastering of older songs taken from previously released 7"'s. Under a new name, Innes Phillips' The Relict, re-issues this great indie-rock music on Pehrlabel.

10.01.07
Audibleoddities now masters all Auralism releases. This forward-thinking techno imprint seeks to keep the dancefloor fresh and exciting with music that doesn't just make your ass shake, it makes your brain jiggle. Roster includes lots of up-and-coming talent alongside established members of this genre.

 

Audibleoddities has been featured in Wired and XLR8R Magazine!