The Village Recorder

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The Village Recorder
Recording studio
Opened1920s
Coordinates34°2′44″N 118°27′5″W
Address1616 Butler Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, US
Websitevillagestudios.com

The Village Recorder (also known as The Village or Village Recorders) is a recording studio located in West Los Angeles. It is where 1995's Mellon Collie was mixed, and where "Age of Innocence" and the drums for Monuments were recorded. It is also where initial sessions for Hole's Nobody's Daughter were recorded, which Billy Corgan contributed to.

The building was originally a Masonic temple until it was converted to a studio in the late 1960s. Famous albums recorded here include Aja by Steely Dan, Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa, and Planet Waves by Bob Dylan.

Albums[edit | edit source]

Artist Album Year
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1995
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God 2000
The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy 2014

Sessions[edit | edit source]

Session Artist Album(s) Producer(s) Engineer(s)
August 1995 – The Village Recorder The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Flood Alan Moulder Billy Corgan
October 1999 – The Village Recorder The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God Billy Corgan Flood Howard Willing
May 2014 – The Village Recorder and Pumpkinland II The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy Billy Corgan Howard Willing Jeff Schroeder Howard Willing
January 2018 – The Village Recorder The Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan Howard Willing