Electric Lady Producer Management: How Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado Became One of Indie Rock’s Most In-Demand Producers
But deep within the distinctly uncool area that produced the Valley Girl stereotype, Foxygen multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Rado slowly began to leave his mark on the overall sound of 2010s indie rock, one tape recording at a time. Now, only four years after he bought a compressor and used it completely wrong throughout the entirety of Foxygen’s …And Star Power — he had heard that Todd Rundgren used to press all of the buttons in at the same time — Rado has become one of the most in-demand producers in his genre, pumping out acclaimed records from Father John Misty, The Lemon Twigs, Whitney, Alex Cameron and more, most of which hail from his Woodland Hills garage.
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