Good news: PG had saved a copy !
Sledgehammer
BT's Collaborations With Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel Stolen
Newly recorded collaborations with Peter Gabriel and Sarah McLachlan
were among the items stolen from BT's home studio in late December,
the electronic music guru revealed Tuesday.
Thieves broke into the DJ/producer's Los Angeles studio over Christmas
while he was recording in London and made off with more than $75,000
worth of equipment, including computers storing 11 tracks for his
upcoming album and hundreds of other recordings, he said.
"One of the FireWire hard drives that was stolen included my sound
library since I was 15 years old," a shaken BT said. "It's a really
heavy thing, a really hard thing to have happen when you are gone. The
guys that work for me were crying over the phone — grown men crying.
It was a really difficult blow to take, but it's made me more
determined."
Since he returned from Europe, BT has recovered parts of half of the
stolen songs, he said. He also learned from Gabriel on Tuesday that
the British singer had saved a copy of most of their collaboration.
Re-recording the missing parts won't be easy, however. "It's going to
be like remembering the lines in someone's forehead if you were
painting them from memory," BT said.
One of the mixers stolen from BT's studio was once a part of a set. BT
had the other half stolen shortly after moving to Los Angeles a few
years ago.
"I've had such strange experiences here," he said. "Being in Los
Angeles has been so positive on a career level for me, and at the same
time I've been robbed and put in the trunk of a car, and now I've had
my studio broken into."
BT said fortunately his most expensive and rare equipment was not in
the studio that was burglarized. He also did not lose his
collaboration with the Roots (see "BT Working With Roots, Sarah
McLachlan On New LP"), and he said the material he was recording in
England is some of the best stuff he has done for the album, which had
been due in the spring but will likely be pushed back.
BT's McLachlan collaboration may not ever be heard, depending on the
availability of the Canadian songstress or his luck in retrieving the
stolen goods.
"I'll give a huge f---ing reward for my hard drives back," BT said.
"That's all I care about. Anybody that can get them, they can keep
everything else."
BT called his still-untitled track with Gabriel, which includes
excerpts from their favorite poets, Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath, a
"really beautiful piece of music." "It just gutted me thinking it was
lost," he said.
BT, who gained notoriety outside the club scene last year by producing
'NSYNC's "Pop" (see "BT Earns 'King Of Dirty Pop' Title With 'NSYNC,
Britney Tracks"), has been recording the follow-up to 2000's Movement
in Still Life since last fall.
Despite the break-in, BT still performed at a giant street party in
Los Angeles on New Year's Eve with Paul Oakenfold and Deep Dish (see
"Paul Oakenfold, BT Throwing New Year's Block Party In L.A.").
"I considered not playing, but you know, that's something that makes
me very happy, connecting with a bunch of people, and it was good for
the spirit to do it," he said.
Stickgirl
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Arthur
Hmmm.. a horrible thought just strikes me now - in six months, we get the
news - "oops! all material for UP has been accidentally deleted! Oh well,
we'll just start over again - release postponed until 2012 "
Arthur
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> Can I get an AMEN?!
>
>
> sho...@hotmail.com (Sledgehammer) wrote in message
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> > http://www.vh1.com/thewire/content/news/1451706.jhtml
> >
> >
> > BT's Collaborations With Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel Stolen
> >
> > Newly recorded collaborations with Peter Gabriel and Sarah McLachlan
> > were among the items stolen from BT's home studio in late December,
> > the electronic music guru revealed Tuesday.
> >
> > Thieves broke into the DJ/producer's Los Angeles studio over Christmas
> > while he was recording in London and made off with more than $75,000
> > worth of equipment, including computers storing 11 tracks for his
> > upcoming album and hundreds of other recordings, he said.
> >
> > "One of the FireWire hard drives that was stolen included my sound
> > library since I was 15 years old," a shaken BT said. "It's a really
> > heavy thing, a really hard thing to have happen when you are gone. The
> > guys that work for me were crying over the phone - grown men crying.
CivikMan
>news - "oops! all material for UP has been accidentally deleted! Oh well,
>we'll just start over again - release postponed until 2012 "
In that case, the title of the album will be changed from "UP" to "OOPS!" :)
Allen Welty-Green
want to keep tweaking and perfecting it before he goves it back to BT...
we won't hear this stuff for 6-1/2 years!
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CivikMan
>want to keep tweaking and perfecting it before he goves it back to BT...
>we won't hear this stuff for 6-1/2 years!
The only version of what, the next album?
Raheeb Rahman
Again, can you say "off-site backup"?
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Raheeb
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> BT's Collaborations With Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel Stolen
>
> Newly recorded collaborations with Peter Gabriel and Sarah McLachlan
> were among the items stolen from BT's home studio in late December,
> the electronic music guru revealed Tuesday.
>
> Thieves broke into the DJ/producer's Los Angeles studio over Christmas
> while he was recording in London and made off with more than $75,000
> worth of equipment, including computers storing 11 tracks for his
> upcoming album and hundreds of other recordings, he said.
>
> "One of the FireWire hard drives that was stolen included my sound
> library since I was 15 years old," a shaken BT said. "It's a really
> heavy thing, a really hard thing to have happen when you are gone. The
> guys that work for me were crying over the phone - grown men crying.