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Home Recorded Culture

About Me:

My name is Michael John Serpe, I Started Home Recorded Culture in 1994 after internships at both Sub Pop & C/Z records as well as years of working in various screen printing shops by day & at home recording by night. I believe art & music is about creating beauty & inspiring ideas & for me HRC has been a good vehicle for doing just that. Consisting of myself & a revolving cast of helping hands, HRC is not a label but an artist & musician toolbox in helping artist present their work from within the vision they hold. Here we can record your music, custom design & package it, print you T-shirts, build you a web site,, all in- house, literally.

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http://www.homerecordedculture.com

Favorite Music

"We believe art is about creating beauty & inspiring ideas" It's a time of MP3s & iPods. With the album experience being drastically altered, we're standing guard... As well as hand-crafted album packaging, we also created tangible image through posters, T-shirts, invitations for special events, custom promotion packages, & web development. Anything you need to warrant someones attention. From small short-run art projects to full on high volume production. Our in-house equipment is: A 1 color Hopkins manual press for flat stock. A 4 color, 4 station Hopkins manual press for short-run T-shirt printing. And for you rockstars, we have a M&R 10 color 12 station auto press, with quick turn around & awesome pricing. We run Adobe CS as well as CorelDraw 12 & house both a Mac & PC- RECORDING STUDIO Well it's not really, it's a living room with 14 ft high ceilings, adobe walls & a brick floor. It's pretty live sounding naturally but there are ways around it should you like it dead. There is also a smaller, warmer room with wood floors. It houses a modest ProTools Digi 003 rack system in a pretty bumpin' iMac with plenty of memory & we back it all up to DVD. We have some basic plug-ins, tube mic pres, a POD xt amp modeler & Reason 2.5 if you are in need of that electronic atmosphere sounding stuff. There's not many mics but what we have are work horses & will sound as good as you play it! We have a 6 string Martin hybrid acoustic/electric, a 6 string Larrivee acoustic, an Ibanez bass & a small arsenal of hand percussion. We also know a few really good musicians if you need some helping hands. So all in all it's a pretty straight forward set up, we don't usually do rock bands but if you are a singer songwriter or smaller band with some minimal percussion, you'll find it intimate & affordable at $15.00 an hour. If that's not enough to get you going, Midtown Liquors is down the street from us!

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Favorite Club

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