Sylvia Massy

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Sylvia Massy

Sylvia Massy is an entrepreneur, veteran record producer, and studio engineer in the United States. Massy is perhaps best recognised for her work on 1993's Undertow, the full-length double platinum-selling debut for Los Angeles rock band Tool.

1 History
- 1.1 From Green Jelly to Tool
2 Current status
3 Works
4 External links

[edit] History

Massy started out in Los Angeles circa 1985 as producer, engineer and mixer for "Rat Music for Rat People", a compilation album which featured several notable acts, including Adolescents, Raw Power, Mojo Nixon, among several others. Towards the end of that decade, Massy was an engineer on recordings from a diverse group of internationally-known artists, including Aerosmith, Babyface, Big Daddy Kane, The Black Crowes, Bobby Brown, Danzig, Geto Boys, Julio Iglesias, Seal, among many others.

[edit] From Green Jelly to Tool

During the early 1990s Massy was working on a project with Green Jelly, when one of the members of that band invited Massy to produce a fledgling band known as Tool. The unprecedented success of that collaboration was a gift and curse — while it opened the floodgates for production opportunities, it threated to marginalise Massy as a "Hard music" producer.

[edit] Current status

Massy relocated to Weed, California with spouse Greg Shivy. They own and operate Radio Stars Studios out of the Art Deco Palace, a facility which was constructed in the 1920s. They acquired the property in 2001, and also use it as a theatre.

Other entrepreneurial activities Massy is involved with includes being the president of the National Recorder record label, as well as being the head of Psycho Empire — a cooperative/collective of artisans.

[edit] Works

Sylvia Massy Shivy has worked with the following musicians:

Animal Alpha – Pheromones (Racing Junior) (P-E-M)
Cog– The New Normal (MGM) (P-E-M)
Casanovas – forthcoming album (Rubber Records) (P-E-M)
Spiderbait – Tonight Alright (Universal Australia) (P-E-M)
Acroma – Orbitals (Republic/Universal) (P-E-M)
Lustra – self titled (XOFF) (P-E)
Powerman 5000 – Tonight The Stars Revolt! (DreamWorks) (P-E) platinum
Johnny Cash – Unchained (American) (E-M)
System Of A Down – self-titled debut (American) (E)
Showbread – No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical and Age of Reptiles (Tooth and Nail Records)
R.E.M. – Road Movie (Warner Bros./HBO) (M)
Cyclefly – Generation Sap (Radioactive) (P-E-M)
Econoline Crush – The Devil You Know (EMI Canada/Restless) (P-E-M)
Seek Irony - Blend (Israel)
Red Hot Chili Peppers –Love Rollercoaster (Geffen) (P-E-M) gold
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt (One Little Indian/Epic)
Deftones – Escape From LA
Tool – Undertow (Zoo/BMG) (P-E) 2x platinum
Tool – Opiate (Zoo/BMG) (P-E-M) platinum
Machines of Loving Grace – Gilt (Atlantic) (P-E-M)
Seigmen – Total (Sony/Norway) (P-E-M)
Green Jelly – Cereal Killer (Zoo) (P-E-M) gold
Lollipop Lust Kill - My So Called Knife (Artemis)
Tripdavon – The Enlightened Operative (Oxygen Recording) (P-E-M)