EQ MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON ELECTROKITTY
ROOM WITH A VU
by Eugene Robinson
EQ Magazine
April 2005
There’s this Snoopy doghouse moment on entering Electrokitty when the words of the immortal sage Willie Dixon find their way back to you, more true than ever. You can’t judge a book by looking at the cover. The cover, in this instance, a modest 2-story house in Seattle’s Wallingford district, about a jog and a jump from downtown, sporting sort of typical suburban detritus, from baby strollers to, well, more baby strollers, And cushioned below the front porch is a Hobbit door, and ducking our heads as we enter it feels like studio owner Gary Reynolds should say something like Voila in the face of a highly unlikely studio spread.
“People will walk up to it.” Says the laughing Reynolds, “and be, like, ‘What is this?’ I mean it’s kind of like a speakeasy studio.” Clearly, Boasting a clientele that includes everyone from Joe Chiccarelli (Rufus Wainwright, Beck) to Bob Power (Erykah Badu, De La Soul) to indie monsters Mastodon with Matt Bayles, Electrokitty almost just happens to be beneath a house. And that’s just about where the basement comparisons end.
“We recorded this band that just wanted our room for drums. Now our live room is only about 20’ x 20’,” Reynolds says, warming into the story. “ So they do their drums here and take them off to a very big, well-known studio. Well, we get this email from the guys there and they wanted to know what the hell we did to the drums.”
They sucked?
“Nooo, They kicked ass on their drum sound he said and they’re recording in a 50’x40’ room. But our live room is great. It sounds like a castle.”
And the very big, well-known studio?
“I ain’t telling.” says Reynolds
Well we are: Electrokitty’s live room is killer.
Check it out.
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