John Jones Music

Here is the long lost episode of the BBC’s “Science in Action” program from 1987. In this segment we discuss the Fairlight CMI Series III in Studio 5 at AIR Studios Oxford Street, and I show how to sample using a Casio sampler. We sold the Series III to J. J. Jeczalik of the Art […]

The great English recording engineer, mixer, producer, studio manager, designer and builder, Bill Price, has passed away after a long illness. Bill was AIR Studio, Oxford Street’s, chief engineer, from their opening in 1970, until he took over at Wessex Studio, in 1976. He began his career at Decca in the mid 1960’s. Bill, recorded, mixed, and or produced, many of my favorite […]

Dear friends, I just signed the petition “Save Air Studios“ and wanted to ask if you could add your name too. This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here: Save AIR Studios […]

Here is the long lost episode of the BBC’s “Science in Action” program from 1987. In this segment I show how to sample with our Fairlight CMI Series III in Studio 5 at AIR Studios Oxford Street. We sold the Series III to J. J. Jeczalik of the Art of Noise a few weeks after […]

Pulling out the past.

It started out as the tape copy room. By 1986 it was a ‘state of the art’ Fairlight/MIDI studio on the fourth floor of the Burton building in Oxford Circus. The pictures are from a Sound Recording Magazine, Japan, July 1987, article about George Martin’s AIR Studios.

Here is a decent article about Sir George Martin and AIR Studios history, printed during George’s In My Life tour. From the April 11, 1998 edition of Billboard magazine.

I scanned an article printed by AIR Studios in 1988 to promote their UK recording studio on Oxford Street in London. It is mostly an interview with then AIR manager Malcolm Atkin, who is now Chairman of the APRS. The article is an excellent overview of the state of the art of recording equipment at that time, and includes […]

Well, it wasn’t easy, but I found an old track from ESP Studios in Buttonville. A 1981 Fairlight song of mine. Full of all the cliche Fairlight samples, and my live Kawai piano accompaniment.