Welcome to Urchin Studios - The new standard in quality recording for London.

Nestled in the hub of the East End of London, Urchin’s Cable Street Studio is a rarity – superb facilities, relaxed atmosphere and a team who are committed to realising your project’s full potential. Operating in collaboration with legendary Strokes producer Gordon Raphael, Urchin Studios provides a wealth of artistic knowledge and creativity.

The studio was conceived with a simple ethos – to create a comfortable, affordable studio environment that puts the needs of the artist first.

Welcome to the new season and our new look site! Thanks again to Richard for the photos and to the No Picasso boys for their modelling skills.

So the final rays of Summer sun are ebbing away as we pick the final crusts of cow dung from under our finger nails after an extremely ill advised trip to Bestival (DO NOT ignore extreme weather warnings before attending festivals). We here at Urchin are getting our breath back from what has been a truly extraordinary Summer of recording.

In August we were privileged enough to have a visit from the legendary Mayo Thompson who has recorded the latest Red Krayola record with us, in what will go down as one of the most interesting and absorbing recording sessions Urchin Studios has had the pleasure to house. The album is currently being mixed by Jim O'Rourke in Japan - we can't wait!

Other recording highlights also came courtesy of the wonderfully melodic White Collar Weapons, the future-punk styling of No Picasso and the high-octane ska-punk of the aptly titled Krakatoa.

Finally it's only right to give a special shout out to Joe's Asian Fetish who came, recorded and literally got hard in their gym shorts. Good work boys.

Spring has sprung, and we here at Urchin Studios are admiring the daffodils and looking fondly over a musically rich winter season. Highlights of which include mixing the quite extraordinary Three Trapped Tigers, recording the rather lovely electro-fused mayhem of Akira and getting our best ever yet Hammond organ sound (it’s all about the distressor man) with the wonderful songwriting talents of Mr John Stanley.

Werewolves also found time to drop by and shake our very foundations to the core with guitar riffs that were almost alarming in size. Thanks lads.

The arrival of 2008 brings an end to what has been a wonderful year for us at Urchin Studios. Check out the featured article about the studio in December's edition of Play Music magazine. It has been a great pleasure to watch the studio blossom so magnificently in what has been the year of it's conception.

Here's to more great music making in the year ahead.

Urchin Studios London is now the proud owner of an upright piano (and just when you thought we couldn't squeeze any more quality instruments into our studio). So come one come all and have a tinkle at Urchin Studios - and you might just end up adding that special something to your recording...

Again, all has been full steam ahead upon the good ship Urchin, most notably with the construction of a brand new acoustically treated floating floor, which was lovingly installed by the studios own Matt Ingram and Dan Cox. After an intense 5 days of hard labour and fried breakfasts by the duo, the studio is now looking and sounding better than ever! Check out the gallery for updated live room pictures.

And to music: The Urchin team have been recording a vast array of wonderful sounds, from cinematic Lou Reed inspired Rock n' Roll to some positively filthy Grime remixes, the crew has been hard at work (and has even found time to begin Matt Ingram's solo Prog project, working title: I'm not Short, You're Just Standing Far Away).

So autumn greets us with a two-week visit from Gordon Raphael and a brand new XL signing, as well as a belated, yet very welcome visit from the lovely boys at Transgressive Records. It's all go.

There has not been time for much news of late, as all of us Urchins have been busy hitting drums, twiddling knobs and generally aiding others in the creation of good sounds.

We’ve just finished recording and producing the lovely Tallulah Rendall’s debut offering, which is now in the capable mixing hands of Marius De Vries. Other artists of note have been Jeremy Warmsley, Emmy the Great, Leon Jean Marie, and Skin (who is currently being guided effortlessly through the musical universe by the power of Gordon Raphael’s sonic mothership).

Our myspace page has a few titbits of some of the stuff we’ve been up to. Enjoy!

Last night Urchin Studios London opened in a very modest, cheap-cava induced blaze of glory.

Thanks to everyone who came down and supported and extra special thanks to Jeremy Warmsley for performing so wonderfully!