Always great to see an album with drums tracked at our own Triple Colossal Studios hit the Billboard charts! Big congratulations to Elizabeth Chan, whose album Everyday Holidays debuted at #1 on iTunes Holiday Charts, and has hit #7 on Billboard’s Read more Elizabeth Chan – “Fa La La”, #7 Adult Contemporary This Week – with Video
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Grammy Nod for Drake; “Girl on Fire” Hits Billboard
What a way to close out the year: playing drums on the lead single from Alicia Keys’ Billboard Top 200 #1 charting Girl on Fire, and receiving a Grammy nod for Drake’s Take Care (Best Rap Album)! We’re tracking like mad around here.
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Six month wrap-up: Grammy nomination w/ Kanye & Jay-Z, on #1 Album “Take Care” w/ Drake, “I Love My B___s” w/ Rick Ross, and a brand new studio!
We’ve barely had time to breathe here at Indie Studio Drummer, so much has happened since August. Here’s a wrap-up of highlights:
- Our first Grammy-nominated album! Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Platinum-selling and #1 charting disc Watch the Throne is up for several Grammies this year. Our resident session drummer Dylan Wissing performs on the track “Prime Time” (along with producer/mixer/musician extraordinaire Ken Lewis), and is included in the “Best Rap Album” category. We’ll be watching closely on February 12th!
Playing drums on Drake‘s #1 charting (and I believe Platinum-selling by this point) album Take Care.We’re on the track “Lord Knows” Read more Six month wrap-up: Grammy nomination w/ Kanye & Jay-Z, on #1 Album “Take Care” w/ Drake, “I Love My B___s” w/ Rick Ross, and a brand new studio!
Playing on Maybach Music Group’s “Self Made,” Billboard #1 R&B/Hip Hop AND #1 Rap Two Weeks in a Row
Indie Studio Drummer on the Billboard charts! Our own Dylan Wissing played drums on the title track to the Maybach Music Group’s “Self Made,” featuring Rick Ross. The album was number #1 for two weeks straight on both the R&B/Hip Hop Album and Rap Album charts. Read more Playing on Maybach Music Group’s “Self Made,” Billboard #1 R&B/Hip Hop AND #1 Rap Two Weeks in a Row
Playing on Saigon’s “The Invitation” with Q-Tip & Fatman Scoop
More work with mega-Platinum producer Just Blaze and mega-Grammy-winning engineer Ken Lewis: a sample recreation on rapper/actor Saigon‘s track “The Invitation (feat. Q-Tip & Fatman Scoop)” from his latest album The Greatest Story Never Told on Suburban Noize Records!
The job on the Indie Studio Drummer end was to exactly recreate the original sample underlying the tune, a funky and obscure old soul track with lots of cymbals and percussion. Hard work, and extremely meticulous, but damn fun. I listened to A Tribe Called Quest‘s brilliant record The Low End Theory about a zillion times in my youth, so it’s a personal thrill to play on a track with Q-Tip, too!
Working on Common’s New Album
Not sure where this one will end up, but the call just came in to start work on a sample recreation for rapper/actor Common‘s latest release. As is the case with a lot of this work, we’re recreating a funky old-school soul sample in minute detail. 
Indie Studio Drummer’s Dylan Wissing has personally auditioned about fifty different tambourines in just about every music store in Manhattan to match a tone found in the late 60s sample – he’s the man to go to with any tambourine-sourcing related questions you might have!
In Session with Tyro Marks
Recording with Americana artists Tyro Marks this week in the ISD studio. Great mellow string-based band with damn haunting melodies Read more In Session with Tyro Marks