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Marble Hill
12+ albums
chilloutambientswedishpopinstrumental
about
As the writer/producer behind Marble Hill, Richard Anthony Jay has grown from a child fascinated with hi-fi music equipment to a grown-up that has mastered all of those knobs & buttons. “My Dad has always liked hi-fi equipment so he always had the latest gadgets,” Richard says. “In the late 1970s, he had a reel-to-reel tape recorder which allowed you to record sounds on top of other sounds, which I had a lot of fun messing about with.” Richard says his first attempts at recording came about by teaching himself how to work the recorder and graphic equalizers, and as Hip Hop and Rap music started to hit the mainstream, Richard says he “unsuccessfully tried to learn to scratch records on the turntable while my father was at work.” The turntable was very expensive, and Richard says his father never did figure out why his high-end needles were wearing out so quickly. Ruining his father’s stereo equipment wasn’t the only foray into learning music young Richard would undertake. He started taking acoustic guitar lessons in grade school, and later began teaching himself piano. Richard took steps to beginning his journey from music-obsessed child to working independent professional musician when he got a job as a trainee tape operator at a local recording studio. One evening while playing some of his own music, another studio engineer told Richard that Richard himself should be the artist, and not recording other artist’s music. “Up until this point I had never seriously thought a
