February was jammed packed at Megaphon:
Young punkers Coffin cut a debut record with engineer Shane Fahey.
Melbourne’s Black Level Embassy tracked their next record with Jon Boy Rock.
Composer Hilda Fairley recorded her new works for piano and cello with engineer Shane Fahey.
Canberra’s jazz pianist wiz kid Luke Sweeting cut his debut record with engineer Richie B.
Billygoat and the Mongrels finished some more tracking for their record with engineer Cat Coleman.
Sydney folk outfit The Conversations recorded their debut with engineer Chris Hancock and producer Dave Symes.
South American troupe Surkuy recorded their next record with engineer Chris Hancock and producer Richard Austin.

January was mostly booked out by Noiseworks with Steve Balbi tracking vocals and guitars for their forthcoming album. Around that we also managed to squeeze in tracking for a great new gypsy / jazz record for the Klezmer Divas.

A jam packed last month of 2011, sessions include:
- Rock royalty Noiseworks tracking guitars and vocals (Engineer: Steve Balbi, assistant Chris Hancock)
- Sophie Hutchings is tracking piano for her new Preservation Records release (Engineer: Tim Whitten)
- Leroy Lee is recording with producer/ bass player David Symes (Engineer: Shane Fahey)
- Escape Syndrome are tracking drums to 2″ tape (Engineer: Daniel Leffler)
- Ungus Ungus Ungus are in for five days of mixing last months recordings (Engineer: Shane Fahey)
- Mat Wicks is in for two days recording (Engineer: Jon Boy Rock)
- John Huey is recording two new classical works (Engineer: Chris Hancock)
- Scattered Order are finishing mixing works for Austrian label Klanggalerie (Enginner: Shane Fahey)
- Jozz Scott, Mike Berkley, Westernsynthetics and Pineapple express are in for mastering (Engineer: Chris Hancock)

A super busy month as everyone tries to finish off their records before the end of the year:
- Departing members of Wolfmother, Bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett are working on their super new project Dune Buggy (Engineer: Jon Boy Rock)
- Paul Mac is in grabbing drum and synth takes with the help of Chris Ross, Myles Heskett and engineer Jon Boy Rock
- Stephen Rae is tracking some clarinet for 21st century classical (Engineer: Shane Fahey)
- Galaxy Fuzz Band are tracking more songs for their next album (Engineer: Shane Fahey)
- Ashleigh is laying down a folks single (Engineer: Chris Hancock)
- Mike Berkley has been mixing new IDM / Brain Dance music (Engineer: Chris Hancock)
- On The Stoop is tracking another album of left-field gypsy music (Engineer: Shane Fahey)
- Steve Balbi is working on some new musics
- Adriano Cappelletta is tracking drums (Engineer: Chris Hancock, Producer: Adrian Deutsch)
- Ungus Ungus Ungus are in for a 4 days of tracking for their next record (Engineer: Shane Fahey)

October is shaping up to be another busy month @ Megaphon Studios.
- Ross Nobel is working on his album “Upright Man Vol. 3″ (Engineer: Shane Fahey; Producer: Darren Percival)
- Bridie King is recording new works with the legendary engineer Phil Punch
- Rand & Holland are in for a session to record strings for their forthcoming album (Engineer: Chris Hancock)
- George Palmer is also back in to record a trumpet sonata and edit previously recorded 16 piece ensemble recordings for the contemporary opera for Tim Winton’s best-seller “Cloudstreet” (Engineer: Shane Fahey)
- Lastly both Mar Haze and Ungus Ungus Ungus will be inhouse rehearsing new works for recordings in early November.

Dappled Cities have booked the studio for half of the month to record their new album (engineer Ned Cooke) -
George Palmer is back in recording contemporary Opera (engineer Shane Fahey) -
The Daily Meds are having beats mixed for their forthcoming album (engineer Chris Hancock) -
Engineer Tim Whitten is in recording singersongwriter Sophie -
Lastly in-house engineers Shane Fahey and Chris Hancock are both doing a bit of touring; Shane with gigs in Canberra, Melbourne and Newcastle as part of Scattered Order, Chris with gigs in Canberra and Brisbane under his beat alias Monk Fly

Another diverse month of recording and mixing @ Megaphon Studios:

- Mar Haze mixing (engineer Shane Fahey) – [Alternative Roots]

- Monk Fly mixing (engineer Chris Hancock) – [Beats]

- Ross Nobel recording (engineer Shane Fahey) – [Roots and beyond]

- Spartak recording (engineers Shane Fahey & Chris Hancock) – [Experimental]

- Scattered Order recording and mixing (engineer Shane Fahey) – [ Post Punk]

- Woonona High / Kool Skools recording and mixing (engineer Ned Cooke) – [Pop]

- Mara recording (engineer Ross A’Hearn) – [World Music]

- Billygoat and the Mongrels (engineer Cat Coleman) – [Hillbilly Blues]

- Sophie recording (engineer Tim Whitten) – [Folks]

Another crackin’ month booked solid with a huge variety of artists & bands:

- Mar Haze (engineer Shane Fahey) {Alternative Roots}
- George Palmer (engineer Shane Fahey) {Opera}
- Ross Nobel (engineer Shane Fahey) {Roots and beyond}
- Hell City Glamours (engineer Jon Boy Rock) {Rock}
- Scattered Order (engineer Shane Fahey) {Post Punk}
- Grand Fatal (engineer Jon Boy Rock) {Rock}
- Monk Fly (engineer Chris Hancock) {Beats}
- Romano (engineer Shane Fahey) {Classical}
- Spartak (engineer Chris Hancock) {Experimental}

This month we have some very exciting sessions traversing a whole range of styles and engineers:
- Black Loop (engineer Jon Boy Rock) {rock}
- Rand and Holland (engineer Chris Townsend) {country}
- Deep Sea Arcade (engineer Tim Whitten) {alternative}
- Scattered Order (engineer Shane Fahey) {post-punk}
- Baby Karaoke (raisingchildren.net.au) (engineer Chris Hancock) {jazz}
- Jonny Faith (self engineered, assistant Chris Hancock) {future beats}
- Cody Dillon (engineer Chris Hancock) {americana}
- Geoff Yule (engineer Shane Fahey) {classical}
- Nick Pitt (engineer Shane Fahey) {other}
- Spartak (engineer Shane Fahey) {other}
- Kool Skools 2011 (engineer Chris Hancock) {various}

May’s activities down @ Megaphon Studios have been varied and busy.

We started the month recording a new album for French vocalist Sylvie Boisel (engineer Shane Fahey).
Following Sylvie, Megaphon had David Symes in to produce the Ten Artists Project, celebrating the life and music of Jesse Younan, featuring a host of Sydney and Melbourne’s best vocalists and players, including J.Walker (Machine Translations), Emily Lubitz (Tinpan Orange), Lucie Thorne, Chris Abrahams, Stu Hunter & Hamish Stuart (engineer Shane Fahey).
The Winter People have also been in the studio to track some grand piano and guitar parts for their forthcoming album (engineer Chris Hancock).
This Filthy Seed came in mid May to mix some songs for their latest record (engineer Shane Fahey).
Country artist Cody Dillon has been in to mix the first half of his debut album (engineer Chris Hancock).
North Lakes High School have also been through Megaphon as part of the Kool Skools 2011 program (engineer Chris Hancock)
In between sessions in-house engineer Chris Hancock has been also been mixing new beats from his alter ego Monk Fly.

To finish of the month we have Jon Boy Rock in for four days tracking the second half of Small Town Incident‘s new record and in-house head engineer Shane Fahey mixing Lucie Thorne‘s 6th album tracked at Megaphon in April.