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20th January 2026

London Performance of Max Richter's Hamnet Cut Live to Vinyl

Last night the first live orchestral performance of Max Richter's original 'Hamnet' score was cut live to vinyl by mastering engineers Christian Wright and Oli Morgan here in Room 5, receiving audio direct from Southwark ...

Abbey Road Live Cuts X Because Music: The Limiñanas

Today marks the release of episode five of our ‘Live Cuts’ series, produced in association with Because ...

12th April 2025

Abbey Road Cuts for Record Store Day 2025

Wonder what we’ve been up to for Record Store Day this year? From Queen's 'De Lane Lea Demos' and Johnny Marr's 'Look Out Live!' to The Hives' 'Tyrannosaurus Hives' and Sugababes' 'Taller In More Ways', check out the full list of cuts from our growing family of mastering engineers. ...

20th February 2025

Abbey Road Live Cuts X Because Music: Jeshi

Today marks the arrival of the fourth instalment of our Live Cuts series. Produced in association with Because Music, this new episode sees Jeshi perform live versions of 'Hurricane' from recent album ‘Airbag Woke Me Up’ and 'Sick' from his 2022 album 'Universal Credit’. ...

16th January 2025

Abbey Road Live Cuts X Because Music: LSDXOXO

Episode Three is here! The new instalment sees **LSDXOXO** perform two tracks in one take from his recent debut album, _DOGMA_, with the live recordings cut directly to vinyl. ...

5th December 2024

Abbey Road Live Cuts: Crystal Murray

We're excited to share the second episode of our new _Live Cuts_ series. Produced in association with **Because Music**, the second instalment features Crystal Murray performing two live tracks recorded in Studio Three. Crystal performed _Air_ and _Starmaniak_ in one-take, with the recordings cut directly to ...

22nd October 2024

Mastering Engineer Geoff Pesche on cutting EcoRecord for Coldplay's Moon Music

We sat down with mastering engineer Geoff Pesche to discuss the quality control process behind EcoRecords and the cutting of Coldplay's *Moon ...

20th April 2024

Vinyl Cuts for Record Store Day 2024

Today is Record Store Day 2024! We’re thrilled that our mastering engineers have mastered and cut loads of this year’s releases including Jessie Ware’s ‘Tough Love (10th Anniversary Edition)’ cut by Geoff Pesche, La Roux’s ‘Trouble In Paradise’ cut by Frank Arkwright and John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games EP’ mastered and cut by Alex ...

26th October 2023

The Beatles announce last-ever song Now and Then along with Red and Blue album reissues

Coming 2 November, the final track from the John Lennon demo tape which gave birth to ‘Free as A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ in 1995 was finally completed using George Harrison guitar parts and finishing touches by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. ...