1. John Warren Vanderslice was born on May 22,1967 and is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and recording engineer.
24 Facts About John Vanderslice
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John Vanderslice is the owner and founder of Tiny Telephone, an analog recording studio in San Francisco and Oakland, California.
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John Vanderslice has collaborated with musicians such as The Mountain Goats, St Vincent, and Spoon.
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John Vanderslice grew up in rural North Florida before his family moved to Maryland when he was 11.
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John Vanderslice spent five years as a member of the experimental band Mk Ultra, with whom he released three albums in the 1990s.
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In 1997, John Vanderslice founded Tiny Telephone, a 3,000-square-foot, two-room recording studio in the Mission District of San Francisco.
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The original San Francisco studio closed in 2020, with John Vanderslice stating that despite being fully booked year-round, it was no longer financially sustainable.
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In reality, John Vanderslice faced manufacturing difficulties due to the album's artwork, which resembled a Windows installation disc, causing at least one manufacturer to hesitate over potential legal repercussions.
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In 2010, John Vanderslice released a free EP, Green Grow The Rushes.
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Unlike his previous heavily overdubbed works, John Vanderslice adopted a looser, more organic approach, composing acoustic versions while Choi arranged the orchestration.
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In January 2012, John Vanderslice left his record contract with Dead Oceans.
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John Vanderslice created a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to start his own label and reached his $18,500 goal within hours of starting the campaign, which ultimately resulted in his ninth album, Dagger Beach.
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In conjunction with Dagger Beach, John Vanderslice released his own full cover version of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs.
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The idea for the cover album came in August 2012, when John Vanderslice performed Diamond Dogs in full at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco, followed by a screening of Michel Gondry's cult classic, The Science of Sleep.
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John Vanderslice began touring again in 2018 with Undertow Music, performing a series of house shows.
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Since 2014, John Vanderslice has worked as a full-time record producer at Tiny Telephone, collaborating with artists such as Frog Eyes, Samantha Crain, The Mountain Goats, and Grandaddy.
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John Vanderslice has previously worked with Sophie Hunger, Bombadil, Strand of Oaks, and Spoon.
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In 2020, John Vanderslice largely moved away from analog recording and became an advocate for the creative flexibility offered by digital recording.
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John Vanderslice was a contributing producer on the Spoon album Gimme Fiction and produced several albums for The Mountain Goats, including We Shall All Be Healed, The Sunset Tree, and Heretic Pride.
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John Vanderslice's song "Promising Actress" references the film Mulholland Drive, and his 2004 album, Cellar Door, is inspired by and largely written about the 2001 film Donnie Darko.
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John Vanderslice has taken publicity photos for Thao Nguyen, The Mountain Goats, Will Sheff of Okkervil River, and Mirah.
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John Vanderslice's work has been used as album artwork by Matt Nathanson, Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes, and Mobius Band, as well as for his own 2009 release, Romanian Names.
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Since shifting away from analog recording in 2020, John Vanderslice has radically changed his musical style.
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John Vanderslice cites his modern influences as Arca, JPEGMafia, Autechre, and Modeselektor.