Jaime Gomez: Producer Nightmares and Other Tales From the Studio
Legendary recording engineer, mixer, mastering engineer and producer Jaime Gomez of Orgone Studios has had quite the career. Hailing from Colombia, music brought him across oceans to make his mark on albums from bands such as Ghost, Paradise Lost, Oranssi Pazuzu, Primordial and Drudkh to name but a very mere few. He’s well respected both on the producing side and also as a musician. With a career spanning since 2003, Gomez has seen his fair share of change in his industry. From Pro Tools, to AI and everything in between. In this exclusive one-on-one discussion with long-time friend and legendary journalist Jonathan Selzer, they’ll explore his professional journey, successes, failures, challenges and everything in between. This will be anything but boring.
Moderator: Jonathan Selzer (UK)
Frighteningly, at least to himself, Jonathan Selzer has been working as a music journalist now for over 35 years. He started off at the weekly Melody Maker and monthly Lime Lizard magazines in the late 80s, where he was nurturing his love for metal and arguing for an hour with Peter Steel, while also writing about industrial, the more leftfield realms of indie and pretty much anything else that fucked with his head. He also freelanced for Metal Hammer before moving on to become the editor of the extreme music monthly, Terrorizer, in September 2000. After surviving seven years working from an office perilously close the notorious London drinking den the Crobar, striking up a friendship with Gomez and regularly visiting his original north London studio for studio reports, more booze and general gossip, he moved back to Metal Hammer as reviews editor. In 2007. Jonathan remains at Metal Hammer 19 years in, still sworn to the dark rum and coke, and still firm in the belief that songs that aren’t about Satan, swords or witches are a bit silly.