On what piece of equipment was the first part of the In Colour album produced?
Xx (album) xx is the 2009 debut album by English indie pop band the xx. After they signed a contract with XL Recordings, the band recorded the album from December 2008 to February 2009 at the label's in-house studio in London. Audio engineer Rodaidh McDonald worked with the xx during the recording sessions and strived to reproduce the intimate, unembellished quality of their demos. The band's Jamie xx produced "xx" on his laptop and created electronic beats for the songs, which he then mixed in a detailed process with McDonald.
In A South Downs Way In A South Downs Way is the first studio album in the recording series "Walk Upon England", a project which celebrates the countryside as a source of creativity in music and poetry. The album was composed by Damian Montagu and co-produced and co-arranged with Stewart Prosser. It comprises tracks evocative of the South Downs, written for strings, piano and brass, with Hugh Bonneville narrating his own original writing.