Producers: Max Martin literally farts a top ten hit; Butch Vig; Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.

 

• Brian Eno’s original handwritten “Oblique Strategies” cards. Below: Eno explains the cards to Jarvis Cocker. And Alan Moore interviews Eno.

• Butch Vig on producing everyone that mattered in the late ’80s and early ’90s — not just Nirvana and later Garbage, but a huge swathe of the post-hardcore pre-grunge before them.

• How good a pop producer is Max Martin? He can literally fart a top ten pop hit — the bass sound on “The Call” by the Backstreet Boys.

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