A PERFECT COLLABORATION

Baltimore-based producer, Benny Boeldt, helped write, record and mix several tracks on Martina’s new album,

“I know Martina from the time when she was living in

Baltimore and we actually started working on a few things before she went back to

London. Life kinda got in the way for a while, but the pandemic was the perfect time to get reacquainted.

“Basically, Martina had a bunch of incomplete songs and we tried to get them into some kind of shape. I was in Baltimore and she was in Spain, but Zoom and Audiomovers took care of that. We could listen to things back and forth, try different mixes, add a few effects.

Martina really liked the sound of the Eventide H3000 – I’ve got the hardware version – and we ended up using that a lot. You can hear it all over the second track on the album, Wanted. I also added a bit of percussion from my TR-606.

“I do use plugins, but a lot of my main gear is analogue. I’ve got a modular setup, a Juno, a Moog Rogue and the desk is a beautiful Phillips MD12. It’s from the late-60s, 12 channels, no panning and heavy as fuck. This thing weighs about 400 pounds!

“My platform is Reason, so I couldn’t just jump straight into Martina’s Logic sessions. We had to import everything into my setup. Reason is fantastic for audio editing. A lot of my friends who are in bands say, ‘I don’t get Reason,’ but all I can say is, as an electronic musician, I don’t get Logic. For me,

Reason is the most intuitive platform out there.” Boeldt is currently recording as Mezey and his latest EP can be found on Bandcamp: mezey. bandcamp.com/album/ mez003