13d (edited) • Making your first recordings
The Room Finally Started Making Music
After spending weeks building, adjusting, reorganising, painting, tweaking, and slowly turning this space into something usable… eventually you have to stop working on the room and actually use it.
That’s the part people don’t talk about enough.
A home studio can quietly become a permanent setup project. There’s always another thing to improve. Another cable to fix. Another plugin to buy. Another video to watch.
At some point though, the room has to justify its existence.
So here is the first recording that came from the room finally becoming a place for actual output instead of endless preparation.
“Dealing Drugs” was written by Tom Smith and recorded in the new home studio to meet an external deadline. It was later mixed and mastered at Hillside Studios by Matt Hills, before being released in January 2026 on The Glorious Rebirth… by Baulk at the Möön (more on that in a future post).
Tom’s original demo was a raw acoustic guitar-and-vocal recording captured on a mobile phone. It's also part of his forthcoming concept album about crime and justice. I approached the arrangement as a strange fusion of 90s grunge and hip-hop, which was completely new territory for me, and asked my friend Adam Szkolka to record the main vocals.
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