Birth name Don Fury Record label Building Records Name Don Fury | Labels Building Records Years active 1984-present | |
Occupation(s) Recording engineer, record producer, mastering engineer Role Musical Artist ยท donfury.com Similar Hiretsukan, Youth of Today, Citizens Arrest, Quicksand, Life's Blood | ||
The New York Hardcore Chronciles Film 1.5 (Don Fury Producer outtake)
Don Fury is an American recording engineer and producer who owned three rehearsal and recording studios in New York City. He has recorded and produced music for a variety of punk and hardcore bands including Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Madball, Warzone, Helmet, Into Another, and Quicksand. In 2008 Fury moved his studio to Troy, New York.
Contents
- The New York Hardcore Chronciles Film 15 Don Fury Producer outtake
- Early life
- Career
- Recordings
- References
Early life
Don Fury grew up on Long Island in New York State.
Career
In the late 1970s Fury moved to Manhattan and built a rehearsal studio on 17th Street named Roach, less than two blocks from punk club Max's Kansas City. The studio was used by punk pioneers The Voidoids, James Chance, The Stimulators, and the Bush Tetras. Inspired by Sam Phillips' Sun Studio in Memphis, Fury built a second studio on 18 Spring Street four blocks from punk club CBGB, where Sonic Youth rehearsed. Fury recorded New York hardcore, punk, straight-edge and post-hardcore bands at the Spring Street studio including Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Underdog, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Madball, Civ, Warzone, Helmet, Into Another, and Quicksand, and Fury proposed the CBGB Hardcore Matinee to Carol Costa and Hilly Kristal. In 1996 Fury was represented by manager Sandy Roberton of World's End, and Fury and Roberton secured a subsidiary label deal for Fury's imprint Building Records with TVT Records, signing the progressive post-hardcore band Stillsuit. Fury built a third studio named Cyclone Sound on Coney Island in Brooklyn, where he recorded cabaret-punk rockers The World Inferno Friendship Society and Celtic rockers Black 47. In 2008 Fury built a new studio in Troy, New York and recorded the bands After The Fall, Skeletons In The Piano, The Erotics, Murderers' Row, and Aficionado, and mixed and mastered recordings for Deep Throat (Italy), Volver (Guatemala), Remission (Chile), Radical Noise (Turkey), and Outright (Australia).