Mystery Room Mastering

10/31/2025

At long last, you can stream the Mecht Mensch Anthology on your streaming service of choice, which hopefully isn't $potifICE.

Songs 1-5 originally recorded by Butch Vig at Smart Studios, and the rest of the songs come from various hard to find compilations, b-sides, and never before released live tracks. It's everything from this band.

It's available on CD, Vinyl, and Bandcamp from No Coast Records, and was curated by Bobby H***y.

Lacquers for vinyl cut by Townsend Mastering
Tape Transfers by Jessica Thompson

Restored and Remastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering

26 track album

10/31/2025

Solid review of the new Ladybird album from Milwaukee Record.

'Clementine' was recorded and mixed by Ian Olvera, and mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering:

“All those people I wanted to be / It always ends up the same way, hungry heart and running down a dream.”

10/28/2025

Milwaukee Record has an exclusive premier of the first single from the upcoming Driveway Thriftdwellers album 'High Top Van' that was produced/recorded/mixed by Ian Olvera, and mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering.

“Dance With You” is a “four-on-the-floor pop rock song that appeared unannounced during a writing session for another track on the album.”

10/26/2025

David J & The Resistance have a timely new single out now calling out ICE in “ICE Too Cold To Thaw” featuring members of Ozomatli & Spoon.

You can find it on Bandcamp, as well as 7" vinyl from NO Devotion Records.

Mastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering

Artwork by Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant)

Bandcamp Link In Comments

“The song simply roared out of me in a visceral response to the outrageous abuse of power that is happening in the USA right now.” says legendary post-punk artist/songwriter/icon David J about his new song “ICE Too Cold To Thaw” which is released today, October 23, 2025 via Mexico-based labe...

10/22/2025

Pitchfork gives the 10th Anniversary reissue of ‘E•mo•tion’ by Carly Rae Jepsen an 8.4 and “Best New Reissue” label.

It was an honor to create the vinyl cutting master here at Mystery Room Mastering.

You can order the 1 and 2xLP versions from Interscope Records.

Initial Discogs are very favorable.

Read Marissa Lorusso’s review of the album.

10/20/2025

Milwaukee Record has the scoop on the new Breakup Tour album that was mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering:

“The older that you get, the harder the hangovers hit.”

10/17/2025

Here's a great new album from Luther Dickinson featuring Datrian Johnson called 'Dead Blues Volume I" that's out today.

Mastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering.

Available on vinyl, compact disc, streaming, and Bandcamp via Strolling Bones Records.

9 track album

10/14/2025

MIGRATION COMPLETE:

Until now, the 70 terabyte (and growing) archive of completed mastering projects (and even some older recording and mixing projects) were stored across 12 hard drives on two separate OWC enclosures as seen on the left. A ThunderBay 8 and ThunderBay 4 Mini, both of which are now full.

These 12 drives also have a mirrored local backup of each drive on a bare 3.5" HDD stored in a fireproof safe, easily done via the Carbon Copy Cloner app.

All 12 drives are/were sync'd up to Backblaze as well for additional insurance. Two hard copies and a cloud copy is in my opinion the minimum requirement to make sure your data is safe.

This was getting to be a lot to manage in terms of number of drives and physical space.

With this system becoming full and the oldest of the 12 drives dating back to 2017, it was time to make a change to allow for more data in a smaller footprint, and something that will last at least 5 years, possibly 10.

On the right you can see a newly commissioned OWC ThunderBay 8 loaded with four 24TB drives, with 4 open slots where 4 additional 24TB drives will be added over time as needed as projects are finished and archived.

Each of the four 24TB drives again have a standalone mirrored 3.5" 24TB bare drive stored in a fireproof safe and easily mirrored via the Carbon Copy Cloner app as files are modified or added, and the files are also currently sync'ing up to the BackBlaze cloud.

While I can't 100% guarantee that I'll have your full mastering project archived for future needs, there's a pretty good chance the files will be there if needed again.

10/11/2025

Ladybird have a great new album out now called 'Clementine'.

Available on streaming, Bandcamp, and vinyl.

Recorded by Ian Olvera
Mastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering

1 track album

10/10/2025

The Deluxe Remastered Edition of "Dangerous and Moving" from Russian duo t.A.T.u. is available now on your streaming service of choice.

It's also available on 2xLP vinyl via Interscope Records with additional tracks that are not part of the digital streaming reissue at this time. (Link In Comments)

Album · 2005 · 17 Songs

10/08/2025

Julia Blair (of DUSK & Holy Sheboygan) just announced her new album "All Of My Important Things" which comes out November 7th.

It was mastered here at Mystery Room Mastering and you can pre-order it now via Don Giovanni Records.

The first single is available to stream on the Bandcamp page as well:

9 track album

10/06/2025

Black Belt Theatre have a great new album out now called "Hard Rock".

Mastered Here at Mystery Room Mastering

Album · 2025 · 11 Songs