Baltic Studios

Back in the tail-end of 2019, NAO spent a month recording at Baltic Studios, and now tracks from those sessions are about to see the light of day!!

Her second album ‘And Then Life Was Beautiful’ is out on 24th Sept (same date as our party at The Waiting Room, FYI). Excited to see it out in the world ☺️

Gosh darn it felt so good to be back at on Sunday! Thanks to friends for coming down and to Alex et al for hosting 😘 Onwards to the dance!

🔈Playlist update 🔈 Oops, been a few months since the last update to You Don’t Need to Keep Time! To make up for it, we’ve just added a truly 10/10 selection of bits we’ve been enjoying since December last year. Includes recent stuff from Jam City, Parris, Thoom and Monokultur, as well as older bits from our faves Kate Bush, Ryuichi Sakamoto (why had no one showed me this one before?!), Janet Kay (out to Steve McQueen), Cocteau Twins and, of course, SOPHIE ❤️❤️❤️.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4sSW36LAWRcalsa3mgieq5?si=tbD0QCo3TQytAyCV4NdGmg

Baltic x Behind This Wall – live on The Vinyl Factory today at 1pm!

Remember those halcyon days of the rule of 6? A few weeks ago Baltic (repped by Lewis fka DJ 6’6” Male) set up shop in our fav bar Behind This Wall to soundtrack a Sunday evening. A recorded snippet – which spans gentle popnotpop, crude dubby electronics, wiggy ‘art rock’ and a bit more – is being streamed over on The Vinyl Factory as part of their VFLive series today at 1pm. See ya in the digits 😊

The monthly rotation continues! If you haven't already, check our rolling Spotify playlist, You Don't Need To Keep Time. This month features a soul-heavy, A-list crew. Old bits from the likes of Pointer Sisters, Beverly-Glenn-Copeland, Yanti Bersaudara (I am OBSESSED w this track atm), OutKast, and Flying Lizards. New(ish) from Eartheater on PAN, Soft Boi, and DK on 12th Isle.

This month, we also moved a bunch of the older stuff into an Archive playlist for the fans 👍

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4sSW36LAWRcalsa3mgieq5?si=bxdoPUT-TvGJ4ZnVFOV8yw

You Don't Need To Keep Time Baltic LDN · Playlist · 90 songs · 63 likes

Playing music to fleshy humans once again! We’re at Behind This Wall on Sunday alongside the bar team. What a thrill. It goes (we hope) without saying: no dancing, just listening

Book ASAP! Bring ur household!

Free-House of Horror part V — Behind This Wall For Halloween this weekend we’ll be open Thursday through to SUNDAY .

A fortnight ago we put the day-to-day running of things on pause. We used the day to think about our place in relation to structural racism and how we should fight it. Although it shouldn't have taken a catalyst like the murder of George Floyd to get us here, we've now got the beginnings of a plan, which we thought we'd share.

As an immediate response, we've set aside £2,000 for donations to anti-racist causes. About £500 of this has already been split between over 60 US bail funds (the link is still in our bio – donate if you can). The rest will be split between UK-based anti-racist political campaigns and initiatives.

In the longer-term, we will:

**Establish a regular donation/fund to support Black music makers
**Use our social media to celebrate and share the work of Black artists
**Book more Black artists to play at our events
**Proactively seek to recruit Black people to work at Baltic
**Implement policies in our nonprofit activity at the studio to ensure that Black people are represented
**Use as many local, Black-run businesses in the supply and upkeep of the studio as possible

We're also thinking about how we can make the studio more accessible and inviting to Black producers, engineers and musicians. This requires more thought and we'd welcome any feedback or suggestions. For now, we plan to talk to Black music makers about what they want from a studio, and about how we can offer the space to emerging Black musicians.

We know there are likely to be things we've missed. Please get in touch if you have any ideas about how we can do better as a studio and events series. In the meantime we'll continue to develop these ideas and plan how we can support the movement. Solidarity and love!