‘A vision come true’: Platoon launches London studio

Global artist services company, Platoon has announced the launch of Platoon 7, a new state-of-the-art recording studio at London’s Tileyard music hub in King Cross.

The new studios are designed to offer artists a bespoke, world-class space to record, write and collaborate.

Designed by Platoon and Chris Walls and Eleni Papadopoulou of Level Acoustic Design, Platoon 7 includes three recording studios, two Dolby Atmos rooms, a content capture studio, podcast booth, writing rooms, an artist lounge and an education lab to provide in-person and virtual workshops. Each of the 10 rooms are interconnected, offering flexibility and simultaneous use of the space across writing camps and multi-artist recordings.

The Dolby Atmos rooms, built and installed by Studio Creations, also offer remote recording capabilities, meaning that Platoon artists can work together from wherever they are in the world in high-resolution audio.

Furthermore, Platoon will also be working alongside local organisations and community groups to offer the space free of charge to aspiring talent.

Platoon founder and CEO, Denzyl Feigelson, said: "Platoon 7 is a vision-come-true for me. After so many years of planning a space that hosts everything an artist could want under one roof, this is it.

"I'm so thrilled that we've had the opportunity to work with the most amazing minds to help bring this to life, and I'm excited to see and hear all the fearless creativity that will emanate from these gorgeous rooms".

Multi-award-winning producer, songwriter and musician Fraser T Smith, who has worked with the likes of Adele, Stormzy, Kano and Dave, released his debut album 12 Questions via Platoon under the moniker Future Utopia last year, and is among the first artists set to record in the new space.

Commenting on the launch, Smith said: "The new recording studios are a world class, state-of-the art space and a clear demonstration of the incredible work that Platoon is doing for its own artistic community”.

This month, Smith scooped the Best Contemporary Song gong at the 2021 Ivors Awards for Children Of The Internet featuring Dave, from 12 Questions.

Speaking to Headliner at the Ivors ceremony, Smith said: “It’s amazing, to have won anything for my own project is incredible. Dave and I have won in this category twice before, but that’s been with me as a producer working with Dave and he should take all the glory for that. But for this, where it was my vision, to get that validation from the Ivors Academy feels truly amazing.

“I’m a very collaborative producer, so I have to look into their vision and how I can amplify and enlarge it, but with something like this where it is my own project, I felt that I really had to step up and be like a creative director. It’s absolutely something I want to do again. I’ve already started the next record.”

Smith also opened up on his collaborations with last year’s Ivors Rising Star Award winner Mysie, as well as how he has continued to stay creative during the pandemic.

“Throughout the pandemic I was finishing my record and promoting it,” he said. “And I’ve been working with Mysie through the Apple Music mentorship programme. So, we were talking and now we’re creating, and we’ve made two EPs together. It’s been a really fertile time for me creatively. I moved out to the country, which was a real blessing. The closer you are to nature, the closer you are to creativity. Nature has been a good thing and it keeps me creative.

“As for Mysie, she is incredible. And the thing that is unique about that relationship is that we spent a year together without any constraints, just talking as people. Then the more I knew about her and the more I found out about her music, it just naturally came together. It’s become a really fruitful relationship and we’re writing amazing songs together.”