History
During 1980 that Nick Kinsey decided to expand the business and move to an old Church hall in Wood Green and transformed it into a hi-tech studio. In 1985 a second studio was added and Jerry and Mary Boys joined the company. By 1987 they had opened two more studios in Guillemot Place North London.
In 1993 Livingston succumbed to the nationwide recession in UK and the Guillemot studios were closed down. The Brook Road studios were acquired by Jerry Boys and Dave Margereson who owned the music management company Mismanagement and the new company Livingston Recording Studios Ltd was set up.
Nick Gold, producer and owner of the World circuit record label, met Jerry Boys after working together on an album with Oumou Sangaré and they started to work together with the Buena Vista Social Club.The Buena Vista Social Club's eponymous multi million selling first album was recorded at Egrem studios, Havana and mixed by Boys and Gold at Livingston Studios. They released it on their World Circuit label in 1997.
Björk's debut album Debut (1993) was recorded and mixed at Livingston Studios by producer Marias De Vries. It sold over 2.5m copies worldwide.
In 2001 Gold bought the company from Boys which enabled most of World Circuit's artists to be record and mix their music at Livingston Studios.
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