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[[image:Fridgestudios.jpg|right|thumb|Fridge Studios advertisment. Designed by Bryce Galloway of Wendyhouse and Hitlers Kock]] | [[image:Fridgestudios.jpg|right|thumb|Fridge Studios advertisment. Designed by Bryce Galloway of Wendyhouse and Hitlers Kock]] | ||
− | The Fridge was [[Contact 89FM]]'s recording studio. Established in 1987, the need for a dedicated production studio was an idea first initiated by Contact 89FM founder [[Max Christoffersen]]. | + | The Fridge was [[Contact 89FM]]'s recording studio. Established in 1987, the need for a dedicated production studio was an idea first initiated by Contact 89FM founder [[Max Christoffersen]]. The original Cowshed space that would later become The Fridge, was used by the campus photography club. It became Contact 89FM Offices in 1986 after Christoffersen successfully lobbied the WSU for the space to be removed from the very occasional use by club members and dedicated to Contact's expansion plans. |
− | + | During Contact 89FM's first year on air, the station's Cowshed studio doubled as a production studio during the four hour downtime in the middle of weekdays. With plans to go full-time in 1987, the need for a dedicated production studio space became crucial to any attempt to go on air all day. | |
− | + | Christoffersen's successful lobbying for the extra Cowshed space, lead to the establishment of Contact's offices and plans were developed for a production studio due to the extra Cowshed space now available to the station. | |
− | + | The increasing floor space in the Cowshed that was now dedicated to Contact-FM did not go unnoticed at the NEXUS offices next door. In the NEXUS End of Year Awards 1986, Contact was given the 'Brierley's Award for Sudden Success and Expansion', a tongue in cheek award picked up by Waikato Times reporter John Drinnan who noted the NEXUS award in his Waikato Times story about Contact's first year on FM. The Times story also noted the plans for the production studio to come the following year. | |
− | + | Serious planning for the PD studio was done towards the end of 1986 and in 1987 [[John Pattenden]] built The Fridge allowing Contact to go full time on air under the management of [[Glen Cooper]]. | |
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− | Serious planning for the PD studio was done towards the end of 1986 and in 1987 [[John Pattenden]] built The Fridge allowing Contact | + | |
Pattenden was Contact's first production manager and was the first producer to record bands using the multi-channel desk in The Fridge. Among the first recordings produced at The Fridge that year (1987) was Paul Martin's debut album Nightfall. Other local bands Pattenden recorded in the Fridge in 1987, included the [[Chanting Boys]], Russian Caravan and the [[Bio-Luvals]]. | Pattenden was Contact's first production manager and was the first producer to record bands using the multi-channel desk in The Fridge. Among the first recordings produced at The Fridge that year (1987) was Paul Martin's debut album Nightfall. Other local bands Pattenden recorded in the Fridge in 1987, included the [[Chanting Boys]], Russian Caravan and the [[Bio-Luvals]]. | ||
− | The Fridge's multi-channel desk | + | The Fridge's multi-channel desk was later stolen from the studio and recovered. |
The Fridge name came from the original 'industrial' fridge door that remained in use while the photography club used the premises. It remained the main doorway into the production booth following the studio's construction in 1987. | The Fridge name came from the original 'industrial' fridge door that remained in use while the photography club used the premises. It remained the main doorway into the production booth following the studio's construction in 1987. | ||
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==Revival with The Volume Collective== | ==Revival with The Volume Collective== | ||
− | + | In 2016, the Fridge was again revived by the University's [[Volume Collective]]. | |
− | In 2016, the Fridge was again revived by the | + | |
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