Alexander Bornschein

learning about Steve Albini passing away really shook me. mixing my first punk rock gigs on some analog 12 channel mixer, no compressors and just a banged up yamaha digital reverb at age 19, he‘s been a great inspiration. he recorded so many records i loved and his essays and rants about (the) music (industry) spoke to me just like his music did (Shellac).
not that i agree with all of his occasional dogmatism but i always had the greatest respect and admiration for the man and his incredible work.
he kept his studio door open at affordable / reasonable rates when others would have departed for mixer-producer stardom long ago. he seemed immune to it, didn‘t care about royalties, anti-capitalist, always calling out the system‘s bullshit.

rest in peace.