Miloco Studios

Miloco Studios are a leading international group of recording studios based in London, England.

Miloco was formed out of the merging of three former London recording studios: Milo Music, The Garden and Orinoco Studios.

Milo Music began in 1984 as a small studio in east London's Hoxton Square (the studio is commonly referred to as simply ‘The Square’), which was used by the likes of Tricky, M People and The Brand New Heavies in the early years of its life. In the early nineties they took over another building nearby to The Square and used it to build seven programming suites for artists and producers to use for long-term periods. Today, Miloco still operate five of the seven rooms, and people filling them currently include pop producer Richard X and Swing Out Sister. In the late nineties, Milo Music also became the parent company of producer Howie B's Pussyfoot record label, whose roster of artists usually recorded at the studios.

The Garden studio, located in the Shoreditch area of East London, was built in 1981 by John Foxx and the well-renowned studio designer Andy Munro. It became a regular choice of studios for the likes of Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure and Depeche Mode, as well as Matt Johnson of The The who ended up buying the studio for himself. Milo Music became the studio's representative from the mid-1990s, when for the first time The Garden was run as a commercial enterprise.

Orinoco Studios was founded in the mid-1980s and came to prominence with the release of Enya's Orinoco-produced Watermark album, which included the hit "Orinoco Flow", apparently named after the studios. Orinoco was central to both the dance explosion of the late 1980s and the indie / Britpop era of the early to mid-nineties. The studio's top-end Neve mix room (known as The Engine Room) has always been integral to Orinoco's appeal, and since the early 1990s bands such as Oasis and The Chemical Brothers mixed groundbreaking albums such as (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and Dig Your Own Hole respectively, in The Engine Room. All of The Chemical Brothers’ six albums have been mixed in the room, and the dance act also regularly used The Toyshop programming room, located in the same building as The Engine Room. 1997 saw Orinoco produce more number-one albums than any other UK studio, apart from EMI's Abbey Road.

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