Don Fury is an American recording engineer and producer who owned three rehearsal and recording studios in New York City. He has recorded and produced music for a variety of punk and hardcore bands including

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Madball Madball is an American New York hardcore band. Originated in the late 1980s as a side project of Agnostic Front, the band developed after Agnostic Front's vocalist Roger Miret would let his younger half-brother Freddy Cricien take the micro ...

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, Into Another, and

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. In 2008 Fury moved his studio to Troy, New York.

Early life

Don Fury grew up on

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in New York.

Career

In the late 1970s Fury moved to

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and built a rehearsal studio on 17th Street named Roach, less than two blocks from punk club

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. The studio was used by punk pioneers

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, The Stimulators, and the

Bush Tetras Bush Tetras are an American post-punk No Wave band from New York City, formed in 1979. They are best known for the 1980 song "Too Many Creeps", which exemplified the band's sound of "jagged rhythms, slicing guitars, and sniping vocals".

. Inspired by

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in Memphis, Fury built a second studio on 18 Spring Street four blocks from punk club

CBGB CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village, Manhattan, East Village in Manhattan, New York City. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar. The letters ''CBGB'' were for ''Cou ...

, where

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rehearsed. Fury recorded New York hardcore, punk, straight-edge and post-hardcore bands at the Spring Street studio including

, Underdog,

, Wide Awake,

, Civ,

, Into Another, Yuppicide, S.F.A. and

, and Fury proposed the

Hardcore Matinee to Carol Costa and

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. In 1996 Fury was represented by manager Sandy Roberton of World's End, and Fury and Roberton secured a subsidiary label deal for Fury's imprint Building Records with

TVT Records TVT Records, originally Tee-Vee Toons, was an American record label founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1984. Initially created to release the '' Television's Greatest Hits'' series of classic TV theme tune compilations, the label would expand into ra ...

, signing the progressive post-hardcore band Stillsuit. Fury built a third studio named Cyclone Sound on

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in Brooklyn, where he recorded cabaret-punk rockers

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and Celtic rockers Black 47. In 2008 Fury built a new studio in

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and recorded the bands After The Fall, Skeletons In The Piano, The Erotics, Murderers' Row, and Aficionado, and mixed and mastered recordings for Deep Throat (Italy), Volver (Guatemala), Remission (Chile), Radical Noise (Turkey), and Outright (Australia).

Selected recordings

" United Blood" EP (''independent release'' 1983)Fury's discography at discog.com
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" LP (''Ratcage Records'' 1984) *

"Gorilla Biscuits" EP (''

Revelation Records Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side, Chain of Strength, Sh ...

'' 1988) *

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" New York Crew" EP (''Schism Records'' 1988) *

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" LP (''

'' 1989) *

"Born Annoying" EP (''

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'' 1989) *

" Ball of Destruction" EP (''In Effect Records'' 1989) *

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"Burn" EP (''

'' 1990) *

"Quicksand" EP (''

'' 1990) *

Born Against Born Against was an American hardcore punk band from New York active between 1989 and 1993. Though Born Against received little media exposure while still together, they have since been described as "legendary" by the ''Chicago Reader'' and the ...

"Eulogy" EP (''

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'' 1990) *

"Born Against" EP (''

'' 1990) * Citizens Arrest "A Light In The Darkness" EP (''Wardance Records'' 1990) *

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"No Compromise" EP (''

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'' 1990) *

" We Stand Alone" EP (''In Effect Records'' 1991) *S.F.A. "So What" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1991) *Yuppicide "Fear Love" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1991) *Bad Trip "Fear and Loathing" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1992) *Madball "Droppin' Many Suckers" EP (Wreck-Age Records 1992) *

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"Headlights" single (The Making Of Americans 1993) *Yuppicide "Shinebox" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1993) *

Snapcase Snapcase is an American hardcore punk band from Buffalo, New York. Their records were released on the Chicago record label Victory Records. During the course of the band's initial run of fourteen years, they released six studio albums before d ...

"Lookinglasself" LP (Victory Records Records 1993) *

Brutality and Bloodshed for All ''Brutality and Bloodshed for All'' is the eighth and final studio album by American punk rock musician GG Allin, recorded with his backing band the Murder Junkies. Released after his death in 1993, the first recording on Alive Records. All so ...

" LP (

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1993) *Mind Over Matter "Security" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1994) *

Dropdead Dropdead is an American hardcore punk band based in Providence, Rhode Island. They have been active in the punk scene since 1991, having been formed in January of that year. The band's songs are generally short and very fast-paced, with few las ...

"落とす死" LP (Selfless Records 1994) *Stillsuit "Green Spock Ears" EP (Wreck-Age Records 1995) *Yuppicide "Dead Man Walking" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1995) *Bad Trip "Buzzy" LP (Wreck-Age Records 1995) *Voice Of Reason "New Beginnings" LP (''Triple Crown Records'' 1999) *Indecision "To Live And Die In NYC" EP (Exit Records 1999) *Motor Betty "Redline" (Skeet Records 1999) *Locked In A Vacancy "Ethos" EP (Purity Records 2002) *Wide Awake "CT Hardcore" EP (Schism Records 1988)

References

External links

Don Fury Studio

Allmusic bio

Interview: Conversations with Bianca
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Early life

Career

Selected recordings

Further reading

References

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