While difficult, their situation could’ve been worse. I was like, it’s not gonna sound the same. “And you can ask bro, I was a hundred percent against ,” says Space. ![]() ![]() The studio is owned by Derek Steinke and lead engineer Alex Arthur, who also worked with FlyLife on his 2022 full-length debut A Different View. To enter the actual studio, Carousel clients are walked past rows of polished automobiles––some lifted, some dyno’d––undergoing every stage of tuning and calibration. The interior of the hangar is bright, glossy and white like an Apple Store. Located inside a nice car garage along a long, open-sky stretch of northeast Des Moines, likely designed to accommodate its billowing recycling facilities and postal delivery bays, Carousel Studios is the definition of tucked away. IPR From left, Sqvce, 64cityy and FlyLife perform at the Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works Park in 2021. “It was discouraging,” says Fly, “cause you don’t know how it’s gonna sound and you don’t know, like, am I gonna be able to recapture the energy?” “That sh-t, I’m not gonna lie, I was very irritated,” says Space. So, after having captured lightning in a bottle across two days with the original FlySpace III vocal tracks, the duo were devastated to lose it all due to some silly wiring mistake. Even putting aside their competitive “iron sharpens iron” mentality, the pair work efficiently in the studio, crafting songs and banging out entire bodies of work in just days, sometimes hours. With over a decade of collaborative music making under their belts, sessions with Fly and Space are down to a science. When we made that sh-t, bro we were in a different bag.” “Maybe three, four months ago we had it fully recorded, fully finished, all that––we just needed to get it to Carousel to mix. ![]() We recorded it all at my crib, then we had to go re-record it all at Carousel. So, we had to re-record the whole project. “We had recorded the whole project,” says Fly, “and one of my homies he kinda, like, helped me set up my preamp wrong. It wasn’t until months later, as they prepared their files to go get mixed, that they realized what happened. After a vicious two days of laying down vocals, FlyLife and Sqvce (said, “Space”) really thought they snapped.
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