One of the biggest names in rock production, Butch Vig became a household name producing Nirvana’s Nevermind, and has worked with Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters and loads more. As a founding member of Garbage, he’s also a multi-platinum selling artist in his own right.

Take a trip into studio dreamland as we cook up a studio fit for rock royalty. This episode, hear how Vig beat out two of the biggest names in music to get his hands on a one-of-a-kind mic, why he draws similarities between coffee and rock records, and why no software emulation will ever beat his hardware tape delay.

This episode, we're joined by Grammy-winning producers Alex Metric and Riton (Henry Smithson), two members of the new electronic supergroup KUU. hugely accomplished producers and remixers in their own right, the pair have joined forces to make Balearic House with their latest project. But what do they consider "the electric guitar of synths"? What vintage hardware processor is indispensable in the KUU Forever Studio and will they manage to find any unexploited loopholes? Listen to find out.

Our guest this time is Dirtybird Records founder and producer Barclay Crenshaw, known to the world as Claude VonStroke. As well as being a regular headliner at clubs and festivals all over the world and making some iconic club tracks, he heads the label that’s home to Green Velvet, Justin Martin and more. And he also releases ‘alien hip hop instrumentals’ under his real name!

Listen to find out which animal he can’t escape, why he isn’t at all fussy about mics and which low-cost drum machine he can’t live without in his fantasy Forever Studio.

Genre-hopping DJ/producer Mat Zo is known for everything from DnB to dubstep to big room EDM and progressive house. And it's time for him to cook up his fantasy Forever Studio. Awkwardly, though, he pretty much has everything he needs already. Can we upsell the dreams of the Grammy-nominated producer? Listen to find out. Also, discover which outboard preamps he can't live without, which classic hardware synth he's always dreamed of owning and which single soft synth he could live with for eternity.

This time we’re joined by Seeb, the Norwegian duo behind the enormous dancefloor remix of Mike Posner’s, I Took A Pill In Ibiza. Listen to learn which affordable vintage mic recreation they can’t live without for pop vocals, how Espen upgraded a classic polysynth and find out the best-practice for avoiding confrontations with bears in the wild.

Creating his fantasy Forever Studio this time is Dutch DJ and producer Mason who rose to fame in 2006 with the Electro House banger, Exceeder, a track that went on to be remixed and re-released multiple times, topping charts and rocking clubs all over the world.

Since then Mason has started his own label, Animal Language, and has released music on major labels and some of dance music’s most respected imprints.

Now, with his new record out on Toolroom, we talk unusual musical origins, why Dutch is the best language for techno track titles and how he creates hundreds of track ideas for each record.

In this not-to-be-missed episode, we're joined by electronic music veteran and polymath instrument developer, BT.

The Grammy-nominated composer/producer is widely credited with pioneering trance and IDM and is also the creative mind behind iZotope BreakTweaker, StutterEdit and Spitfire's Phobos convolution synth.

With a career spanning 30 years, he's also amassed an incredible array of instruments in his Aladdin's cave-like studio.

But, how will he react to being allowed only six items in this fantasy Forever Studio? Stick around for stories about geeking out over synth patches with Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt, how Stewart Copeland saved his bacon, and why he uses $300 monitors for mixing.

Grammy-winning LA-based engineer Austen Jux-Chandler has credits including Adele, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, A$AP Rocky and John Legend. But which side of the Atlantic will the British engineer put his fantasy Forever Studio? We talk Zoom recording sessions, mixing pianos and why he can live without the mixing console.

Marco Niemerski aka Tensnake is a producer, DJ and label boss known for making 80s-inspired house and disco. Following his huge 2010 hit, Coma Cat, he collaborated with Nile Rodgers, Jacques Lu Cont and Jamie Lidell, played stages from Coachella to Glastonbury. But what will happen when we ask him to spec up his fantasy Forever Studio? Can we successfully upsell his dreams, or will he get bogged down in plumbing logistics? Listen to find out.