Feast or Famine


Newly redesigned web site coming soon... it is awesome, so please stay tuned!

Our first two releases of 2005 are already garnering rave reviews! Please e-mail or phone us at (415) 522-1368 if you would like to order a copy. Thanks!

FORF012: Three Piece Combo
FORF014: Eli Good - Bride of the Bull


Feast or Famine is a recording studio and label in San Francisco, California. Our studio is for bands and recording artists who wish to release full-length CDs of original music or high-quality demo CDs for booking purposes.

Our studio also provides mixing, CD mastering, sound design, and other audio production services. Additionally, we have mobile systems for recording bands in their practice spaces or for capturing live DJ sets at clubs. Studio rates are generally very low, ranging from $25 to $60 an hour, depending on the nature of the project.

We run a small record label as well for musicians and DJs interested in putting out adventurous music. In terms of genre, we're pretty much open to anything that's musically independent.

And yes, we're "that label" who carries the band Job - we love them too! Please visit their Web page for more information. Their second CD North should be coming out this year, and from what we've heard so far, it's really REALLY good.

A few of our satisfied studio clients:

  • Secret Chiefs 3 (featuring Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle fame)
  • Subarachnoid Space
  • Duramater (featuring Todd Huth of Primus/Porch fame)
  • The Bar Feeders
  • Job
  • Species Being
  • Wobbly
  • Leakey (from New York City)
  • Angel's Camp
  • The Foster Brooks (featuring Richard Marshall of Alice Donut fame)
  • High Powered Leroy
  • Superglue Revenge
  • Mariposas Negras
  • Flywheel
  • Turk Knifes Pope
  • Dana Schechter (Bee and Flower, Angels of Light, Gifthorse, Worry Dolls)
  • Souls of Blue
  • Radiosonde
  • Thinkfish Productions
  • Fun
  • Blanch Tweezer
  • Late in the Day

    Feast or Famine was founded in 1994 by Jai Young Kim. For more information, please e-mail or phone us at (415) 522-1368.


    "It is customary to believe that the CD is superior to the LP in terms of bandwidth, but this is not the case. The CD is limited to 22,000 cycles, whereas the LP is able to reproduce frequencies up to 50,000 cycles, which in the PCM world equals a sampling rate at 100 KHz."

    Bob Ludwig

    "And I've met plenty of people at other studios that really make my flesh crawl. Irritating guys with ponytails who will stick their noses in the studio every half hour and make a disgusted face and then walk out. But probably the worst type of person in these places is the ass-kisser who says things like, 'Oh, yeah - I'm really, like, into what you're doing, dude.' Just slime."

    Steve Albini

    Last modified in March, 2005.

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