supro duotone through valco amp performed by ajax at http://www.bopnique.com


Bopniquekiltringtone4

played and composed by ajr on one of the only known walnut optigans in the universe. made by the assembly line forman for the president of mattel inc in 1971. Jon Brion eat your heart out.

Bopniqueoptiganringtone8

from the bridge of a Mark Zamcheck Alt Jazz piece.this is a pastiche of sounds made with various strings and non strings into a drop dead quiet bit.


PERFECT ringtone

polyrhythmic ringtone from "The Making of The Making of" masterpiece  "Time to go"

CUEBALL

trip hop group consisting of Jawn P, Annette Farrington, AJAx, and sometimes "MC Force aka the sorcerer" Mixed by Bob st. John at sound techniques.

we have an album of this material and need to get it packaged up and released! this song was featured prominently  in the MIRAMAX film "Squeeze"

"happy" jawn p and the pawn shop

another free bopnique musique ringtone hand crafted in the scifi mambo lab with real instruments and real people.

VINTAGE OTTOMAN www.bopnique.com free ringtone

ajax performed this on guitar through boomerang H4000 and tape echo.  wild guitar sound

Bachjax ringtone www.bopnique.com

AJax and Nuno Composition/Production

Nuno: Electric Guitars/vocals
Ajax:  Moog Bass, Organ, Wurli, tympani,beat programming,string and female vocal samples

TLINTHEGALAXY

TV Mania track

Nick Rhodes: synths
Warren C:  guitars
AJR: live drums, beatbox, lap steel, percussion, moog, bass

04 You're Dreaming Pal

Hot track version 1.02.  An ode to the dark side of Socal featuring the van Gogh Brothers with John Sands on drums a la "Wild Way".  Produced by Anthony J. Resta.  Recorded and mixed by Karyadi Sutedja at Bopnique Musique.   

California, Redux

Tucked away in a world class mix room at the legendary  Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood, and Bopnique 3.0 and 4.0 in Nashua and Sherman Oaks  are the secret lairs of producer, engineer, omni-instrumentalist and holistic music creator Anthony J. Resta (a.k.a. Ajax Ray-O-Vaque) hides like a musical comic-book hero’s Beat Cave. Studio Bopnique (http://www.bopnique.com) like hipster L.A. clubs with no sign or outward evidence, is one of those places that doesn’t advertise. Seventy hour weeks are the norm in the studio’s newly expanded 3700 square foot rustic loft which houses an incredible array of instruments, particularly keyboards of which over 30 are evident. Anthony and his right arm engineer Karyadi Sutedja run a two-ring circus that is truly a wonder to behold.

While his first foray into international production  was Anthony’s five year, thirty song relationship with Duran Duran. “Simon Lebon called me after hearing a mix… some strange cowboy lady with a conch shell backing... He said ‘You’re mad lad, we want you over here!’” The relationship and experience changed Anthony’s life.

He began as a session drummer, working into programming in the late 80’s through expertise with the Linn Drum. “I hung out with Prince in London in 1999 and we talked about how cool that machine was (featured in When Doves Cry)” Anthony laughs. A photo of Anthony and Karyadi with Elton John hides in a corner near the studio’s small kitchen. These guys get around.

Anthony first developed his skill as a producer in a studio south of Boston. “Courtlen Recording gave me an opportunity to basically live under the grand piano and be in-house producer, teaming me up with great engineers like Fred Danner, Bob St. John (multiple Grammy winner), Paul Hager, Tom Soares and Chris Lannon.”

Anthony and Karyadi maintain distinct workstations in Bopnique’s cavernous sprawl, Anthony surrounded by never-ending keyboards, string simulators, drum machines and other nick-nacks all wired by midi to the mix station Karyadi nomally pilots. When not orchestrating in his realm, Anthony paces excitedly behind Karyadi mumbling and humming in a fashion that agrees with Lebon’s first
impression… mad. Equally mad is Karyadi’s ability to understand every utterance and instantly translate it to technical expression seemingly by telepathy. This Spidey-sense allows them to accomplish otherwise daunting mix feats in short time.

Resta has grown past a distinct production style. “Once I learned that it was all about the song and knowing what to leave out, it became transparent... just getting the best out of people and making the right statement for the songs.” Likewise, Anthony has no particular favorite style of music. “I used to be
into electronica but I really like recording real instruments. I like mixing the most real sounds with one or two completely unreal sounds, then making them sound like they belong together.”

This juxtaposition of purely organic and wildly synthetic is evident in Anthony’s work as an artist, recording “performance art” under the name Ajax Ray-O-Vaque with one album “Demos Of Saturn” out on Intelligent Records and a follow up due in ’08. Scattered poetry collections from authors like Bukowski alongside his photography of beloved New England fishing excursions define the vibe in
Anthony’s home base where the artists and labels now come to him.

“After I tired of 8 months a year in a hotel, I started putting my money into the place (Bopnique). Now people come from London, Miami, L.A., N.YC., Portugal, etc to record here!”

download article 
Published in Skope Magazine, by Dan Bernal
‘05 Feature – Producer Anthony J. Resta 

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