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"The way that Control sounds is an accident because we didn’t know what we were doing": why Jam and Lewis recorded Janet Jackson’s breakthrough album ‘wrong’, and why it’s all Prince’s fault

Everybody’s gotta learn sometime and that includes '80s/'90s superproducers. And if you’re going to learn the art of recording why not learn from the best? What could possibly go wrong? 

Some of those things were economically driven, ‘cos some of those things were less expensive, but a lot of it was ignorance ‘cos we didn’t know any better

Jimmy Jam
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