![]() I got a bit burnt out with the recording part of it, so in '98 I switched to mixing only. ![]() "I was still independent, but I literally had no time to do anything, so I worked exclusively for Jermaine. "Between '93 and '98 I recorded and mixed everything Jermaine did," recalls Tan. His big break came in 1992 when he met 19-year old rapper/producer Jermaine Dupri, who'd just broken through with a huge hit for teenage rap duo Kris Kross.ĭupri invited Tan to work for him at his private facility, which was called Krosswire at the time (Southside Studios was built in 1999). Moving to Atlanta, he embarked on a career as a recording engineer, first working at Soundscape Studios, and then at Babyface and Antonio 'LA' Reid's LaFace facility. Malaysian-born Philip Tan graduated in 1990 from Florida's Full Sail Real World Education facility in the subject of Recording Arts. ![]() ![]() Talking from Jermaine Dupri's Southside studios in Atlanta, the Grammy award winner reveals details of his mixes of two tracks featuring Barbadian singer Rihanna, 'SOS' and 'Unfaithful', both UK No. He may look almost unbecomingly young, but 37-year old Phil Tan is one of the most experienced and successful mixers in the American music scene. Phil Tan, one of the leading mix engineers specialising in urban music, dissects his mixes for two worldwide hit singles from Rihanna: 'SOS' and 'Unfaithful'.
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