Russell Elevado on DAngelo, Engineering and Recording to tape | Red Bull Music Academy

► Subscribe to Red Bull Music Academy: You’ll have to look at the small print on records to find the name of Russell Elevado but be assured he’s there, on some of the most innovative soul records of the ’90s and ’00s. As an engineer, producer and mixer for the likes of Alicia Keys, D’Angelo, The Roots, Common, Saul Williams and Erykah Badu, Elevado have won a reputation for recreating the classic sound of the ’60s and ’70s in a modern setting, an analog guy in a digital world.