Karl Robin Junga

Experience

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  Square Dance/Submission records

  Oct 1989 - Sept 1991

  Runner -> Recording Engineer

  Runner > MIDI programmer > studio engineer Active in the design, build, & commission of the Squarecentre studio complex. Brief period as de facto Studio Manager.

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  KJAMM Records & Pro Audio Services

  Oct 1991 - now

  Mix & Mastering Engineer

  Fairtrade Record Label since 2021 - Launching New Music & ArtistsPro Audio Services since 1990 - with UK/US/ROTW top 40s as signed artist, performer, songwriter, producer, engineer, mixer and mastering engineer. Pro Audio Credits include: AED Records • Aficionado Records • Almunia • amillionsons • Andrew Weatherall • Ann Summers • Arts Council • BBC • Bendith • Brenda Beachball Ray • Cantoma • Chaka Khan • Chester P (Task Force) • Colorama • Coyote • Crazy P • Daniele Baldelli • David Bowie • Deadstock 33‘s • Dealmaker Records • DiY • Doobie Bros • Electronic • Errol Linton • FFRR • Ford • Gaffa • GangstaWraps • Gong • Inland Knights • Hardway Bros • Horsebeach • ImageSound Ltd • Inland Knights • International Peoples Gang • Invisible Orchestra • Is it Balearic? • Joan Bibiloni • Jose Manuel • Juganaut • Justin Robertson • Kids in Tracksuits • Landrover • Last Pedestrians • Len Leise • London Records • Lone • Max Essa • Mudd • Multiply Records • Mushrooms Project • Music Styling Ltd • New Atlantic • Nightmares On Wax • NIna Smith • New Order • The Orator • Sir Paul Smith • Pathe • Peter Visti • Polydor • Prins Thomas • Ray Mang • Rune Lindbaek • Scorzayzee • Soft Rocks • Social Disco Club • Sony PSP • Taka Boom • Templehoff • Timmas • Tim Muddiman & The Strange • Tommy Awards • Tremors • Uber Records • Warners • Weekend Players • Wholesome Fish • Yeti Boy Records • Zoe Johnston (Faithless)https://kjamm.com Show less

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  Station K

  Jan 1993 - Jan 2018

  Performer - Producer - Songwriter

  2015 The Windmills Project : Dub Kollektiv, mixes from @Superstylers, UK & International radio support. US Buzzchart #1.1993 Artist/Producer, KK Kings: Ground breaking New Asian Kool act. Inc theme track to Gurinder Chadha’s seminal “Bhaji on the Beach” - Desi Punjabi reworking of Sir Cliff’s classic, renamed “Holidays in the UKK Kingdom”

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  New College Nottingham

  Jan 1994 - Jan 2001

  Part Time Lecturer Music and Sound

  Teaching, assessment FE & HE. Integration of curriculum and industry practice whilst also working as a freelance producer/engineer and artist.

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  Sirkus Ltd

  Apr 1997 - now

  Co-founder, Manging Director

  A STUDIO FOR ARTISTS BY ARTISTSThe recording paradigm deconstructed: Pro production and mastering facility at the sharp edge of high-end DSP and retro weirdness. CREATIVE HUB - ChairA cooperative umbrella for creative talent. Nurturing artists, labels, trainer pimps and web ninjas since 1997 e.g. Rikki Marr, TheDealmakerLabel, FloatingPoint, Vivoo Digital, Gorilla Events, EventStudios, www.TheCanningCircus.com

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  Amillionsons

  Jan 2000 - now

  Performer - Producer - Songwriter

  London records deal w Pete Tong's ffrr feat Chaka Khan. UK & intl charts. TV’s in the UK & Europe inc Top of the Pops & MTV. Multiple BBC R1 singles of the week. Video voted no. 2 in the Soho Film Rushes.. Critically acclaimed LP “The First One’s Free”.

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  Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies

  Sept 2004 - Apr 2009

  Drove certification as Apple Authorised Training Centre. Digidesign Certified Training Location (only 7 in the UK), Ableton Certified Training Centre (one of the first in Europe). In-depth experience in CI training & certification including educator CPD. BSc. Launched & course led the 1st Confetti degree - validated and partnered by De Montfort University. Industry oriented, student centred experiential learning & teaching model. Student work quickly praised on XFM & BBC Radio1.

  • Consultant Head of Professional Training

    Sept 2006 - Apr 2009

  • Course Leader, BSc Audio Recording Technology

    Sept 2004 - Aug 2006
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  Derby College

  Sept 2009 - Jul 2010

  Lecturer Music and Music technology (Part Time)

  BTEC music production, music business. Successfully mentored student-led set up of a record label - this was and is quite a challenge within the strictures of level 3.

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  Leicester College

  Sept 2009 - Jul 2014

  Lecturer (Part Time)

  FdSc Creative Audio: Music production, Composition & Sound for Film/Media, Research, Music Industry & Business survival skils, study skills.BTEC: Composition, Composition for Film & Documentary, Audio principles.Curriculum and quality development. Consultancy for Ableton, Apple and Avid embedded and public certification training.Industry links and Cultural Olympiad 2012 project mentoring.

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  De Montfort University

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2021

  Associate Lecturer

  Final Year Studio Production & Mastering :- Student voice survey Nov 2017 'Highly relevant and applicable skills being taught. Passionate teaching." Student feedback 2018 "Throughout this experience of this module the approach and style of teaching and the assignments appointed have given a down to earth and pragmatic insight into how the industry works and how an individual can successfully become involved within the music industry. The innerworkings within the music industry can become blurred without first-hand experience, module leader Robin Junga has done a brilliant job in sharing personal experiences in correlation with his professional works and industry knowledge in a way that allows for students without first hand industry experience to gain knowledge and awareness on how certain mechanics within the industry function." This is a contemporary industry-facing, theoretical, practical and historical interrogation of the ever-shifting artistic, technical, financial and people-skill demands of high quality production and mastering.Industry and employability liaison e.g. MPG, PRS, AIM, student events etc.Final year major research project supervision.Practice led research interests include: Mastering & mixing as creative process - sublimating the technical; the essence of time and place in audio and music; post-digital analogue emulation. Show less

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  Echo Factory

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2016

  Consultant Head of Music Production | Industry Liaison

  Private startup company. BA Music Business & BMus Contemporary Performance validated by Wolverhampton University. Curriculum design for unique student focussed Music Industry 360 immersion degrees with core entrepreneurship. Complete tech and acoustics design, procurement and commission of cutting edge Dante-linked 200cap stage/ studios/ rehearsals/ tech suite/ lecture room/ bar facility over 3 floors. New hybrid audio over ethernet system using mixture of proprietary Dante cards, Focusrite Rednet and Audinate Via licences to provide a totally configurable 64 tracks of 96kHz 24bit from any parallel sources to any destination(s) in the building with guaranteed 4ms roundtrip. All through fairly standard cat 6 LAN and switches. Including integration with all relevant aspects of IT networking and MDM. High end audio deployment on a budget previously impossible. Industry liaison e.g. MPG, MU, PRS, manufacturers etc; establishment of unique Music Industry Exchange ( MI-X) support group and events for music industry related professionals. Show less