Scott Colburn
Scott Colburn is an American audio engineer, editor and musician who is most notable for his work in remastering and pREServing The Residents' catalog of releases since 2018.
Colburn resides in Seattle, but has been known to work across the globe. He releases his own music under the name JABON and is currently concentrating on serious music projects (including The Residents' ongoing pREServed series) as well as sound design for film and dance.
History with The Residents
Colburn's earliest noted work with The Residents was in 1992 when he produced and mixed a new recording of "Land of 1000 Dances" (which was unreleased at the time). In 1994 he acted as a producer on Degenerate Art Ensemble's 5.1 impression of The Residents' 1979 album Eskimo. Six years later, in March of 2000 he wrote a review of the 1981 album Mark of The Mole for TapeOp Magazine, issue 16.
Colburn's most notable work with The Residents began in 2018, when he was tasked with remastering the group's pREServed series of expanded album reissues. He is still working with the group in this capacity as of February 2021.
List of credits on Residents releases
Tape Transfers, Restoration & Mastering credits unless otherwise stated
- Meet The Residents (2018)
- The Third Reich 'N Roll (2018, Tape Transfers, Restoration, Mastering & Mix on 'Land of 1000 Dances')
- Fingerprince (2018)
- Duck Stab / Buster & Glen (2018)
- The W***** B*** Album (2018, Original 1971 Master Tape transferred & Mastered by)
- Eskimo (2019)
- Commercial Album (2019)
- Mole Box (2019)
- B.S (2019)
- Eskimo Deconstructed (2019, Mastering For Disc)
- God In Three Persons (2019)
- A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big (2019)
- Not Available (2019)
- Icky Flix (2020, Disc Preparation)
- Cube-E Box (2020)
- Freak Show (2021)
- Gingerbread Man pREServed (2021)
- Gingerbread Man LP (2021, Mastering)
- Leftovers Again?! (2021)
- Wormwood Box (2022, Audio Restoration & Mastering)
- Warning: Uninc - Live And Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 (2022, Audio Restoration & Mastering)