Conversations on the art and craft of making records, with two-time Grammy-winning producer Oak Felder.
A long-form interview series. Eight episodes per season. Recorded at Su Casa Studios in the Hollywood Hills. Interstitial TikTok and short-form clips to be widely spread across the internet.
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01 / Introducing
Off The Record.
A long-form interview series where one of pop and R&B's most decorated modern producers sits down with the architects of the records we grew up on, and the producers shaping the ones charting right now.
The producer is the most under-documented author in popular music. The songs are everywhere, and the people who shaped them are not. Off The Record fixes that.
Two producers in a real studio, talking about how the work actually gets made. No press cycle. No agenda. Just the craft.
In Off The Record, we will get beyond the songs and into the actual secrets and stories of how the best records in history were made. Hear from the people that made them, while we still have them with us.
Catalogue OAK-002
02 / The Host
Oak Felder.
Oak Felder · In the Studio
Producer · Songwriter · Founder, The Orphanage
Two-time Grammy winner with more than 100 million records sold. The producer and writer behind defining records for Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Demi Lovato, Alessia Cara, Lizzo, Kehlani, John Legend, The Chainsmokers, Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, and many more.
A regular collaborator with the Apple GarageBand and Logic Pro teams. A board director of The Mechanical Licensing Collective, where he advocates for songwriter and producer royalties at the federal policy level. Rolling Stone calls him "one of R&B's most important producers."
Grammys
2× winner
Records sold
100M+
Recognition
BMI · Spotify
Stages
TED · TED AI · WSJ
A peer in the room. The producers we want as guests will sit with Oak in a way they will not for a journalist, because he has sat in the same chair.
03 / Selected Discography
Records you already know.
Three Grammy-winning albums, dozens of charting singles, billions of streams. A short read of the catalog.
Sorry Not Sorry
Demi Lovato
2017 · #1 Mainstream · 5× Platinum
Here / Scars to Your Beautiful
Alessia Cara
2015 · Both #1 Mainstream
Girl on Fire
Alicia Keys
2012 · Grammy for Best R&B Album
Numb
Rihanna ft. Eminem
2012 · Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary
Soulmate
Lizzo
2019 · Grammy for Best Progressive R&B
Treat Me
Chlöe
2022 · Billboard Hot 100
Your Love
Nicki Minaj
2010 · Pink Friday · Top 20
Break Your Heart Right Back
Ariana Grande
2014 · My Everything
Sue Me
Sabrina Carpenter
2019
Who Do You Love
Chainsmokers ft. 5SOS
2019
Su Casa Studios · Live Room
04 / Platforms & Media
Beyond the booth.
Oak operates well outside the studio. On the TED stage, with Apple and Splice, in major business press. He brings audience to whatever he attaches his name to.
Apple · GarageBand · Logic Pro
The Art of Music Production. Featured by Apple in their official producer series, and hand-picked alongside Boys Noize, Tom Misch, and Take A Daytrip for the GarageBand Producer Packs.
One of Splice's anchor producer partners, with sounds used by millions of producers and beatmakers around the world.
The Wall Street Journal
A leading industry voice on music and AI
Quoted in The Wall Street Journal on the rise of generative AI and the future of authorship in music, alongside Suno co-founder Mikey Shulman. Also recognized as a BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Top Producer and a board director of The Mechanical Licensing Collective.
05 / Context
Why now.
Long-form, craft-driven conversation is the highest-leverage format in audio. The audience is here. The reference points have proven the model.
i
The producer has become a star.
Jack Antonoff, Andrew Watt, Benny Blanco, and Finneas are now culturally visible in a way producers never were. Audiences want to know who made the record and how.
ii
The reference shows the appetite.
Ross Golan's And The Writer Is… and Rick Rubin's Tetragrammaton have proven the audience for long-form, craft-focused conversation. There is no equivalent show led by an A-list producer about producers.
iii
A closing window.
The icons such as Mutt Lange, Glyn Johns, Brian Eno, Bob Ezrin, and T Bone Burnett are in their seventies and eighties. Their stories are not yet captured in their own voices. Now is the time to capture the magic, on camera and on the record.
06 / Format
The format.
Built for the way producers actually talk: technical, candid, and story-driven.
Length
45 to 60 minutes
Long enough to actually get into the room.
Cadence
Bi-weekly seasons
Eight-episode seasons. Twice a year. Built for streaming, not the news cycle.
Capture
Video + audio
Filmed and recorded. Released to all major podcast platforms in video and audio format.
Location
Su Casa Studios, LA
A real studio in the Hollywood Hills, not a podcast room.
Structure
Three acts
Origin, the records that changed everything, and what they would tell a younger producer today.
Signature
Listen Together
One song the guest produced, played in the room and dissected live, on the multi-track if possible.
07 / Anatomy
Anatomy of an episode.
A repeatable narrative spine, with the same five movements every guest.
i
Open
~5 min
Cold open with a thirty-second clip of a record the guest made.
ii
Origin
~10 min
Where they came from, their first studio, their first break, and the mentor who shaped them.
iii
The Work
~25 min
Two or three defining records broken down in detail. How the sound was made.
iv
Listen
~12 min
Listen Together: a chosen track played live in the room.
v
Legacy
~8 min
What they would tell a 24-year-old in a bedroom studio today.
About 60 minutes on average, with three distinct narrative beats per show, designed to live as both full episode and clip set.
08 / Guest Universe · Vol I
Pop today.
The producers shaping the records charting right now.
A note on the lineup. A working list of target guests. Bookings are in progress and subject to confirmation. The same applies to Vol II below.
The architects whose work defined the last fifty years of recorded music.
Rick RubinRock / Hip-hopBob EzrinRockMutt LangeRock / Country / PopButch VigAlt / RockBrian EnoAmbient / Art RockT Bone BurnettAmericana / RootsDaniel LanoisAtmospheric RockBrendan O'BrienRockGlyn JohnsClassic RockBob RockHard Rock / MetalNile RodgersDisco / Pop / R&B
10 / Distribution
Where it lives.
Built natively for video. Distributed simultaneously across every audio platform.
Primary · Flagships
Spotify and YouTube
Full episodes, cinematic capture at Su Casa Studios. Multi-camera, color graded. The two flagship homes of the show, in video and in audio.
Social Cuts
A treasure trove of short-form clips from every episode for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, and X, edited inside the same workflow and released in volume to maximize the odds a moment breaks through.
Also on
Everywhere else
Apple Podcasts
Amazon Music
Pandora
iHeart
Other relevant podcast networks and platforms
One RSS feed. Simultaneous release every other Tuesday, 6am PT.
11 / Case studies
The model is proven.
Long-form, craft-focused podcasts with high production quality and a respected host have built durable audiences and durable sponsor businesses. Off The Record sits squarely in this lane, with one important difference: an A-list working producer in the host chair.
Everything Music
Rick Beato
5.6M+YouTube subscribers
795K+Instagram followers
Profiled byCNN, NYT, Forbes
A producer and engineer who built one of the largest music-education audiences on the internet through long-form craft videos and conversations. Sponsorship inventory across every video.
Tetragrammaton
Rick Rubin
Top 50Apple Podcasts, Arts
AG1 · Squarespace · LMNTrecurring sponsors
Owned newsletterTetragrammaton Transmissions
The reference point for what a producer-hosted, long-form conversation show can be. Multi-million download episodes, premium sponsors, and a fully-built brand ecosystem around the host.
Broken Record
Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Justin Richmond
420+episodes since 2017
Weeklycadence, Pushkin Industries
$6.99 / mopremium subscription tier
Long-form interviews with artists across genres, from Dave Grohl and Andre 3000 to Brittany Howard and Tyler, The Creator. Built into a paid subscription business, not just an ad-supported one.
And The Writer Is…
Ross Golan
NMPAlead sponsor (National Music Publishers Association)
9+ seasonsand counting
The closest analogto what we are building
A working hit-maker in the host chair, talking to other hit-makers. Built a category of one. Off The Record is the producer-side companion to this show.
The takeaway. When the host is a working insider, the show punches above its size. The audience is smaller than entertainment-news podcasts, but the listener is decision-maker quality, which is why premium brands keep buying in.
12 / Short-form Strategy
Built for the feed.
Every episode is also a content factory. We capture in 4K, then use Opus Clip and a dedicated social editor to cut each conversation into a treasure trove of vertical, captioned short-form for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and X — enough volume to blitz the internet and multiply the chances of a clip going viral.
The Playbook
Capture once, distribute everywhere.
Cinematic 4K capture at Su Casa Studios gives us the source material for the full episode and a deep vault of vertical cuts in a single shoot day.
AI-assisted, human-finished.
Opus Clip identifies the highest-signal moments in every conversation. A dedicated social editor then finishes the cuts, sets the chyron, picks the caption styling, and adds music beds where needed.
A treasure trove from every episode.
A hero clip on launch day, then a blitz across the internet until the next episode. The more clips in the wild, the more chances a moment goes viral. Every clip is captioned and built for sound-off scrolling.
Native to each platform.
Different lengths, hooks, and pacing for TikTok versus Reels versus Shorts versus X. One workflow, four native outputs.
Channels we will build out from day one
Instagram & Reels
TikTok
YouTube Shorts
X (formerly Twitter)
LinkedIn (for guest amplification)
13 / Plan
Production plan.
Season one is eight episodes, from green light to launch in five months.
Jul to Aug
Pre-production
Brand build, sizzle reel, studio prep, and partner outreach.
September
Bookings
Locking season-one guests, with three confirmed before launch announcement.
Oct to Nov
Production
Shoot all eight episodes back to back at Su Casa Studios.
December
Edit & finish
Post, color, mix, design covers and clips, and the marketing build.
Jan 27
Launch
Episode 01 drops. New episodes every other Tuesday.
14 / A Conversation Starter
Let's build it.
This deck is a conversation starter, built to help get production moving. Three audience-specific versions will follow: an internal source of truth, a guest-facing version, and a brand-partner version.
