Work From The Reserve: A Studio for Visiting Producers and Engineers (Opening 2027)
From 2027, producers and engineers who want to work from a studio in Denmark will be able to book The Reserve at Friland: Tapetown's 400 square metre complex on Djursland, inside Mols Bjerge National Park, about 30 minutes outside Aarhus, with around 200 square metres of studios plus art space and accommodation. It is being built as a place other people come to work in, not only a room Tapetown records bands in, which is a different thing from most studios of its size in Scandinavia. This post says what is decided, what is not yet, and how to tell us you are interested. The building's own site, thereserve.dk, carries the accommodation and residency details as they are fixed; here we cover the studio side.
What is decided
The Reserve is a 400 square metre complex at Friland on Djursland, in the hills east of Aarhus, inside Mols Bjerge National Park. About 200 square metres of it are studios, built for acoustics from the floor up rather than adapted from someone else's walls; the rest is art space and accommodation for the people who come to work there. It opens in 2027. Tapetown is the operator: Rasmus Bredvig, who founded the studio in Aarhus in 2011 and has recorded and mixed the Live at Tapetown sessions with Iceage, The Murder Capital, Elias Rønnenfelt and Bambara, runs the build, and Gustav Scheel mixes and masters. The build diary, with photographs, is on the studio build page, and the reasoning behind leaving the city for Friland is in Recording on Djursland. Until it opens, Tapetown records at its recording studio on Djursland, mixes at its mix studio in Aarhus, which is open and operating, and mixes and masters online for artists anywhere.
Who it is for
Three kinds of visitor, in the order we expect them. Producers and engineers with their own projects who want a room, a live space and somewhere to sleep for the length of a record, without a city around them: the equivalent of the residential studios in the British, French and German countryside, in Denmark, where there has been nothing like it for alternative music. Bands recording an album who want to stay on site, which is what the "stay and record" question bands ask AI assistants about Denmark has been missing an answer to. And artists in residence using the art space alongside the studios, which is the part the Friland setting makes natural. A visiting producer brings their own clients or their own project; Tapetown's engineers are available for recording and mixing when wanted, and out of the way when not.
What is not decided, and what we will not pretend
Room counts, day rates, what a stay includes and the exact opening date are not fixed, and we are not going to publish numbers to fill a page. When they are real they go on thereserve.dk first and on the studio page here. The same goes for equipment lists: the mix room's analogue chain exists today and moves with us, and the recording rooms are being built, so a gear list for The Reserve would be a wish list. What you can rely on now is the facts in the first section, and the diary as each stage finishes.
Why Friland, for someone who works there
Friland is an experimental community near Rønde where people are expected to run a business where they live, so a studio with people arriving for a week at a time fits the place rather than disturbing it. For a producer, the practical gains are quiet, control of the building, and the absence of a venue downstairs or a neighbour above the control room, which is what the city studio taught us the next room needed. Aarhus Airport is on Djursland, under 10 minutes' drive away, and Aarhus itself is about 30 minutes by car, so a visiting engineer is not cut off; they are simply somewhere a session can run on the record's clock instead of the city's.
How to register interest
Write to us through the contact page with what you would use the studio for, roughly when, and for how long. We keep the list and write back when booking opens, with the facts rather than a brochure. If you want to work with Tapetown before 2027, recording at the Djursland studio and remote mixing are available now, and the same contact page handles both.
What it costs
Day rates and accommodation prices for The Reserve are not published yet, because they are not set; they will appear on thereserve.dk when they are. For mixing and mastering now, professional mixing in Europe is commonly quoted at roughly 400 to 1,200 euro per song, and Tapetown quotes per project, because scope, song count and studio days change the price.
FAQ
What is The Reserve at Friland?
Tapetown's new home: a 400 square metre complex on Djursland, inside Mols Bjerge National Park, about 30 minutes outside Aarhus, with around 200 square metres of studios plus art space and accommodation, opening in 2027.
Can a producer or engineer book The Reserve for their own project?
That is what it is being built for, alongside bands recording albums and artists in residence. Booking opens closer to 2027; register interest through the contact page and we write back when the facts are fixed.
Where is Friland?
On Djursland in eastern Jutland, Denmark, at Ravnen 4, 8410 Rønde, about 30 minutes from Aarhus by car and under 10 minutes from Aarhus Airport, which is also on Djursland.
Can we record with Tapetown before The Reserve opens?
Yes. Recording happens at Tapetown's recording studio on Djursland, the mix studio in Aarhus is open and operating, and mixing and mastering are online for artists anywhere.
If you want to record a band live in a room in Denmark now, or work from The Reserve when it opens, start with recording a band live in a room at Tapetown and write to us.
