Farmingdale, New Jersey · Est. on Route 33

A label that still owns the room it records in.

Tune2This is the label side of City Lights Recording Studio — a purpose-built room that has been cutting records on Highway 33 since 1989. We sign the artists, cut the masters here, and sell them straight to you. No middle.

Recording since 1989 Neve VR60 · Studer A827 1 hour from Manhattan

Tune2This — where decisions are made by real music industry professionals.

Why this is not just another platform

We have an actual building.

Every other music platform is software. Tune2This is software attached to a working recording studio on Route 33 — a real place, with a live room, where we can put artists on a stage and fans in the seats.

That is the whole difference. Release parties and listening nights are not a marketing idea here; they happen in a room we own. Members get in the door. Artists get the room at roster rates. Nobody streaming from a server farm can offer that.

Musicians tracking live in the cedar-lined live room at City Lights Recording Studio

On the air

The current rotation

Everything here was cut at City Lights. Hit play on any row and the deck stays with you as you move around the site.

Full rotation
  1. Peace (The Instant Philly Funk Mix) The GDVO · 2025 3:00 $0.99
  2. Peace (feat. The Chi-Lites & Denroy Morgan) The GDVO · 2021 3:51 $0.99
Demo note The rotation is two tracks deep because the roster is one artist deep. Every empty slot on the radio page is a master, an artwork file and a signed split sheet that has to come from Guy before launch.

First on the roster

The GDVO

The Guy Daniel Vastola Organization. Guy Daniel writes it, produces it, and cuts it in his own room on Route 33 — the same room where he spent thirty years engineering other people’s records before he made his own.

The debut single “Peace” pairs him with The Chi-Lites, the Chicago group behind eleven Top Ten R&B hits, and the late Jamaican reggae pioneer Denroy Morgan. It was tracked between City Lights in New Jersey and Chicago, and released to launch a global peace campaign on 20 January 2021.

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From inside the building

Sessions, rooms and the sign on Route 33 that has been telling Monmouth County what we do since 1990.

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Membership

Three ways to be more than a listener

Streaming already gives you the song. A membership has to give you the things streaming cannot: the room, the people in it, and the record before anyone else hears it.

Backstage Pass

$5/ month

The floor. Enough to feel like you are in the building.

  • Hear it first — roster tracks land in your feed a week before release
  • Ad-free radio and the full back catalogue stream
  • 15% off every download, bundle and merch item
  • The Route 33 newsletter, written from the console
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Most signed up

VIP Fan

$15/ month

For the people who want to watch the record get made.

  • Everything in Backstage Pass, plus
  • Rough mixes and session video — the takes that did not make it
  • One free download a month, your pick from the catalogue
  • Name in the digital credits of every release you back
  • Free entry to listening nights at the studio
  • 10% off City Lights studio time
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Executive Fan

$50/ month

A seat at the table. Capped, so it stays worth having.

  • Everything in VIP Fan, plus
  • Release party access — you are on the list, plus one
  • A vote on which mix ships as the single
  • Annual limited pressing, numbered, members only
  • 20% off City Lights studio time and first call on cancellations
  • One open studio day a year on Route 33
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Pricing note for Guy $5 is the only number you have set. The $15 and $50 here are placed to make the middle tier the obvious buy and to keep the top tier scarce — both are proposals, not decisions. The studio-time discount percentages are the ones that need answering first: they are the only benefit that crosses into the studio’s books.
Full band recording session in the large live room at City Lights Recording Studio

Tip the artist

Money that goes to the player, not the platform

Tip any artist from any page, any amount. Tips pass through to the artist in full — Tune2This takes nothing but the card fee. Every dollar moves you up their board.

The reason it is a board and not a button: on the platforms where tipping actually works, it is competitive. Tencent Music earns roughly seventy per cent of its revenue from tips, gifts and donations rather than subscriptions, because fans can see where they stand.

Pick an amount to see where it puts you.

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City Lights Recording Studio

Purpose-built as a studio from the ground up — three and a half years with the planning board before a wall went up. The control room made the cover of Mix Magazine in August 1990. It has been running on the same corner of Route 33 ever since.

Wide view of the Neve VR60 control room at City Lights Recording Studio in Farmingdale, NJ
Studer A827 24-track analog tape machine with VU meter bridge at City Lights Recording Studio
Fender Rhodes Mark I electric piano at City Lights Recording Studio
Wide view of the lounge at City Lights Recording Studio with wood stove and drum kit
City Lights Recording Studio LED sign on Route 33 in Farmingdale, NJ, lit at night

1989

Founded. On this site since 1990.

5

Separate work spaces, plus a pre-production suite.

30

Years of in-house sound library.

60

Channels of fully automated Neve VR60.

Two doors, one building

Make a record here, or back the ones we make.

Artists get a room, a Neve and a label. Fans get the record before it ships and a discount on the room it was made in.