Wifos Studio

Danish recording studio, located in Frederiksberg in central Copenhagen. Sometimes referred to as WIFOS, Wifoss, Studie Wifoss or Wifos Lydstudio. Founded in the early 1950's by civil engineer Philip Foss, one of the recording pioneers in Denmark, it was originally located on Theklavej. It was here that Foss in the 1950s installed a homemade 5-track recording machine, unheard of at the time. At the same period he also invented the technique of studio reverb that was used especially by guitarist Jørgen Ingmann to obtain his characteristic “fat” sound on record. By the late 1960's the studio had relocated to a double-apartment on Nyvej and included a 10-track recording machine. It was here that Freddy Hansson in 1969 helped producing the debut album of Delta Blues Band, the first well-produced rock music album by a Danish artist. In the early to mid 1970's the studio was widely used by Danish rock and pop artists, but by the late 1970's it had lost it´s leading position to newly established and technically more sophisticated studios like Sweet Silence Studios. By 1989 the apartment housed the recording company AGM Music, owned by Foss´ nephew Anders Eigen Glaser-Møller. Around the millennium the address housed the Sound Of Music Studio studio. In 2012 the location on Nyvej was taken over as a recording studio under the name of Popland, owned by the Danish pop music band Zididada. It is now run by Jonathan Elkær and Nick Lee (8) under the old Wifos name. It now also houses the record label THIS Recording Company.