Studio Chapter 3: QDQ

After the release of the album Olympus in 1991, recording immediately began on the next Mune Mud album. When the follow-up album, Underwater Problem Factory, was completed in 1992, it was decided that the Studio should have a name. So it was during the album cover design process that the name Quintessential Disco-Quest Tapes & Discs (QDQ) was created.

The name was a left-over of the themes of disco and the 70's from the earlier band The Two-Tones. And it was during the Underwater Problem Factory recording sessions that the song "Go Disco!" was recorded (and appeared on the album). Thus was the origins of the first Studio name.

Everything at the time was released on cassette, but CD's were becoming more popular in the real music world. So the "Tapes & Discs" was added to the end of the name to give the impression that the Studio was technologically up-to-date.

The first song recorded under the QDQ label was "In My Heart" in Nivember 1991 (which appeared on Underwater Problem Factory) and the last song recorded was the Underwater Problem Factory outtake "Nothing Cube" on April 19, 1992. The only album released under that label was Underwater Problem Factory in the summer of 1992.

Thus this period of the Studio's history lasted from November 1991 to the summer of 1992.