the catalogue

20+ years of records
made at Panda.

Every record here has a meaningful connection to The Panda Studios. Some were produced and recorded here from start to finish. Some came through Panda for specific tracking, mixing or mastering. Some were made by artists who brought their own production team and chose Panda for the rooms, gear and facility. Every card tells you exactly who did what.

20+
Years Running
5
Engineers & Producers
3
Studios On Site
selected records

Made at
The Panda Studios.

A curated set of the records that best show what happens here, not the whole history. Filter by the work Panda did, then narrow by engineer if you want. Every card names the people who actually did it. The full catalogue is on Spotify.

Mom Jeans.: Best Buds, recorded at The Panda Studios

Mom Jeans.

Best Buds

442M+ Spotify streams

Drums and bass recorded at The Panda Studios by Ryan Ellery. Full album engineered by Ryan Ellery; not all of it tracked here.

2016 Engineering
Basement: Colourmeinkindness, recorded at The Panda Studios

Basement

Colourmeinkindness

RIAA Platinum: "Covet"

Sam Pura

2012 ProductionEngineeringMixing
The Story So Far: What You Don’t See, recorded at The Panda Studios

The Story So Far

What You Don’t See

#46 Billboard 200

Sam Pura

2013 ProductionEngineeringMixing
The Story So Far: Proper Dose, recorded at The Panda Studios

The Story So Far

Proper Dose

#19 Billboard 200

Sam Pura

2018 ProductionEngineering
The Story So Far: Self-Titled, recorded at The Panda Studios

The Story So Far

Self-Titled

#23 Billboard 200

Sam Pura

2015 ProductionEngineeringMixing
The Story So Far: Under Soil & Dirt, recorded at The Panda Studios

The Story So Far

Under Soil & Dirt

Sam Pura

2011 ProductionEngineeringMixingMastering
State Champs: The Finer Things, recorded at The Panda Studios

State Champs

The Finer Things

#2 Billboard Heatseekers

Sam Pura

2013 ProductionEngineeringMixingGuitarBass
Basement: Promise Everything, recorded at The Panda Studios

Basement

Promise Everything

#1 Billboard Heatseekers

Sam Pura

2016 ProductionEngineeringMixing
Mom Jeans.: Puppy Love, recorded at The Panda Studios

Mom Jeans.

Puppy Love

66M+ Spotify streams

Engineered and mixed by Ryan Ellery, with work done at The Panda Studios and their own Lafayette setup.

2018 EngineeringMixing
Ryan Caraveo: Trouble in Paradise, recorded at The Panda Studios

Ryan Caraveo

Trouble in Paradise

37M+ Spotify streams

Mixed and mastered by Sam Pura

2023 MixingMastering
Scowl: How Flowers Grow, recorded at The Panda Studios

Scowl

How Flowers Grow

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Charles Toshio

2021 ProductionEngineeringMixingMastering
Spite: Nothing Is Beautiful, recorded at The Panda Studios

Spite

Nothing Is Beautiful

Engineered by Sam Pura

2017 Engineering
Hundredth: Rare, recorded at The Panda Studios

Hundredth

Rare

Sam Pura

2017 ProductionEngineeringMixing
Gulch: Burning Desire to Draw Last Breath, recorded at The Panda Studios

Gulch

Burning Desire to Draw Last Breath

Tracked and mixed by Charles Toshio. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege

2018 EngineeringMixing
Sunami: Sunami LP, recorded at The Panda Studios

Sunami

Sunami LP

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Charles Toshio

2023 ProductionEngineeringMixingMastering
After the Burial: Wolves Within, recorded at The Panda Studios

After the Burial

Wolves Within

Self-engineered by Trent Hafdahl, Justin Lowe and Anthony Notarmaso

2013 Additional tracking at The Panda Studios
SpiritWorld: DEATHWESTERN, recorded at The Panda Studios

SpiritWorld

DEATHWESTERN

Sam Pura, Theresa Brown

2022 ProductionEngineeringMixing
The Dangerous Summer: Mother Nature, recorded at The Panda Studios

The Dangerous Summer

Mother Nature

Sam Pura

2019 ProductionEngineeringMixing
Ryan Caraveo: Forever Foggy, recorded at The Panda Studios

Ryan Caraveo

Forever Foggy

7M+ Spotify streams

Mixed and mastered by Sam Pura

2025 MixingMastering
Fallujah: The Harvest Wombs, recorded at The Panda Studios

Fallujah

The Harvest Wombs

Sam Pura

2011 ProductionEngineering
Lionheart: The Will to Survive, recorded at The Panda Studios

Lionheart

The Will to Survive

Sam Pura

2007 ProductionEngineeringMixingMastering
SPICE: SPICE, recorded at The Panda Studios

SPICE

SPICE

Sam Pura

2020 ProductionEngineeringMixingMastering
SPICE: Viv, recorded at The Panda Studios

SPICE

Viv

Engineered by Jack Shirley. Additional engineering, additional production, mixing and mastering by Sam Pura. Additional recording, vocal editing and mix assistance by Theresa Brown

2022 Additional ProductionAdditional EngineeringMixingMastering
Forever Came Calling: Contender, recorded at The Panda Studios

Forever Came Calling

Contender

Sam Pura

2012 ProductionEngineeringMixingMasteringGuitar
Misser: Distancing, recorded at The Panda Studios

Misser

Distancing

Sam Pura

2013 ProductionEngineeringMixingMastering
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featured stories

A few worth
talking about.

Not a ranking, just records where the story behind them says something about how this place works.

The Story So Far, What You Don't See album artwork
2013

The Story So Far: What You Don’t See

The Story So Far had already made Under Soil & Dirt at Panda. When they came back for What You Don’t See, the studio became an even bigger part of the record. The band leaned into Panda’s rooms, amps, cabinets, instruments, and recording chains rather than arriving with a predetermined collection of their own gear.

Those choices helped create a sound that became closely associated with the band and, eventually, with a new generation of pop punk. It is one of the clearest examples of Panda being more than the place a record was recorded. The rooms, gear, and production decisions became part of the identity of the record itself.

SAM PURA Production, Engineering, Mixing ROOMS Panda West · Panda East
Basement, Colourmeinkindness album artwork
2012

Basement: Colourmeinkindness

Basement flew from Ipswich to Fremont to make Colourmeinkindness at Panda in 2012. While the album was being made, the band announced an indefinite hiatus. That gave the project a completely different weight. Sam genuinely believed this might be the final Basement record, and felt a responsibility to make it count.

Then the unusual thing happened. The band stopped. The record didn't. Colourmeinkindness kept growing while Basement was inactive. The band eventually returned, the audience became substantially larger, a new generation discovered the record, and nearly 14 years later the song “Covet” went RIAA Platinum.

SAM PURA Production, Engineering, Mixing ROOM Panda West
Mom Jeans., Best Buds album artwork
2016

Mom Jeans.: Best Buds

When Best Buds was made, Ryan Ellery was an engineer working out of The Panda Studios. Ryan engineered the record, with the drums and bass recorded at Panda. The album went on to become one of the defining independent emo records of its generation, accumulating hundreds of millions of streams.

It is a great example of Panda’s history being shaped by different producers and engineers, each bringing their own approach to the rooms and making records that continue to matter years later.

RYAN ELLERY Engineering ROOMS Panda East · Panda West
SpiritWorld, DEATHWESTERN album artwork
2022

SpiritWorld: DEATHWESTERN

Some records need to be captured. DEATHWESTERN needed to be built. Sam Pura took a deeply hands-on production role from the beginning, even bringing in his “best friend” Thomas Pridgen to play drums, reshaping performances and arrangements, and pushing the record wherever it needed to go. Panda’s rooms, gear, and team became part of that process, with nothing treated as fixed just because it had already been written.

The result is one of the clearest examples of production at Panda going all the way. Released by Century Media and named Stereogum’s Album of the Week, DEATHWESTERN eventually took on another life too: its sound became the foundation for the DEATHWESTERN plugin, turning the production itself into a tool other people now use to make records.

SAM PURA Production, Recording, Mixing THERESA BROWN Engineering, Mixing ROOMS Panda West · Panda East · Baby Panda
Hundredth, Rare album artwork
2017

Hundredth: Rare

Hundredth had already started pushing against the boundaries of hardcore, but Rare was the point of no return. The band rebuilt its sound around atmosphere, melody, texture, and an entirely different production language.

It is one of Panda’s clearest examples of production being more than improving what a band already does. Sometimes the job is helping an artist figure out what they are supposed to become next.

SAM PURA Production, Engineering, Mixing ROOMS Panda West · Panda East
Scowl, Sunami, Gulch and SPY album covers, records made at The Panda Studios by Charles Toshio
a new generation

Charles Toshio: A New Generation of Bay Area Hardcore

Charles Toshio has built a serious body of work out of Panda with bands like Scowl, Sunami, Gulch, SPY, World Peace, and many others, helping shape a new generation of Bay Area hardcore in the same rooms that have been making records for decades.

That is part of what makes Panda what it is. The studio has never belonged to one sound, one era, or one producer. New engineers bring their own taste, their own relationships, and their own records into the building, and the history keeps growing from there.

CHARLES TOSHIO Production, Engineering ROOMS Panda West · Panda East
artists who’ve worked at panda

Through these
doors.

Artists who have recorded, rehearsed, performed, filmed, or otherwise worked at Panda, including Waiting Room live sessions. Listed as facility history, not as production or engineering credits.

Shreya GhoshalRecorded in Baby Panda
Yellowcard
Title FightThe Waiting Room
Modern Baseball
The Front Bottoms
Ryan Leslie
MOD SUNThe Waiting Room
CitizenThe Waiting Room
Don Broco
Touché AmoréThe Waiting Room
Code OrangeThe Waiting Room
Drug ChurchThe Waiting Room
Stick To Your GunsThe Waiting Room
Balance and ComposureThe Waiting Room
Stray From The PathThe Waiting Room
Man OverboardThe Waiting Room
Polar Bear ClubThe Waiting Room
TransitThe Waiting Room
Black Breath
The Summer SetThe Waiting Room
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