This award is presented to the recording artist, producers of the song, recording engineers and/or mixers.
"Stadium Arcadium"- Red Hot Chili Peppers (Warner Bros.)
• Producers: Rick Rubin
• Engineers/Mixers: Ryan Hewitt, Mark Linett & Andrew Scheps
• Mastering Engineer: Vlado Melleri
Billboard Album Review- "Stadium Arcadium"- May 13, 2006: "Stadium" is the word, and the message is loud and clear. Twenty-three years into their career, the Red Hot Chili Peppers sound euphoric and enormously alive. Distilling the ecstasy of their live shows into 24 new songs, "Stadium Arcadium" is a mature showcase of concentrated power with riotous groove jams, super-sized hooks and transcendent vocal arrangements. It runs the gamut from classic funk rock ("Tell Me Baby") and crisp, hard pop ("Snow [Hey Oh]") to deep funk ("Hump de Bump") and soft-rap balladry ("Hard to Concentrate")-they even venture into hypnotic blues metal ("Readymade"). "Stadium Arcadium" is one wild melodic rush, and Rick Rubin's airy production squeezes the essence out of a monster-without taming it. A double disc makes sense because no real stadium show pulls the curtain after only 50 minutes. The Peppers' strongest set since "Blood Sugar Sex Magik."
