Cactus House Recording is a music production studio, print shop and publisher located in the historic New Almaden neighborhood of San Jose, California.  Founded by Trevor Gabriel in 2017, we have recorded, mixed and mastered many professional releases as well as stocked our own online store with posters and stickers we print and cut here.  We also publish most of our releases now on all major streaming platforms.  Some of the artists we have produced include:

• Dark Satellite
• Periscope
• Dead Engine
• Disrupt The Paradigm
• Tony Gennaro
• Mr. Refuse / Mystery Fuse
• Lazyboyz
• Divided By Seven (/VII)

The studio has been growing since 2017, but the history of Cactus House and the New Almaden neighborhood goes much further back.  New Almaden was originally a mining operation, located in the hills south of San Jose.  Cactus House was originally a cabin built by a miner in the late 1800's up near the entrance to the mines known as English Camp in what is now Quicksilver County Park.  In 1895 the small cabin was moved by a team of donkeys down to where it currently resides on Almaden Road - the main road going through the town.

As the decades went by the property fell into disrepair until in 2013 when Trevor Gabriel, a guitar teacher at a local store and touring musician, made an offer on the property and began renovating.  The original 200 square-foot cabin was in surprisingly good shape, but previous owners had constructed an unpermitted addition on the back with no foundation that needed to be rebuilt.  It took several years but in June 2017 the major work was finished; the original cabin was restored and a brand new two-story addition was built onto the back.  A couple months later, a new employee at the music store Trevor taught at (The Starving Musician, Santa Clara) asked about recording their band at Cactus House.  While working on this EP, and a few others that started shortly after, it became clear that the original part of the house, with it's tall ceilings and proper dimensions, naturally had a lovely sound for recording.

Over the next several years, Trevor built all the acoustic treatment panels, bass traps, installed acrylic panels on the windows, and also installed two heavy duty sound doors for the room while also accumulating all the used pro audio gear he could afford that came through the store.

By 2021 Cactus House Recording had produced over two dozen singles, EPs and albums, with 14 of them published under our own name on all major streaming platforms.  We are still growing and making new connections in our local music scene.  Follow us on YouTube and Instagram to see what we're working on currently, and don't be shy to contact us about production or publishing services.  Support local music, art and small businesses!