In terms of financial returns, independent recording studios are a poor investment. Instead, they are “peculiar kinds of factories, being involved as they are with ‘emotional labour’ and with creating products that often have a pronounced role in constituting or representing ‘culture’” Nobody who wants to make money would even think of opening a recording studio but those of us who value art, creativity and the sheer elation of music-making would think differently. Emotional and cultural capital is the driver. According to Eliot Bates in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production “studios may constitute hubs of local music scenes” so that “the purpose of studios goes beyond economic considerations….” Functioning as “charged nodes within broader production networks ..”.

La Chunky continues to be a charged node for the development of independent artists - for example The Tenementals.