You drive by the building and it's nondescript; just another Los Angeles, 30's era brick storefront between a 99-cent convenience store and a children's daycare facility. Inside you are transported to... an alternative future? Dimmed lights illuminate walls of vintage circus posters and a hallway lined with hanging guitars. There are drum sets and vintage amps everywhere. At the stair landing you are engulfed by an impossible psychedelic mural; the space stretches back and back, past a wall of priceless posters documenting the coolest of Los Angeles's musical histories to, of all things, a sumptuous victorian living room. All of this wraps around the real heart of Kitten Robot: the clean and modern, perfectly designed and yet kinda insanely decorated recording studio. The kaleidoscopic carpeted floors, the walls lined with plush purple, gold and orange sound absorbent materials, the deep silence created by the heavy soundproofing, more guitars, walls of keyboards, the eerie glow of the Kemper amp profiler sitting on a shelf crammed with guitar pedals of all shapes and colors. Wandering through the space there is always more to discover: the magical, slightly out-of-tune green upright piano, the displays of hundreds of CD's and vinyl that has been recorded here, a vintage accordion and pump organ, drawers crammed with percussion, the graffiti scarred bathroom, signed by hundreds of bands in an ongoing restroom harangue of questionable etiquette. The second bathroom, a jungle of ivy and orchids. It would be a fun place to visit, but it is a workspace where a staggering amount of the most exciting music coming out of LA is produced. The most creative musical minds in Southern California return again and again. It is a hard place to leave.