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Dave
Fridmann
has developed a legendary reputation amongst the musical
community for his production. He is essentially the
“fifth Flaming Lip,” having co-produced most of
their records, and spent several years as Mercury Rev’s
bassist and co-producer where he developed and honed his
distinctive and unique sonic assault. (Dave continues
to serve as Rev’s co-producer and remains a member of
the studio band, even though he has left the touring
band in order to spend more time with his family.) He
engineered several tracks on Weezer’s
Pinkerton and produced “So What,” the single from
the Jane’s Addiction “relapse” album. Dave has garnered
his greatest notice for his production and
orchestration of The Lips’ groundbreaking Yoshimi
Battles The Pink Robots which was featured on the
year-end best-of lists of numerous publications
including NME, Mojo, Blender, Uncut, the Village Voice,
etc., and their prior release, The Soft Bulletin,
which Q magazine selected as one of the 100 Greatest
Albums of all-time. Dave has now worked on seven
full albums by The Lips, including their most recent
acclaimed album, At War With The Mystics. Dave produced 3 tracks on Café
Tacuba’s Grammy Award winning Cuatro Caminos.
Other notable releases include Mercury Rev’s
Deserter’s Songs, which Entertainment Weekly called
“the art rock album of the year” along with Mogwai’s
Rock Action and Come On Die Young, Sleater-Kinney's
The Woods, Low's The Great Destroyer,
Phantom Planet's Phantom Planet, Sparklehorse's
It's A Wonderful Life and
Thursday's A City By The Light Divided.
Gemma Hayes’s Night On My Side, The
Delgados’ The Great Eastern and Ed
Harcourt’s Here Be Monsters were all
nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. |
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Dave received a
Grammy for The Lips' AWWTM at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards
(Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical). The Lips won a Grammy for
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "The Wizard Turns On..." from
AWWTM, and that album received a nomination as Best
Alternative Music Album. Dave was selected
by the
UK’s
Mojo magazine as one of the “100 Sonic Visionaries” of all-time,
along with the likes of George Martin, Phil Spector, Brian Eno and
Prince. Dave was selected as “Recording Person of the Year” in 2002
by professional audio magazine Pro Sound News. The Lips’ Fight
Test EP was nominated as the best alternative music album at the
46th Annual Grammy Awards. And the prior year, The Lips’
“Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)” received the
grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The Soft Bulletin
and Deserter’s Songs were chosen as NME’s #1 album of the
year in 1999 and 1998, respectively. Dave was selected as Rolling
Stone Magazine’s “Hot” Producer for 1999, and was runner-up as the
Rolling Stone’s critics pick for producer of the year. |
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Dave has worked
on numerous tracks that have appeared over the opening credits to
the film Laurel Canyon. Dave produced the
music from a Mountain Dew/Pepsi Free TV commercial which
featured the Wallmen. The Lips “Do You Realize?” appeared in
Mitsubishi and Hewlett-Packard commercials. He has
worked on several Lips’ songs that have appeared on the soundtracks
to Spiderman 3, Spongebob Squarepants, Batman Forever, 50 First Dates, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged
Me, Batman Forever and Suburbia.
In addition, Grand Mal’s brilliant Stay In Bed
appeared in the film Jawbreaker. |
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Dave works
(although not exclusively) out of Tarbox studios, based outside
Buffalo, N.Y. The studio is a state-of-the-art fully automated
unlimited track residential studio featuring Neve and Otari boards
and is equipped for 5.1 surround sound mixing. In addition to
playing bass, Dave writes, sings, plays keyboards and guitar,
programs and arranges strings. |
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Most recently,
Dave worked on the second Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! album, Some
Loud Thunder (CYHSY/Wichita), Low's Drums and Guns
(Sub Pop) and Brazil's Philosophy of Velocity (Immortal). He
just mixed tracks for Roadrunner's De Novo Dahl, and produced,
recorded and mixed the debut full length by MGMT (Columbia). After the acclaimed surround sound mix
of The Lips’ Yoshimi, he completed the work on the 5.1 surround
sound mix of The Lips’ Soft Bulletin and AWWTM (Warner Bros.). Dave has also combined with The Lips on remixes for
Epic’s Modest Mouse (which appeared on the platinum The
Good Times Are Killing Me), Koch’s Chumbawumba,
Toshiba/EMI Japan’s Penguin Noise and Mantra’s Six By
Seven. |
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