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Dave Fridmann co-produced/ engineered/ mixed MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular (Columbia), one of the most talked about albums of the past few years. The album, heard just about everywhere you turned this past year, will prove to be the soundtrack to the lives of a lot of 20-somethings… Certified platinum in the UK, double platinum in Australia and gold in Canada, France and Ireland… (Click Here) Dave and The Flaming Lips were again nominated for a Grammy at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards (after winning at the 49th), but lost out to George Martin and the Beatles (no shame there…). Most recently Dave has completed new albums for The Flaming Lips and OK Go. |
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Glasgow’s Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, The Delgados) produced, engineered and mixed Wintersleep’s Welcome To The Night Sky, which was an instrumental part in Wintersleep’s 2008 Juno award win for Best New Artist (Click Here). Quickly becoming the new go-to guy in Canada, he just mixed Young Galaxy’s second album, the brilliant Invisible Republic (Click Here). Tony is also busy mixing the live recordings of numerous unsigned up and coming Scottish bands for Miller Beer, the results of which can be heard on their website (Click Here). Bands to have gotten a career boost from exposure through The Mill include Broken Records (4AD), Twin Atlantic (Red Bull Records), etc. |
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Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates of State, The Comas), after temporarily relocating to Chicago, has just returned to NYC and has set up shop at the amazing Engine Room complex in downtown Manhattan. Some projects worked on over the past year include Detroit’s The Hard Lessons ----check out “Wedding Ring” which was featured in the closing scene of a recent Grey’s Anatomy episode (Click Here), LA teen rockers Wild Youth (Click Here), the wonderful songstress from LA, Meredith Meyer (Click Here), Austin/ Houston/ New Zealand’s Honey Claws, Rogue Wave offshoots Golden Gram, and New York’s brilliant Zambri. He also recorded and mixed several live performances by the likes of Rihanna, The Fields, Gym Class Heroes, 50 Cent, Juanes, etc. for Sprint and AtlanticRecords. |
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Paul Mahajan (Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, TV on the Radio, The Liars) continues to work with the best new bands in Brooklyn’s fertile scene. He collaborated with Dan Goddard to record his amazing Volunteers project (Click Here), and he produced noise rockers Abigail Warchild (Click Here). Most recently, he has formed a partnership with producer/ engineer/ musician Mark Ephraim, who has performed in his own band, The Shorebirds, as well as recorded with the likes of Grand Mal, Adam Green and Neckbeard Telecaster. Together, Paul and Mark produced/ recorded and mixed the most recent EP’s by Williamsburg darlings Dirty On Purpose. “Audience in the Room,” from the Like Bees EP, was featured in a Virgin Mobile TV ad (Click Here). They also collaborated on the most recent recordings by (anti-) folkie Turner Cody (Boyscout Recordings) (Click Here) YabYum’s extreme J.A.C.K. (Click Here) and the unique Wolff (ex-Drums & Tuba). Paul has also been busy mastering a number of releases, including Dirty on Purpose’s Dead Volcanoes EP, Geezer on Diesel, Wolff, Abigail Warchild, and both the Pocket Re-Mixes and Pocket Singles series, featuring performances by Radiohead, Robyn Hitchcock, Cat Power, Of Montreal, Antony & The Johnsons, Joanna Newsom, etc. Pocket’s track featuring Robyn Hitchcock recently appeared on an episode of NBC’s Kings. |
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Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash, Dream Syndicate) is currently the Schulich distinguished chair at McGill University in Montreal. His courses span the Music, Law, Management and English departments including “The Philosophy and Esthetics of Record Production.” Besides his duties as a professor, he was recently appointed to the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, creating policies to be implemented for the preservation and restoration of audio works (musical and spoken). And the legacy of the Blue Oyster Cult lives on as “Cities On Flame With Rock N Roll” is available for Guitar Hero and you can play your plastic cowbell to “Don’t Fear The Reaper,” which is available for Rock Band. |
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