John from “The Listening Rooms” brought my new Michell Gyrodec SE around today. Sounds very promising and opens up a whole new (old) world.

Veckatimest (which I mixed) is a Rough Trade Album of the Year

It’s been a long haul, but the painters are finally out. Cleaners on Monday, and before then I am overhauling the (huge) wardrobe and drawers, polishing and replacing metalwork, varnishing, touching-up and pre-cleaner -cleaning. Can’t wait to move back in.

We Have Band give away an mp3 of Honey Trap (mix and additional production by me).
Available here

“Modern Drift” a taster of the new Efterklang album, “Magic Chairs”, available here.

My Mix. Check it out!

Next week I am mixing an album for Panico. They have been recording in Glasgow and Paris. I shall be mixing in London. The parts for the first song have arrived.

Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks” (my mix) Radio 1 Upfront playlisted

My mix (Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights") at #8 in NME "Album of the Decade"

Had an interesting visit to Assault and Battery. The evening was introduced by a couple of REAL professionals - Flood and Alan Moulder - both looking well and relaxed (and younger than I remember!)
Nick Young followed with an overview of the Miloco empire and then Jim Motley from SSL gave an interesting talk about the history of the company, as well as a slick demo of the Matrix.

Very interesting interview with Flood and Alan here

HTRK parts have arrived for a single mix next week.

Off to Paris for a couple of days in rehearsal with Panico. Then they record in Glasgow and I mix later in November.

After a month in Strongroom and an intensive 4 days with Mads tweaking (and the rest of the band all listening remotely via uploads) the new Efterklang LP is pretty much ready for Mastering at Sterling Sound with Greg Calbi

Gliss LP 'Devotion Implosion" released in UK this week. Mixed by me and mastered by Greg at Sterling.

Attending the Vena Festival to give a day of “workshops” on Friday Oct 9th.
I shall be talking about my career, ways of working, and mixing in the box. I shall also be talking about a couple of Classic Album tracks from Depeche Mode’s “Construction Time Again” - “Everything Counts” and “Pipeline”

Here are the slides from my Powerpoint

Here is a slideshow to download

Here are a couple of sentences that I uttered
Video by Zosia Mikucka

As part of this Festival I did an Interview that appeared as a series in Estrada i Studio

I was at a very inspiring Alumni Weekend. Stayed in my old college (possibly in the same room!) and heard fantastic talks from Lord Martin Rees, (Cosmology) Professor Andy Parker (CERN LHC) and Jane Munro (Darwin Endless Forms) amongst many others. Truly Excellent.

Pictures of my weekend here.

Awarded a “Golden Ear” at Sound Edit 2009 in Łódż
for “Visionary and Pioneering Solutions in Music Production”

I was invited to DJ at a Depeche Mode Fan Party in Lodz Sept 12. I used Ableton Live of course. Here is a playlist.

Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” debuts at #8 in Billboard Chart. Mixed by me and mastered by Greg at Sterling.

The track I made with SCUM - Warsaw Signal - is No 1 in the list of 10 tracks you have to hear according to NME this week.

Robert Goldstein took this picture of me at Pilates: