Can’t believe how quickly the year’s gone..only 12 months since my last annual review.
As ever, a fruitful year: never a shortage of things to do.
Have released a couple of albums on my music for media imprint : an Ambient one and my favourite one…a Moterik album. Lots of music of mine on there. Signed a co publishing deal to try to kick the company into the stratosphere in 2017
Just finished mixing album 3 for One Cure for Man and lots of mastering for a few artists.
Did a load of production for Hannah Brine for some publishing avenues.
I slipped in a remix for We Three and The Death Rattle
I mixed most of the stuff on this over the last 2 years, but glad it’s all out as an album: Lux by The Daydream Club
I recorded and mixed/mastered another album at Simon Says festival
Favourite plug ins for me this year have been the Soundtoys mini versions : the Little Radiator and the Primal Tap have both been on pretty much every mix I’ve done in 2016: super simple and sound great.
Books? : Read the Mixerman books: all of them highly recommended but ‘The Daily Adventures Of’ is a great place to start.
The Johnny Marr autobiography is a good read: still leaves lots of mystery to the bits you want to know more of (for me, anything behind the Smiths and Electronic) but it’s written is such an open and conversational way you can’t help but love him…and you can’t say that about Moz’s biog a couple of years back
Three gigs in a year is unusual for me these days, but I made them count this year! Massive Attack, John Grant and PJ Harvey: a trio of ace-ness.
Song Of The Year is ‘I Feel The Weight’ by Miike Snow: it’s perfect meld of production and a rock solid ‘song’. Beautiful.
Albums I’ve loved:
Bowie, Beyonce, Iggy Pop, Bon Ivor, Mystery Jets, Shura, Miike Snow, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, Meilyr Jones
2017 holds more of the same: got a few music for media albums to finish and get out.Am doing some recording and mixing for Kafka Diva in January for their new album, too and things always just crop up out of the blue.
You just keep working, don’t you?’Get yer tackle out and see what bites’ as Paul Calf said
For those of you who work on your own, do bear with it: it’s hard to keep going sometimes when you can’t see the wood for the trees…but there’s always light at the end of the tunnel
All the best for 2017
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