Eric Radcliffe

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Eric Charles Radcliffe (* 1950 ) is a British sound engineer, guitarist, record producer and studio owner. Its abbreviation in credits is usually EC Radcliffe . He became internationally known as a sound engineer and producer for the artists Fad Gadget , Depeche Mode and Yazoo , who were under contract with Mute Records , and shaped the early mute sound . After the liquidation of the recording studio he founded, he withdrew from the music industry.

Life

Radcliffe began to get enthusiastic about studio technology when his band was recording. First experiments with recording technology in his own apartment for musician friends who were friends aroused in him the desire to set up his own professional music studio. After training as a laser technician, he moved to London and founded Blackwing Studios in Southwark in 1980 , which he managed until the end of 2001. Daniel Miller , the founder and owner of Mute Records, recorded the album Music for Parties of his music project Silicon Teens there. Miller booked the studios and Radcliffe or his then assistant John Fryer for recordings of Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode or Yazoo. The latter named the debut album Upstairs at Eric’s produced by Radcliffe after him.

Between 1980 and 1982 the side project Dome by the band Wire with Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis recorded three albums at Blackwing Studios with Radcliffe and Fryer as sound engineers, which Simon Reynolds recorded in his book Rip it up and Start Again with Brian's ambient cycle Eno compares. Together with Miller, Gilbert and Lewis recorded the album Or so it Seems as Duet Emmo (an anagram of Mute and Dome ) in 1983 with Fryer and Radcliffe at the controls at Blackwing Studios before Wire reunited in 1985.

In 1982 he founded the independent label Reset Records with Vince Clarke , which released eight singles by 1987. All recordings for Reset Records at Blackwing Studios were produced by Radcliffe. Clarke names Radcliffe as a major influence.

In 1983, after Yazoo broke up, he and Vince Clarke founded the short-lived duo The Assembly . An album with changing singers was planned; the only single released was Never Never with Feargal Sharkey as singer. The single reached number 4 on the UK charts. Clarke founded the group Erasure with Andy Bell in 1985 , for which Radcliffe also wrote and mixed at first.

Today he lives in Gravesend .

Discography (excerpt)

As a sound engineer

  • 1980: Music for Parties - Silicon Teens (Mute)
  • 1980: Dome - Dome (Dome)
  • 1980: Dome 2 - Dome (Dome)
  • 1981: Speak & Spell - Depeche Mode (Mute)
  • 1981: Dome 3 - Dome (Dome)
  • 1982: A Broken Frame - Depeche Mode (Mute)
  • 1982: Garlands - Cocteau Twins (4AD)
  • 1982: Will You Speak This Word - Dome (Uniton)
  • 1983: Or So It Seems - Duet Emmo (Mute)

As a producer

  • 1980: Fireside Favoutites - Fad Gadget (Mute)
  • 1981: Incontinent - Fad Gadget (Mute)
  • 1982: Upstairs at Eric’s - Yazoo (Mute)
  • 1983: You and Me Both - Yazoo (Mute)
  • 1986: Snakes and Ladders - Frank Tovey (Mute)

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  2. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Eric+Radcliffe
  3. ^ Interview in Electronics and Music Maker magazine, March 1984
  4. ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up And Start Again . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-270-6 (Chapter 8 Art Attack: Talking Heads and Wire ). , P. 171
  5. ↑ debug: Yazoo: Forever Avant-garde. In: de-bug.de. July 28, 2008, accessed December 17, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Assembly in the UK charts. In: chartstats.com. Retrieved November 7, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Radcliffe, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radcliffe, Eric Charles (full name); Radcliffe, EC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950