James Ford (musician)

James Ford

James Ford (born James Ellis Ford ) is an English musician , composer and producer.

Career

James Ford founded the indie rock band Simian with Simon Lord, Alex MacNaghten and James Shaw , whose debut album Chemistry Is What We Are was released in 2001. After a second album, the band broke up in 2005, after which Ford continued the dance-floor-oriented Simian Mobile Disco , which was originally only intended as a DJ team for Simian concerts, together with Shaw. In 2007 their debut Attack Decay Sustain Release was released .

Productions and collaborations

He produced the album Myths of the Near Future with Klaxons , which won the Mercury Prize . He also produced the second, fourth, fifth and sixth Arctic Monkeys albums . He played drums on the side project of their singer Alex Turner , The Last Shadow Puppets , and produced their debut album The Age of the Understatement , which was also nominated for the Mercury Prize. In 2009 he produced the debut album by Florence and the Machine , the singer of which claimed she had "kidnapped" Ford to produce the album. Ford also participated in the Homelife and Toolshed projects . In 2016 he produced their fourteenth studio album Spirit with Depeche Mode , which was released in spring 2017.

Discography

With simian

Albums

• Chemistry Is What We Are (2001)
• We Are Your Friends (2002)

Singles and EPs

• Watch It Glow (EP) (2000)
• The Wisp (EP) (2001)
• One Dimension (2001)
• Mr. Crow (2002)
• Never Be Alone (2002)
• La Breeze (2003)

With Simian Mobile Disco

Albums

• Attack Decay Sustain Release (2007)
• Sample and Hold (Remix Album) (2008)
• Attack Decay Sustain Release Remixed (2008)
• Temporary Pleasure (2009)
• Delicacies (2010)
• Unpatterns (2012)
• Live (2013)
• Whorl (2014 with ANTI-Records )

EPs

• Simian Mobile Disco EP (2007)
• Clock EP (2008)

Singles

• The Mighty Atom / Boatrace / Upside Down (2004)
• Piggy in the Middle (2005)
• Pulse (2005)
• The Count (2005)
• Hustler / Clik (2006)
• Tits & Acid / Animal House (2006) ( White label )
• It's the Beat (2007)
• "I Believe (2007)
• Run: Nike + Sport Music (2008) ( iTunes release)
• Run (2008) (White Label)
• Synthesize (2009)
• 10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong (2009)
• Audacity of Huge (2009)

Selection of produced albums

• Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only (2005)
• Absentee - Schmotime (2006)
• Duels - The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned (2006)
• Mystery Jets - Making Dens (2006)
• Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare (2007)
• Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future (2007)
• Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release (2007)
• The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (2008)
• Florence and the Machine - Lungs (2009)
• Peaches - I Feel Cream / Cum (2009)
• Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See (2011)
• Little Boots - Nocturnes (2013)
• Arctic Monkeys - AM (2013)
• Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind (2015)
• Depeche Mode - Spirit (2017)
• Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018)

Selection of remixes

• The Departure - Lump In My Throat (2004)
• Test Icicles - Circle, Square, Triangle (2005)
• The Kills - Love Is A Deserter (2005)
• Jentina - Mysterious (2005)
• New Rhodes - You've Given Me Something I Can't Give Back (2005)
• Shitdisco - I Know Kung Fu (2006)
• The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover (2007)

Web links

• Producer chat with James Ford , interview on sallys.net
• Simian Mobile Disco: Healthy shrunk , interview and biography on intro.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the stage to the club: Simian Mobile Disco are the ricochets of the New Rave ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), interview with James Ford on lifestyle.yahoo.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} One half of Simian Mobile Disco, very mobile indeed ... on guardian.co.uk (English)
3. ↑ Biography of Simian in the All Music Guide (English)
4. ↑ Klaxons planning 'melodic' album on bbc.co.uk (English)
5. ↑ The Last Shadow Puppets Biography on nme.com (English)
6. ↑ Florence & The Machine 'kidnap producer' on digitalspy.co.uk (English)
7. ↑ James Ford at Discogs (English)
8. ↑ Andreas Meixensperger: Depeche Mode: New album and “Global Spirit” tour 2017. In: musikexpress.de. October 11, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016 . 
9. ↑ BBC Sound of 2009: Florence and the Machine on bbc.co.uk (English)