John Fryer (music producer)
John Fryer (* 1958 in London , England) is a British sound engineer and music producer .
Fryer began his career in 1979 as an assistant at Blackwing Studios , with whom he stayed professionally for nine years. Between 1981 and 1989 he produced exclusively for bands from the music labels Mute Records and 4AD . For over 25 years he worked as a producer in the fields of pop , alternative rock and spiritual mood music . The result were dozens of albums, singles and remixes, among others with Depeche Mode , the Cocteau Twins or Nine Inch Nails and the Finnish rock band HIM . In 2003 he founded the label Something To Listen To Records .
In 2011 he recorded an album for the first time with his band DarkDriveClinic in which he himself was a musician.
Discography (excerpt)
- 1981: Incontinent - Fad Gadget (Mute)
- 1982: Under the Flag - Fad Gadget (Mute)
- 1983: Head Over Heels - Cocteau Twins (4AD)
- 1984: It'll end in Tears - This Mortal Coil (4AD)
- 1984: Tocsin - Xmal Germany (4AD)
- 1985: Hail - He Said (Mute)
- 1985: Colourbox - Colourbox (4AD)
- 1986: Filigree and Shadow - This Mortal Coil (4AD)
- 1986: Medusa - Clan of Xymox (4AD)
- 1986: Standing up Straight - The Wolfgang Press (4AD)
- 1988: Take Care - He Said (Mute)
- 1989: Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (Tvt)
- 1989: Scar - Lush (4AD)
- 1989: Love and Rockets - Love and Rockets (RCA)
- 1989: It's Beginning to and Back Again - Wire (Restless)
- 1990: Coming Down - Daniel Ash (RCA)
- 1990: Comforts of Madness - Pale Saints (4AD)
- 1990: Head Down - MOEV (Nettwerk)
- 1991: Magic Seed - Easy (Mute)
- 1991: Blood - This Mortal Coil (4AD)
- 1991: Home is in Your Head - His Name is Alive (4AD)
- 1992: Storybook - The Beautiful (Giant)
- 1992: Blow - Swallow (4AD)
- 1992: I - Die Krupps (Rough Trade)
- 1992: A Tribute to Metallica - Die Krupps (Rough Trade)
- 1994: Ungod - Stabbing Westward (Columbia)
- 1995: Burn - Sister Macine Gun (Wax Trax)
- 1996: Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills (Tvt)
- 1996: One of our Girls - AC Marias (Mute)
- 1996: Sweet FA - Love and Rockets (American)
- 1996: Wither Blister Burn and Red - Stabbing Westward (Columbia)
- 1997: Tiny Warnings - Radio Iodine (Universal)
- 1997: Metropolis - Sister Macine Gun (Tvt)
- 1998: Telepathic Last Words - Course of Empire (Tvt)
- 1998: Words Become Worms - Love in Reverse (Warner)
- 1999: Razorblade Romance - HIM (Gun)
- 2011: Noise in my head - DarkDriveClinic
Web links
- Article about Fryer in the online magazine Sound on Sound.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . Miller Freeman, San Francisco 2000, ISBN 0-87930-607-6 . , P. 771
- ↑ http://www.darkdriveclinic.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fryer, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English music producer and sound engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |