NEWS AWARDS PREVIEW
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With just over a month to go until the inaugural Pro Sound Awards, we take a look at some of the contenders.
THE FINALISTS have been announced, the venue booked, and on Thursday 19 September, the winners of the first ever Pro Sound Awards will be crowned at London’s Ministry of Sound. Organised by Intent Media, the awards recognise the commercial and creative successes of the entire pro-audio industry with honours going out to winners across a diverse range of categories. Tickets to this major event are just £45, and are available from
www.prosoundawards.com/tickets.
STUDIO – sponsored by STUDIO ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
SIMON RHODES – ABBEY ROAD Rhodes recorded and mixed Tom Newman’s score to Skyfall at Abbey Road Studios. This involved taking composer Tom Newman’s sketches and recording dozens of “rhythmic, melodic and exotic layers” over the top to create the incredible textures of excitement and colour demanded by Sam Mendes.
MARK WINTERBURN – EDGE RECORDING STUDIOS “If there was a young engineer/producer deserving of this award it would be Mark Winterburn,” says John Delf, Edge Recording Studios owner. In six months Winterburn went from tea-boy to key engineer/mixer on Plan B’s Mercury Prize, MOBO and BRIT nominated album Ill Manors. Since then he has worked with New Order, Danny O’Donoghue, and many others.
ALALAL (AL O’CONNELL) Alalal’s long-standing collaborations with Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, and Erol Alkan have seen him credited on some of the most successful releases of the past decade. With his work on Rufus Wrainwright’s Out Of The Game and Duran Duran’s All You Need Is Now, production and remixes for Klaxons, Plan B and Metronomy, Alalal is fast becoming one of the most exciting and fresh producers/engineers of his generation.
TOBY ALINGTON Toby’s 30 years of experience in live music soundtracks is second to none. He has been responsible for the BRIT Awards soundtrack for the last 19 years, the annual MTV Europe Music Awards for 12 years, and the Classical BRIT Awards since its inception in 2000.
STUDIO OF THE YEAR RECORDING PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
ANDREW JACQUEMIN FOR A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Over his 40-year career, Jacquemin has worked as a producer, sound designer, and sound supervisor including on all of the Monty Python projects. He also recently produced sound for the latest Liar’s Autobiography by Graham Chapman.
DAVID WRENCH FOR SUNLESS ’97 AURORA EP The three-time BBC award-winning producer began his eclectic musical career in 1989 producing the “first Welsh language acid house record” for Nid Madagascar. Since then, David has penned four studio albums while producing albums for Bear In Heaven and Race Horses, and mixing for Caribou, Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything and the Sunless ’97 Aurora EP.
BEN DREW, ERIC APPAPOULAY AND AL SHUX FOR PLAYING WITH FIRE (SINGLE) Drew (AKA Plan B), Appapoulay and Shux were all integral to the production and sound of the Mercury Prize nominated, number one Plan B album, Ill Manors, including the single Playing With Fire. The single was released as the fourth from the album on 3 December 2012 and features vocals from producer and vocalist Labrinth.
MARK RONSON FOR BRUNO MARKS UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX (ALBUM) The album’s lead single, Locked Out of Heaven, was a commercial and critical success, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks and charting inside the top 10 in more than 20 countries across the world.
SNAP, LONDON Snap is an independent recording studio set up in 2010 in north London with the aim of offering uncompromising quality and facilities, traditional values, and a creative vibe, all at an affordable price. The studio is centred around a 1972 Neve analogue console, and since opening has attracted leading UK artists, ranging from Kate Bush to Baaba Maal, Coldplay to Matthew Herbert and Snow Patrol to The Kaiser Chiefs.
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BRITISH GROVE, LONDON British Grove is owned by Mark Knopfler and has been built to encompass the best of the two recording worlds by incorporating analogue and digital equipment. Recent successful albums have included Mumford and Sons, Noah and the Whale, Eric Clapton, and movies Gravity and World War Z, together with pre-recorded music for the opening and closing Olympic ceremonies.
ASTAR STUDIOS, LANCASHIRE International songwriter and producer, Andy Ross’ Astar Studios was purpose built inside an industrial unit in Heywood, Lancashire five years ago. Andy wanted to engage with the growing independent sector by offering affordable and high-end recording, professional, 360º services, and artist support. Astar also operates a graduate placement programme with the University of Huddersfield and partners the Exposure Music Awards.
WISSELOORD, NETHERLANDS The iconic Wisseloord Studios has been extensively rebuilt, preserving the beautiful acoustics of the recording spaces and the renowned “vibe”, by a unique venture between partners API, Avid, Eggleston Works, Euphonix, PMC, Prism Sound, SPL, Antelope, Grimm Audio, Lavry, Krell, JV Acoustics. With a Grammy in the first year of reopening things are heading in the right direction making Wisseloord the “place to be”.
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