Alan Moulder
| Alan Moulder | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 June 1959 Boston |
| Education | Boston Grammar School |
| Occupation | record producer, mixing engineer, audio engineer |
| Employer | Trident Studios; Creation Records |
| Spouse | Toni Halliday |
Alan Moulder was educated at Boston Grammar School.
Early life
Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston. He was educated at Boston Grammar School. He had an interest in music from an early age, listing Cream and The Beatles among his favourite artists. The first album he bought was Electric Warrior by T. Rex, and he was impressed by the quality of the recording. He joined his first band (The Gnomes) as a teenager and recorded a demo in a local studio; it was there that he realised that it had been the production that he had so enjoyed on Electric Warrior, and discovered that he was more interested in music engineering than performing.[1]
Career
Moulder's musical career started in the early 1980s at Trident Studios in London. As an assistant engineer, he worked with influential producers like Jean Michel Jarre, drawing from them great familiarity with electronic sounds and textures. Also an engineer at Trident was Flood with whom Moulder would often collaborate in the future. Moulder assisted in one of Flood's recording sessions with The Jesus and Mary Chain, and found that the often fractious and troublesome band enjoyed working with him. The Mary Chain invited Moulder to engineer their live sounds and, eventually, to engineer their 1989 album Automatic. The album's production was praised for its combination of thick, noisy guitar with a polished, listener-friendly tone, and the Mary Chain's former label, Creation Records, soon had Moulder producing records for Ride, My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver.
Personal life
Moulder is married to former Curve lead singer Toni Halliday.[2]
External links
- Alan Moulder- Not the Tuck Shop - The Old Bostonian Book Store
- Official site
- Alan Moulder talks about his Assault & Battery Studio
- Recording My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
References
- ↑ Jorgl, Stephanie. "Alan Moulder: Self-taught Audio Kingpin". Audiohead.net. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ↑ Howe, Zoe (2015). Barbed Wire Kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story. Birrlin, Ltd. ISBN 9780857906656. Retrieved 28 October 2015.