Alan Moulder

Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer.

Early life

Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire. 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 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.

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.

Selected production/mixing/engineering credits

Selected production credits:

* 1988: Gianna Nannini – ''Malafemmina'' (producer, mixing)
* 1989: The Jesus and Mary Chain – ''Automatic'' (engineering, mixing)
* 1990: My Bloody Valentine – '' Glider'' (engineering)
* 1990: Ride – Nowhere (mixing)
* 1991: My Bloody Valentine – ''Tremolo'' (engineering)
* 1991: My Bloody Valentine – ''Loveless'' (engineering)
* 1992: Curve – Doppelgänger (engineering)
* 1992: Ride – '' Going Blank Again'' (producer, mixing)
* 1992: Shakespears Sister – '' Hormonally Yours'' (co-producer)
* 1993: The Smashing Pumpkins – ''Siamese Dream'' (mixing)
* 1993: Curve – '' Cuckoo'' (engineering)
* 1993: Swervedriver – '' Mezcal Head'' (producer, mixing)
* 1994: Lush – '' Split'' (mixing)
* 1994: Nine Inch Nails – '' The Downward Spiral'' (mixing)
* 1994: Marilyn Manson – '' Portrait of an American Family'' (engineering, mixing)
* 1995: The Smashing Pumpkins – '' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' (co-producer, mixing)
* 1995: Prick – Prick (engineering, mixing)
* 1995: Swervedriver – Ejector Seat Reservation (co-producer, mixing)
* 1996: Moby – ''Animal Rights'' (engineering, mixing)
* 1996: The Cure – '' Wild Mood Swings'' (mixing)
* 1997: U2 – ''Pop'' (co-producer, mixing)
* 1997: Depeche Mode – '' Useless'' (remixing)
* 1998: Monster Magnet – '' Powertrip'' (mixing)
* 1999: Nine Inch Nails – ''The Fragile'' (co-producer, engineering, mixing) ("Alan Moulder produced the record with me," noted Trent Reznor. "We usually had too many ideas, unfocused. Halfway through there were no lyrics at all; it was all weird soundscapes, like film music. But we wanted an important record, not an esoteric, self-indulgent thing from two guys who'd lost their minds.")
* 1999: Swervedriver – 99th Dream (co-producer, mixing)
* 2000: The Smashing Pumpkins – ''Machina/The Machines of God'' (mixing)
* 2000: A Perfect Circle – ''Mer de Noms'' (mixing)
* 2000: Monster Magnet – ''God Says No''
* 2000: Queen Adreena – "Jolene" (co-producer, mixing)
* 2002: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, '' Fever To Tell'' (mixing)
* 2003: The Icarus Line – ''Penance Soiree'' (co-engineering, mixing)
* 2003: Gary Numan – '' Hybrid'' (guest producer)
* 2004: The Killers – '' Hot Fuss'' (mixing)
* 2005: Billy Corgan – '' TheFutureEmbrace'' (producer)
* 2005: Nine Inch Nails – '' With Teeth'' (producer)
* 2005: Soulwax – ''Any Minute Now'' (mixing)
* 2006: The Killers – '' Sam's Town'' (co-producer)
* 2006: Secret Machines – '' Ten Silver Drops'' (mixing)
* 2006: Sound Team – ''Movie Monster'' (mixing)
* 2006: Puscifer – ''V Is for Vagina'' (mixing)
* 2006: Saul Williams – '' The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!'' (mixing)
* 2006: Ashes Divide – '' Keep Telling Myself It's Alright'' (mixing)
* 2006: The Wolfmen – Debut album (mixing)
* 2006: Blonde Redhead – ''23'' (producer)
* 2007: Arctic Monkeys – '' Favourite Worst Nightmare'' (co-mixing)
* 2007: Korn – Untitled album (mixing)
* 2007: Nine Inch Nails – '' Year Zero'' (co-mixing)
* 2008: Nine Inch Nails – '' Ghosts I-IV'' (co-producer, co-mixing)
* 2008: The Charlatans – '' You Cross My Path'' (mixing)
* 2008: Nine Inch Nails – '' The Slip'' (co-producer, co-mixing)
* 2008: The Morning After Girls – ''Alone'' (producer, mixing)
* 2009: Wolfmother – '' Cosmic Egg'' (producer, mixing)
* 2009: Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures (mixing)
* 2009: BM LINX – "Black Entertainment" (mixing)
* 2009: Placebo – '' Battle for the Sun'' (mixing)
* 2009: SPC ECO – ''Shine On Down'' (remixing)
* 2010: Interpol – Interpol (mixing)
* 2010: How to Destroy Angels – eponymous début EP (co-producer, co-mixing)
* 2011: Foo Fighters – '' Wasting Light'' (mixing)
* 2011: White Lies – ''Ritual'' (co-producer)
* 2012: How to Destroy Angels – '' An Omen EP'' (mixing)
* 2012: The Killers – '' Battle Born'' (mixing)
* 2013: Foals – '' Holy Fire'' (producer, mixing)
* 2013: How To Destroy Angels – '' Welcome Oblivion'' (mixing)
* 2013: Nine Inch Nails – '' Hesitation Marks'' (co-producer)
* 2013: The Naked And Famous – ''Hearts Like Ours'' (mixing)
* 2014: Howling Bells – '' Heartstrings'' (producer)
* 2014: Royal Blood – '' Royal Blood'' (mixing)
* 2014: Mercutio – "Back to Nowhere" (mixing)
* 2014: La Roux – ''Trouble in Paradise'' (mixing)
* 2014: Interpol – '' El Pintor'' (mixing)
* 2015: Foals – '' What Went Down'' (mixing)
* 2015: Silversun Pickups – ''Better Nature'' (mixing)
* 2015: Editors (band), Editors – ''In Dream'' (mixing)
* 2016: The Joy Formidable – ''Hitch (album), Hitch'' (mixing)
* 2016: Plague Vendor – Blood Sweat (mixing)
* 2016: Bear Hands – ''You'll Pay For This'' (mixing)
* 2016: Twin Atlantic – ''GLA (album), GLA'' (mixing)
* 2016: Crobot – ''Welcome To Fat City'' (mixing)
* 2016: Two Door Cinema Club – ''Gameshow (album), Gameshow'' (mixing)
* 2017: Circa Waves – ''Different Creatures'' (producer)
* 2017: Ride – ''Weather Diaries'' (mixing)
* 2017: The Killers – ''Wonderful Wonderful (The Killers album), Wonderful Wonderful'' (mixing)
* 2017: Queens of the Stone Age – ''Villains (Queens of the Stone Age album), Villains'' (mixing)
* 2018: Suede (band), Suede – ''The Blue Hour (album), The Blue Hour'' (producer)
* 2018: Beach House (band), Beach House – ''7 (Beach House album), 7'' (mixing)
* 2018: Nine Inch Nails – ''Bad Witch'' (mixing)
* 2019: The Young Gods – ''Data Mirage Tangram'' (mixing)
* 2020: 5 Seconds of Summer – ''No Shame (5 Seconds of Summer song), No Shame'' (mixing)
* 2020: Ed O'Brien, EOB – ''Earth (EOB album), Earth'' (mixing)
* 2022: Beach House (band), Beach House – ''Once Twice Melody'' (mixing)
* 2022: Interpol – ''The Other Side of Make-Believe'' (mixing)

Personal life

Moulder is married to Curve lead singer Toni Halliday.

Notes

References

*Jorgl, Stephanie. ''Alan Moulder'

External links

Official site

Alan Moulder talks about his Assault & Battery Studio

Recording My Bloody Valentine's Loveless

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English record producers
1959 births
Living people
People from Boston, Lincolnshire
English audio engineers
Mixing engineers
People educated at Boston Grammar School
Brit Award winners