Edmund Wilbur Hudson "Ed" Buller is an English record producer and former musician. He has primarily worked with English bands including Suede, Pulp, the Raincoats and the Courteeners.

Biography

Buller first became interested in music after his father, composer John Buller, took him to see Stravinsky's ballet, ''

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'', at the age of 6. As a teenager, after some early experience using a rarely-available

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in preference to attending school (he was able to operate it while the staff could not), he joined

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as a keyboard player and toured with them for several years. After leaving the band, he took up record production, moving his way up through London studios and eventually became the in-house engineer for

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. The first successful album that Buller produced was Suede's debut album in 1993Ed Buller on producing Suede: "All these awful stories came out that are completely untrue"
Alice Gustafson, Headliner Magazine, 7 February 2022 which peaked #1 on the

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as well as winning the

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. During his career he participated in two other number one albums (Suede's '' Coming Up'' and White Lies's '' To Lose My Life...'') and was nominated for a

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. In 1995, he worked with

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, Gary Stout and Dave Bessell on Node; an analog-synth heavy project that produced a single album, ''Node'' (a follow-up was released in 2014: ''Node 2''). In 1998, Buller moved to California and studied composition and orchestration at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has recently worked with British bands White Lies, the Courteeners, the Cheek and One Night Only, recording in Brussels, as well as Suede's comeback album '' Bloodsports'' in March 2013, and their seventh album '' Night Thoughts'' in January 2016.

Selected production credits

* 2022: Suede - ''

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'' (Producer) * 2019: White Lies - '' Five'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2016: Suede - '' Night Thoughts'' (Producer) * 2013: White Lies - '' Big TV'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2013: Suede - '' Bloodsports'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2010: The Courteeners - ''

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'' (Producer) * 2010: One Night Only - '' One Night Only'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2009: White Lies - '' To Lose My Life...'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2009:

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- '' Midnight of the Century'' (Mixer & Keyboards) * 2007: Martino Conspiracy - ''Hope in Isolation'' (Engineer) * 2005: Alex Lloyd - '' Alex Lloyd'' (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) * 2005:

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- '' Dangerous and Moving'' (Producer) * 2003:

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- '' Songs for Dustmites'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2001: Eskimo Joe - ''

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'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2001: Outerstar - ''Outerstar'' (Mixer & Engineer) * 2001: Stabbing Westward - '' Stabbing Westward'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2000: The Superjesus - ''

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'' (Producer & Engineer) * 2000:

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- '' Tried + True'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1999: Alex Lloyd - '' Black The Sun'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1999:

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- '' Breathing Tornados'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1999: Justin Clayton - ''Limb'' (Mixer) * 1997: Closer - ''Don't Walk'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1997:

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- '' Manipulated'' (Mixer) * 1996: Suede - '' Coming Up'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1996: Raincoats - '' Looking in the Shadows'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1994: Suede - '' Dog Man Star'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1994: Pulp - '' His 'n' Hers'' (Producer & Mixer) * 1993: Slowdive - '' Souvlaki'' (Mixer) * 1993: Suede - '' Suede'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1992: The Boo Radleys - '' Everything's Alright Forever'' (Producer & Engineer) * 1991:

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- '' Galore'' (Producer) * 1990:

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- '' Sweetness and Light (EP)'' (Engineer) * 1988: Jim Capaldi - ''Some Come Running'' (Engineer & Mixer)

References

Notes

Peaked as number 1 on the

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Won a Mercury Prize award.
Nominated for a Brit Award for best producer.

External links

Ed Buller video interview
Interview with Ed Buller and Gary Stout on Node project. {{DEFAULTSORT:Buller, Ed Living people English record producers San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni The Psychedelic Furs members Year of birth missing (living people)