Dan Austin

English record producer

Dan Austin is a sound engineer and music producer^[1] and mixer working in the United Kingdom.^[2]^[3] Austin also performs as a bassist.^[4]

Early life

Austin attended The George Ward School and Lowbourne Junior School in Wiltshire. While in school he formed a band called Four Parts Water, towards the end of his time studying at The George Ward School he began working part-time at Moles Studio in Bath, Somerset.^[5]

Career

In 2004, Austin played bass with the band the Cooper Temple Clause. He also produced a number of recordings with the group. He produced the band Cherry Ghost album, A Thirst For Romance and the follow-up albums Beneath this Burning Shoreline and Herd Runners.^[6] In 2008 a song he produced for this band won the Ivor Novello award.^[5]

Austin has contributed to the Doves' Kingdom Of Rust^[7]^[8] and new tracks on the Best Of release which he produced. Austin has also produced an album for US act Evaline, and he has also mixed tracks for Morning Parade and Young Rebel Set.

In 2010 Austin was producing and recording at the Moles Studio in Bath.^[9] He produced the debut album for Airship,^[10]^[11] as well as two EPs for this group.^[12]

Austin was shortlisted for a Music Producers Guild Award in 2013.^[13]

Since 2013 Austin has worked with Gil Norton on albums by Twin Atlantic, Futures, Pulled Apart By Horses and Maxïmo Park as well as tracks by The People the Poet and You Me At Six. Austin and Gil finished the debut album '‘Anthems’' for Pure Love, the new band from ex-Gallows frontman Frank Carter and in 2014 Austin produced an album with the band Arcane Roots.^[14]

Production, mixing and engineering credits

Del Amitri (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Fatal Mistakes Album
You Me At Six (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Suckapunch Album
Doves (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) The Universal Want Album
You Me At Six (Engineer & Producer) VI Album
Twin Atlantic (Producer, Engineer & Mixerr) Power
Guide Dog (Mixer) Lovely Domestic Bliss Album
LOA State (Mixer) Forthcoming Album
Soundhorn (Mixer) Extended Mixes for Shadowlark
Lisbon (Mixer) Forthcoming tracks
Everyone You Know (Mixer) Forthcoming EP
She Makes War (Producer & Mixer) Brace for Impact Album
Fine Creatures (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Electric La La Land EP
The Ninth Wave (Producer & Engineer) Never Crave Attention Album
Pretty Vicious (Producer & Mixer) Beauty of Youth
Shadowlark (Mixer) Forthcoming tracks
SheMakesWar (Engineer & Mixer) Forthcoming tracks
The Ninth Wave (Producer & Mixer) Forthcoming EP
MOSES (Producer & Mixer) Forthcoming track “Kingsize”
Shadowlark (Producer & Mixer) Forthcoming tracks
SoShe (Co-producer & Mixer) Forthcoming EP
Love Amongst Ruin (Producer) Forthcoming track
Guidedog (Producer & Mixer) Forthcoming album
Sløtface (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Try Not to Freak Out
SoShe Feat. Cadet (Additional Producer & Mixer) "Showed Up" track
Mallory Knox (Producer & Mixer) Wired Album
Young Legionnaire (Mixer) Zero Worship Album
Lisbon (Producer & Mixer) "Vice", "Shark" + forthcoming track
Gallery Circus (Producer & Mixer) "Holland on Fire" * "Club House Killer" tracks
Sløtface (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) "Sponge State" and "Empire Records" EPs
Love Amongst Ruin (Producer & Mixer) Lose Your Way Album
Monarks (Producer & Mixer) "You Were My Fire", "Amorous" tracks + forthcoming EP
Daisy Victoria (Producer & Mixer) Animal Lover EP
Losers (Mixer) How To Ruin Other People’s Futures Album
Leaders of Men (Engineer) Forthcoming tracks
She Makes War (Mixer) Disarm: 15 EP
Army of Bones (Engineer) Army of Bones Album
Benji Wild (Engineer & Mixer) Watch and Learn track and forthcoming tracks
HEN (Mixer) Forthcoming album
Pleasure Beach (Mixer) Dreamer to the Dawn EP
Club Kuru (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Layla EP & forthcoming tracks
Monarks (Mixer) The End EP
Britain (Producer & Engineer) Forthcoming tracks
JAWS (Engineer) Simplicity Album
The Enemy (Mixer) It’s Automatic album
Ollie Smith (Producer) Forthcoming tracks
Jimi Goodwin (Producer) Forthcoming album
Young Guns (Engineer) Ones and Zeros Album
Club Kuru (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) All the Days EP
Kid Wave (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Wonderlust album
Bad Breeding (Producer & Mixer) "Chains" and other tracks
Pixies (Engineer & Mixer) Indie Cindy Album
Cherry Ghost (Mixer) Herd Runners Album
Club Kuru (Producer & Mixer) “All the Days” and “Seesaw” tracks
Arcane Roots (Producer & Mixer) “Over and Over” track
Mallory Knox (Engineer & Mixer) Asymmetry Album
Jimi Goodwin (Producer, Engineer & Mixer) Odludek Album
Sonny's Burning (Writer, Producer & Mixer) Forthcoming album
I AM IN LOVE (Mixer) “Proposal” and “Mirrors & Smoke” tracks
Twin Atlantic (Engineer) Great Divide Album
AFI (Engineer) Burials Album
Six. By Seven (Producer & Mixer) Love and Peace and Sympathy Album
Pixies (Engineer & Mixer)EP1, EP2, & EP3 EPs
Arcane Roots (Producer) Blood & Chemistry Album
Pure Love (Engineer & Mixer) Anthems Album
Surfer Blood (Engineer) Pythons Album
You Me At Six (Engineer & Mixer) “The Swarm” track
Maximo Park (Engineer & Mixer) The National Health Album
Pulled Apart by Horses (Engineer & Mixer) “Sing” & “Molly Drove Me Away” tracks
Futures (Engineer & Mixer) The Karma Album
Twin Atlantic (Engineer & Mixer) Free Album
Airship (Producer & Mixer) Stuck In This Ocean Album
Young Rebel Set (Producer & Mixer) Curse Our Love Album track
Bayside (Engineer) Killing Time Album
The Winchell Riots (Producer & Mixer) Figure 8’s EP
Doves (Mixer) The Places Between: The Best of Doves Album
Doves (co-producer) “Andalucia” and tracks from The Places Between: The Best of Doves Album
Cherry Ghost (Producer & Mixer) Beneath This Burning Shoreline Album
Morning Parade (Producer & Mixer) “Marble Attic,” “Youth,” & “Seaside” Tracks
Evaline (Producer & Mixer) Woven Material Album
Massive Attack (Programmer) Heligoland Album
Doves (Co-Producer & Mixer) Kingdom of Rust Album
Doves (Engineer) Some Cities Album
The Hours (Engineer) See the Light Album
People in Planes (Producer) Beyond the Horizon Album
Starsailor (Engineer) Boy In Waiting EP
Cherry Ghost (Producer, Engineer, & Mixer) Thirst For Romance Album
B52s (Engineer) Funplex Album
ILikeTrains (Producer & Engineer) “Terra Nova” Track
Massive Attack (Engineer & Programmer) Battle In Seattle OST Album Tracks
Cooper Temple Clause (Producer) Make This Your Own Album Tracks
Massive Attack (Producer & Mixer) Collected Album track
People In Planes (Producer & Mixer) “Instantly Gratified” track and As Far As The Eye Can See Album tracks
Massive Attack (Programmer) Various Adverts
Fell City Girl (Producer & Mixer) Swim EP
Queens of the Stone Age (Producer & Mixer) Over The Years & Through The Woods Live DVD
Oceansize (Producer & Engineer) Everyone Into Position Album
KT Tunstall (Engineer) “Under the Weather” track
Cooper Temple Claus (Producer & Mixer) Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose Album
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Producer & Mixer) “When All The Lights Go Out” tracks
Biffy Clyro (Engineer & Programmer) A Blackened Sky Album
Snuff (Engineer & Programmer) Disposable Income Album
Cooper Temple Clause (Engineer & Programmer) See This Through and Leave Album
Reef (Engineer) “Steal Away” Single
Placebo (Engineer & Programmer) Live in Paris DVD
My Vitriol (Live Engineer) Live Tracks
Mansun (Assistant Engineer) “I Can Only Disappoint You” Track
Robert Plant (Assistant Engineer) Dream Land Album
Elevator Suite (Assistant Engineer) Barefoot & Shitfaced Album
Medium 21 (Assistant Engineer) Killings from the Dial Album

References

^ "ALBUM REVIEW: LOVE AMONGST RUIN – “LOSE YOUR WAY”". XS Noise, August 30, 2015 by Amanda Stock
^ "Swarathma". Planet City.^{[dead link]} (not on the Wayback Machine either)
^ "Monarks premiere new video for ‘You Were My Fire’". Upset Magazine.
^ "Words With: The Cooper Temple Clause". Gigwise
^ ^a ^b "Dan scoops top music award". 29 May 2008 / Craig Evry
^ "Cherry Ghost – Herd Runners". Music OMH, by Graeme Marsh | 6 May 2014
^ "Doves: Producing Kingdom Of Rust". Sound on Sound, July 2009, Tom Doyle
^ "Soundpad". Rolling Stone India, November 08, 2008
^ "Producing Great Tones With Dan Austin" Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine MusicTech Sep 10th, 2010
^ "Dan Austin" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Australian Charts.
^ "Airship: Stuck In This Ocean" Archived 2016-11-09 at the Wayback Machine. Drowned in Sound,
^ "AIRSHIP Kids". Get Ready to Rock, Review by Pete Whalley. June 2011
^ "The Music Producers Guild Announces Shortlist For 2013 Awards". Record of the Day, 12 December 2012
^ "In The Studio With Arcane Roots". Rock Sound, Carla Mundy.