Dan Austin

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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]

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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

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  2. ↑ "Swarathma". Planet City.[ dead link ] (not on the Wayback Machine either)
  3. ↑ "Monarks premiere new video for ‘You Were My Fire’". Upset Magazine.
  4. ↑ "Words With: The Cooper Temple Clause". Gigwise
  5. 1 2 "Dan scoops top music award". 29 May 2008 / Craig Evry
  6. ↑ "Cherry Ghost – Herd Runners". Music OMH, by Graeme Marsh | 6 May 2014
  7. ↑ "Doves: Producing Kingdom Of Rust". Sound on Sound, July 2009, Tom Doyle
  8. ↑ "Soundpad". Rolling Stone India, November 08, 2008
  9. ↑ "Producing Great Tones With Dan Austin" Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine MusicTech Sep 10th, 2010
  10. ↑ "Dan Austin" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine . Australian Charts.
  11. ↑ "Airship: Stuck In This Ocean" Archived 2016-11-09 at the Wayback Machine . Drowned in Sound,
  12. ↑ "AIRSHIP Kids". Get Ready to Rock, Review by Pete Whalley. June 2011
  13. ↑ "The Music Producers Guild Announces Shortlist For 2013 Awards". Record of the Day, 12 December 2012
  14. ↑ "In The Studio With Arcane Roots". Rock Sound, Carla Mundy.
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