Dave Ogilvie

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Dave Ogilvie
Birth nameDavid Denton Ogilvie
Also known asRave
Born1960 (age 64–65)
Montreal, Québec, Canada
Origin Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
  • Guitar
  • keyboards
  • vocals
Years active1982–present
Formerly of

Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer, mixer, songwriter and musician based in Vancouver.

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Ogilvie started his recording career as a mixing engineer at Mushroom Studios. He frequently collaborated with industrial band Skinny Puppy as both a band member and producer. He also worked as a producer, engineer and mixer on several projects with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, including engineering and remixing NIN singles, co-producing Marilyn Manson's album Antichrist Superstar and remixing David Bowie's single "I'm Afraid of Americans".

Over his career has worked with such artists as Loverboy, 54-40, SNFU, Ministry, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rob Halford and Mötley Crüe. He founded his own industrial pop band, Jakalope, in 2003.

Career

Early career

Born in Montreal, Ogilvie attended the music program at a local college where he took classes taught by audio engineer Lindsay Kidd. [1] [2] Kidd left his teaching job to work in Vancouver and Ogilvie followed months later, acquiring a job at Mushroom Studios in 1984, eventually working as an assistant to producer Bruce Fairbairn. [2] [3]

His early work included assisting Kidd with the engineering of the album Worlds Away (1982) by Strange Advance and the Images in Vogue's EP Educated Man (1982). [4] [5] He assisted with the recording of Keep It Up (1983) by Loverboy, which was produced by Fairbairn and whose chief engineer was Bob Rock. [6]

Amongst other artists, he continued to work with Images In Vogue, engineering their self-titled EP released in 1983, followed by their EP Rituals (1984), and their full-length album In the House (1985). [7] [8] [9] Ogilvie's first work as a solo-producer was on 54-40's self-titled major label debut album, released in 1986. [10] He also engineered the tracks "Breathe" and "Faith Collapsing" on the 1989 album The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste by Ministry.

Work with Skinny Puppy and Trent Reznor

Images in Vogue band-member, Kevin Crompton (later known as cEvin Key), invited Ogilvie to provide recording and mixing work on his new project, industrial band Skinny Puppy. [11] Ogilvie co-produced Skinny Puppy's 1984 record label debut EP Remission , which is one of the first known commercial releases to use a TR-909 drum machine. [12] Ogilvie contributed to all of Skinny Puppy's releases until their 1996 album The Process , after which the band went on hiatus for several years. [13] During his tenure with Skinny Puppy, Ogilvie was at times listed as a member of the band in album liner notes and toured with the band. [14] [15] He also worked with Key on his side project Hilt. [16] While Ogilvie shares a surname with Skinny Puppy frontman, Kevin Ogilvie (aka Nivek Ogre), the two are not related. [13]

Ogilvie's work with Skinny Puppy brought him to the attention of Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who invited Ogilvie to co-produce and engineer Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar (1996). [3] He worked with Reznor on remixes of David Bowie's single "I'm Afraid of Americans" (1997), and co-produced the album Voyeurs (1998) by Rob Halford's band Two. [17] [18] Ogilvie also engineered tracks on Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile (1999). [19]

Jakalope

Ogilvie formed the industrial pop band Jakalope in 2003. [20] [21] He met the band's first vocalist Katie B at The Warehouse Studio where she worked as a receptionist. [20] Reznor produced, wrote and played on several tracks of their first album It Dreams (2004) and co-produced their second album Born 4 (2006). [22] [23] The band's third album, Things That Go Jump in the Night (2010), featured musician Chrystal Leigh on vocals. [2]

Other mixing and production work

Ogilvie mixed Sloan's studio album debut Smeared (1992). He remixed Mötley Crüe's 1994 single "Hooligan's Holiday" and the band's 1997 single "Afraid". [24] [25] He also produced the albums The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed (1995) and FYULABA (1996) by SNFU. [26]

Since the 2010s, Ogilvie's work has increasingly ventured into the pop market, partly due to his ongoing collaborations with Josh Ramsay, a producer and lead vocalist of the pop band Marianas Trench. [27] His work with Ramsay including the mixing of Carly Rae Jepsen's 2011 hit single "Call Me Maybe". [27] Ogilvie also produced tracks on the Marianas Tench album Masterpiece Theatre (2009), and mixed tracks on Ever After (2011), Astoria , and Haven (2024). [28] [29] [30] [31]

Ogilvie produced Men Without Hats' 2012 album Love in the Age of War , [32] mixed two tracks on Avril Lavigne's 2013 self-titled album. [33] , and produced The Birthday Massacre's 2017 release Walking with Strangers . [34]

He was nominated for Producer of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2011. [35]

References

  1. ↑ Pacienza, Angela (February 3, 2005). "Vancouver's Jakalope mixes industrial rock with sweeter pop sound" . Whitehorse Star . The Canadian Press. p. 13. ProQuest   362311757 . Retrieved March 3, 2025. The Montreal-born, Vancouver-based musician says his goal was to reinvent traditional pop music.
  2. 1 2 3 Haynes, Katie (August 2008). "Dave Ogilvie" . Professional Sound. Vol. 19, no. 4. p. 20. ProQuest   229499044 . Retrieved March 3, 2025. During the first steps of his career, he spent time in Montreal to attend a year of college for a general music program. "I didn't really learn anything, but I met a wonderful professor named Lindsay Kidd," recalls Ogilvie. "After a year he thought that the program was just a big scam to get money, which some of the schools are, and he moved to Vancouver. About three months later, I got a call asking me to do a job. I just had to pack everything up and move to Vancouver." After getting his feet wet in the industry, Ogilvie remained in Vancouver, seizing another opportunity: "I became good friends with Bruce Fairbairn at Mushroom Studios and worked with him as his assistant. . . There is still more to come for Ogilvie and Jakalope. When he isn't producing other artists' records, he continues with writing his third album. "It's basically me and the singer, Chrystal Leigh..."
  3. 1 2 Cooper, Michael (February 2003). "Recording Vocals From A to D" . Mix . Vol. 27, no. 3. p. 42. ProQuest   196887698 . Retrieved March 3, 2025. Dave "Rave" Ogilvie began his recording career working as an engineer in Vancouver's Mushroom Studios in 1984. It was his producing, engineering and mixing for Nettwerk's industrial goth band Skinny Puppy that brought Ogilvie to the attention of Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor in 1994. Reznor subsequently chose Ogilvie to co-produce and engineer Marilyn Manson's AntiChrist Superstar (Nothing/Interscope, 1996), which went Platinum.
  4. ↑ Strange Advance – Worlds Away at Discogs
  5. ↑ Images In Vogue – Educated Man at Discogs
  6. ↑ Loverboy – Keep It Up at Discogs
  7. ↑ Images In Vogue – Images In Vogue at Discogs
  8. ↑ Images In Vogue – Rituals at Discogs
  9. ↑ Images In Vogue – In The House at Discogs
  10. ↑ 54-40 – 54-40 at Discogs
  11. ↑ Reed, S. Alexander (2013). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN   9780199832606.
  12. ↑ Rosenschein, Ari (September 8, 2020). "Dave Ogilvie on Skinny Puppy and the TR-909". roland.com. Roland Corporation . Retrieved March 3, 2025.
  13. 1 2 "Ain't Dead Yet: Skinny Puppy Reforming". Billboard (magazine). May 21, 2002. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
  14. ↑ Reed, S. Alexander (2013). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music . Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN   9780199832606.
  15. ↑ Lim, Stacy. "Brap...The Skinny Puppy Discography". Prongs. Mythos Press. Archived from the original on 18 June 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  16. ↑ Vitalich, Andrea (January 1, 1991). "Skinny Puppy -- They're big dogs now" . The Rocket . p. 14. Retrieved March 3, 2025– via Newspapers.com. Subsequently, Nivek Ogre, scary Puppy frontman, "started running around with Al Jorgensen [Ministry]," and cEVIN Key and Dwayne teamed up with Dave Ogilvie, Alan Nelson and Don Harrison to form the project Hilt. Skinny Puppy was kept in stasis.
  17. ↑ David Bowie – I'm Afraid Of Americans at Discogs
  18. ↑ Two – Voyeurs at Discogs
  19. ↑ Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile at Discogs
  20. 1 2 Sperounes, Sandra (May 11, 2005). "Friends jump at the chance to help with Jakalope project" . Edmonton Journal . p. C2. Retrieved March 3, 2025– via Newspapers.com. As the studio wizard behind albums by Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, the world-renowned producer hasn't felt the need to do many interviews, which has kept Ogilvie shrouded in mystery for the last 20 years of so. . . Which is probably why some fans were caught off guard when Ogilvie released his first album as Jakalope, an all-star project fronted by Katie B., an unknown pop vocalist from Calgary. . . It Dreams is not the usual industrial nightmare spewed forth by Ogilvie. Instead, it's an adventure in electro, poppy goth -- a lighter version of Evanescence -- deliberately aimed at reaching fans of all ages and genres. . . Ogilvie rounded up Katie Biever, who used to be the receptionist at the Warehouse recording studio in Vancouver. . . [Trent Reznor] appears on two of Jakalope's tracks, "Feel It" and "Badream".
  21. ↑ Moore, Bruce (March 22, 2011). "Interview with Jakalope front man Dave Ogilvie". V13 Media. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
  22. ↑ Jakalope – It Dreams at Discogs
  23. ↑ Jakalope – Born 4 at Discogs
  24. ↑ Mötley Crüe – Hooligan's Holiday at Discogs
  25. ↑ Mötley Crüe – Afraid at Discogs
  26. ↑ "SNFU punks Canmore Hotel" . Bow Valley Crag and Canyon . April 29, 2008. p. S6. ProQuest   PLACE # AT END OF URL HERE . Retrieved March 3, 2025. Following the release of 1995's The One Voted Most Likely To Succeed, the group returned with 1996's FYULABA (produced by Dave Ogilvie of Skinny Puppy), their first album not to have a seven word title (though it does have a seven letter title).
  27. 1 2 Tingen, Paul (September 2012). "Dave Ogilvie mixing 'Call Me Maybe'". Sound on Sound . Retrieved March 3, 2025.
  28. ↑ Marianas Trench - Masterpiece Theatre at Discogs
  29. ↑ Marianas Trench - Ever After at Discogs
  30. ↑ Marianas Trench - Astoria at Discogs
  31. ↑ Marianas Trench - Haven at Discogs
  32. ↑ Lepage, Mark (June 6, 2012). "Album Reviews: MEN WITHOUT HATS - Love in the Age of War" . Times Colonist . p. C9. ProQuest   1019364513 . Retrieved March 3, 2025. Literally half the songs sound like hits, assuming those keyboard/synth figures can drive the tunes into public consciousness. Dave Ogilvie's production captures this in amber and refines it.
  33. ↑ Avril Lavigne – Avril Lavigne at Discogs
  34. ↑ The Birthday Massacre – Walking With Strangers at Discogs
  35. ↑ Marchand, Francois (July 5, 2011). "Steve Dawson tops Western Canadian Music Awards nods" . Vancouver Sun . p. D7. ProQuest   PLACE # AT END OF URL HERE . Retrieved March 3, 2025. In the industry categories, nominees include agency S.L. Feldman and Associates, producers Dave Ogilvie and Tom Dobrzanski, manager Bruce Allen and record label File Under Music.
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