Jim Abbiss

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Jim Abbiss
Birth nameJeremy Abbiss
Occupation(s)
  • Producer
  • mixer
  • engineer
Years active1986–present

Jim Abbiss is a British music producer, best known for his work on records including the debut album of Editors ( The Back Room ), Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize winning debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not , [1] Kasabian's Kasabian and Empire , Ladytron's Witching Hour and Ladytron , Sneaker Pimps' debut Becoming X , and Adele's 19 , and 21 . [2]

Starting his music career, he played keyboards with Peterborough band The Pleasure Heads, on Red Rhino Records, before getting his first studio job at Spaceward Studios near Cambridge, in 1986.[ citation needed ] It was here that he trained under maverick engineer & producer Owen Morris. He moved to become an assistant engineer at Power Plant studios, London in 1988, and witnessed first-hand the acid house movement through countless remix sessions.[ citation needed ]

He went freelance in 1990, and Steve Hillage became a regular collaborator on remixes & album sessions.[ citation needed ] He then met producer Nellee Hooper, and worked as his engineer on albums for Björk ( Debut ), Massive Attack ( Protection ), as well as the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack & many more remixes.[ citation needed ] This association established Abbiss and led to a meeting and future collaborations with James Lavelle & DJ Shadow.[ citation needed ] More remixing (The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony) and the critically acclaimed Psyence Fiction album by Unkle led to him being offered more production work.[ citation needed ] He co-produced the Sneaker Pimps debut, Becoming X , and the debut and only album by Mono, Formica Blues .[ citation needed ] At the same time, song-writing with singer Laura Mohapi led to a publishing contract with Chrysalis Music, and a short-lived return to the world of the artist with the band Darling.[ citation needed ]

He has also worked with Stateless on their self-titled debut album Stateless .[ citation needed ] Other work includes both EPs and debut single by Bombay Bicycle Club, as well as on their debut album I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose . He has also mixed DJ Shadow's albums The Less You Know, the Better . [3] and The Private Press .

Mixing tracks for Kasabian in 2003 led to co-producing 2 albums with them (the self-titled Kasabian and Empire ) and gave him the first of 3 nominations for "producer of the year" at the Music Week/MPG awards.[ citation needed ] He then worked on Editors ( The Back Room ), The Noisettes ( Wild Young Hearts ) and The Temper Trap ( Conditions ). While producing the track "My Yvonne" for Jack Peñate, he met singer Adele, whom Jack had asked to do some backing vocals.[ citation needed ] He was immediately blown away by her voice and asked if she had her own demos. She had just signed to XL, and shortly afterwards Abbiss began work on her debut 19 , producing eight tracks.[ citation needed ] Producing two tracks for her phenomenally successful follow-up 21 led to a Grammy nomination.[ citation needed ]

In 2011 Jim Abbiss worked on The Kooks third album, Junk of the Heart . [4]

In 2012, Jim Abbiss produced The Unified Field for former Sneaker Pimps vocalist and founding member Chris Corner's project IAMX. [5] Abbiss has continued studio productions with Emeli Sandé, Peace, The Family Rain, [6] Birdy & KT Tunstall and maintains ongoing projects with a variety of artists.

In 2016, he co-produced the Blind Spot (EP) for the band Lush. [7]

In 2020, he produced Amy Macdonald's fifth studio album The Human Demands . [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Growing up in a Glasgow music studio helped hone songwriting skills". Scottish Daily Record . 12 February 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  2. ↑ "Tom Elmhirst: Recording Adele 'Rolling In The Deep'". Sound on Sound . September 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "THIS MUCH TALENT: Jim Abbiss: Producer, mixer". Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. ↑ "The Kooks to release Jim Abbiss-produced album in early 2011". NME . 23 August 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  5. ↑ "IAMX Video Journal #3". YouTube. 20 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Paul Lester (23 May 2013). "The Family Rain (No 1,518)". The Guardian .
  7. ↑ Geslani, Michelle (19 February 2016). "Lush announce Blind Spot EP, share "Out of Control" song and video — watch". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Credits / The Human Demands / Amy MacDonald – TIDAL". Tidal . Retrieved 27 August 2020.
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