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Steve Albini was an American musician, audio engineer and music journalist, whose many recording projects have exerted an important influence on independent music since the 1980s. Most of his projects from 1997 onwards were recorded at the Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. Albini is occasionally credited as a record producer, though he disliked the term to describe his work, preferring the term "recording engineer" when credited, and refused to take royalties from bands recording in his studio, as he felt it would be unethical to do so. [1]
As a musician, Albini fronted the bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac on guitar and vocals. He also played on other projects from time to time, notably as a bass guitarist in the touring incarnation of Pete Conway's solo project Flour whose records he also engineered.
The list is in chronological order by date of release, but is incomplete.
Year | Release | Label | Note |
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1987 | Don't Worry Bowta Theng Mister | Cheese Cannon Records | Various Artists compilation, "To and Fro" [2] |
2022 | Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 | Lost Sounds Montana | Various Artists compilation, "New Metro Stomp" and "Dog Food" are featured, recorded live at the Star Garage in Missoula, Montana in April 1980. [3] |
Year | Release | Label | Format | Notes |
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1982 | Lungs | Ruthless | 12" | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 and 2012 |
1983 | Bulldozer | Ruthless | 12" | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1993 and 2012 |
1985 | Racer-X | Homestead | 12", cassette | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 and 2013 |
1985 | "Rema Rema" | Forced Exposure | 7" | |
1985 | The Hammer Party | Homestead | LP, cassette, CD | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 |
1985 | "Il Duce" / "Big Money" | Homestead | 7" | Reissued by Touch and Go in 1992 |
1986 | Atomizer | Homestead | LP, cassette | Reissued by Touch and Go in 2015 |
1987 | Sound of Impact | Blast First | LP | |
1987 | Headache | Touch and Go | 12", cassette | Reissued in 2018 |
1987 | "Heartbeat" | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1987 | "He's a Whore" / "The Model" | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1987 | Songs About Fucking | Touch and Go | LP, cassette, CD | Reissued in 2004 and 2018 |
1988 | The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape | Homestead | CD | Reissued by Touch and Go in 2015 |
1992 | Pigpile | Touch and Go | VHS, CD | Recorded live in 1987 |
Year | Release | Label | Format | Note |
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1988 | "Hated Chinee" / "Marmoset" | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1988 | Budd | Touch and Go | 12", cassette | Live (first three tracks), reissued in 2007 |
1988 | Two Nuns and a Pack Mule | Touch and Go | LP, cassette, CD | |
1989 | "Inku's Butt Crack" / "Song Number One" | Sub Pop | 7" | Singles Club release |
Year | Release | Label | Format | Note |
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1993 | The Rude Gesture: A Pictorial History | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1993 | Uranus | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1994 | The Bird Is the Most Popular Finger | Drag City | 7" | |
1994 | At Action Park | Touch and Go | LP, cassette, CD | |
1994 | Live at Tokyo | NUX Organization | CD | Japan-exclusive live album |
1995 | "Billiardspielerlied" / "Mantel" | Überschall | 7" | |
1997 | Split with Mule | Touch and Go | 7" | |
1997 | The Futurist | n/a | LP | Private release, given out to friends and family |
1998 | Terraform | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2000 | 1000 Hurts | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2001 | Split with Caesar | Barbaraal | 7" | |
2007 | Excellent Italian Greyhound | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2014 | Dude Incredible | Touch and Go | LP, CD | |
2019 | The End of Radio | Touch and Go | LP, CD | Includes recordings of their Peel Sessions in 1994 and 2004 |
2024 | To All Trains | Touch and Go | LP, CD |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
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Breaking Circus | The Very Long Fuse | EP | Homestead | Artwork |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credits |
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Urge Overkill | Strange, I... | EP | Ruthless | Producer, credited as The Li'l Weed |
Dark Arts | A Long Way From Brigadoon | LP | Ruthless | Artwork |
Naked Raygun | All Rise | LP, CD | Homestead | Artwork |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Pixies | Surfer Rosa | LP, CD, cassette | 4AD | Producer, engineer |
Head of David | Dustbowl | LP, CD | Blast First | Producer, credited as Steven Albini |
Savage Pencil | Angel Dust (Music for Movie Bikers) | LP | Blast First | Liner notes |
Gore | Wrede- The Cruel Peace | LP, CD | Megadisc | Producer |
Various Artists | The End of Music (As We Know It) | LP, CD, cassette | ROIR/Danceteria | Liner notes |
Pussy Galore/Black Snakes | Split | 7" | Supernatural Organization | Producer |
Bitch Magnet | Star Booty | LP | Roman Candle | Producer |
Flour | Flour | LP | Touch and Go | Engineer |
The Membranes | Kiss Ass... Godhead! | LP, CD, cassette | Homestead | Recording engineer |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tar | Handsome | LP | Amphetamine Reptile | Engineer |
Wreck | Wreck | EP | Play It Again Sam | Producer |
The Jesus Lizard | Pure | EP | Touch and Go | Producer |
Tad | "Wood Goblins" b/w "Cooking with Gas" plus "Daisy" | Glitterhouse | Recording engineer | |
The Wedding Present | Bizarro | LP, CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer, re-recording of one song for single release |
Ut | Griller | LP, CD | Blast First | Engineer |
Poster Children | Flower Plower | LP, CD, cassette | Limited Potential | Producer, four songs |
Sixteen Tons | 4 Songs 16 Tons | 7" | No Blow | Engineer, credited as S. Albini |
Boss Hog | Drinkin', Lechin' & Lyin' | EP | Amphetamine Reptile | Recording engineer |
Pussy Galore | Dial 'M' for Motherfucker | LP, CD | Caroline Records | Producer |
Flea Circus | Slingshot | Cassette | n/a | Producer, recording engineer |
Slint | Tweez | LP, CD, cassette | Jennifer Hartman Records | Engineer, credited as "some fuckin' derd niffer" |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Breeders | Pod | LP, CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Boss Hog | Cold Hands | LP, CD, cassette | Amphetamine Reptile | Recording engineer, mixer |
Flour | Luv 713 | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Engineer |
Sixteen Tons | Headshot | LP, CD | Abstract Sounds | Producer |
The Jesus Lizard | Head | LP, cassette | Touch and Go | Engineer, producer |
Tad | Salt Lick/God's Balls | LP, CD | Sub Pop | Producer |
Whitehouse | Thank Your Lucky Stars | LP, CD | Susan Lawly | Producer, credited as S. Albini |
Whitehouse | Cream of the Second Coming | LP, CD | Susan Lawly | Producer, credited as S. Albini |
Wreck | Soul Train | LP, CD, cassette | Play It Again Sam | Producer |
Pigface | Gub | LP, CD, cassette | Invisible | Engineer |
Hum | Is Like Kissing An Angel (She Said) | Cassette | n/a | Recording engineer |
Various Artists | Rubáiyát (Elektra's 40th Anniversary) | LP, CD | Elektra | Engineer |
Tar | Roundhouse | CD | Amphetamine Reptile | Engineer |
Mass | "Pulling/Thinking" | 7" | No Blow | Remixer |
Sludgeworth | "Sludgeworth" | 7" | Roadkill | Producer |
Theweddingpresent | 3 Songs | LP, 7", CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Big Trouble House | "Watered Down" | 7" | Community 3 | Engineer |
Masters of the Obvious | "She's Not Ready" | 7" | Feel Good All Over | Producer |
Poster Children | "Thinner, Stronger" b/w "Pointed Stick" | 7" | Sub Pop | Producer |
Bitch Magnet | Ben Hur | LP, CD, cassette | Glitterhouse | Recording engineer, credited as Arden Geist |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cath Carroll | England Made Me | LP, CD, cassette | Fantasy | Guitar |
Whitehouse | Another Crack of the White Whip | CD | Susan Lawly | Writer |
Whitehouse | "Still Going Strong" | 7" | Susan Lawly | Writer |
Chris Connelly | Whiplash Boychild | CD, cassette | Wax Trax! | Assistant engineer, guitar |
The Jesus Lizard | Goat | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Producer |
Poster Children | Daisychain Reaction | LP, CD, cassette | Twin/Tone | Engineer |
Wreck | House of Boris | LP, CD, cassette | Wax Trax! | Producer |
Theweddingpresent | "Dalliance" | 7", CD, cassette | RCA | Engineer |
Theweddingpresent | "Lovenest" | LP, CD | RCA | Engineer |
Cheer-Accident | Dumb Ask | CD, cassette | Complacency | Engineer |
Scrawl | Bloodsucker | LP, CD, cassette | Simple Machines | Recording engineer |
Cheeze TM | Dancing with the Dead | 7" | Bob Records | Engineer |
Bewitched | Harshing My Mellow | CD, cassette | No. 6 | Recording engineer |
Sandy Duncan's Eye | Sandy Duncan's Eye | CD | Flipside | Recording engineer |
Zeni Geva | Total Castration | CD | Public Bath | Engineer |
Sometime Sweet Susan | Collide | LP | 5th & National | Producer, engineer |
Naked Vanilla | Wooly Metal | Cassette | n/a | Engineer |
Dolomite | Venus | 7" | Fiasco | Recording engineer, credited as Steve |
The Didjits | Full Nelson Reilly | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Credited as Reggie Stiggs |
The Wedding Present | Seamonsters | LP, CD | RCA | Engineer |
The Mark of Cain | Incoming | CD | Dominator | Engineer |
Superchunk | No Pocky for Kitty | LP, CD, cassette | Matador | Uncredited |
Tar | Jackson | LP, CD, cassette | Amphetamine Reptile | |
Volcano Suns | Career in Rock | LP, CD, cassette | Quarterstick | Recording engineer, credited as Torso Man |
Urge Overkill | The Supersonic Storybook | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Uncredited |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Things That Fall Down | Disbelief | LP, CD, cassette | Sonic Noise | Engineer |
Various Artists | Follow Our Trax, Vol. 8: Another Disc, Another Planet | CD | Reprise | |
Bewitched | Harshing My Mellow | CD, cassette | No.6 | Recording engineer |
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | LP, CD, cassette | Caroline | Recording engineer |
The Jesus Lizard | Liar | LP, CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Uncredited |
Helmet | Meantime (song "In The Meantime" recorded by Albini; mixed by Andy Wallace) | LP, CD, cassette | Interscope | Recording engineer |
Mule | Mule | LP, CD, cassette | Quarterstick | credited as "Lenard Johns" |
Thrillhammer | Giftless | LP, CD | Rough Trade | Recording engineer, credited as "Albini-San" |
Failure | Comfort | LP, CD, cassette | Slash | Engineer |
Braindamage | Signal de Revolta | CD | G.L.C. | Mixer |
Zeni Geva | Nai-Ha | LP, CD | Nipp Guitar | Producer, engineer, guitar |
Murder, Inc. | Murder, Inc. | LP, CD, cassette | Invisible | Recording engineer |
Crain | Speed | LP, cassette | Automatic Wreckords | Recording engineer |
Union Carbide Productions | Swing | CD, cassette | Radium 226.05 | Producer, Recording engineer |
Whitehouse | Twice Is Not Enough (track "Neronia" only; co-produced with William Bennett) | CD | Susan Lawly | Producer, engineer |
Dazzling Killmen | Dig Out The Switch | LP, CD | Intellectual Convulsion | Recording engineer |
Distorted Pony | Punishment Room | LP, CD | Bomp! | Producer, Recording engineer, credited as "bespectacled wisp of a fellow from the midwest" |
Fugazi | In on the Kill Taker | Unreleased | N/A | Recording engineer, unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producers for official release |
Peter Sotos | Buyer's Market | CD | AWB | Producer |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Murder Inc. | Murder Inc. | CD | Futurist | Recording engineer |
Helmet | Meantime | CD | Interscope | Recording engineer |
Theweddingpresent | Hit Parade 3 | CD, cassette | RCA | Producer |
Big Boys | The Fat Elvis | CD | ||
Dazzling Killmen | "Medicine Me" | 7" | ||
Blues Explosion | Crypt-Style | CD | Crypt | |
Various Artists | The Beavis and Butthead Experience | CD, LP, cassette | Geffen | |
Shorty | "Kaput!" | 7" | Skin Graft | |
Crow | My Kind of Pain | |||
Engine Kid | Bear Catching Fish | Producer, uncredited | ||
Craw | Craw | Producer, uncredited | ||
Don Caballero | "Our Caballero" b/w "My Ten Year Old Lady Is Giving It Away" | 7" | Producer, a-side only, uncredited | |
Don Caballero | "Andandandandandandandand" b/w "First Hits" | Producer, uncredited | ||
Don Caballero | For Respect | Producer, uncredited | ||
Screeching Weasel/Pink Lincolns | Split | Engineer, credited as A Skinny Bespectacled Guy | ||
PJ Harvey | Rid of Me | Recording engineer, all but one song | ||
Jawbreaker | 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | CD, LP, cassette | Producer, credited as "Fluss" | |
Nirvana | In Utero | CD, LP, cassette | DGC | Producer, mixer, engineer |
Nirvana | "Heart-Shaped Box" | CD, 7", cassette | Geffen | |
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet | Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook | CD, LP, cassette | Quarterstick | Recording engineer |
King Cobb Steelie | n/a | Unofficial recording only, band chose to go with different producer | ||
Shorty | "Thumb Days" | Mixer, credited as "Albhienni" | ||
Urbn DK | Denial | Uncredited on release | ||
Usherhouse | Molting | |||
Zeni Geva | Autofuck | 7" | ||
Zeni Geva | Alright You Little Bastards | Guitar | ||
Various Artists | 1993 Mercury Music Prize: Shortlist Sampler | |||
Various Artists | Whip |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gastr del Sol | Mirror Repair | CD, LP | Drag City | Recording engineer |
Slint | Untitled | 10", CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Engineer, uncredited |
Nirvana | In Utero | CD, LP, cassette | Geffen Records | Recording engineer |
Mount Shasta | Put The Creep On | CD, cassette | Skin Graft | Producer |
Dazzling Killmen | Face of Collapse | CD, LP, cassette | Skin Graft | Producer |
Various Artists | The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience | CD, LP, cassette | Geffen Records | Producer (on track 1) |
The Jesus Lizard | Down | CD, LP, cassette | Touch and Go | Producer, uncredited |
Zeni Geva | Desire for Agony | CD, LP, cassette | Alternative Tentacles | Engineer |
Brise-Glace | "In Sisters All And Felony" | 7" | Skin Graft | Engineer |
Space Streakings | 7-Toku | CD, LP, cassette | Skin Graft | Engineer, recording engineer |
Silkworm | Libertine | CD, LP | El Recordo | Recording engineer |
Silkworm | In the West | CD, cassette | C/Z Records | Recording engineer, uncredited |
Nirvana | "All Apologies"/"Rape Me" | CD, cassette | Geffen Records | Recording engineer |
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | CD, LP, cassette | Caroline Records | Recording engineer, mixer |
Nirvana | "Pennyroyal Tea" | CD | Geffen Records | Recording engineer |
Craw | Lost Nation Road | LP | Choke | Engineer |
Various Artists | Wohlstand | CD | Human Wrechords | Producer (on track 10) |
DQE | But Me, I Fell Down | CD, LP | Hoppel Di Hoy | Producer |
Steel Pole Bath Tub | Some Cocktail Suggestions | CD, 10" cassette | Boner Records | Featured |
Shorty | Fresh Breath | 10", cassette | Skin Graft | Recording engineer, producer, credited as "Albhienni of Francisco" |
Balloon Guy | Boogie, Rock | 2x7" | Generator | Recording engineer (tracks 1-3) |
Morsel | Noise Floor | CD | Choke | Recording engineer (tracks 1-4, 6, 8-10) |
Nirvana | In Utero Demos | CD | Collectors Pleasure | Producer, unofficial release |
Souls | Tjitchischtsiy (Sudêk) | CD, LP | Telegram Records | Engineer, producer, mixer |
Various Artists | You Got Lucky: A Tribute to Tom Petty | CD, cassette | Scotti Bros./Alleged/Backyard | Recording engineer (track 6) |
Slapshot | Unconsciousness | CD, LP | We Bite Records | Recording engineer |
Stinking Lizaveta | "Refinery"/"Crooked Teeth" | 7" | Tolotta Records | Recording engineer |
Brise-Glace | When in Vanitas... | CD, LP | Skin Graft | Engineer |
Bubble Gum Thunder | "Coward"/"Cheater" | 7" | Model Rocket | Recording engineer |
Various Artists | Rock and Roll Super Highway | CD | God Damn Right! | Recording engineer (track 9) |
Gaunt | Sob Story | CD, LP | Thrill Jockey/Crypt Records | Recording engineer, credited as "Steve" |
Fiddlehead | The Deaf Waiter | CD, 10" | Allied Recordings | Recording engineer |
Jack 'o' Nuts | On You | CD, LP, cassette | Radial Records | Producer, engineer, credited as "S Albini" |
Various Artists | For a Life of Sin | CD | Bloodshot Records | Recording engineer (track 6) |
The Breeders | "No Aloha" | CD | 4AD | Engineer (track 2) |
Deerheart | "Male" | 7" | Goldenrod Records | Engineer |
Union Carbide Productions | The Albini Swing | CD | Radium 226.05 | Producer, mixer, recording engineer |
Stinking Lizaveta | "Sink" | 7" | Egg Yolk Records | Recording engineer |
Nirvana | Heart-Shaped Box Vol. 2 | 4xCD | Kiwi Records | Recording engineer (tracks 2.5-2.19), unofficial release |
Whitehouse | Halogen | CD, LP | Susan Lawly | Co-producer |
Sissy | Hunky Cop | CD | n/a | Producer |
Flac | "Pilot"/"Toothbrush" | 7" | Hybrid Music Co. | Recording producer |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Whitehouse | Quality Time | CD | Susan Lawly | Co-producer |
Tortoise | Rhythms, Resolutions, & Clusters | CD, LP | Thrill Jockey | Remixer (track 4) |
Jim O'Rourke, Richard Youngs, Faust, & Keith Rowe | "In God We Trust" | 7" | Table of the Elements | Engineer |
Man... or Astro-man? | Project Infinity | CD, LP | Estrus Records | Recording engineer (tracks 2, 6, 8) |
Zeni Geva | Freedom Bondage | CD, LP | Alternative Tentacles | Producer |
Los Crudos/Spitboy | Viviendo Asperamente | LP | Ebullition Records | Recording engineer, mixer, credited as Steve (tracks 12-18) |
Screeching Weasel | Kill the Musicians | CD | Lookout! Records | Engineer (track 12) |
Various Artists | A Means to an End: The Music of Joy Division | CD, LP | Virgin Records | Recording engineer (track 11) |
Palace Music | Viva Last Blues | CD, LP | Domino/Drag City/Palace Records | Producer |
Oxbow | Let Me Be a Woman | CD, LP | Brinkman Records | Recording engineer |
Tony Conrad | Slapping Pythagoras | CD | Table of the Elements | Recording engineer |
Palace | "Mountain" | 7", CD | Palace Records | Recording engineer (track 1) |
Uzeda | 4 | CD, LP | Touch and Go | Recording engineer |
Pixies | Rough Diamonds (Studio Sessions 1987-1991) | CD | Blue Moon Records | Engineer (track 23), uncredited, unofficial release |
The Auteurs | Back With The Killer E.P. | CD, 7", cassette | Hut Recordings/Virgin | Recording engineer (track 1) |
God Bullies | "Millenium" | 7" | Radial Records | Mixer |
Various Artists | Bad Sun Rising II | CD | Nipp Guitar | Producer (tracks 1-7, 9), featured (track 8) |
Various Artists | Homage: Lots of Bands Doing Descendents's Songs | CD | Coolidge Records | Recording engineer (track 14) |
18th Dye | "Play w/ You" b/w "Gout S.F."/"F" | CD, 7", cassette | ché | Producer (track 1) |
Gaunt | I Can See Your Mom From Here | CD, LP | Thrill Jockey | Recording engineer, credited as "Steve" |
Yona-Kit | Yona-Kit | CD, LP | Skin Graft | Recording engineer |
Various Artists | Does The Word Duh Mean Anything To You?: Another Che Compilation | CD | ché | Producer (tracks 3 & 4) |
18th Dye | Tribute to a Bus | CD, LP, cassette | ché/Matador/Cloudland | Recording engineer |
The Effigies | Remains Nonviewable | CD, cassette | Touch and Go | Liner notes |
Killdozer | God Hears Pleas of the Innocent | CD, LP, cassette | Touch and Go | Recording engineer, mixer |
Superchunk | Incidental Music 1991–95 | CD, cassette | Merge Records | Recording engineer (track 15) |
Melt-Banana | Scratch or Stitch | CD, LP | Skin Graft | Recording engineer |
Cheer-Accident | Dumb Ask | CD, LP, cassette | Neat Metal | Co-Producer |
Thrush Hermit | The Great Pacific Ocean | CD, LP, cassette | Murderecords | Recording engineer |
The Martians | Low Budget Stunt King | CD | Allied Recordings | Recording engineer (tracks 1-8) |
Various Artists | Dad, Are We Punk Yet? | CD, LP | Harmless Records | Recording engineer (track 5) |
Skippies/Sloy/Cut The Navel String | "On Tourne (Hot)" | CD | Roadrunner Records | Producer (track 2) |
Sloy | "Pop" | CD | Roadrunner Records | Producer, uncredited (tracks 1 & 2) |
Absolute Grey | Broken Promise: An Absolute Grey Anthology ...1984-87 | 2xCD | Strange Ways Records | Liner notes |
Grind | Creampetal | CD | AGM Music | Recording engineer |
Quint | "Blueprint to a Blackout"/"Sawtooth" | 7" | Southern Records | Engineer |
Les Thugs | Strike | CD, LP, cassette | Roadrunner Records | Recording engineer, mixer |
Table | Table | Humble | ||
The Fleshtones | Laboratory of Sound | Ichiban International | ||
Lizard Music | Fashionably Lame | World Domination Recordings | ||
Jaks | Hollywood Blood Capsules | Choke | ||
Hamlet Idiot | "Don't Let Them" | 7" | Chunk Records | |
Hegoat | "Edict" | 7" | Allied Recordings | |
Lizard Train | Everything Moves | CD | Shagpile | |
Various Artists | Hot Rock Action Vol. 1 | 7" | Reptilian Records | |
Dis-/Panel Donor | "Suddenly, Everyone Is A Smoker"/"L.T. Weightman" | 7" | Lombardi Recordings | |
Nirvana | Singles | 6xCD | Geffen Records | |
Various Artists | Bad Sun Rising | CD | Nipp Guitar | |
Various Artists | TDK's Ultimate Guide to Great Sound | TDK | ||
Various Artists | Socket | CD | Lombardi Recordings | |
Sloy | Plug | Roadrunner Records | ||
Fix Your Wagon | Pillow Talk | CD | Crank Records | |
Funhouse | Poet Is Dead | Nipp Guitar | ||
Lizard Train | Inertia | CD | Shagpile | |
Lizard Music | Is Coming | CD | World Domination Recordings | |
Mound | "Drag The River"/"Sweet Occasion" | 7" | Transmission Recordings | |
D.O.P.E. | Resination | CD | Anti-Gravity Records |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Auteurs | After Murder Park | CD, LP, cassette | Hut Recordings | Recording engineer |
Laurels | L | CD | Thick Records | Recording engineer (tracks 2, 3, 7, 10, 13) |
Palace Music | Arise Therefore | CD, LP | Domino | Recording engineer |
Oxbow | Serenade in Red | CD, LP | Pop Biz | Recording engineer |
Rosa Mota | Bionic | CD | 13th Hour Recordings | Recording engineer, mixing |
Rosa Mota | "Space Junk" | CD, 7" | 13th Hour Recordings | Recording engineer, mixing |
Whitehouse | "Just Like A Cunt" | CD | Fanatics | Recording engineer |
Tortoise | A Digest Compendium of the Tortoise's World | CD | Thrill Jockey | Remixer (track 10) |
Gold Blade | "Black Elvis" | CD, 7" | Ultimate | Recording engineer |
Bodychoke | Five Prostitutes | CD | Freek Records | Recording engineer |
Various Artists | Shots In The Dark | CD | Donna | Producer (track 12) |
Various Artists | Cloud 9 | Cassette | Select Magazine | Recording engineer, mixning |
Various Artists | The Lounge Ax Defense & Relocation Compact Disc | CD | Touch and Go | Guitar, vocals (track 2) |
Oxbow | "Insylum" | 10" | Crippled Dick Hot Wax! | Recording engineer (track 2) |
Robbie Fulks | Country Love Songs | |||
Big'n | Discipline Through Sound | CD, LP | Skin Graft Records/Gasoline Boost Records | Recording engineer, credited as Inibla Nevets (Steve Albini backwards) |
Various Artists | Direction | CD, LP | Polyvinyl Record Company | Recording engineer, credited as Steve |
Silkworm | Firewater | LP, cassette | Matador | Recording engineer |
Bodychoke | Five Prostitutes | |||
A Minor Forest | Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993–1996) | CD, LP | Thrill Jockey | Recording engineer (even-numbered tracks) |
Various Artists | Ground Rule Double | CD, LP | Divot/ActionBoy300 Records | Recording engineer (tracks 12, 20) |
Various Artists | Ox-Compilation #24: Bombenleger | CD | Ox Fanzine | Producer (track 7) |
Man...Or Astro-Man? | The Sounds of Tomorrow | 7" | Estrus Records | Recording engineer, credited as Professor S. Albini |
Phono-Comb | Fresh Gasoline | |||
Brainiac | Hissing Prigs in Static Couture | CD, LP | Touch and Go | Recording engineer (track 5) |
Dis- | Historically Troubled Third Album | |||
Splendorbin | Stealth | |||
Stinking Lizaveta | ...Hopelessness and Shame. | CD | Compulsiv Music | Recording engineer, mixing |
Various Artists | In Defense of Animals, Vol. 2 | CD | Play It Again Sam Records | Recording engineer (track 10) |
The Union | In Terminus GA, 1997 | Vocals, mixing | ||
Various Artists | Jabberjaw Compilation Vol. 2: Pure Sweet Hell | |||
Fred Schneider | Just...Fred | CD, LP, cassette | Reprise Records | Producer |
Smog | Kicking a Couple Around | CD, LP | Drag City | Recording engineer (tracks 2-4) |
Mandingo | Macho Grande | |||
Cheer-Accident | Not a Food | |||
Ativin | Pills vs. Planes | CD | Polyvinyl Record Company | Recording engineer (tracks 1-4) |
Sloy | Planet of Tubes | |||
Bush | Razorblade Suitcase | CD, LP, cassette | Trauma Records/Interscope Records | Recording engineer |
Dazzling Killmen | Recuerda | CD | Skin Graft Records | Recording engineer (tracks 1-3) |
Pixies | "Debaser" | LP | 4AD | Producer (track 3) |
The Mark of Cain | Rock & Roll | |||
Various Artists | Shots In The Dark | |||
Shakuhachi Surprise | Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta | CD, LP | Skin Graft | Recording engineer, credited as Steve Albinary |
Les Thugs | Strike | |||
Bush | "Swallowed" | |||
Hubcap | Those Kids are Weird | LP | ActionBoy300 Records | Recording engineer (all but last song) |
Low | Transmission | CD | Vernon Yard Reordings | Artwork, credited as Steve |
Scrawl | Travel On, Rider | CD | Elektra | Recording engineer (tracks 2, 5-7, 9-12) |
Scrawl | Travel On Scrawl | CD | Elektra | Recording engineer (tracks 2 and 4) |
Guided by Voices | Under the Bushes Under the Stars | two songs, credited as Fluss | ||
Vent 414 | Vent 414 | CD, LP | Polydor | Recording engineer (tracks 2, 3, 5-13) |
Vent 414 | "Life Before You" | CD, 7" | Polydor | Recording engineer |
Various Artists | Audio CD | CD | Audio Magazine | Producer (track 14) |
Killdozer & Ritual Device | When the Levee Breaks | |||
Veruca Salt | Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt | |||
Burning Witch | Towers... | |||
Wuhling | Extra 6 | |||
Cord | Easy Living On 101 |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
---|---|---|---|---|
Souls | Bird Fish or In Between | |||
Bokomelch | Jet Lag | |||
Cheap Trick | "Baby Talk" b/w "Brontosaurus" | |||
Cheap Trick | unreleased re-recording of In Color | |||
Craw | Map, Monitor, Surge | |||
Darling Little Jackhammer | Criminally Easy To Please | |||
Ein Heit | Lighting and the Sun | |||
Great Unraveling | Great Unraveling | |||
Pegboy | Cha Cha Damore | |||
Pixies | Death to the Pixies | Recording engineer | ||
P.W. Long's Reelfoot | We Didn't See You On Sunday | |||
Silkworm | Developer | |||
Solar Race | Homespun | |||
Spider Virus | Electric Erection | |||
Storm & Stress | Storm & Stress | |||
Various Artists | Guide to Fast Living, Vol. 2 | |||
Various Artists | The Jackal | |||
Dianogah | As Seen from Above | |||
La Gritona | Arrasa Con Todo | |||
Wuhling | Extra 6 | Touch and Go | ||
Bush | "Greedy Fly" | CD, cassette | Trauma Records |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
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Spare Snare | The Brutal | |||
Liturgy | 93696 [10] | |||
No Men | Fear This | |||
Snailbones | "Erroneous Harmonious" [11] | |||
Laurel Canyon | Laurel Canyon | |||
Ativin | Austere | |||
Code Orange | The Above [12] [13] | |||
CRYAMY | World [14] |
Artist | Release | Format | Label | Credit |
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Cheer-Accident | Vacate | |||
Fire! | Testament | |||
Facs | North American Endless | |||
The Conformists | Midwestless | |||
Didjits | Strictly Dynamite: The Best of The Didjits | |||
Mono | Oath | |||
Redshift Headlights | If You Are Around Still | |||
The Ergs! | Dorkrockcorkrod (20th Anniversary Steve Albini Remix) | |||
Prince Of Lilies | Hurst |
"Spoken Word Thing" - Sub Pop 100 (Sub Pop, 1986) – Various artist compilation
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