Introduction
Alan Moulder is an English record producer, mixing engineer and audio engineer. He has worked with such artists as Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, The Killers, Foals, Arctic Monkeys, Editors, Interpol, Two Door Cinema Club, Twin Atlantic, Bear Hands, The Joy Formidable, Slaves, Royal Blood, The Naked And Famous, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Curve, Ride, White Lies, My Bloody Valentine, 2:54, The Vaccines, Placebo, A Perfect Circle, Lush, The Smashing Pumpkins, Them Crooked Vultures, Death Cab for Cutie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Puscifer, Marilyn Manson, Saul Williams, Blonde Redhead, The Morning After Girls, How to Destroy Angels, .
Early life
Moulder was born 11th June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire and educated at Boston Grammar School. From an early age, he had an interest in music, listing among his favourite artists Cream and The Beatles. The first album he ever bought was Electric Warrior by T. Rex, and he was immediately impressed by the quality of that album's recording. He joined his first band as a teenager and recorded a demo in a local studio; it was there that he realised that it had been the production that he had so enjoyed on Electric Warrior, and discovered that he was more interested in music engineering than performing.
Career
Moulder's musical career started in the early 1980s, at Trident Studios in London. As an assistant engineer, he worked with influential producers like Jean Michel Jarre, drawing from them great familiarity with electronic sounds and textures. Also an engineer at Trident was Flood with whom Moulder would often collaborate in the future. Moulder assisted in one of Flood's recording sessions with The Jesus and Mary Chain, and found that the often fractious and troublesome band enjoyed working with him. The Mary Chain invited Moulder to engineer their live sounds and, eventually, to engineer their 1989 album Automatic. The album's production was praised for its combination of thick, noisy guitar with a polished, listener-friendly tone, and the Mary Chain's former label, Creation Records, soon had Moulder producing records for Ride, My Bloody Valentine, and Swervedriver.
Selected production/mixing/engineering credits
Selected production credits:
- 1989: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic (Mixing, Engineering)
- 1990: My Bloody Valentine - Glider (Engineering)
- 1990: Ride - Nowhere (Mixing)
- 1991: My Bloody Valentine - Tremolo (Engineering)
- 1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Engineering)
- 1992: Curve - Doppelgänger (Engineering)
- 1992: Ride - Going Blank Again (Mixing, Producing)
- 1992: Shakespears Sister - Hormonally Yours (Co-producer)
- 1993: The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Mixing)
- 1993: Curve - Cuckoo (Engineering)
- 1993: Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (Producer, Mixing)
- 1994: Lush - Split (mixing)
- 1994: Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Mixing)
- 1994: Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family (Mixing, Engineering)
- 1994: Korn - Korn (Mixing)
- 1995: The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Co-producer, Mixing)
- 1995: Prick - Prick (Mixing, Engineering)
- 1995: Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation (Co-producer, Mixing)
- 1996: Moby - Animal Rights
- 1996: The Cure on Wild Mood Swings
- 1997: U2 Pop (Co-producer, Mixing)
- 1998: Monster Magnet - Powertrip (Mixing)
- 1999: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Co-producer, Mixing and Engineering)
- 1999: Swervedriver - 99th Dream (Co-producer, Mixing)
- 2000: The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God (Mixing)
- 2000: A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
- 2000: Monster Magnet - God Says No
- 2002: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell (Mixing)
- 2003: The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree (Mixing, Co-engineering)
- 2003: Gary Numan - Hybrid (Guest Producer)
- 2005: Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace (Producer)
- 2005: Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (Producer)
- 2005: The Killers - Hot Fuss (Mixing)
- 2005: Soulwax - Any Minute Now (Mixing)
- 2006: The Killers - Sam's Town (Co-producer)
- 2006: Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops (Mixing)
- 2006: Sound Team - Movie Monster (Mixing)
- 2006: Puscifer - V Is for Vagina (Mixing)
- 2006: Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! (Mixing)
- 2006: Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright (Mixing)
- 2006: The Wolfmen - Debut album (Mixing)
- 2006: Blonde Redhead - 23 (Production)
- 2007: Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (Co-mixing)
- 2007: Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Co-mixing)
- 2008: Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV (Co-Producer & Co-Mixing)
- 2008: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (Co-Producer & Co-Mixing)
- 2008: The Morning After Girls - Alone (Mixing and Producing)
- 2009: Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg (Mixing and Producing)
- 2009: Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (Mixing)
- 2009: BM LINX - "Black Entertainment" (Mixing)
- 2009: Placebo - Battle for the Sun (Mixing)
- 2009: SPC ECO - Shine On Down (Remix)
- 2010: Interpol - Interpol (Mixing)
- 2010: How to Destroy Angels - eponymous début EP (Co-Producer & Co-Mixing)
- 2011: Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (Mixing)
- 2011: White Lies - Ritual (Co-producer)
- 2012: How to Destroy Angels - An Omen EP (Mixing)
- 2012: The Killers - Battle Born (Mixing)
- 2013: Foals - Holy Fire (Producer & Mixing)
- 2013: How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion (Mixing)
- 2013: Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (Co-Producer)
- 2013: The Naked And Famous - Hearts Like Ours (Mixing)
- 2014: Royal Blood - Royal Blood (Mixing)
- 2014: Mercutio - "Back to Nowhere" (Mixing)
- 2014: La Roux - Trouble In Paradise (Mixing)
- 2014: Interpol - El Pintor
- 2015: Foals - What Went Down (Mixing)
- 2015: Silversun Pickups - Better Nature (Mixing)
- 2015: Editors - In Dream' (Mixing)
- 2016: The Joy Formidable - Hitch (Mixing)
- 2016: Plague Vendor - Blood Sweat (Mixing)
- 2016: Bear Hands - You'll Pay For This (Mixing)
- 2016: Twin Atlantic - GLA (Mixing)
- 2016: Crobot - Welcome To Fat City (Mixing)
- 2016: Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow (Mixing)
Personal life
Moulder is married to former Curve lead singer Toni Halliday.