Alan Moulder

Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer.

Early life Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Boston Grammar School. He had an interest in music from an early age, listing Cream and The Beatles among his favourite artists. The first album he bought was Electric Warrior by T. Rex, and he was impressed by the quality of the recording. He joined his first band as a teenager and recorded a demo in a local studio. During this time, he began to take interest in music production.

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 credits Selected production credits:

1987: Figures on a Beach – Standing on Ceremony (engineering, mixing) 1988: Gianna Nannini – Malafemmina (producer, mixing) 1989: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Automatic (engineering, mixing) 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 (producer, mixing) 1992: Shakespears Sister – Hormonally Yours (co-producer) 1993: Curve – Cuckoo (engineering) 1993: Swervedriver – Mezcal Head (producer, mixing) 1994: Lush – Split (mixing) 1994: Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (mixing) 1999: Swervedriver – 99th Dream (co-producer, mixing) 2000: The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God (mixing) 2002: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell (mixing) 2003: The Icarus Line – Penance Soiree (co-engineering, mixing) 2003: Gary Numan – Hybrid (guest producer) 2004: The Killers – Hot Fuss (mixing) 2005: Billy Corgan – TheFutureEmbrace (producer) 2005: Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth (producer) 2006: The Wolfmen – Debut album (mixing) 2006: Blonde Redhead – 23 (producer) 2007: Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (co-mixing)