Paul Q. Kolderie

Paul Q. Kolderie is an American record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, the Go-Go's, and Mike Gordon of Phish. He usually works with production partner Sean Slade.

Kolderie and Slade were friends from Yale University, where they played in bands together. They also became members of Sex Execs, a Boston-based new wave music band of the early 1980s.

The duo had their formative experience as producers while they were in Sex Execs. Most of the group lived in a house in Dorchester, Boston that was wired up as a primitive studio. Other bands came over to record as well, including a local act called Three Colors, which featured saxophonist Dana Colley, later of Morphine. As Sex Execs became more successful, they started recording in professional studios such as Syncro Sound, which was owned by the Cars. Kolderie learned from the engineers there. He recorded an EP for Three Colors at Syncro, earning his first production credit.

In 1985, Kolderie and Slade helped create Boston's Fort Apache Studios with Jim Fitting, another friend from Yale and Sex Execs, as well as musician-producer Joe Harvard. Kolderie has also played in the Detroit-based cowpunk band, Goober & the Peas, and contributed to Raisins in the Sun.

Albums Produced

Mixed Radiohead – The Bends (album), 1995 Papas Fritas – Papas Fritas, 1995 Lush – Lovelife, 1996 12 Rods – Split Personalities, 1998 Jess Klein – Draw Them Near, 2000 The Sounds – Dying to Say This to You, 2006 Joe Jackson – Rain, 2008 Portugal. The Man – Censored Colors, 2008 Buffalo Tom – Skins, 2011 Peter Baldrachi – Tomorrow Never Knows, 2011 Grant Langston & The Supermodels – Working Until I Die, 2012 The Peasants – Big Sunny Day, 2015 Spirit Family Reunion – "Hands Together", 2015 Amy Fairchild – [Amy Fairchild] 2014

Engineered

Songs produced Goo Goo Dolls – "Lazy Eye", 1997