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Wayne Bickerton

Gerry Bron

Peter Collins

Mike Collins

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Tel: 0181 888 5318

Mike started his professional recording career in 1981, co-producing 'Ride The Love Train' - a Top 40 hit single for funk band Light Of The World on EMI Records. After a year of songwriting at Chappell Music, Mike went on to co-produce a single for Juliet Roberts & The London Community Gospel Choir, a series of Jazz-Funk broadcasts for Capitol Radio, and various pop/dance singles in the early '80's. A further period of songwriting in the mid-80's saw Mike collaborating with a team of songwriters at Dick James Music under the guidance of Gus Dudgeon and recording with PRT artist Steve Jerome. A move into TV session work followed, with Mike producing or working as a session musician on recordings for Top Of The Pops, Soul Train, Razzmatazz and Solid Soul with artists including Shannon, Cameo, Jermaine Stewart, Aurra, Millie Scott, Dr. York, Kurtis Blow, Nu Shooz, Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk and Joyce Sims.

A year working for Yamaha Research & Development in 1986 provided an opportunity to contribute to the design of Yamaha's 24-track studio in Conduit Street, near Oxford Circus, followed by 6 months recording work to get the studio 'up & running'. Mike designed the Midi workstations used in the studio and became thoroughly immersed in the latest Midi and recording technologies. Two years at City University Music Department then followed, which led to a Master's Degree in Music Technology - specializing in Macintosh programming.

Since 1988 Mike has worked as a Midi programmer and session musician on a variety of recordings for all the major labels with artists including Patsy Kensit, Ian Prince, The Style Council, Mort Shuman, Junior Reid and Zeke Manyika. In 1991 Mike programmed a re-make of 'Sweet Dreams' by Dave Angel/ Eurythmics, wrote string arrangements for Indie band 'Moose', and played and programmed virtually all the instruments on a Number One chart hit - the Street Remix of 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by The Chimes.

A move into digital audio editing using Pro Tools led to many editing sessions for established artists such as Feargal Sharkey, Tangerine Dream and The Shamen (Boss Drum album). Specialised Audio-for-Multimedia editing projects followed with notable projects including 12 hours of finished audio for the Seattle Art Gallery Guide CD-ROM and similar work for Amsterdam's RijksMuseum. Midi programming continued with TV sessions for Barry Manilow, sequenced tracks for Jimmy Somerville's World Tour, and Midi programming for various Japanese pop bands.

In 1992/3 Mike worked with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto as Midi Programmer and Macintosh Consultant on Peter Kosminski's remake of 'Wuthering Heights' and on Bertolucci's 'The Little Buddha'. This involved assisting Ryuichi in pre-production and at the orchestral recording sessions, helping to produce computerised scores, making clicktracks for the orchestra to synchronize to, and working on the electronic parts of the music scores. Mike also worked in a similar capacity (also designing synthesizer sounds and samples) with composer David Arnold on Danny Cannon's film, The Young Americans' - out of which came Bjork's hit single 'Play Dead'. A showcase gig with Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian followed, with Mike programming the Yamaha Midi Grand Piano and synthesizer rig for Sakamoto and mixing the 'live' sound.

During the last three years, Mike has moved into music for multimedia - writing and producing music and sound effects for Canon Cameras, Apple Computers, Mercury Telecommunications and 'The Virtual Night Club interactive CD-ROM's - while continuing to work on recording sessions, jingles, TV and film recordings as a Midi Programmer and Pro Tools editor.

Currently, Mike is working with American composer Richard Horowitz on an album for Sony Classical.

Ian Curnow

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Gus Dudgeon

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Started production career in late 1960's; hits with David Bowie, "Space Oddity" and the Bonzo Dog Band, "I'm the Urban Spaceman".

In the '70's Gus produced all the Elton John albums up to "Blue Moves" (7 Elton singles were No 1 in America). Also produced Kiki Dee's "I've got the music in me" and duet with Elton John "Don't go breaking my heart".

Other hits include "Run for Home", Lindisfarne - "Fool if you think its over" (Elkie Brooks and Chris Rea versions) - Elkie Brooks' "Pearls" and "Pearls Two" (Platinum) - John Kongas "Tokoloshe Man" and "He's gonna Step on You Again" - Voyager "Halfway Hotel", and Jennifer Rush album tracks.

Worked with Elton John on LP's "Leather Jackets" and "Ice on Fire", which includes No. 2 hit "Nikita". (The "Very Best of Elton John"album is now certified as 7 x platinum.

He produced The Beach Boys and Bruce Hornsby for the "Two Rooms" album and XTC's most recent album.

Now working with girl singer/songwriter from Lithuania, Gintare and Blah-Blah, a new young band.

Has also just completed an album with Judith Durham (ex-Seekers) for EMI and re-mixed three 'live' albums of Elton John.

Brian Eno

Alexander Foulcer

Mick Glossop

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Phil Harding

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Simon Heyworth

Ray Hedges

Steve Hillage

The 1990s have been a time of great success for Steve, who has succeeded in combining his career as a producer, developed in the '80s with acts such as Simple Minds, and his work as an artist, for which he achieved fame in the '70s, in a completely unique way, working in 3 spheres.

First is pure record production, where he has been involved in two number 1 albums:- UFOrb by the Orb (1992) and recently The Charlatans' 4th album (1995). Other recent projects include The Charlatans' 3rd album (Up to Our Hips), two albums by the innovative French/Algerian singer Rachid Taha (Polygram) and the first album of the exciting new Irish band Blink (EMI).

Second is his work with his own highly successful collaborative dance music project System 7, which is releasing its 4th album in February 1996. Indeed System 7 has its own WWW site. Through this he has developed great expertise in sampling, midi sequencing, hard disk editing and creative remixing and this has also led to high profile remix work such as for Ottmar Liebert (Epic USA) and The Shamen, who used his remix as a track in its own right on their new album Axis Mutatis.

Third is work in the audio-visual sphere, with credits for 2 major film scores Urga (1991) and L'Enfant Lion (1993), and additional work on CD-ROM projects such as Cyberwar.

Steve feels that these 3 inter-related spheres of activity give him an unparalleled technique in modern music production that will serve him, and those who work with him, well for many years to come.

Rupert Hine

Rupert Hine made his first record as an artist when he was 16 and his first production at 23. A selected discography is reproduced here from the 100 or so albums, film scores and TV projects that have followed so far.

Rupert has released 11 albums as artist in his own right ...two as Quantum Jump, three as Thinkman and six as Rupert Hine.

A songwriter/producer, when required, he has often written for the artists he produces, notably Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Robert Palmer and Wilson Phillips.

The BBC "One World, One Voice" project in 1990 had Rupert Travelling over 45,000 miles in just two months, recording over 300 musicians from six continents including Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, The Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chrissie Hynde, Salif Keita, Suzanne Vega, Milton Nascimento, Laurie Anderson and Sting. It was premiered to a TV audience of over 1 billion people. A year later, in response to his involvement with "OWOV", Peter Gabriel invited Rupert to assist and produce elements of the first "Real World Week".

"I insist on juxtapositioning (muscial) types of projects as extremely as possible thereby ensuring very little follow-through of production thinking and experimentation. In my opinion, a producer is dead as soon as he develops a 'conveyor belt' approach to making music. Each project starts with a blank page."

One of the pioneers of "natural" and "non-studio" recording environments, locations have been included fields, roof-tops, castles, front-rooms, barns, beaches and aircraft hangers. Last year saw Les Negresses Vertes record their new album in a "closed-for Winter" Victorian hotel in the South of France. Rupert also has a pre-production and, if needed, initial recording environment currently residing in a French Chateau just outside Paris.

From Nico, Kevin Ayres and The Members to...Milla Jovovich, Bob Geldof and Les Negresses Vertes...

From The Thompson Twins to Howard Jones and Tina Turner...From The Waterboys to The Fixx and Underworld...

"I am often asked, given the variety of artists I have worked with , what am I looking for in a future project. My only real criteria is that they must be using their music to communicate...ideas, emotions, fears... the kind of people who, without musical expression, are lost..."

Andre Jacquemin

1-6 Falconberg Court,
London W1V 5FG

Tel: 0171 287 3700
Fax: 0171 287 3751

Sound Designer & composer for feature films and record productions.

Also owns Redwood Studios, a digital post-production facility incorporating the latest in digital technology. The facility also includes a 24-track analogue room for record production and track laying work. Many major awards in all fields of audio production.

Jeff Jarratt

Jeff started his career at Abbey Road where as an engineer he worked with the Beatles, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Gene Pitney, Stan Getz, the London Symphony Orchestra and many other artists.

As a freelance producer his recordings have achieved album sales in excess of 35 million units.

Credits include:

Barbra Streisand & Michael Crawford - The Music Of The Night (Associate Producer).

Michael Crawford - Michael Crawford Performs Andrew Lloyd Webber (Producer).

The London Symphony Orchestra - Classic Rock (Producer).

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked on Classics (Producer).

Jon Jacobs

Steve Jolley

Chris Kimsey
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Mark Knopfler

Gary Langan

Gary's recording career started in the early '80's as engineer to Trevor Horn. This collaboration led to him producing some of the most classic hits synonymous with the '80's - ABC, Spandau Ballet, Hipsway, P.I.L, Paul McCartney, The The, T'Pau and Billy Idol - and to him forming his own Grammy Award-winning band "The Art Of Noise".

Further credits include Malcolm McClaren, Queen, Elton John, The Dyvynis, The Hothouse Flowers, Pele, Voice Of The Beehive, Pete Wylie, Hugh Cornwell, Flowered Up, Starclub.

1991 was spent working in New Orleans with members of the Neville Brothers and Jon Caron (Pink Floyd).

Since then Gary has produced Peter Kingsbury's (Cock Robin) solo album, worked with Chris Hughes on his album of early Steve Reich works and is currently finishing production of new Mercury signing Januaryland - out in '96.

Clive Langer

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Craig Leon

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or

c/o SJP Management

1 Prince of Wales Passage, 117 Hampstead Road, London NW1 3ED

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Fax: 0171 387 0233

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Biography:

Craig grew up in Florida where he received a classical music training in keyboard composition and musicology. While working in local bands and on local records as a session player he recorded in various studios and eventually built his own recording studio with the help of his friend, Alex Sadkin, another Floridian. After producer, Richard Gottehrer brought in Sire recording artists, The Climax Blues Band, to record at the studio, he offered Craig an appointment in New York as his assistant.

As a result, Leon moved to Manhattan in the early 1970s where he accepted an A&R; position at Sire Records in New York under Gottehrer and his partner Seymour Stein. There he was responsible for the discovery and early development of the Ramones and Talking Heads amongst other artists. He produced the first Ramones album and also concentrated on licensing more adventurous European records which the majors were unwilling to release in the U.S. At Sire, Craig learned the skills necessary for the production, as well as manufacture of recorded music.

After producing the Live at CBGB's compilation for Atlantic Records, featuring such artists as Mink De Ville and Tuff Darts, Craig joined Richard Gottehrer and Marty Thau to set up a production company called Instant Records. Projects included Blondie, Richard Hells and The Voidoids and Suicide.

Other productions throughout the 70's included Chilliwack, Willie Alexander and Boom Boom Band, Martha Velez and The Wailers (co- produced with Bob Marley and Lee Perry), Robert Gordon & Link Wray, Moon Martin (including Bad Case of Loving You and Cadillac Walk), Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, The Roches (with Robert Fripp, Dwight Twilley, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Records and others. In the early 80's came The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Bangles, The Beat Farmers, etc.

In the mid-80's, Craig relocated to the UK at the request of Statik Records (an independent subsidiary of Virgin) where he produced Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Flesh For Lulu and others including mixing for The Chameleons and The Sound. Since that time he has been active in both the major and alternative music scenes in the UK with over 40 chart records including Doctor and The Medics, The Pogues, The Go Betweens,The Primitives, Adult Net, etc.

Craig's most recently-completed productions have been Cottonmouth, The Chills, Scarlet and Psyched Up Janis, as well as The Fall, Jesus Jones, New Fads, Eugenius and Shonen Knife.

Craig has always been concerned with the development of new ideas and working in alternative forms within music. He has written and performed on three albums of his own, including 'Nommos' (a dance pieced based on North African ethnic themes that was used by members of The Twyla Tharp dance troupe) and the full length score of the Kosh Dance Theatre piece, 'Klub Anima', which deals with alternating classical and modern electronic forms. He has also co-written and produced 5 critically acclaimed albums with Texas electronic folk artists, Cassell Webb.