Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is one of Britain's premier alternative rock record producers. A major architect of the modern British rock sound, Moulder has worked with such artists as Depeche Mode, U2, and My Bloody Valentine; as well as with many American artists including Nine Inch Nails, Blonde Redhead, and The Smashing Pumpkins. June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Depeche Mode are a popular electronic band formed in 1980 in Essex, England. ... This article is about the Irish rock band. ... My Bloody Valentine were an Irish-British shoegazing band best known for their creative use of guitar distortion, tremolo, and digital reverb. ... “NIN” redirects here. ... Blonde Redhead is an alternative rock or indie rock band. ... The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago in 1988. ...

Biography and career

Alan Moulder was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. From an early age, Moulder had an interest in music, listing among his favorite artists Cream, The Beatles, and the Bee Gees. The first album he ever bought was Electric Warrior by T. Rex, and 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 realized that it had been the production that he had so enjoyed on that T. Rex record, and discovered that he was more interested in music engineering than in performing. Statistics Population: 35,124 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TF329437 Administration District: Boston Borough Shire county: Lincolnshire Region: East Midlands Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lincolnshire Historic county: Lincolnshire Services Police force: Lincolnshire Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East Midlands Post office and telephone... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Cream were a 1960s British rock band, which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. ... The Beatles were a British rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ... Widely considered to be one of the quintessential glam rock albums, T. Rexs second album Electric Warrior is also one of the most unabashedly joyous records of all time. ... T. Rex (originally known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, also occasionally spelled T Rex or T-Rex), were an English rock band fronted by Marc Bolan. ...

Moulder's musical career truly started in the early 1980s, at Trident Studios in London. As an assistant engineer, he worked with influential producers like Brian Eno, 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 a recording session of Flood's, 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 produce 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 label, Creation Records, soon had Moulder producing records for Ride and My Bloody Valentine. The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ... Trident Studios is a British recording facility, located at 17 St Annes Court in Londons Soho district. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George St. ... Mark Ellis a. ... The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band that revolved around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid. ... Automatic is the third album by Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain. ... At least two different record labels called Creation Records have existed. ... Ride is a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band. ... My Bloody Valentine were an Irish-British shoegazing band best known for their creative use of guitar distortion, tremolo, and digital reverb. ...

After working on the Glider and Tremolo EPs for My Bloody Valentine, Moulder was approached nearly simultaneously by two bands who were fans of that group. Agreeing in 1992 to work with both of them, he engineered what would become two of alternative rock's most successful albums: the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, and The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. Glider is an EP by the British band My Bloody Valentine, released in the UK in 1990 on Creation Records in the UK and was the bands first release on the Sire Records label in the US. Soon would be included the following year as the closing track on... Tremolo is an EP by the Irish/British shoegazing band My Bloody Valentine, released in February 1991 on Creation Records. ... Siamese Dream is the second album and was the breakthrough success for alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993. ... The Downward Spiral (also known as Halo 8) is an LP by Nine Inch Nails, released in 1994. ...

His work with NIN led to his engineering several albums for Trent Reznor's nothing Records, including Prick's eponymous album and Marilyn Manson's debut Portrait of an American Family; while in 1995 he would again collaborate with the Smashing Pumpkins, co-producing with Flood their double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and a modern day Renaissance man. ... Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and John Malm, Jr. ... Kevin Michael McMahon is a Cleveland-based musician, singer, and songwriter for the long-standing bands Lucky Pierre and Prick. ... Marilyn Manson is a rock band based in Los Angeles, California. ... Portrait of an American Family is Marilyn Mansons debut album, released in 1994. ... Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (also shortened to Mellon Collie or abbreviated to MCIS) is a double CD and triple LP that was released on October 24, 1995 by The Smashing Pumpkins through Virgin Records. ...

In 1992, Moulder also co-produced female duo Shakespears Sister's second album Hormonally Yours, which became one of the biggest sellers in the UK and Europe that year. Shakespears Sister were a band formed by Irish born former Bananarama singer/songwriter Siobhan Fahey and American musician Marcella Detroit. ... Hormonally Yours is the title of a 1992 pop music album by English duo Shakespears Sister, recorded at Friar Park Studio. ...

During the 1990's, Moulder also worked extensively with British now defunct alternative band Curve, and is currently married to Curve's singer Toni Halliday. The cover of Curves first full length album, Doppelgänger, from 1992 Curve was an English music group formed in 1991 chiefly around the collaboration of singer Toni Halliday and guitarist Dean Garcia. ... Antonia Toni Halliday (born 25 January 1965 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear) is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional bassist of the band Curve. ...

In 1996 he worked with Moby on Animal Rights and The Cure on Wild Mood Swings, and the next year worked again with Flood, this time on U2's electronic album Pop. In 1997 he remixed the single "Useless" for Depeche Mode, a band which has hired him in a number of times as a remixer/engineer. Then 1999 saw Moulder and Reznor in the studio together again; Moulder produced, mixed, and engineered Nine Inch Nails' hugely successful The Fragile. Another album with the Smashing Pumpkins, Machina/The Machines of God, followed in 2000, along with a remix album for NIN and the debut by A Perfect Circle, Mer de Noms. Moby (born Richard Melville Hall on September 11, 1965, in Harlem, New York, and raised in Darien, Connecticut) is an American songwriter, musician and singer. ... A civet, or sea fox, photographed in the Zigong Peoples Zoo, Sichuan, 2001. ... The Cure are a successful English rock band formed in Crawley, Sussex in 1976, widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock scene of the 1980s. ... Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ... Pop is an album released by the Irish rock band U2 in March of 1997 (see 1997 in music). ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... Depeche Mode are a popular electronic band formed in 1980 in Essex, England. ... The Fragile (also known as Halo 14) is a double album by Nine Inch Nails released in 1999. ... MACHINA/The Machines of God is The Smashing Pumpkins fifth studio album, released on February 29, 2000 (see Leap Year). ... A Perfect Circle (often referred to as APC) was an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ... Mer de Noms is the first studio album by the alternative rock band A Perfect Circle. ...

In 2005, Moulder produced Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan's solo debut TheFutureEmbrace along with another Nine Inch Nails album, With Teeth; and mixed the debut album Hot Fuss by New Wave revivalists The Killers. William Patrick Billy Corgan, Jr. ... TheFutureEmbrace is the first solo album by Billy Corgan, formerly of The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan. ... This article refers to the album by Nine Inch Nails. ... Hot Fuss is the debut album by Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers, first released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... The Killers are a Grammy-nominated American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. ...

In 2006, he worked with the Killers once more, co-producing their second album Sam's Town. The same year, he also mixed the album Ten Silver Drops by Secret Machines and "Movie Monster" by Sound Team. Sams Town is the second studio album by Las Vegas rock band The Killers, released in 2006. ... Ten Silver Drops is the name of the second full-length album by the American rock band The Secret Machines. ... The Secret Machines are a band. ... Sound Team Sound Team is an American music band based in Austin, TX. Four of the six group members--Bill Baird, Matt Oliver, Sam Sanford, Jordan Johns, Gabe Pearlman, and Bill’s younger brother Michael--attended the same high school in San Antonio, TX, where they played music in several...

Alan is currently working with Trent Reznor on the new Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero, and is rumored to be involved in Saul Williams' next record. Year Zero (also known as Halo 24)[2] is the title of a Nine Inch Nails studio album released on April 16, 2007 in Europe, April 17 in the United States, and April 25, 2007 in Japan. ... Saul Williams Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) has been considered a powerful voice of the hip hop generation as a poet, preacher, actor, rapper, singer, and musician. ...

Alan Moulder is married to former Curve lead singer Toni Halliday. The cover of Curves first full length album, Doppelgänger, from 1992 Curve was an English music group formed in 1991 chiefly around the collaboration of singer Toni Halliday and guitarist Dean Garcia. ... Antonia Toni Halliday (born 25 January 1965 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear) is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional bassist of the band Curve. ...

References

• Jorgl, Stephanie. Alan Moulder [1]