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Dave Fridmann

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OriginBuffalo, New York, United States
OccupationRecord producer, audio engineer, musician
InstrumentsBass guitar, keyboard
Years active1989 to present
Associated actsMercury Rev
The Flaming Lips

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Dave Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. From 1990 onwards he co-produced all releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips (with the exception of Transmissions from the Satellite Heart by the latter). Other bands he has worked with include: Weezer, Saxon Shore, Ammonia, Ed Harcourt, Sparklehorse, Café Tacuba, Elf Power, Mogwai, Thursday, The Delgados, Low, Phantom Planet, Gemma Hayes, Goldrush, Tapes 'n Tapes, Hopewell, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Number Girl, Zazen Boys, Sleater-Kinney and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He has recently worked on new recordings with MGMT, OK Go and Tame Impala.

As a musician, Dave was the bassist and a founding member of Mercury Rev. He gave up his role as a touring member of the band in 1993 to concentrate on producing other artists. In 2001, Dave was included on MOJO's 100 Sonic Visionaries list and was described as "the Phil Spector of the Alt-Rock era". In 2007, he received a Grammy for The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical). In 2010, three Fridmann-produced albums were listed on the Rolling Stone 100 Best Albums of The Decade: MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and Sleater-Kinney's The Woods.

Fridmann often brings a distinctive, expansive, open sound to the albums he produces, which has much in common with that used by Mercury Rev. His albums have been frequently criticised for excessive clipping and loudness war mastering (such as The Flaming Lips' At War with the Mystics and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Some Loud Thunder).

Fridmann is an occasional faculty member of SUNY Fredonia, teaching sound recording techniques in the Fredonia School of Music.

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OK Go Get Weird on Album Three - Santa Barbara Independent Tweet this news
Santa Barbara Independent--Helped along by producer and oddity lover -Dave Fridmann- (MGMT, The Flaming Lips, Black Moth Super Rainbow), Of the Blue Colour finds the band exploring ... - Date : Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:01:05 GMT+00:00
Gypsy & The Cat end UK travels at MW's Breakout night - musicweek.com Tweet this news
musicweek.com--They have been working with -Dave Fridmann- (Flaming Lips, MGMT) and Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand) on their debut album. Every second Wednesday of the ... - Date : Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:32:02 GMT+00:00
› OK GO - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (Extra Nice Edition) - Music in Belgium Tweet this news
Music in Belgium--Surtout que pour la production d'"Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky", leur troisième album, ils ont fait appel au légendaire -Dave Fridmann- (Mercury Rev, ... - Date : Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:41:08 GMT+00:00
Kaolin en concert au Café de la Danse - Charts in France Tweet this news
Charts in France---...- carrière (avec pourtant cinq albums, dont deux auto-produits), ils ont eu la chance de collaborer avec Les Valentins, Paul Corkett ou -Dave Fridmann-. ... - Date : Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:05:46 GMT+00:00
Tame Impala Interview - Glasswerk.co.uk Tweet this news
Glasswerk.co.uk--How was it working with -Dave Fridmann- (Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, MGMT)? Was he a big influence on the album's psychedelic sound, or was that already a ... - Date : Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:06:20 GMT+00:00
Send To A Mate - FasterLouder Tweet this news
FasterLouder--Originally hailing from Melbourne, they've been in London refining their sound and recording an album with production heavyweights -Dave Fridmann- and Rich ... - Date : Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:51:57 GMT+00:00
Tame Impala - 'Innerspeaker' (Republic Of Music) Released: 23/08/10 - Gigwise Tweet this news
Gigwise---...- I'nnerspeaker' defies falling to the same pit as, say, Wolfmother's eggyisms by enlisting uber-psych-producer -Dave Fridmann- and making expansive sounds ... - Date : Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:27:42 GMT+00:00
MGMT takes new direction on sophomore disc - Asbury Park Press Tweet this news
Asbury Park Press--"The first album, we worked with (producer) -Dave- (-Fridmann-), and it was a co-production. We knew what we wanted to do with that album, but this time, ... - Date : Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:13:52 GMT+00:00
Pukkelpop J1 - Tame Impala: ça plane pour moi - LeVifFocus.be Tweet this news
LeVifFocus.be---...- donc, en ce tout début de festivités, les Australiens comptant, avec un premier disque (InnerSpeaker) mixé par l'inusable -Dave Fridmann- (Mercury Rev, ... - Date : Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:47:38 GMT+00:00
Thursday Returns to Studio - Aversion Tweet this news
Aversion--The post-hardcore act entered Tarbox Road studios with -Dave Fridmann- to record the follow-up to 2009's Common Existence (review) (Epitaph). ... - Date : Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:10:44 GMT+00:00

Selected Discography as a producer :
Release year Album Artist
2011 Suego Faults Wolf Gang
2011 Flux Outside Royal Bangs
2011 No Devolución Thursday
2010 Innerspeaker Tame Impala
2010 The Wild Trapeze Brandon Boyd
2010 Congratulations MGMT
2010 Of the Blue Colour of the Sky OK Go
2009 Embryonic The Flaming Lips
2009 Eating Us Black Moth Super Rainbow
2009 Common Existence Thursday
2008 Oracular Spectacular MGMT
2008 Zazen Boys 4 Zazen Boys
2008 Walk It Off Tapes 'N Tapes
2008 Snowflake Midnight Mercury Rev
2008 Christmas on Mars The Flaming Lips
2007 Some Loud Thunder Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
2007 Drums and Guns Low
2006 The Philosophy of Velocity Brazil
2006 Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Sparklehorse
2006 The Essential A Televised Reality A Televised Reality
2006 A City by the Light Divided Thursday
2006 At War With The Mystics The Flaming Lips
2005 The Woods Sleater-Kinney
2005 The Secret Migration Mercury Rev
2005 The Great Destroyer Low
2004 Phantom Planet Phantom Planet
2003 Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second Wheat
2003 Night on My Side Gemma Hayes
2003 Drveće i rijeke [Trees and Rivers] Pips, Chips & Videoclips
2003 Cuatro Caminos Café Tacuba
2003 Bad Timing Grand Mal
2002 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots The Flaming Lips
2002 Num Heavy Metallic Number Girl
2002 Romantica Luna
2002 Hate The Delgados
2001 Rock Action Mogwai
2001 It's a Wonderful Life Sparklehorse
2001 All Is Dream Mercury Rev
2000 The Great Eastern The Delgados
2000 Sappukei Number Girl
1999 XIV Home
1999 The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips
1999 Hope and Adams Wheat
1999 A Dream in Sound Elf Power
1999 Come on Die Young Mogwai
1998 Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev
1997 Zaireeka The Flaming Lips
1997 Souls For Sale Verbena
1995 See You on the Other Side Mercury Rev
1995 Clouds Taste Metallic The Flaming Lips
1993 Boces Mercury Rev
1992 Hit To Death In The Future Head The Flaming Lips
1991 Yerself Is Steam Mercury Rev
1990 In A Priest Driven Ambulance The Flaming Lips



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