Phil Ek

Phil Ek is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. Ek began his career in Seattle, Washington, in the early 1990s recording live sound in clubs. He then moved into studio recording, recording small projects and demos for local bands. Around this time, Ek was frequently working with influential producer Jack Endino. Producing Built to Spill's second album, There's Nothing Wrong with Love, proved to be Ek's mainstream breakthrough, the album has since ranked in the Top Ten of Spin Magazine's top indie records of all time. Phil Ek has worked with such indie rock bands as Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Band of Horses, 764-HERO and Seattle legends Mudhoney.

[edit] Partial discography

Year	Band	Album
1994	Built to Spill	There's Nothing Wrong with Love
1997	Built to Spill	Perfect from Now On
1998	Gas Huffer	Just Beautiful Music
1998	The Halo Benders	The Rebels Not In
1999	Built to Spill	Keep It Like a Secret
1999	Built to Spill	Carry the Zero
2001	Built to Spill	Ancient Melodies of the Future
2002	Pretty Girls Make Graves	Good Health
2003	Pretty Girls Make Graves	The New Romance
2003	The Shins	Chutes Too Narrow
2005	dios Malos	dios
2006	Mudhoney	Under a Billion Suns
2007	The Shins	Wincing the Night Away