Streaky
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Mastering engineer - Streaky began his career in the music industry as a professional DJ in the days of Acid House, specialising in Chillout and Balearic House, where demand for his sets took him abroad to countries such as Sweden, Ibiza and Spain.
As well as being a singer in a band, Streaky also started creating music in Cubase on his Atari (yes, Atari!), honing his talents for the finer points of music. He used these skills to produce tracks for film and TV, and also began remixing under the guises of Elephant and The Merry Wives for artists such as Groove Armada, The Stone Roses, Penguin Café Orchestra and many more.
In 1994 Streaky started work at Battery Studios in the CD Mastering department. Here he took the hands-on approach to mastering and taught himself to master records! During this time he mastered for A Tribe Called Quest, KRS 1, Mystikal, The Stone Roses, R Kelly, Backstreet Boys, Aaliyah, Fatboy Slim, Britney Spears, Groove Armada and many other artists on Jive & Zomba Records.
Streaky also developed a strong client base among London's leading House, R 'n B' & garage producers, mastering club classics like Shanks & Bigfoot 'Sweet Like Chocolate', Azzido Da Bass 'Dooms Night', Neneh Cherry vs Dreem Teem 'Buddy X', Artful Dodger 'Re-rewind', Kinobe 'Slip Into Something More Comfortable' as well as tracks by Sonique, Inspiral Carpets, James Taylor Quartet, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros and many more he can't remember!
Streaky made the move to The Soundmasters in 2000 chiefly to extend his skills from CD mastering to include vinyl mastering. He swiftly developed a reputation as a talented Hip Hop and Drum n Bass engineer, and he has cut records for Outkast, Usher, Adam F, DJ Marky, J Majik and Bryan Gee.
Streaky has also built an impressive client list among bands, mastering albums for Death In Vegas, Asian Dub Foundation, The Duke Spirit, as well as all the singles from Kasabian 'Kasabian', Embrace 'Out Of Nothing' and Snow Patrol 'The Final Straw'. Other notable albums include 5.1 Surround Sound albums for Kasabian, Moby, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Dave Gahan, and Martin Gore.
In 2004 The Soundmasters launched eMasters, an online mastering service aimed at independent producers, musicians and record labels, with Streaky at the helm as Chief mastering engineer. This was the first time a leading mastering studio in Europe had provided a fully online approach to professional mastering, and the client base keeps growing, with members in over 60 countries around the world.
Streaky also has an impressive collection of vintage analogue keyboards
Artists mastered for :
Depeche Mode, Moby, Killa Kela, Erasure, Ray Lamontage, Martha Wainwright, The White Stripes, The Delays, Guillemots, Kubicheck, Help She Can't Swim, The Go! Team, Orson, Louie, Moloko, Speeka, Embrace, El Presedente, Bittersweet, Nemesis, Natasha Bedingfield, Chungking, Usher, Erasure, Victoria Beckham, Outkast, Kasabian, Neubauten, Ed Rush and Optical, Sub Focus, DJ Marky, Mark Morrison, Snow Patrol, Martin Gore, 1200 Mics, Different Gear, Sheryl Crow, Nick Harper, Inspiral Carpets, Xlover, Dave Gahan, DJ Marky, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Un Cut, The Duke Spirit, FC Kahuna, Futurism, Death In Vegas, Bebel Gilberto, Asian Dub Foundation, Innocence Crew, Hil Street Soul, Virgin Souls, Cassius Henry, Azzido Da Bass, Beat Foundation, Actual Size, Lisa Roxanne, Skinny Malinky, Puretone, El Nino, Archive, Sylver, Kid Galahad, Minute Man, Bio-tonic, The Cognition, Hi-Fi Serious, GMS, Logic Bomb, Orion, Adam F, J Majik, Archive, Red Moon, Ben Onono, Snowblind, New Sector Movements, Taylor Caine, Oris Jay, Mange Le Funk, Groove Armada, Space, Dreem Teem, Neneh Cherry, Colour Girl, Kinobe, The Stone Roses, DJ H, Backstreet Boys, Jason Downs, Britney Spears, Artful Dodger, Yomanda Fatboy Slim, Romena Johnson, Lock 'n' Load, Shanks & Bigfoot, Caia, Weekend Players, Sound 5, James Taylor Quartet, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Psychedeliasmith, Tribe Called Quest, R. Kelly, Joe, Mystikal, KRS 1, Aaliyah,
Record Companies :
Sony BMG, Mercury, Polydor, Universal, S Records, Def Jam Recordings, The Echo Label, Fantasic Plastic, City Rockers, Zomba, Gut Records, Ignition Records, Kaos, Infrared,EMI, IE Music, Virgin France, Tip World, 10 Kilo, London Records, Full Cycle, Jive Records, Silvertone Records.
