Marius De Vries

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Marius De Vries (born Marius van Wyk de Vries) is an English music producer. He was born in London in 1961. He has been behind some key albums and singles of recent times, the best known of these being the material on Madonna's Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light albums. He is also a long time collaborator and friend of Björk's and the band Massive Attack. He produced several tracks on Liberty X's album Being Somebody and on Appleton's (Nicole & Natalie) album Everything's Eventual, and worked on David Gray's latest album Life in Slow Motion. Vries has also produced and co-written Darren Hayes' song I Forgive You on his latest album The Tension and The Spark [2004].

De Vries also produced both of Rufus Wainwright's 'Want' albums and appeared on the documentary, 'All I Want', about Wainwright's life. He is documented as saying that one of the songs, 'Go or Go Ahead' was one of the most complex pieces of music he has ever worked on. The song included hundreds of separate parts which De Vries had to fit into one six and a half minute song.

De Vries was the music director on the 2001 film Moulin Rouge! and worked with Nellee Hooper on the film soundtrack for Romeo and Juliet.

On a side note, de Vries is related to South African music producer Piet van Wyk de Vries, who works almost exclusively in the South African Afrikaans speaking market.

Most recently, de Vries has worked with Siobhan Donaghy on her upcoming June 2007 release "Ghosts".

[edit] List of songs produced by Marius De Vries

"11:11" by Rufus Wainwright
"14th Street" by Rufus Wainwright
"Aganjù" by Bebel Gilberto
"Agnus Dei" by Rufus Wainwright
"Ain't No Love" by David Gray
"Alibi" by David Gray
"All Around" by Bebel Gilberto
"Alright" by The Lucy Nation
"Answer Back" by The 25th of May
"Baby" by Bebel Gilberto
"Baby Girl" by The Times
"Bad Twin" by Babybird
"Balloon Mood" by Anja Garbarek
"Beautiful Boy" by Kelli Ali
"Beautiful Child" by Rufus Wainwright
"Beyond My Control" by Anja Garbarek
"Coming Up For Air" by Siobhan Donaghy
"Closer" by Melanie C
"Crumb by Crumb" by Rufus Wainwright
"Dinner at Eight" by Rufus Wainwright
"Disappearing World" by David Gray
"Divine Thing" by The Soup Dragons
"Eis Mus Sein" by Rufus Wainwright
"Every Day You've Been Away" by Bebel Gilberto
"Everybody Cries" by Liberty X
"F.T.R.T.V." by The 25th of May
"Forget Myself" by Elbow
"From Here You Can Almost See the Sea" by David Gray
"Gay Messiah" by Rufus Wainwright
"Go or Go Ahead" by Rufus Wainwright
"Goin' Down" by Melanie C
"Great Train Robbery" by Junior Reid
"Harvester of Hearts" by Rufus Wainwright
"Heaven" by Neil Arthur
"Here Comes the Summer" by Kelli Ali
"Here It Comes Again" by Melanie C
"Hospital Food" by David Gray
"I Don't Know What It Is" by Rufus Wainwright
"I Love I Hate" by Neil Arthur
"I.C.U." by Anja Garbarek
"It's All Right" by The 25th of May
"Jabuticaba" by Bebel Gilberto
"Just One of Those Days" by Anja Garbarek
"Lately" by David Gray
"Leaders of the Free World" by Elbow
"Little Sister" by Rufus Wainwright
"Little Star" by Madonna
"Mama" by Annie Lennox
"Meditation on Dvorak's Slavonic Fantasy" by Sophie Solomon
"Memphis Skyline" by Rufus Wainwright
"Mother Universe" by The Soup Dragons
"Movies of Myself" by Rufus Wainwright
"My Very Best" by Elbow
"Natasha" by Rufus Wainwright
"Next to You" by Bebel Gilberto
"Northern Star" by Melanie C
"Nos Da Cariad" by David Gray
"Nothing Really Matters" by Madonna
"Now and Always" by David Gray
"O Caminho" by Bebel Gilberto
"Oh What a World" by Rufus Wainwright
"Old Whore's Diet" by Rufus Wainwright
"Pagan Poetry" by Björk
"Peach Trees" by Rufus Wainwright
"Physical" by Kylie Minogue
"Picking Up Pieces" by Anja Garbarek
"Pretty Things" by Rufus Wainwright
"Ring-A-Ding-Ding" by Appleton
"River Song" by Bebel Gilberto
"Sail Away" by David Gray
"She Collects (Stuff Like That)" by Anja Garbarek
"Shelter" by The 25th of May
"Simplesmente" by Bebel Gilberto
"Skin" by Madonna
"Slow Motion" by David Gray
"So You Say" by Siobhan Donaghy
"Solve My Problems Today" by Ashtar Command
"Something Written" by Anja Garbarek
"Storm" by Grace Jones and The Radio Science Orchestra
"Strange Noises" by Anja Garbarek
"Summer's End" by Ashtar Command
"Sunlight in the Rain" by Kelli Ali
"Sweetmeat" by The Soup Dragons
"The Art Teacher" by Rufus Wainwright
"The Cabinet" by Anja Garbarek
"The Day Before" by Appleton
"The Infinite Stars" by Kelli Ali
"The One I Love" by David Gray
"The One You Love" by Rufus Wainwright
"The Sky Lit Up" by PJ Harvey
"The Telescope Man Says" by Anja Garbarek
"The Wind" by PJ Harvey
"This Love" by Craig Armstrong
"This Love Affair" by Rufus Wainwright
"Treat Me Good" by Yazz
"Velvet Curtain Rag" by Rufus Wainwright
"Vibrate" by Rufus Wainwright
"Vicious World" by Rufus Wainwright
"Waiting For a Dream" by Rufus Wainwright
"Want" by Rufus Wainwright
"What's Goin' On" by The 25th of May
"Why" by Melanie C
"Winter" by Bebel Gilberto
"Your Disco Needs You" by Kylie Minogue