Phil Ek
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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, Big Business and Seattle legends Mudhoney.
[edit] Selected discography
Year | Band | Album |
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1994 | Built to Spill | There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
1994 | Butterfly Train | Building Distrust from Trust |
1995 | Earth | Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions |
1997 | Built to Spill | Perfect from Now On |
1998 | Gas Huffer | Just Beautiful Music |
1998 | The Halo Benders | The Rebels Not In |
1998 | Caustic Resin | The Medicine Is All Gone |
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 |
2002 | David Cross | Shut Up You Fucking Baby |
2003 | Pretty Girls Make Graves | The New Romance |
2003 | The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow |
2005 | Dios Malos | Dios |
2006 | Mudhoney | Under a Billion Suns |
2006 | Irving | Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers |
2007 | The Shins | Wincing the Night Away |
2007 | Terrene | The Indifferent Universe |
2007 | Band of Horses | Cease to Begin |
2008 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes |