Tony Kuzub

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Anthony Peter George Kuzub or simply Tony Kuzub, as he is better known, is a Canadian recording engineer and producer based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the founder of the now defunct High Voltage Recording, and is currently co-owner and head engineer of Tanda Recording. ^[1]

1 Biography
2 Career
3 Controversy
4 Discography
5 Notes
6 Links

[edit] Biography

Kuzub was born April 4, 1983 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was raised. He attended Cardinal Leger Elementary School, and later moved to Evan Hardy Collegiate for high school. Something of a child prodigy, Kuzub showed precocious skills with computing and media equipment, often building computers from scratch, creating videos, and even establishing a viable recording studio in his mother's basement. At the age of ten he founded his first company, Copycat Recording, which duplicated audio CD's to cassettes for the benefit of those who did not own CD players. It was in high school that his talents truly began to blossom, as he founded High Voltage recording, and began to connect with budding musicians from the Saskatoon area. He also stood out as class president during his senior year.

[edit] Career

After graduating from high school in 2001, Kuzub moved his studio to the heart of downtown Saskatoon and began to engineer professionally. He also worked briefly during this period for the Media and Technology Division at the University of Saskatchewan, editing and arranging video for the local educational cable channel SCN. After leaving this job, he came to concentrate exclusively on recording and producing for his High Voltage label, working with such notable Canadian artists as The Wheatmonkeys, Joel Plaskett, North of Shorty, Spade the Shovelhead and Jordan Cook, and later on even more high-profile acts such as The Mars Volta. His impressive resume landed him a job as an engineer at the MuchMusic Video Awards (or MMVAs) in 2004, where he worked with such artists as The Beastie Boys, Evanescence, Hoobastank, Arcade Fire and Hilary Duff. Kuzub reprised this role in each of the years which followed through to 2007.

After cutting ties with his employee Sandy Burnett in late 2007, Kuzub closed High Voltage Recording. Soon after, Kuzub spent several months in Sydney, Australia, where he worked at Fox Studios as an audio editor before returning to Canada. Having forged a partnership with session/studio drummer Arlen Hall, Kuzub co-founded Tandaphonic Incorporated and its subsidiary Tanda Recording, a new recording company with a capacious studio, also based in Saskatoon. Here Kuzub works not only as a recording engineer and mixer, but has become even more active in the creative process as a producer.

[edit] Controversy

Kuzub made local headlines in 2006 when he identified a potential conflict of interest in the adjudication process to select a song for Saskatoon's centennial that same year. Speaking for a number of disenchanted members of the Saskatoon recording industry, Kuzub identified that one of the judges, Ross Nykiforuk, had overseen the selection of a former bandmate by the name of Corey Hildebrand as the winner of contest and the $1,000 recording contract that came with it. ^[2]

[edit] Discography

Year	Artist	Album / "Song Name"	Role
2008	Arms Up	"Caroline"	P, M, E
2008	Jordan Cook	Seven Deadly Sins	E, Cp, M, Ed
2008	Magic Band	Magic Band	E
2008	Sundown Strip		P, M, E
2007	Drowning Ophelia	TBA	P, M, E
2007	Jeremy Lane	Skeletonmask	P, M, E
2007	Johnny Gritt	Johnny Gritt	M, E
2007	Matty Powel	Ness Creek Sessions	Ed
2008	Arms Up	"Streets Cities", "Oh well"	P, M, E
2007	Otenang		M
2007	Rising 4		M, E
2007	Smokekiller	"Out there" "Back to the Heart"	M, E
2007	Spade the Shovel Head	Get a Helmet	P, M, E
2007	Streetlight Scenery		P, M, E
2007	Sundown Strip		P, M, E
2007	The Huxxtabulls	The Huxxtabulls	M, E
2006	Everlong		Mixing
2006	Les Fabian	"Here She Comes"	M, E
2006	Letter Bomb		M, E
2006	Mykal Gambull	Volume 1	M, E, A
2006	Noel Wilcox	"Generation Why"	P, M, E
2006	North Of Shorty	Trouble in Paradise	P, M, E
2006	Poser Disposer		A
2006	The ROA		M, A
2006	The Wheatmonkeys	"Television" and "Brightside"	M, E
2006	Whiskey Halo		M
2005	Darry Dinnell	"Sorry Ms. Brandon"	P, M, E
2005	FY	Fy	E, A
2005	Holy Cross High School	Sound and Fury	M, E
2005	Hush Twins		A, E
2005	Joel Plaskett	Live at Amigo's	E, M
2004	Holy Cross High School	Sound and Fury	E
2004	Liberated Noise		A
2004	Orchestra Diamante	Orchestra Diamante	E, M, A
2003	Clete Rekve	"Sleepin' on the Engine"	M, E
2001	Ambush	Rural Brewery	P, M, E
2001	Tint		M, E