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Dave Fridmann

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Dave Fridmann
Birth nameDavid Lawrence Fridmann
OriginBuffalo, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Record producer, audio engineer, musician
Instrument(s)Bass, keyboards, guitar, vocals
Years active1989–present
Formerly ofMercury Rev
Websitedavefridmann.com

David Lawrence Fridmann is an American record producer and musician.

Career

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From 1990 onwards he co-produced most releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Other bands he has worked with include Weezer, Saxon Shore, Neon Indian, Wolf Gang, Ammonia, Ed Harcourt, Sparklehorse, Creeper Lagoon, Café Tacuba, Creaming Jesus, Elf Power, Mogwai, Thursday, Longwave, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, The Delgados, Low, OK Go, Phantom Planet, Gemma Hayes, Ava Luna, Goldrush, Tapes 'n Tapes,[1] Baroness,[2] MGMT and Magdalena Bay (band).[3]

As a musician, Fridmann was the bassist and a founding member of Mercury Rev. He gave up his role as a touring member of the band in 1993 to concentrate on producing other artists.[4] In 2001, Fridmann was included on MOJO's 100 Sonic Visionaries list and was described as "the Phil Spector of the Alt-Rock era".[5] In 2007, he received a Grammy for The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical).[6] In 2010, three Fridmann-produced albums were listed on the Rolling Stone 100 Best Albums of The Decade: MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and Sleater-Kinney's The Woods.[7]

Fridmann often brings a distinctive, expansive, open sound to the albums he produces, which has much in common with that used by Mercury Rev.

Fridmann is an occasional faculty member of SUNY Fredonia, teaching sound recording techniques in the Fredonia School of Music.

In 2017, Fridmann became the director for the Western New York Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps, where he plays the bass drum. The group disbanded in 2022.[8]

Discography

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As producer

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Release year[9] Album Artist
1990 In a Priest Driven Ambulance The Flaming Lips
1991 Yerself Is Steam Mercury Rev
1992 Hit To Death In The Future Head The Flaming Lips
1993 Boces Mercury Rev
1994 Syrup Macrame Radial Spangle
Chaos For The Converted Creaming Jesus
1995 See You on the Other Side Mercury Rev
Clouds Taste Metallic The Flaming Lips
1996 Revelater Jennyanykind
1997 Zaireeka The Flaming Lips
Souls For Sale Verbena
1998 Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev
Eleventh Avenue Ammonia
1999 XIV Home
The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips
Hope and Adams Wheat
School Girl Distortional Addict Number Girl
A Dream in Sound Elf Power
Come on Die Young Mogwai
2000 The Great Eastern The Delgados
Sappukei Number Girl
2001 Rock Action Mogwai
It's a Wonderful Life Sparklehorse
All Is Dream Mercury Rev
Without a Plan Bodega
2002 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots The Flaming Lips
Num-Heavymetallic Number Girl
Romantica Luna
Hate The Delgados
2003 The Strangest Things Longwave
Songs for Dustmites Steve Burns
Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second Wheat
Night on My Side Gemma Hayes
Drveće i rijeke (Trees and Rivers) Pips, Chips & Videoclips
Cuatro Caminos Café Tacuba
Bad Timing Grand Mal
2004 Phantom Planet Phantom Planet
2005 The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore Saxon Shore
The Woods Sleater-Kinney
The Secret Migration Mercury Rev
The Great Destroyer Low
2006 The Philosophy of Velocity Brazil
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Sparklehorse
A City by the Light Divided Thursday
At War With The Mystics The Flaming Lips
2007 Some Loud Thunder Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Drums and Guns Low
Oracular Spectacular MGMT
2008 Zazen Boys 4 Zazen Boys
Walk It Off Tapes 'N Tapes
Snowflake Midnight Mercury Rev
Christmas on Mars The Flaming Lips
2009 Embryonic
Eating Us Black Moth Super Rainbow
Common Existence Thursday
2010 Innerspeaker (mixing) Tame Impala
The Wild Trapeze Brandon Boyd
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky OK Go
2011 Era Extraña Neon Indian
180/365 OK Go
Suego Faults Wolf Gang
Flux Outside Royal Bangs
No Devolución Thursday
2012 Lonerism (mixing) Tame Impala
Hello Hum Wintersleep
In the Belly of the Brazen Bull The Cribs
2013 MGMT MGMT
The Terror The Flaming Lips
2014 They Want My Soul Spoon
Only Run Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Hungry Ghosts OK Go
Dizzy Heights Neil Finn
2015 English Graffiti The Vaccines
Permanence No Devotion
Purple Baroness
2017 Oczy Mlody The Flaming Lips
Hot Thoughts Spoon
The Tourist Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Every Country's Sun Mogwai
Mismo Sitio, Distinto Lugar Vetusta Morla
2018 Little Dark Age MGMT[10]
Human Music Solomon Grey
Marauder Interpol[11]
This Is Eggland The Lovely Eggs
2019 Gold & Grey Baroness
How To Work A Room Superet[12]
2020 I Am Moron The Lovely Eggs
Love Is An Art Vanessa Carlton
2021 As the Love Continues Mogwai
2024 Loss Of Life MGMT[13]
GLOOM DIVISION I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
Imaginal Disk (mixing) Magdalena Bay
Wild God (mixing) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

References

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  1. ^ "News: New Record". TapesNTapes.com. 2007-10-25. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
  2. ^ "Baroness - Gold and Grey - Produced by Dave Fridmann". QuadraphonicQuad Home Audio Forum. 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  3. ^ "MGMT announce new album, Loss of Life". Treble. 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  4. ^ "Sound On Sound: Mercury Rising".
  5. ^ "MOJO: 100 Sonic Visionaries" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08.
  6. ^ Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
  7. ^ "Rolling Stone News Story: 100 Best Albums of the Decade". Rolling Stone. 18 July 2011.
  8. ^ "Thanks to everyone who made this possible throughout the years!". May 1, 2022.
  9. ^ "Dave Fridmann: Discography".
  10. ^ Murphy, Sarah (January 16, 2018). "MGMT Detail 'Little Dark Age' Album". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  11. ^ Gil Green (June 7, 2018). "Interpol – "The Rover" (Prod. Dave Fridmann)". Stereogum. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  12. ^ "Superet on Spotify". open.spotify.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-01.
  13. ^ Loss Of Life by MGMT on Apple Music, retrieved 2024-02-23
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