superproducer

Jack Antonoff is fewer than 24 hours into his flying visit to London from New York to talk about his new album as Bleachers, but trying to hold his attention as we eat in the celeb hotspot and luxury hotel Chiltern Firehouse is like trying to handle a dodgem. He becomes preoccupied by an abandoned baseball cap, my beer and the transmission risk of the packed dining room. “Do people still get Covid?” he asks. “Shall we go outside?” (It is freezing.) He frets about “ambient noise” affecting my recorder, looking at the…

Dan Carey’s studio is notoriously hectic at the best of times, but today takes the biscuit. The air is thick with hangovers, the tabletops strewn with empty champagne bottles and Carey’s head has been freshly shaved bald. His new musical project Miss Tiny, a duo with Warmduscher’s Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft, played at Pratts & Payne in Streatham last night, before stumbling the short walk back to the studio with a few select friends in the early hours.As we retrace those steps back to the venue, Carey rightly strides…

This has been a long time coming. Silencer, aka Teddy Music, has released a new mixtape—First Treatment—collecting together 17 new tracks, including recent singles “Tell Me I’m Lying” with P Money and Novelist, “Awful” with So Large and Roachee, “Matrix Nokia” with Jme, and “Grime Ain’t Dead” with Dizzee Rascal.As both Silencer and Teddy Music, the producer has been a consistent force in grime since the 2000s. Even when things go a little quiet, or perhaps especially when the rest of the scene goes quiet, Silencer has…

For record producer Andrew Watt, nothing is more precious than a chance to get close to his musical heroes. He’s got a piece of rock history in his hands right now, slashing at a 1967 Telecaster electric guitar once owned by the late Mick Ronson, a crucial early bandmate of David Bowie.Watt, 31, picked up the old metallic-blue instrument in London a couple of months ago and is in his Beverly Hills living room riffing through some favorite Bowie standards: “Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City” and “All the Young Dudes.” The…

The Toronto producer formerly known as Frank Dukes has worked with countless big names like Drake, Rihanna, SZA, Kanye West, and The Weeknd, but for his latest project, he’ll be flying solo under the moniker Ging.The now Los Angeles-based Ging will drop his debut album We’re Here, My Dear on Nov. 4, and it promises to be a dreamier, more bedroom pop affair than the slick hip-hop and pop productions we’re used to. To mark the announcement, Ging released his first single, “Miracles.”“‘Miracles’ is a life affirming…

At this year’s BET awards, the honor for lifetime achievement went to Sean “Diddy” Combs – and why not? He signed the Notorious BIG and takes credit for “inventing” the remix. He changed what it means to be called a hip-hop super producer while becoming a multi-platinum-selling rapper himself. Really, he’s not that much different from Pete Rock.Rock (real name Peter O Philips) is the other kind of super-producer, the one who actually does the grunt work of trawling for rare records and cutting and stitching them into…