Alex Newport
Alex Newport is an English record producer, mixer, songwriter, and composer, based in Los Angeles.
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| Background information | |
| Born | 12 September 1970 Wolverhampton, England |
| Occupation(s) | producer, engineer, mixer, musician, songwriter, composer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, programming |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Associated acts | Death Cab for Cutie, City And Colour, At The Drive-In, Bloc Party, Matt Costa, Fudge Tunnel, Red Love |
| Website | www |
Biography
Newport was born in Wolverhampton, UK in 1970 and grew up in the Midlands area. He is currently living in Los Angeles and is the owner of Future Shock recording studio. Newport was the founding member of UK grunge band Fudge Tunnel and the industrial project Nailbomb.
After producing records for At the Drive-In (In/Casino/Out, 1998 and Vaya, 1999) and The Mars Volta (Tremulant, 2002), in addition to projects with Knapsack, Samiam and Death Cab For Cutie Newport became a highly in-demand producer.
His work with Death Cab for Cutie was Grammy nominated and in 2011 he commenced an ongoing relationship with the Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, AKA City And Colour. In February 2011, Newport produced City And Colour’s "Little Hell" which was recorded and mixed entirely on analog tape. It was followed in 2013 with "The Hurry and the Harm" – the second consecutive album to reach #1 on the Canadian charts and a top 20 Billboard US album.
He also mixed and played bass on the album for the collaborative project between City and Colour and Pink called You+Me as well as the mixing for The Foo Fighters Nate Mendel's new project Lieutenant.
In 2013 Alex produced Bloc Party’s critically acclaimed top five UK album "FOUR". It was a return to form for the band with a more guitar oriented sound reminiscent of their debut "Silent Alarm".
Other notable productions include work with The Sounds, Frank Turner, The Mountain Goats, Two Gallants and Tokyo's Polysics, mixing for Toronto band Weaves, and producing & mixing the debut album for Brighton, UK faves Tigercub, as well as producing & mixing LA's Bleached and Moaning's Sub Pop debut.
In 2019, Alex mixed produced & mixed the debut album for Toronto's Drew Thomson Foundation, Moaning's second full-length for Sub Pop, and the new album from Matt Costa for Dangerbird Records.
Alex also sings and performs as one half of Red Love, with Matt Tong (ex-Bloc Party) – their debut album was released in Feb 2017.
Alex composed & performed the original music score for the sci-fi movie "Interpreters" (Archetype Pictures) [1]which was released in May 2020.
Collaborators
Artists for whom Newport has produced or mixed include:
- At The Drive-In
- Bloc Party
- Bleached
- Brazil
- City And Colour
- Codeseven
- Dead To Me
- Death Cab for Cutie (mixing)
- Does It Offend You, Yeah
- Eskimo
- The Extra Glenns
- Fact (mixing)
- Fizzy Blood
- Fleshies
- Frank Turner
- Fudge Tunnel (producer and band member)
- godheadSilo
- The Icarus Line
- Ikara Colt
- Japanese Voyeurs (mixing)
- Johnny Foreigner
- Knapsack
- NEW LANGUAGE
- Male Bonding
- Matt Costa
- The Mars Volta
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- Meet Me in St. Louis (band)
- The Mountain Goats
- The Melvins
- Nate Mendel
- No Devotion
- O'Death
- Omar Rodríguez-López
- PAPA
- Panthers
- Peggy Sue
- Piebald (mixing)
- Pissed Jeans
- POLYSICS
- Rachel Sermanni
- Red Love (producer and band member)
- RHEA
- Samiam
- 65 Days Of Static (mixing)
- So Many Dynamos (mixing)
- Team Spirit (mixing)
- Tigercub
- The By Gods
- The Computers (mixing)
- The Mountain Goats
- The Sounds
- The Telephones
- Two Gallants
- Weaves (mixing)
- Grace Woodroofe
- You+Me (mixing)
- Young Legionnaire (mixing)
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