Joshua (record producer)
Encyclopedia
Joshua is a Danish
and Swedish Grammy
-awarded music producer
and mixing engineer
from Denmark
. He has produced for bands such as Kent
, Kashmir
, Mew
, D-A-D
and Carpark North
.
Joshua produced the 1999 breakthrough album by the Danish rock
band Kashmir, The Good Life
, which gave him the "Danish Producer of the Year" award at the 2000 Danish Grammy Awards. He produced the albums Tillbaka till samtiden
and Röd
by the Swedish alternative rock
band Kent, released in 2007 and 2009, respectively. For the latter he was awarded "Producer of the Year" at the 2010 Swedish Grammy Awards. In the spring of 2010 he produced three tracks on the band's eight studio album En plats i solen
, released on 30 June. He currently resides in London, UK.
Danish Music Awards
The Danish Music Awards is a Danish award show. The show has been arranged by IFPI since 1989, and was originally called IFPI-prisen until 1991, when it changed its name to Dansk Grammy . The current name was given in 2001, after the American Grammy Awards took copyright on the name Grammy....
and Swedish Grammy
Grammis
The Grammis Awards are the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards. The awards ceremony is generally held each year in February in Stockholm.The awards were established in 1969 and awarded until 1972 when they were cancelled....
-awarded music producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and mixing engineer
Mix engineer
A mix engineer, also referred to as "mixing engineer", is a person who, once all instruments, voices, and sounds, etc., have been recorded, creates what is called the final version of a song, hence the term "mix engineer"...
from Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. He has produced for bands such as Kent
Kent (band)
Kent is a Swedish alternative rock band founded in Eskilstuna in 1990, with the name Coca-Cola Kids, later Jones & Giftet , and Havsänglar...
, Kashmir
Kashmir (band)
Kashmir is a Danish alternative rock band consisting of Kasper Eistrup ; Mads Tunebjerg ; Asger Techau and Henrik Lindstrand .-History:...
, Mew
Mew (band)
Mew is a Danish alternative music band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Bassist Johan Wohlert was also a founding member of the band, but left in 2006...
, D-A-D
D-A-D
D-A-D is a Danish rock band previously known as "Disneyland After Dark", a name that had to be changed after a threatening lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company. Their style of music is often categorized as melodic heavy rock...
and Carpark North
Carpark North
Carpark North is a Danish electronic rock band. The band was formed in Aarhus, Denmark on 28 July 1999 by Lau Højen , Søren Balsner and Morten Thorhauge...
.
Joshua produced the 1999 breakthrough album by the Danish rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band Kashmir, The Good Life
The Good Life (Kashmir album)
The Good Life is a 1999 album by Danish rock group Kashmir, which served to greatly increase the popularity of the band. They changed their musical style from the genre of groovecore as seen in their earlier albums Travelogue and Cruzential, into more soft rock...
, which gave him the "Danish Producer of the Year" award at the 2000 Danish Grammy Awards. He produced the albums Tillbaka till samtiden
Tillbaka till samtiden
Tillbaka till samtiden is the seventh studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released on 17 October 2007. The album is produced with Danish producer Joshua. The title means "Back to the Present", a pun on the Swedish translated title of Back to the Future...
and Röd
Röd
- Personnel :*Produced by Kent & Joshua*Recorded in Meistersaal, Berlin; Psykbunkern/Park Studio, Stockholm; The Bowery Hotel, New York; Hyltinge Church, Sparreholm and different living rooms*Track 4, 7, 8, 11: Mixed by Simon Nordberg...
by the Swedish alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band Kent, released in 2007 and 2009, respectively. For the latter he was awarded "Producer of the Year" at the 2010 Swedish Grammy Awards. In the spring of 2010 he produced three tracks on the band's eight studio album En plats i solen
En plats i solen
- Personnel :*Joakim Berg – lyrics and music*Martin Sköld – music on track 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9*Kent – production*Stefan Boman – production and mixing*Joshua – production on track 2, 3, 5*Hoffe Stannow – mastering*Martin Brengesjö – instrument technician...
, released on 30 June. He currently resides in London, UK.
Selective production discography
| Year | Artist | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Kashmir Kashmir (band) Kashmir is a Danish alternative rock band consisting of Kasper Eistrup ; Mads Tunebjerg ; Asger Techau and Henrik Lindstrand .-History:... |
Stand EP | The tracks "Star My Movie, "Could You Kill Fred (Demo)" and "Theme from Skruk" |
| 1999 | The Good Life The Good Life (Kashmir album) The Good Life is a 1999 album by Danish rock group Kashmir, which served to greatly increase the popularity of the band. They changed their musical style from the genre of groovecore as seen in their earlier albums Travelogue and Cruzential, into more soft rock... |
||
| 2001 | Home Dead | ||
| 2003 | Carpark North Carpark North Carpark North is a Danish electronic rock band. The band was formed in Aarhus, Denmark on 28 July 1999 by Lau Højen , Søren Balsner and Morten Thorhauge... |
Carpark North Carpark North (album) Carpark North is the debut album from the Danish rock-trio Carpark North.-Track listing:#"Homeland" – 5:10#"Transparent & Glasslike" – 3:36#"There's a Place" – 4:24#"I and You" – 5:21#"In the Dark" – 2:28... |
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| Mew Mew (band) Mew is a Danish alternative music band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Bassist Johan Wohlert was also a founding member of the band, but left in 2006... |
Frengers Frengers Frengers is the third album by Danish band Mew, released in April 2003.The title is a portmanteau of the words friend and stranger... |
The track "Symmetry" | |
| 2004 | Claus Hempler Claus Hempler Claus Hempler is a Danish singer/songwriter who was the front man in the Danish band Fielfraz from 1990 to 1996.Fielfraz split up in 1996, but Claus Hempler continued to make music, releasing the solo album Charm School for Pop Singers in 1999... |
Hempler | |
| 2005 | Carpark North | All Things to All People All Things to All People All Things to All People is the second studio album from the Danish rock-trio Carpark North.-Track listing:#"Berlin" – 4:00#"Human" – 2:32#"Best Day" – 4:27#"Fireworks" – 4:21#"Run" – 4:35#"Song About Us" – 4:10... |
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| Mew | And the Glass Handed Kites And the Glass Handed Kites And the Glass Handed Kites is the fourth studio album by Danish band Mew, released 19 September 2005 in Denmark, 24 September 2005 in the United Kingdom and 25 July 2006 in the United States on Sony BMG... |
The track "White Lips Kissed" | |
| 2006 | Cartridge | Enfant Terrible | |
| 2007 | Kent Kent (band) Kent is a Swedish alternative rock band founded in Eskilstuna in 1990, with the name Coca-Cola Kids, later Jones & Giftet , and Havsänglar... |
Tillbaka till samtiden Tillbaka till samtiden Tillbaka till samtiden is the seventh studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released on 17 October 2007. The album is produced with Danish producer Joshua. The title means "Back to the Present", a pun on the Swedish translated title of Back to the Future... |
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| 2008 | D-A-D D-A-D D-A-D is a Danish rock band previously known as "Disneyland After Dark", a name that had to be changed after a threatening lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company. Their style of music is often categorized as melodic heavy rock... |
Monster Philosophy Monster Philosophy The 10th album by Danish rock band D-A-D. It was released on the November 10, 2008. The album was produced by Danish producer Jon "Joshua" Schumann, who has previously produced records for bands as Kashmir, Mew and Kent. The basic tracks for the album were recorded over a two week period in a... |
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| 2009 | Kent | Röd Röd - Personnel :*Produced by Kent & Joshua*Recorded in Meistersaal, Berlin; Psykbunkern/Park Studio, Stockholm; The Bowery Hotel, New York; Hyltinge Church, Sparreholm and different living rooms*Track 4, 7, 8, 11: Mixed by Simon Nordberg... |
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| 2010 | Kent | En plats i solen En plats i solen - Personnel :*Joakim Berg – lyrics and music*Martin Sköld – music on track 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9*Kent – production*Stefan Boman – production and mixing*Joshua – production on track 2, 3, 5*Hoffe Stannow – mastering*Martin Brengesjö – instrument technician... |
The tracks "Ismael Ismael / Varje gång du möter min blick -Release history:-Charts:... ", "Skisser för sommaren Gamla Ullevi / Skisser för sommaren -Charts:... " and "Varje gång du möter min blick Ismael / Varje gång du möter min blick -Release history:-Charts:... " |
External links
- Joshua at MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Joshua at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
- Joshua at TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
- Joshua at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Joshua at WordpressWordPressWordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
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