Nick Launay is an English record producer and recording engineer. He has produced recorded and mixed albums by artists including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Public Image Ltd., Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Grinderman, INXS, Midnight Oil, The Living End, Silverchair, Lou Reed, The Cribs and Supergrass. He lives in Hollywood, USA.
The son of French author André Launay, and fashion model Eve Launay, Nick was...
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Nick Launay is an English record producer and recording engineer. He has produced recorded and mixed albums by artists including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Public Image Ltd., Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Grinderman, INXS, Midnight Oil, The Living End, Silverchair, Lou Reed, The Cribs and Supergrass. He lives in Hollywood, USA.
The son of French author André Launay, and fashion model Eve Launay, Nick was born in London, England on March 5th and moved with his family to a village in Spain at age eight, where his parents adopted a bohemian lifestyle. The family returned to England in 1976, where Launay developed a love of punk rock.
In 1978 he began working at Tape One studios on Tottenham Court Road, where he was trained to edit hit songs for K-tel Top 20 compilation albums, reducing their length to 2½ minutes in order to fit 20 songs on one album. He recalled: "The trick was to keep all the good bits that people would recognise."
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