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Alex Newport

3rd Mall From The Sun

About Me

I'm a music mixer and producer. Fighting a losing battle against over-processed, soul-less, generic sounding records. Some of the bands I've worked with:
At The Drive-in, The Mars Volta, Two Gallants, Death Cab For Cutie, Samiam, The Locust, Piebald, Polysics, Me First And The Gimme Gimmies, System Of A Down, Ikara Colt, Sepultura...
Sleep is for losers, innit.mixer/producer discography
my recording studio

My Interests

I like playing with cats and assisting with suicides.

I'd like to meet:

solid geezahs and luvly lasses. and good bands!for production/mixing bookings please contact:
Heather Hawkins, AAM Inc
212 929 2929
[email protected]
or drop me a line: [email protected]

Music:

Jimi Hendrix/Massive Attack/Black Flag/Doves/Longwave/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Crowded House/Los Lobos/James Brown/R.E.M/Crass/Martha Reeves and the Vandellas/Schooly D/Jeff Buckley/PJ Harvey/The Birthday Party/Stone Roses/Marvin Gaye/Sonic Youth/James Blood Ulmer/Chavez/At The Drive-In/Bauhaus/Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band/Tricky/Brainiac/Portishead/Blur/Radiohead/David Bowie/XTC/Wire/Wilco/The Fall/Duran Duran/Drunks With Guns/U2/Undertones/Velvet Underground/Nick Cave/Drive Like Jehu/Kool Keith/Chrome/Coltrane/The Cure/Devo/Depeche Mode/Dead Kennedys/Gang Of Four/Fugazi/Bill Frissell/Nels Cline/Miles Davis/Killing Joke/Led Zeppelin/The Flaming Lips/Editors/!Forward Russia!/Nine Inch Nails/Q And Not U/Teenage Fanclub/Ride/Suede/Jesus Lizard/Minor Threat/The Meters/Me'Shell Ndegeocello/Mercury Rev/MC5/Le Shok/Echo And The Bunnymen/Pixies/Primal Scream/Psychedelic Furs/Rage Against The Machine/Sisters Of Mercy/Public Image Limited/The Smiths/Sly & The Family Stone/Slayer/Chic/Refused/Roxy Music/Six Finger Satellite/Dinosaur Jr/Corrine Bailey Rae/Lil Kim/The Walkmen/Ben Folds Five/Tori Amos/Pavement/Lamb/Foals/Gallows/Two Gallants/Spoon/Sneaker Pimps/The Kinks/Green Day/South/Spacemen 3/Oasis/Thin Lizzy/Ryan Adams/Johnny Cash/Lou Reed/Emmylou Harris/The Specials/The Selecter/Beck/Soul Coughing/Thursday/My Morning Jacket/Pink Floyd/Stranglers/Tool/The Jam/Slint/Talking Heads/Husker Du/Swervedriver/Stooges/The Who/The Sonics/Rocket From The Crypt/Sonny Rollins/Rites Of Spring/Cabaret Voltaire/Digital Underground/Big Star/ACDC/Big Black/Blondie/Frank Zappa/Suicide/Public Enemy

Movies:

Hitchcock, Altman, (early) Tarantino, Kubrick, Coen, Polanski, Planet Of The Apes (the original of course), Steve Martin, Dark City, Antonioni, Child's Play, The Omen

Television:

I fucking hate television. It's like taking black paint to your eyes, it's the worst uh, oh wait, I really like "Family Guy"

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hunter S. Thompson, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, Nick Hornby, Harold Pinter, Sarah Kane, Haruki Murakami, Leonard Cohen, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Jerry Kosinski, William Saroyan

Heroes:

nah. I prefer falafel.

My Blog

mixing records

Recently I've been doing a lot of mixing work. At the moment my time is split pretty equally between producing/mixing and just mixing. I'm really enjoying mixing! It's great to get involved at the mix...
Posted by Alex Newport on Sun, 07 May 2006 01:47:00 PST

We Do Not Deserve To Inhabit This Planet, Part 946: Plastic Continent

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=858
Posted by Alex Newport on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:37:00 PST

if its too loud, youre too old..... or its OVERCOMPRESSED!!!!

http://www.prorec.com/Articles/tabid/109/EntryID/247/Default .aspxhttp://funl.blogspot.com/2007/06/loudness-war.htmlhttp: //www.cdmasteringservices.com/dynamicrange.htm...
Posted by Alex Newport on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:10:00 PST

borough check

yeah, after years of talking about it, I finally made the decision to move to New York City in July. I found a great warehouse space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and will be building my new studio there. I...
Posted by Alex Newport on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:29:00 PST