Simon Gogerly - Producer/Mixer

Simon Gogerly is one of the UK’s leading mix engineers. His skills have been applied to music by a wide range of the world’s top selling recording artists. He was awarded a Grammy for his work on the U2 album “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” which won the coveted “Album Of The Year” award in 2006.Simon started his career in music as a singer/guitarist with various London based bands swiftly followed by a stint as a keyboard player on tour for the outrageous 80’s electro pop band Dead Or Alive. On the recommendation of an engineer friend, he landed a job as studio assistant at London’s prestigious Mayfair Studios where he trained with John Hudson, one of the top mix engineers of the 70’s and 80’s. During four years at Mayfair he worked with a huge number of artists as an assistant and progressed to engineering and mixing on several hits including “Altogether Now” by The Farm and “Missing You” by Soul II Soul (meeting Nellee Hooper in the process – a meeting that would lead to future collaboration).In 1992 Simon went freelance and started working regularly with producer Stephen Hague. One of his first jobs was recording the New Order album “Republic” at Real World and RAK. This led to him touring with the band through 1993 as programmer.In the mid 90’s his work continued with Stephen and a variety of other producers, thanks to joining the roster of Z Management, such as Sly & Robbie (Maxi Priest, Suggs) and Boilerhouse (Texas, Stereophonics). Z introduced Simon to up and coming British hip-hop producer Syze-Up and the pair worked together on a large number of remixes for the top US hip-hop acts of the time (Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, Lil’Kim, Rakim & Mase included) under the name Desert Eagle Discs.Towards the end of the 90’s Simon re-teamed with Nellee Hooper in order to mix projects for Nellee’s label Meanwhile (Headrillaz & Hexdragon). This led to him becoming Nellee’s mix engineer of choice. Their on-going relationship has included work with Gwen Stefani, U2, No Doubt, Andrea Corr, Massive Attack and Lamb.Simon joined the ranks of Stephen Budd Management in 2005 enabling him to spread his wings and develop new areas of his mixing and production work. There have been collaborations with Steve Lironi (Luan Parle), Rick Nowels (Yusuf Islam) and Tracey Thorn along with additional production/mix work for a whole variety of up and coming artists like Little Boots, Doll & The Kicks, Jont, King Creosote, Chungking, Operator Please, Heads We Dance, Bishi, Stone Walters and Huski. He has also worked with various overseas acts including Ilanois (Holland), Nayo (Nigeria), Najoua Belyzel (France), Mumiy Troll & Valeriya (Russia) and Isis Gee (Poland). When time allows, Simon also works on development projects with new, unsigned acts in a production/additional production capacity (current projects: Angry Vs The Bear, Tapetheradio and Huski member Maple Bee). At the moment, he is also producing tracks for Ilanois and Hannah B.In 2008 Simon opened his own SSL mix room, Hub II (online now - www.hubtwo.com).