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Mark Saunders :: Biography

Mark's music career started in 1984 as an assistant at West Side Studios, London. Besides brewing copious amounts of tea, Mark learned much from the studio owners Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who had great success producing Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Elvis Costello and later Bush.

In 1985, Mark got his first engineering credit on David Bowie & Mick Jagger's "Dancing In The Street". A year later, he became a freelance engineer and was discovered by Rhythm King, a label at the forefront of the British dance music. Working on a couple of Bomb The Bass mixes led to the band's founder, Tim Simenon, asking Mark to co-produce Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance".

The success of "Buffalo Stance" and Neneh's "Raw Like Sushi" album resulted in a flood of pop/dance work for acts including Erasure, Depeche Mode, Lisa Stansfield & Yazz. Robert Smith from The Cure, employed Mark's radio friendly skills to mix all singles from the album Disintegration. One of these "Lovesong" is The Cure's highest charting single peaking #2 in the Billboard Top 100.

Work with Ian McCulloch, The Mission (UK), The Farm, The Heart Throbs, Texas & The Sugarcubes followed. With an ear to the dance floor, Mark was also still making time for pop/dance remixes for the likes of The Human League, Mory Kante, Wang Chung, London Beat, and Jean Paul Gaultier. More work with The Cure on the albums "Wish" and "Mixed Up" would later lead to a Cure fan, Tricky, asking Mark to co-produce, program and mix his critically acclaimed debut album "Maxinquaye". This in turn led to Tricky fans, Cyndi Lauper, John Lydon, David Byrne & Cathy Dennis hiring Mark to work on their albums.

In the late nineties, Mark took a step back from the record business to spend more time with his family. Still in music though, he side stepped into writing and producing music for TV advertising. Some of his work in this area can be seen at www.tothebeat.com. Mark still made time for a few mixes for David Byrne, Marilyn Manson, Erasure, Jim White and The Mavis's.

In 2003, Mark upgraded his studio to a fully integrated surround sound system and took on the challenge of mixing in 5.1. Mark has worked on a variety of surround projects for clients including David Byrne, Marylyn Manson & Ayo. In 2006 he co-produced and mixed the 2008 Grammy nominated Shiny Toy Guns Album 'We are Pilots' Apple subsequently commissioned Mark to produce a 5.1 remix of their single 'Le Disko', which was included as 'in box' content for the major product release of Logic Studio. The mix is used for Apple pro audio demonstrations all over the globe.

As well as major label work, Mark has been steadily working & developing an array of up and coming talent, recently mixing the debut album for awesome Brooklyn band The So So Glos. He is currently negotiating several six figure publishing deals for his no holds barred account of a life amongst the stars.

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