Simon Gogerly
Mixer / Programmer / Producer
Simon Gogerly is one of the UK's leading mix engineers. He has worked with a number of the world's top selling recording artists. He was awarded a Grammy in 2006 for his work on the U2 album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" which won the coveted "Album Of The Year" award.
Simon started his career in music as a singer/guitarist with various London based bands followed by a stint as keyboard player on tour for the outrageous 80s electro pop band Dead Or Alive. On the recommendation of an engineer friend, he landed an assistant engineer post at London's prestigious Mayfair Studios where he trained with John Hudson, one of the top mix engineers of the 70s and 80s. During four years at Mayfair he worked with a huge number of artists as an assistant and progressed to mixing several hits including "Altogether Now" by The Farm and "Missing You" by Soul II Soul (working with 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 projects was recording the New Order album "Republic" at Real World and RAK. This led to him touring with the band through 1993 as programmer.
 Simon's SSL studio |
In the mid 90s his work continued with Stephen and a variety of other producers such as Sly & Robbie (Maxi Priest, Suggs) and Boilerhouse (Texas, Stereophonics). Simon also joined forces with hip-hop producer Syze-Up and the pair worked together on a large number of remixes for top US hip-hop acts (Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, Lil'Kim, Rakim & Mase) under the name Desert Eagle Discs.
Towards the end of the 90s Simon teamed up with Nellee Hooper again in order to mix projects for Nellee's label Meanwhile (Headrillaz & Hexdragon). As a result, Simon became Nellee's mix engineer of choice and their on-going working relationship has included work with Gwen Stefani, U2, No Doubt, Andrea Corr, Massive Attack and Lamb.
Simon joined the roster 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 Ewan Pearson (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, Operator Please, Heads We Dance, Bishi, Ella Chi, The Floe and Huski.
Simon has also worked with various overseas acts including Nayo (Nigeria), Najoua Belyzel (France), Mumiy Troll, Gornostay & Valeriya (Russia) and Ilanois (Holland). When time allows, Simon also works on development projects with new, unsigned acts in a production capacity (current projects: Angry Vs The Bear and The Vanities).
Some of the projects Simon has worked on in the second half of 2010 include: mixing Underworld's new album, mixing tracks for Athlete, N-Dubz & Bashy and developing new tracks with Carey from Athlete.
In 2008 Simon opened his own SSL/Protools HD mix room, Hub II (www.hubtwo.com).