Biography
Victor Van Vugt is a producer, writer and mixer whose career spans four decades and three continents. Beginning in Australia, where he cut his teeth alongside Nick Cave, The Triffids and The Go-Betweens, his work with those artists brought him first to London, then to New York — and ultimately to Berlin, where he is now based.
His credits include some of the most celebrated and critically lauded records of the past forty years: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ The Good Son and Murder Ballads, PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Mercury Prize); Beth Orton’s Central Reservation (Brit Award nomination)., and Athlete’s Vehicles & Animals (Mercury Prize nomination), among many others. His work has won Grammy, Brit, Mercury and ARIA Awards, sold millions of copies worldwide, and earned him a reputation as one of the most trusted ears in alternative and independent music.
His artist credits span an exceptionally wide range: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Beth Orton, The Pogues, Chrissie Hynde, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gogol Bordello, Fischerspooner, Athlete, The Knocks, and many more.
In recent years Victor has expanded into film scoring and television production. He mixes remotely from his studio in Berlin, and travels wherever a great project takes him.