ABOUT

As a young teenager experimenting with 4-track tape recorders in the nineties, I quickly became aware of the gap between the music I was making and the records coming out of my speakers. That gap got under my skin early, and I’ve been trying to understand it ever since.

I’ve been in recording studios since I was 12, and by the time I was 22 I’d already released more than 20 breakbeat and house records. Even then, nothing really prepared me for mastering. That was the point where the details started to matter on a completely different level.

I never planned for mastering to become my life’s work. In less than 18 months, I went from being product manager at a vinyl distributor to co-owning one of the world’s top mastering studios. It was a wild ride, but once I was in, I knew I’d found the part of music that made the most sense to me.

Since 2008 I’ve worked as a vinyl and digital mastering engineer. In that time, records I’ve worked on have gone on to generate around 115 billion streams across platforms, spanning everything from major releases to underground favourites.

Over time I realised that a big part of what I do is helping artists get closer to the vision they were reaching for in the first place, sometimes before they’ve fully found the words for it themselves.

What has never changed is my fascination with the gap between a track that’s good and one that really connects. That’s the part of music I got obsessed with early, and it’s still the part that matters most to me now.