Mark 'Spike' Stent is a British record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, and audio engineer who has worked with The KLF

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, Björk

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, Keane, Depeche Mode

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, Muse

Muse (band)

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, Erasure

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, Hard-Fi

HARD-Fi

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, Massive Attack

Massive Attack

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, Janet Jackson

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, Madonna

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, Christina Aguilera

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, Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson (band)

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, Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

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, Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

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, No Doubt

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/Gwen Stefani

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, CSS, Beth Orton

Beth Orton

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, Arcade Fire, Oasis

Oasis (band)

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, the Spice Girls

Spice Girls

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, Take That

Take That

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, Stereophonics

Stereophonics

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, Linkin Park

Linkin Park

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, Panic at the Disco, Craig David

Craig David

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, S Club 7

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, Wheatus

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, U2

U2

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, Britney Spears

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, Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp

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, Hurts

Hurts

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 and Maroon 5

Maroon 5

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, among others. Primarily a mixing engineer

Mixing engineer

A mix engineer is the person responsible for incorporating all the different recorded elements of music to make the final version of a song. These mixing professionals have many years of experience and training with audio equipment which has enabled them to master the art of audio mixing...

, Stent is one of the most sought after in the business.

Stent used to work out of Olympic Studios

Olympic Studios

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, his custom built studio in Barnes, South London

London

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, but has since moved to LA, where many of his clients are. Olympic Studios was built as part of a joint venture between himself and EMI

EMI

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 - EMI paid for the building, and Stent equipped it.

In 2005, Radiohead

Radiohead

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 members confirmed that they were going to record sessions for their new album with Stent. By August 2006, the band had apparently finished their sessions for In Rainbows

In Rainbows

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with Stent and began work again with their longtime producer Nigel Godrich

Nigel Godrich

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. The liner notes of the album show Stent not credited as a producer, but credited as one of the people the band thanked.

On October 14, 2010, Duran Duran

Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...

's Roger Taylor posted a blog on the band's official website which stated, "starting to hear final mixes coming back for our new album at the hands of the one and only Mark ‘Spike’ Stent."

External links

• Article by Paul Tingen from 1999: Spike Stent / The Work Of A Top-flight Mixer
• http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb10/articles/it_0210.htmArticle by Paul Tingen in Sound on Sound
  Sound on Sound
  Sound on Sound is an independently-owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, UK. The magazine includes product tests of electronic musical performance and recording devices, and interviews with industry professionals...
  
  magazine, February 2010: Spike Stent on his mix of Muse's album The Resistance]