English producer and mixer (born 1965)
Musical artist
Mark "Spike" Stent (born 3 August 1965) is an English record producer and mixing engineer who has worked with many international artists including Madonna, Marshmello, U2, Beyoncé, Björk, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, Grimes, Ed Sheeran, Beth Orton, Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Selena Gomez, All Saints, Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Mansun, Maroon 5, Muse, Lily Allen, Peter Gabriel, Gwen Stefani, Moby, No Doubt, Lenka, Usher, Kaiser Chiefs, Linkin Park, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Oasis, Keane, Massive Attack, Bastille, Diana Vickers and Take That.[1]
Career
Stent grew up in Hampshire, England and first gained experience as an engineer at Jacob Studios as a teenager before a two-year stint at Trident Studios. After Trident, Stent worked at Olympic Studios in Barnes, South London. While at Olympic, Stent worked with artists such as Massive Attack, Bjork, Madonna, U2, Keane, and Oasis.[citation needed] Radiohead enlisted him to produce their 2007 album In Rainbows, but the collaboration was unsuccessful.[2]
Stent works at two studios: Mix Suite LA in EastWest Studios and Mix Suite UK.
Awards and nominations
Grammy Awards
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Billboard Music Awards
Music Producers Guild (MPG) Awards
Selected film credits
Selected discography
2020s
2010s
2000s
- 2009: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown ("Last of the American Girls", "21 Guns", "Rain on Me")
- 2009: Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster ("Bad Romance", "Telephone" Featuring Beyoncé)
- 2009: Tegan & Sara – Sainthood ("Hell")
- 2009: Muse – The Resistance
- 2009: Vedera – Stages ("Satisfy", "Loving Ghosts", "Back to the Middle")
- 2009: Cheryl Cole – 3 Words ("Fight for This Love")
- 2009: Ciara – Fantasy Ride ("G Is for Girl")
- 2009: Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand ("Katherine")
- 2009: FrankMusik – Complete Me ("Confusion Girl")
- 2009: The Yeah You's – Looking Through You
- 2009: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz
- 2009: Lenka – Trouble Is a Friend
- 2009: Sean Garrett – Turbo 919 ("Why", "What You Doin' Turbo 919")
- 2009: Lily Allen – It's Not Me, It's You ("Everyone's at It", "The Fear")
- 2008: The Script – The Script ("Breakeven", "Talk You Down", "The Man Who Can't Be Moved")
- 2008: Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System ("Kansas City", "UFO")
- 2008: The Pussycat Dolls – Doll Domination ("When I Grow Up")
- 2008: CSS – Donkey
- 2008: Pink – Funhouse
- 2008: Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce
- 2008: Madonna – Hard Candy
- 2007: M.I.A – Kala ("Boyz", "Jimmy")
- 2007: Maroon 5 – It Won't Be Soon Before Long
- 2007: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible ("Black Mirror", "No Cars Go")
- 2007: Hard-Fi – Once Upon a Time in the West ("Suburban Knights")
- 2007: Stereophonics – Pull The Pin ("Rewind")
- 2007: Natasha Bedingfield – N.B
- 2007: Björk – Volta
- 2006: Depeche Mode – The Complete Depeche Mode ("A Pain That I'm Used To")
- 2006: The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home
- 2006: Keane – Under the Iron Sea
- 2006: Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape
- 2005: Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor
- 2005: Goldfrapp – Supernature
- 2005: Fischerspooner – Odyssey
- 2005: Kaiser Chiefs – Employment ("Everyday I Love You Less and Less")
- 2005: Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful ("Easier to Lie")
- 2005: Dave Mathews Band – Stand Up
- 2005: The Black Eyed Peas – Monkey Business
- 2004: Björk – Medúlla
- 2004: Keane – Hopes and Fears
- 2004: Gwen Stefani – Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
- 2004: Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten
- 2003: Massive Attack – 100th Window
- 2003: Madonna – American Life
- 2003: Dave Mathews Band – Some Devil
- 2003: The Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
- 2002: Linkin Park – Reanimation
- 2002: Oasis – Heathen Chemistry
- 2001: No Doubt – Rock Steady
- 2001: Björk – Vespertine
- 2000: All Saints – Saints & Sinners ("Black Coffee", "Pure Shores")
- 2000: Madonna – Music
- 2000: Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
- 2000: Oasis – Familiar to Millions
1990s
1980s
Notes and references
- ^ Sound on Sound magazine, January 1999 (link). Retrieved March 2006.
- ^ Vozick-Levinson, Simon (27 April 2012). "The making of Radiohead's In Rainbows". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ "Grammys 1996". CNN. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Bjork Grammy Nominations". Bork. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Madonna Awards and Nominations". Madonna Awards and Nominations. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "And The GRAMMY Went To ... Arcade Fire". Grammys. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Grammys 2009". Grammys. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "Grammys 2010 Gaga". Grammys. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "Grammys Muse 2010". Grammys. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "Usher Grammy". Grammys. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "Grammy Frank". Grammys. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "2nd Law Nominations". Muse. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "Grammy Awards 2016". Grammys. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ a b "Florence and The Machine Grammy Nominations". Grammy Nominations. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "Awards". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ "MPG 2011". Music Radar. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "MPG Awards 2015". MPG. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ "Calm – 5 Seconds of Summer (Credits)". AllMusic. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ Heartbreak Weather (Media notes). Niall Horan. Neon Haze Music / Capitol Records. 2020.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "Harry Styles - Harry Styles | Credits". AllMusic. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Mark "Spike" Stent". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Snapes, Laura (22 June 2015). "Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio with Chvrches". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Article by Paul Tingen from 1999: Spike Stent / The Work Of A Top-flight Mixer
- Article by Paul Tingen in Sound on Sound magazine, February 2010: Spike Stent on his mix of Muse's album The Resistance
- Spike Stent discography at Discogs