Alan Moulder

Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer.

Moulder was born on 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire.

He was educated at Boston Grammar School.

He had an interest in music from an early age, listing Cream and The Beatles among his favourite artists.

The first album he bought was Electric Warrior by T. Rex, and he was impressed by the quality of the recording.

He joined his first band as a teenager and recorded a demo in a local studio.

During this time, he began to take interest in music production.

Moulder's musical career started in the early 1980s at Trident Studios in London.

As an assistant engineer, he worked with influential producers like Jean-Michel Jarre, drawing from them great familiarity with electronic sounds and textures.

Also an engineer at Trident was Flood with whom Moulder would often collaborate in the future.

Moulder assisted in one of Flood's recording sessions with The Jesus and Mary Chain, and found that the often fractious and troublesome band enjoyed working with him.

The Mary Chain invited Moulder to engineer their live sounds and, eventually, to engineer their 1989 album Automatic.

The album's production was praised for its combination of thick, noisy guitar with a polished, listener-friendly tone, and the Mary Chain's former label, Creation Records, soon had Moulder producing records for Ride, My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver.

In a 2023 interview, musician Andy Bell said his Moulder favourite album mix is Violator by Depeche Mode.

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Moulder is married to Curve lead singer Toni Halliday.