Eric Radcliffe
Eric Charles Radcliffe ( born 1950 ) is a British sound engineer, guitarist, music producer and studio owner. Its abbreviation credits is usually EC Radcliffe. He became internationally known as a sound engineer and producer for the under contract with Mute Records artist Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode and Yazoo and coined the early mute sound. Following the liquidation of the company founded by his recording studio, he retired from the music industry.
Life
With about 15 years, Radcliffe his band for studio art began to inspire when shooting. First experiments with recording equipment in their own home for fellow musicians aroused in him the desire to build their own professional music studio. After training as a laser technician, he moved to London and founded in 1980 in Southwark, the Blackwing Studios, which he ran until the end of 2001. Daniel Miller, the founder and owner of Mute Records, there recorded the album Music for parties of his music project Silicon Teens. Miller booked the studio and Radcliffe or his assistant at the time John Fryer in the result for recordings of Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode and Yazoo. The latter named the produced Radcliffe debut album Upstairs at Eric's after him.
Between 1980 and 1982 the side project took on Dome of the band Wire with Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis in the Blackwing Studios with Radcliffe and Fryer as engineers three albums that Simon Reynolds in his book Rip It Up and Start Again with the ambient cycle of Brian Eno compares. Along with Miller took Gilbert and Lewis Duet Emmo ( an anagram of Mute and Dome) 1983 Album Or so it Seems to Fryer and Radcliffe at the controls in the Blackwing Studios on before Wire in 1985 did again.
In 1982 he founded together with Vince Clarke, the independent label Reset Records, which released eight singles until 1987. All recordings for Reset Records in the Blackwing Studios produced by Radcliffe. Clarke calls Radcliffe as a major influence.
In 1983 he founded following the dissolution of Yazoo Vince Clarke, together with the short-lived duo The Assembly. The plan was an album with alternating singers; However, the only single released was Feargal Sharkey Never Never with as a singer. The single reached # 4 on the British charts. Clarke founded in 1985 with the group Erasure Andy Bell, initially also wrote for the Radcliffe and mixed.
Today he lives in Gravesend.
Discography (excerpt)
As a sound engineer
As a producer,