Dave Fridmann

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Dave Fridmann is an American musician and record producer. He played the bass guitar and drums for Mercury Rev and has produced many indie rock bands.

Fridmann played with Mercury Rev from their foundation in 1984, but began work as an engineer and producer five years later with engineering and mixing credits for Dan Berggren's 'Mountain Air'.^[1] From 1990 onwards he co-produced all releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips (with the exception of Transmissions from the Satellite Heart by the latter). Other prominent bands he has worked with include: Weezer, Saxon Shore, Ammonia, Ed Harcourt, Sparklehorse, Café Tacuba, Elf Power, Mogwai, Thursday, The Delgados, Low, Phantom Planet, Gemma Hayes, Goldrush, Hopewell, Japanese band Number Girl, Sleater-Kinney and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He has recently worked with MGMT, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Zazen Boys and on the new album from Tapes 'n Tapes.^[2] He also produced Thursday's 2009 album, "Common Existence".

Fridmann often brings a distinctive, expansive, open sound to the albums he produces, which has much in common with that used by Mercury Rev. However, in the new millennium he has been criticised for producing albums that are excessively loud^[3], such as Some Loud Thunder by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah^[4] or At War With the Mystics by the Flaming Lips^[5].

He is currently in production with Grammy Award-winning band OK Go on their upcoming album.

Fridmann is an occasional faculty member of SUNY Fredonia, teaching sound recording techniques in the Fredonia School of Music.

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