Dave Fridmann

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David Lawrence Fridmann.
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A member of 1 group, and credited 49 times on others' music. 20 collaborations and 1 musical relative.

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Dave Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. 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 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, Tapes 'n Tapes Hopewell, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Number Girl, Zazen Boys, Sleater-Kinney and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He has recently worked on new recordings with MGMT, OK Go and Tame Impala.

As a musician, Dave was the bassist and a founding member of Mercury Rev. He gave up his role as a touring member of the band in 1993 to concentrate on producing other artists. In 2001, Dave was included on MOJO's 100 Sonic Visionaries list and was described as "the Phil Spector of the Alt-Rock era". In 2007, he received a Grammy for The Flaming Lips' At War With The Mystics at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical). In 2010, three Fridmann-produced albums were listed on the Rolling Stone 100 Best Albums of The Decade: MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and Sleater-Kinney's The Woods.

Fridmann often brings a distinctive, expansive, open sound to the albums he produces, which has much in common with that used by Mercury Rev.

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

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Genres

Alternative Rock, Dream Pop,
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Discography

64 releases – 29 in other groups and 49 credits on others' music Edit
Strangeland Strangeland 2012 Keane engineer
The Wild Trapeze The Wild Trapeze 2010 Brandon Boyd producer (Play) Buy mp3
Congratulations Congratulations 2010 MGMT engineer (Play) Buy mp3
Embryonic Embryonic 2009 The Flaming Lips engineer and producer (Play) Buy mp3
Snowflake Midnight Snowflake Midnight 2008 Mercury Rev (Play) Buy mp3
Yerself Is Steam/Lego My Ego +DVD Yerself Is Steam/Lego My Ego +DVD 2007 Mercury Rev (Play) Buy mp3
Drums and Guns Drums and Guns 2007 Low design, engineer and producer (Play) Buy mp3
Oracular Spectacular Oracular Spectacular 2007 MGMT engineer and producer (Play) Buy mp3
Back to Mine Back to Mine 2006 Mercury Rev
Hello Blackbird Hello Blackbird 2006 Mercury Rev
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  • Mercury Rev

    current & founder member
    • bass guitar:
      • 1989-
    Mercury Rev

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