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Phil Harding (born 1957) is an English audio engineer, producer and remixer, best known for his extended collaboration with keyboardist and programmer Ian Curnow. Harding had a robust career prior to joining forces with Curnow, and together they became a pop mix powerhouse for many British bands. At one point they were offered the task of the first House Music remix of the Chic hit "Le Freak". The highlight of the duo's career is their 1980s work for the highly successful record label PWL, and its creative core at the time: Stock Aitken Waterman productions (later Stock/Waterman productions). ==Career== Harding started in the music industry aged sixteen at the Marquee Studios in 1973. There he worked with some of the top producers in the world as they recorded some of the great albums of the day. As Harding’s career progressed, a list of credits soon started to stack up with artists as diverse as The Clash, Killing Joke, Toyah and Matt Bianco, all taking advantage of Harding’s ever-growing reputation as a top engineer. At the start of the 1980s, the name of a newly formed production team was added to the list – Stock/Aitken/Waterman. Harding engineered and mixed their first chart successes (Divine and Hazell Dean) then their breakthrough and first No 1 single, "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive. Further hits came from artists such as Mel and Kim, Bananarama, Rick Astley, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue. Harding's great pop sensibility also extended into the alternative music scene. He was instrumental in launching the careers of the dynamic, industrial dance minimliasts Nitzer Ebb. After seeing them live in the mid 1980s he went on to produce and mix their debut album ''That Total Age'' in 1987, which also saw the band enter into a deal with the Mute label alongside label mates Depeche Mode. A further deluge of hits followed but this time with Harding and Curnow as producers for the bands East 17 (including the Christmas No 1 "Stay Another Day"), Deuce, Boyzone, 911, Caught in the Act and Let Loose. Harding and Curnow currently operate their own production company, established in the 1990s, at the Strongroom Studio complex in Shoreditch, London, focusing on artist development projects. Harding mixed the earliest Matt Bianco releases in a style which would become his signature before moving on to more illustrious efforts at PWL. He worked with temporary Matt Bianco vocalist Basia both in the group and throughout her very successful solo career in the United States, mixing her 1987 debut album ''Time and Tide'' and ''London Warsaw New York'' album in 1990. More recently he has ventured onto the other side of the glass performing with Caro on their ''The 4th Way'' album and then as a solo artist with ''The Story Of Beginners''. Both albums drew on strong songs co-written by Phil Harding with Mila Bogen. He has recently worked with Lamont Dozier in Los Angeles and mixed 11 tracks on the Cliff Richard album ''Soulicious'' (2011). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phil Harding (producer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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