Dan Austin


Dan Austin is a sound engineer and music producer and mixer working in the United Kingdom. Austin also performs as a bassist.

Early life

Austin attended George Ward School and Lowbourne Juniors in Wiltshire. While in school he joined a band called Four Parts Water, and began working part-time at the Moles Studio in Bath.

Career

In 2004, Austin played bass with a band called The Cooper Temple Clause. He also produced a number of recordings with this group. He produced the band Cherry Ghost album, A Thirst For Romance and the follow-up albums Beneath this Burning Shoreline and Herd Runners. In 2008 a song he produced for this band won the Ivor Novello award.
Austin has contributed to the Doves' Kingdom Of Rust and new tracks on the Best Of release which he produced. Austin has also produced an album for US act Evaline, and he has also mixed tracks for MORNING PARADE and YOUNG REBEL SET.
In 2010 Austin was producing and recording at the Moles Studio in Bath. He produced the debut album for Airship, as well as two EPs for this group.
Austin was shortlisted for a Music Producers Guild Award in 2013.
Since 2013 Austin has worked with Gil Norton on albums by Twin Atlantic, Futures, Pulled Apart By Horses and Maxïmo Park as well as tracks by The People the Poet and You Me At Six. Austin and Gil finished the debut album '‘Anthems’' for Pure Love, the new band from ex-Gallows frontman Frank Carter and in 2014 Austin produced an album with the band Arcane Roots.

Production, mixing and engineering credits in reverse chronological order