jason blackwell

House/ Assistant Engineer in the studios heyday. Worked with artists such as Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel, You Am I, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Cruel Sea, Tex Perkins, Leonard's Bride, Lee Kernaghan, The Necks, Wanderlust, Slava Gregorian, Magic Dirt, Crow, The Mark of Cain, Tim Finn, Mick Harvey, Tumbleweed, Sidewinder, The Exponents, The Backsliders, Wendy Mathews, Drop City/ The Lovetones/ Colorsound, DIG, Reg and Pete's Dog Trumpet, Working alongside Producers and Engineers the likes of Nick Launay, Tony Cohen, Jeremy Allom, Greg Ladanyi, Jack Endino, Alan Thorne, Charles Fisher, Mark Opitz, Mark Moffat, Garth Porter, Paul McKercher, Tim Whitten,

House/Assistant Engineer at this busy SSL MIX studio. Worked with Artists such as Skunkhour, DIG, The Hellmenn, May Moore, Juice, The Welcome Mat, The Jackson Code, Tiny Tim. Working alongside Producers and Engineers such as Gavin Mckillop, Nick Launay, Kevin Shirley, Adrian Boland, Garth Porter, Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie, Lindsey Jehan, David Price.

Started my career here at the age of 16 as a Video quality controller which involved dubbing and checking VHS And Betamax tapes. The company was at the time the largest video/ audio post production facility in Australia that did work for all the major record companies, film houses, and TV stations. I moved over to the new state of the art audio studios in late 1988 and started working on one of the first tapeless non linear audio editing systems the AMS Audiofile. Here I trained as an assistant engineer under Mark Bergin and Mic Kent, after which I became Engineer with my own clients. While at Apocalypse I attended the Australian Film,Television and Radio Schools industry training course for a year and received coaching for Tom Lubin and Jerry Nixon and left with a Diploma in Sound Engineering. Artists worked with while at Apocalypse. BB King, Harry Nilsson, Joe Jackson, Richard Clapton, Tim Farriss, John English, Doc Neeson, John Parr.

* Engineer and Producer for album recording, mixing and live performance. * Artists worked with Live include Smog, The Lovetones, The Limespiders, Josh Rouse, * Brian Jonestown Massacre, Holly Throsby, Tim Ireland, The Underground Lovers, M Ward, * Will Oldham, Buffalo Tom, Damien Dempsey, Ed Kuepper, Paris Green, Darren Hanlon, * The Hardons, Nunchucka Superfly, Golden Rough, Micah P Hinson, Joe Pernice, Martin Craft, Guided by Voices, X, Muse, Ben Lee, Mental as Anything, Front End Loader, Deborah Conway and The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Even, Jodie Phillis, The Clouds, Scared Weird Little Guys, Barry Crocker, Archie Roach, Neil Murray...

* Audio Director the the Channel V music bus. * An Australia wide tour of regional towns and capital cities, with a * daily 3 hour live TV broadcast featuring interviews, live music, skating and competitions. * Artists worked with Good Charlotte, Magic Dirt, Delta Goodrem, The Living End, The Superjesus, 1200 Techniques, * Andrew G, James Mathison , Jabba, Umi Stynes to name a few.

* Recording Engineer/ Audio Director for music recording and mixing, web streams, TV/radio broadcasts, and post production. * Recent clients include New Order, The Cure, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Henry Rollins * Paul Kelly & Neil Finn (Aria award Best Adult Contemporay Album), Sunnyboys, The Church * Burt Bacharach, Olivia Newton John, Sarah Blasko, Chic and Nile Rogers, The National, Amanda Palmer, Tegan an Sarah, Counting Crows, Amon Tobin, Jose Gonzales, * Chick Corea and Gary Burton (Grammy Award for best Jazz Instrumental album), Moby, * Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, Berliner Philharmoniker, Opera Australia, Australian Ballet, Sonny Rollins, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, The Necks, Coldplay, Spiritualised, Soulwax, Anthony and the Johnsons, Stephen Fry, Julian Assange, International Fleet Review, The International Space Station ; )