About Dare Mason
As a House Engineer at the world famous Townhouse Studios in London, Dare worked with the likes of Prince, Paul McCartney, Boy George, Tina Turner, Ravi Shankar, Soul II Soul and many others.
Becoming a freelance producer/engineer in 1991, he produced albums for The Grid, The Church, Placebo and AC Acoustics, working in London, New York, Sydney and Stockholm, before finally settling in Cornwall and setting up the VIP Lounge in 2001.
Nowadays, Dare is mainly known as a mixing engineer, having mixed recordings by Tommy Tokyo (Warners, Norway), Brix Smith (ex The Fall), Cinerama (Cooking Vinyl) as well as many local acts (Thirteen Senses, Hollie Rogers etc)
Dare Mason is also a composer and songwriter in his own right. An accomplished guitarist, singer and dabbler in keyboards, he usually ends up contributing musically to the artists he produces.
Here are some of Dare’s major credits
Production and engineering credits
ARTIST | LABEL | PROJECT | TYPE | CREDIT |
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Tommy Tokyo and Starving For My Gravy | Warner Bros | Smear Your Smiles Back On | Album | Mix |
Thirteen Senses | Mercury | Thru the Glass | Single | Prod/Eng |
Thirteen Senses | Mercury | No Other Life... | B-side | Prod/Eng |
Thirteen Senses | Mercury | Little Unrest | B-side | Prod/Eng |
Thirteen Senses | Mercury | The Questions | B-side | Prod/Eng |
Placebo | Hut | Taste in Men | Single | Co-Prod |
Placebo | Hut | Ion | B-side | Prod/Mix |
Placebo | Hut | Bubblegun | B-side | Prod |
Cinerama | Cooking Vinyl | Va Va Voom | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
Cinerama | Scopitones | Disco Volante | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
Cinerama | Scopitones | Torino | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
A.C. Acoustics | One Little Indian | Victory Parts | Album | Prod/Mix |
Animals That Swim | One Little Indian | Workshy | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
Animals That Swim | One Little Indian | I Was the King | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
Animals That Swim | One Little Indian | Happiness from a Distant Star | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
The Church | Arista | Sometime/Anywhere | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
Marty Willson-Piper | Chase | In Reflection | Album | Co-Prod/Eng/Mix |
Marty Willson-Piper | Rykodisc | Art Attack | Album | Co-Prod/Eng/Mix |
Marty Willson-Piper | Rykodisc | Rhyme | Album | Co-Prod/Eng/Mix |
Marty Willson-Piper | Rykodisc | Spirit Level | Album | Co-Prod/Eng/Mix |
Marty Willson-Piper | In Deep | Nightjar | Prod/Eng/Mix | |
Ann Carlberger | MNW (Sweden) | Hidden Treasures | Album | Co-Prod/Eng/Mix |
Martin Rossel | CBS (Sweden) | Resan.... | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
The Unsophisticates | Radar | Guido | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
The Starseeds | 4AD | Heaven's Airport | EP | Co-Prod |
The Volares | Rockadelic | The Night We Taught Ourselves to Sing | Album | Prod/Eng/Mix |
Engineering credits
ARTIST | LABEL | PROJECT | TYPE | CREDIT |
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System 7 | Big Life | Eng/Mix | ||
The Grid | Virgin | 456 | Album | Mix |
Stereo MC's | 4th and Broadway | Lost in Music | Single | Eng/Mix |
XTC | Virgin | B-Side | Mix | |
Soul II Soul | Virgin | Back to Life | Single | Eng/Mix |
Prince | Warner Bros | Overdubs | Eng | |
The Triffids | Island | Calenture | Album | Eng |
Elton John | MCA | Candle in the Wind | Single | Mix |
Dream Academy | Virgin | In The Heart | Single | Eng/Mix |
Robert Howard & Kim Myzelle | BMG | Wait | Single | Eng/Mix |
It Bites | Virgin | Never Go To Heaven | B-Side | Mix |
Ravi Shankar | Album | Album | Eng/Mix | |
Blow Monkeys | BMG | Springtime For The World | Album | Eng/Mix |
Ramon Cin | RCA | Al Limite | Album | Mix |
Jansen/Barbieri | Album track | Eng/Mix |