Damian Taylor

Damian Taylor
Background information
Born	1977 (age 36)
Origin	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation(s)	Record producer, audio engineer, musician
Instruments	Reactable
Years active	1997 to present
Associated acts	The Prodigy Björk UNKLE
Website	www.damiantaylor.com

Damian Taylor is a Grammy-nominated music producer. Taylor's experience also includes audio mixer, audio engineer, composer, programmer, performer, editor, and software designer.

Taylor's family relocated to New Zealand in 1987. Taylor moved to London in 1997. He spent a decade based in the UK where he established his career as an engineer and programmer, working with producers and mixers such as Guy Sigsworth, Neil McLellan, Adrian Bushby, Pascal Gabriel, Al Clay, Jim Abiss, Steve Osborne, Cameron Craig, and Tom Elmhirst, and artists such as UNKLE, Adam Freeland, and The Prodigy. Taylor regularly worked at studios such as Strongroom, Olympic, Whitfield Street, Metropolis, The Townhouse, Chiswick Reach, Rockfield, and The Pierce Rooms.

After working and travelling full-time with the Icelandic singer Björk from 2005 and 2011 on two albums and an extended world tour, Taylor settled in Montreal, where he custom-built his own studio, Golden Ratio, in the city's Mile-End neighbourhood. The studio was designed with acoustician John Brandt.

Taylor's Grammy-nominated projects include Best Alternative Album for Björk's Vespertine (2001) and Volta (2007), Best Dance Album for The Prodigy's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), and Best Remix for Sarah Vaughan's "Fever" Adam Freeland Remix (2005).

Taylor has worked with notable artists such as Austra, Diamond Rings, Kasabian, Frou Frou, Stateless, South, The Whip, Freeland, Young Love, Robyn, The B-52s, The Boredoms, The Killers, and Arcade Fire.

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