Flood

Enigmatic yet ubiquitous, Flood was being among the most acclaimed English producers from the post-punk era, his considerable output including albums by U2, Depeche Mode, as well as the Smashing Pumpkins. Created Tag Ellis (he apparently obtained the name Overflow because of his efforts to maintain everyone within the studio room awake by continuously making tea), his music profession started playing bass within the mod revival music group the Lambrettas; concurrently he approved a job like a runner inside a London documenting facility, swiftly upgrading through the rates to become the home engineer. Following that he went freelance, rating his first main credit as an associate engineer on New Order’s 1981 debut recording, Movement. Use Soft Cell, Psychic Television, Cabaret Voltaire, and Affiliates followed before Overflow moved into creation, helming information from Nick Cave & the Poor Seed products (The Firstborn Is definitely Dead, Kicking Contrary to the Pricks) and Erasure (Wonderland, The Circus). Flood’s affiliation with U2 started in 1987 when he manufactured the group’s blockbuster Joshua Tree recording. His subsequent creation function — on information including 9 Inch Fingernails’ Very Hate Machine, Depeche Mode’s Violator, and Pop Will Eat Itself’s This is actually the Day…This is actually the Hour…THAT IS This — further honed his hard-edged, signature electronic sound. Among anatomist U2’s Achtung Baby LP, Overflow created Nitzer Ebb’s Ebbhead as well as the Charlatans’ Between 10th and 11th, accompanied by Curve’s acclaimed Doppelganger. Finally, with 1993’s Zooropa, he graduated from anatomist U2 to making the group, writing his responsibilities with Brian Eno. Depeche Mode’s Music of Beliefs and Devotion implemented a year afterwards, and in 1995 Overflow helmed two of the year’s most talked-about produces, PJ Harvey’s To ENABLE YOU TO GET My Love as well as the Smashing Pumpkins’ epic Mellon Collie as well as the Infinite Sadness. He resurfaced in 1997 with U2’s Pop.