Jacknife Lee

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Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish Grammy Award winning music producer and remixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including U2, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, The Hives, Weezer, Vega4 and Editors.

Biography

Lee started as a guitarist for the punk band Compulsion, then pursued a solo career in the field of electronica after the band's break-up. His first solo work, the EP A Dog Named Snuggles, was released under the name Jacknife Lee in 1998 by Pussyfoot Records, a label founded by Howie B.

He released his first album Muy rico 1998. His second album Punk Rock High Roller was released in 2001 by Palm Pictures. To Hell With You I'll Make My Own People was recorded as Jack Planck for the One Little Indian label. Jacknife Lee released his self titled third solo album in 2007.

Jacknife Lee has also remixed a variety of artists work including a version of Run-DMC's "It's Tricky 2003", The Future Sound of London's "The Mello Hippo Disco Show" and versions of U2's "Vertigo" which was limited released onto 7", 10" and 12" vinyl, Christina Aguilera, TLC, Pink, Blur, Radiohead, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, The Raveonettes, Dirty Vegas, Kraftwerk, New Order, Aqualung and Kasabian. In 2008 he produced R.E.M.'s latest album Accelerate, Bloc Party's Intimacy and Hadouken!. R.E.M.'s website announced that Jacknife Lee is currently producing their 15th studio album in New Orleans. Crystal Castles have just finished a few weeks working with him for their 2nd album and he is currently in the studio with Melee.

Works produced

Albums

• Snow Patrol – Up to Now (2009)
• R.E.M. – Live At The Olympia (2009)
• AFI – Crash Love (2009)
• Regina Spektor – Far (2009)
• Weezer – Raditude (2009)
• Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns (2008)
• Bloc Party – Intimacy (2008)
• Weezer – The Red Album (2008)
• Hadouken! – Music For An Accelerated Culture (2008)
• R.E.M. – Accelerate (2008)
• PlayRadioPlay! – Texas (2008)
• The Hives – The Black and White Album (2007)
• Editors – An End Has A Start (2007)
• Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City (2007)
• Snow Patrol – Eyes Open (2006)
• The Freelance Hellraiser – Waiting for Clearance (2006)
• Vaux – Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice (2006)
• Vega4 – You and Others (2006)
• Kasabian – Kasabian (2004)
• U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
• Aqualung – Still Life (2004)
• Snow Patrol – Final Straw (2003)
• 28 Days Later OST Enhanced – Ave Maria (2002)

Singles

• Amanda Blank – "Shame On Me" (2009)
• Bloc Party – "One More Chance" (2009)
• Marmaduke Duke – "Sillouettes" (2009)
• Weezer – "Troublemaker" (2008)
• Bloc Party – "Mercury" (2008)
• Weezer – "Pork and Beans" (2008)
• The Hives – "Tick Tick Boom" (2007)
• Bloc Party – "Flux" (2007)
• Snow Patrol – "Signal Fire" (2007)
• Green Day & U2 – "The Saints Are Coming" (2007)
• Editors – "Bullets" (2006)
• Juliet – "Ride The Pain" (2005)
• Bono, The Edge, Andrea Corr and T-Bone Burnett – "Don't Come Knocking" (2005)
• Kasabian – "Reason Is Treason" (2004)

Remixes

• Basement Jaxx – "Where's Your Head At?"
• Editors – "An End Has A Start"
• U2 – Window In The Skies
• U2 – Fast Cars
• U2 – Vertigo
• U2 & Pavarotti – Ave Maria
• New Order – Waiting For The Sirens Call
• Elkland – Apart
• Spektrum – Kinda New
• The Raveonettes – That Great Love Sound
• Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands
• Run DMC – It's Tricky
• Eminem – Cleaning Out My Closet
• Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On
• Radiohead – Airbag
• Kraftwerk – Airwaves
• Christina Aguilera – Can't Hold Us Down
• Pink – Just Like A Pill
• TLC – Girl Talk
• Blur and Marianne Faithful – Kissin' Time
• The Future Sound Of London – The Mello Hippo Disco Show
• Dirty Vegas – Simple Things
• Snow Patrol – Run
• Snow Patrol – You're All I Have
• Badly Drawn Boy – Born Again
• Longview – Further
• Aqualung – Good Time Is Gonna Come
• Aqualung – Strange And Beautiful
• Buck 65 – Wicked And Weird
• Kosheen – Wasting My Time
• Björk – I Miss You
• Tom Jones – Black Betty
• Sona Fariq – Move On
• Headrillaz – Shoeshinel
• Puddu Verano – Columbia
• Fuzz Townsend – Bus
• The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
• Elvis Presley – Burnin' Love
• Telepopmusik – Do Tha Hoola
• LHB feat. Justin Warfield – No Transmission
• Dirty Harry – So Real
• Couch Nation – Beef

References

External links

• Official Jacknife Lee site
• Discogs listing of all Releases, Remixes, Production, Co-production, and Mixes by Jacknife Lee
• BigLife Producers on Garret Lee (aka Jacknife Lee) - Producer/Songwriter/Remixer
• Official Jack Planck site