Joel Hamilton

Joel Hamilton (born 1972) is a Brooklyn-based record producer, engineer and musician. Joel performs as a musician with the band Book of Knots. He is also a producer and engineer at Studio G in Brooklyn, New York.

In the summer of 2014, Hamilton appeared as the host of a web series produced by Spotify and Bose named "Art of Sound", which focuses on the connection between the physical, technical and emotional sides of music and sound. He hosted many musicians and sound engineers to conduct experiments on a wide variety of sound-related topics.[1]

Hamilton has been a guest speaker and, panelist at: Nordic Music Week, Norway (2012 and 2013), Pot Luck Con., Tucson (2012), AES Latin America (2011,2019), Tape Op Con., Tucson (2006),

Credits

Highly Suspect, The Boy Who Died Wolf (2016),"My Name Is Human" produced and mixed by Joel Hamilton, was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Highly Suspect, Mister Asylum produced. and mixed by Joel Hamilton, Nominated for Best Rock Album, 2015 Grammys

Joel Hamilton also produced and mixed Highly Suspect's album MCID (2019) which includes:

• "16[2]": charted #1 on Billboard's rock chart for 3 weeks
• "Tokyo Ghoul[3]" featuring Young Thug
• "These Days[4]": which charted #24 on Billboard's Rock Chart on April 4, 2020

He produced and mixed Turkish mega-pop star Sertab Erner's rock band Oceans of Noise's self titled debut EP in 2017.

• Joel also Produced, mixed and co-wrote the English lyrics to "Ayla", the title track from the hugely successful Turkish film Ayla-Daughter of War (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2017[5]).

He produced and mixed Brkn Love's debut album for Universal Music, including the single "Shot Down[6]", which spent 10 weeks on the Billboard charts (peaking at #21 on September 21, 2019[7]).

He produced and mixed Norwegian band Violet Road's album Lines Across Light.

• This album includes the single "Monument[8]" which was featured in an NSB (Norwegian Rail) commercial and television campaign in 2018.

Joel produced, engineered, and mixed the song "Og sangen kom fra havet[9]" for artist Ingvild Koksvik, who won the Arts Council of Norway's work grant for songwriters in 2018.[10]

Joel engineered and mixed Aaron Neville's album Apache[11] released on Tell It/Kobalt in 2016, which peaked on the Billboard chart at #38.[12]

Joel Hamilton's work also includes:

• Pretty Lights "A Color Map of the Sun"- Engineering, mixing and additional production (Nominated for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 2014 Grammys)[13]
• Puss n Boots "No Fools, No Fun"- Engineering and mixing from Blue Note Records [14][15]
• Tom Waits "Pray" (song)- Co-writing and production [16]
• Bonobo "Migration" Engineering (Nominated for best dance/electronic album and best dance recording 2017)
• "Blakroc"- Co-production, engineering and mixing with the Black Keys [17]
• Gaby Moreno's "Postales"- Engineering and Mixing [18]
• Iggy Pop with The Plastic Ono Band "Waiting for the D Train" (song)- Mixing [19]
• Bomba Estereo's "Elegancia Tropical"- Engineering and mixing (Nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the Latin Grammys 2013)[20]
• Matisyahu "Live at Stubb's, Volume 2"- Mixing [21]
• Jolie Holland "The Living and The Dead" & "Pint of Blood"- Mixing [22]
• Dub Trio "Another Sound Is Dying" & all other Dub Trio releases- Co-production, engineering and mixing [23]
• Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog "Party Intellectuals"- Production and mixing [24]
• Inner Party System's self-titled album- Production, engineering and mixing [25]
• Unsane "Blood Run"- Production, engineering and mixing [26]
• The Giraffes- Production, engineering and mixing [27]
• Sparklehorse "It's a Wonderful Life" & "Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain"- Engineering [28]
• Elvis Costello "Beautiful" for the television series "House"- sound design engineering and programming [29]
• Juiceboxxx's album "It's Easy to Feel Like Nobody When You're Living in the City" released on Dangerbird Records on February 28, 2020- Production and mixing[30]
• Thick's album "5 Years Behind" released on Epitaph Records on March 6, 2020- Production and mixing[31]
• Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown's album "Truth and Lies" released for Universal Records in 2019- Production and mixing[32]

Hamilton has also mixed the film "Charlie Victor Romeo" which premiered as the official selection of the New Frontiers installation at The Sundance Film Festival in 2013.[33]

External links

Joel Hamilton on IMDb

• Studio G Brooklyn: Joel Hamilton
• AllMusic: Joel Hamilton
• Art of Sound

References

1. "Art of Sound". boseartofsound.com. Bose.
2. "Highly Suspect Tops Mainstream Rock Songs Chart With '16'". Billboard. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
3. "Premiere: Highly Suspect Connects With Young Thug and Terrible Johnny on "Tokyo Ghoul"". Complex. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
4. "Highly Suspect". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
5. Ayla: The Daughter of War - IMDb, retrieved 2020-04-02
6. "BRKN LOVE - Shot Down". landsharkpromotion.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
7. "BRKN LOVE". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
8. "PRESS". violetroadnew (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-04-02.
9. "ingvildkoksvik.com". ingvildkoksvik.com. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
10. "Arbeidsstipend for yngre / nyetablerte kunstnarar - 2018 - 2018 - kulturradet.no". www.kulturradet.no. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
11. "Apache - Aaron Neville | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
12. "Aaron Neville". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
13. "Joel Hamilton on Mixing Pretty Lights' "A Color Map of the Sun" with UAD Plug-Ins". uaudio.com.
14. "Joel Hamilton Records Puss n Boots with ATC". atcloudspeakers.co.uk. Acoustic Engineers.
15. "Puss N Boots with Norah Jones". norahjones.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24.
16. "The Book of Knots: Pray". AllMusic.
17. "BlakRoc". blakroc.com.
18. "Joel Hamilton". studiogbrooklyn.com. Studio G. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25.
19. "Joel Hamilton". studiogbrooklyn.com. Studio G. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25.
20. "Bomba Estereo: Elegancia Tropical". All Music. All Music.
21. "Matisyahu – Live At Stubb's Vol. II". discogs.com. Discogs.
22. "Joel Hamilton". studiogbrooklyn.com. Studio G. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25.
23. "Bio". DubTrio. Dub Trio. Archived from the original on 2015-04-01.
24. "Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog – Party Intellectuals". discogs.com. Discogs.
25. "Inner Party System". discogs.com. Discogs.
26. "Unsane – Blood Run". discogs.com. Discogs.
27. "Joel Hamilton". allmusic.com. AllMusic.
28. "Joel Hamilton". allmusic.com. AllMusic.
29. "Joel Hamilton". studiogbrooklyn.com. Studio G. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25.
30. "The 'Kids Are Looking' in Juiceboxxx's Catchy New Single: Premiere". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
31. Records, Epitaph (2020-03-06). "THICK Debut Album '5 Years Behind' Out Now". Epitaph Records. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
32. Thrower, Thomas (2019-07-10). "Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown - Truth and Lies". Ghost Cult Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
33. "Meet Our Film Team". charlievictorromeo.com.