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. An avowed analogue fan, he specialises in the use of tape, although he also uses digital technologies.

Biography

Paul McKercher worked at national youth radio station,

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, for three years. In 1991 he and fellow audio engineer John Jacobs created the "JJJ News Theme" as a mix of McKercher's guitar playing, a scratch of N.W.A.'s "

Fuck tha Police "Fuck tha Police" is a protest song by American hip hop group N.W.A that appears on the 1988 album '' Straight Outta Compton'' as well as on the ''N.W.A's Greatest Hits'' compilation. The lyrics protest police brutality and racial profilin ...

" and the orchestral

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theme, "

Majestic Fanfare ''Majestic Fanfare'' is a short orchestral piece of music written by the British composer Charles Williams in 1935. It is well recognised as the theme to ABC news broadcasts in Australia. 1943 version ''Majestic Fanfare'' was first recorded ...

", with the beat based on Prince's "

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". McKercher followed with seven years at ABC radio. He has also worked as a free-lance record producer, engineer and mixer since 1992. For three weeks in 1993 McKercher recorded indie pop group

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' third studio album ''Aerial'' (August 1993). Using three different eight-track machines, at an isolated house in

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, he captured the band live-in-the-studio. In late 1997 Kercher was working at

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, Melbourne on pop rock band the Jaynes'

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''Dogbone'' (April 1998). He has written articles for ''Audio Technology Magazine''. McKercher's techniques were discussed by Zolton Zavos in May 2000 in part one of "Making Tracks" in ''

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'' on his work at Megaphon Studios, Petersham. Note: article includes a photo of the artisan. Zavos acknowledged his "wonderful ear" when he worked as a producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist. In 2010 he addressed the Face the Music Conference. As from December 2016 he was a teacher at

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, Sydney delivering classes on "how to produce recordings" as well as continuing as a producer, engineer and mixer.

List of technical works

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

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Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:McKercher, Paul ARIA Award winners Australian record producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)