Phillip Jeffrey McKellar is an Australian

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McKellar has received nine nominations in the categories of either Producer of the Year or Engineer of the Year. These include

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Ivy and the Big Apples ''Ivy and the Big Apples'' is the third studio album by Australian rock band Spiderbait. It became a double platinum-selling record that reached the top 10 of the albums chart in Australia and won the 1997 ARIA Award for Best Alternative Rele ...

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, engineer), The Cruel Sea's "Hard Times" (

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, producer), Spiderbait's '' Grand Slam'' (

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, engineer, producer), Grinspoon's ''

New Detention ''New Detention'' is the third studio album by Australian alternative rock band Grinspoon. It was released in 2002 by record label Grudge, which peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart. By December that year it was certified platinum for ...

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, engineer, producer), Sunk Loto's ''

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, producer), and Something with Numbers' '' Perfect Distraction'' (

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, producer).

Biography

In the late 1970s Phil McKellar worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (later renamed as

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). In 1978 a fellow worker, Steve Adam, invited him to join an experimental music outfit, the Informatics, alongside Ramesh Ayar, Valek Sadovchikoff and Michael Trudgeon. Trudgeon explained their stance "We were driven by a love of the possibilities of what synthesizers and sequencers could do... Quite often the songs were shaped by the textures and rhythms that this new and exciting technology could generate. I think we were more interested in what we could experiment with rather than compete with well-established genres. The future looked exciting." In August 1982 McKellar issued a solo track, "Some Good Things to Do", which was compiled on a give-away cassette, ''Fast Forward 12'', with ''Fast Forward Magazine''. From 1990 to 2000 McKellar worked as live music producer for national youth radio station,

Triple J Triple J (stylised in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greater emphasis on broad ...

. McKellar later recalled "I'd been recording a lot of stuff for Triple J – Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers." In April 1994 a demo version of " Tomorrow" by Newcastle teen band,

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, won the Pick Me competition. McKellar produced the group's debut single at the Triple J studios in Sydney, he remembered "It sounded amazing and it was a strong song and as it got whittled down rom its original seven minutesit focused it more and more... I guess it was obvious to me there was definitely talent involved." From 30 October 1994 it peaked at No. 1 for six weeks on the

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"Tomorrow" won Single of the Year, Highest Selling Single, and Breakthrough Artist – Single. McKellar was nominated as Producer of the Year. McKellar worked as a producer and sound engineer at Hardboiled Productions (1996-2010). He has also worked with many rock bands such as Dirty Three, The Mark Of Cain,

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, Crash Arcadia and Chasing Gravity. He then worked at

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as an audio engineer, and now at Double J.

Discography

* ''The Lure of the Tropics'' – Dave Graney with the Coral Snakes (live album, July 1992, producer) Torn & Frayed Records (TORN CD1) * ''Stompen Ground'' – Various Artists (live album, 1993, producer) ABC Music * " Tomorrow" –

(September 1994, engineer, producer) * ''

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(October 1996, engineer, producer) Universal/PolydorPhil McKellar at the

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* '' Licker Bottle Cozy'' – Grinspoon (EP, December 1996, engineer, producer)

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Phil McKellar at

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: * Grinspoon: * Spiderbait: * ''

Guide to Better Living ''Guide to Better Living'' is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Grinspoon. It was released on 16 September 1997 on the Grudge Records label (an imprint of Universal Music Australia) and was produced by Phil McKellar. The album rea ...

'' – Grinspoon (engineer, mixer, producer, September 1997) Grudge/Universal (UMD73086) * "Hard Times" – The Cruel Sea (February 1998, producer) * ''

Pushing Buttons ''Pushing Buttons'' is the third extended play by Australian alternative rock band Grinspoon, and was released on 21 September 1998 via Universal Records. It peaked at number 13 on the ARIA Singles Chart. History and release In March 1998, Gri ...

'' – Grinspoon (EP, September 1998, producer) * '' Grand Slam'' – Spiderbait (April 1999, engineer, producer) Polydor Records * ''Big Picture Lies'' – Sunk Loto (producer, October 2000) Epic/Sony Music * ''

'' – Grinspoon (June 2002, engineer, producer) Grudge Records * ''

'' – Sunk Loto (producer, November 2003) Sony Music * ''Receiving Transmission'' –

(2004, producer) Rapido Records (30D0D511-D784-4AED-B84C-4281FD441DBF) * '' Perfect Distraction'' – Something with Numbers (October 2006) Below Par/ EMI

References

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