Spring King’s Tarek, James Blake, Josh Homme up for Music Producers Guild awards

The shortlist for next February’s Music Producers Guild Awards has been unveiled, with Spring King’s Tarek Musa, James Blake and Josh Homme among those up for gongs.

The awards will be judged on 5th December, with winners announced at the Grosvenor House shindig on 16th February.

Other nominees include Paul Epworth and Nigel Godrich both competing for UK Producer of the Year, while Tony Visconti and Jacknife Lee are nominated for the International prize.

The full list of nominees are:

UK Producer Of The Year

Paul Epworth
Nigel Godrich
Fraser T. Smith

International Producer Of The Year, sponsored by Prism Sound

Josh Homme
Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee
Tony Visconti

Breakthrough Producer Of The Year, sponsored by Novation

Brett Cox
Andrew Hunt
Joel Laslett Pott

Self Producing Artist of the Year, sponsored by Spitfire Audio

James Blake
Jeff Lynne
Tarek Musa (Spring King)

Recording Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by AMS Neve

Guy Massey
Mark Rankin
Richard Woodcraft

Breakthrough Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Genelec

Manon Grandjean
Andrew Hunt
Jack Ruston

Mix Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Solid State Logic

Tom Elmhirst
Mark ‘Spike’ Stent
Cenzo Townshend

Mastering Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Prism Sound

John Davis
Barry Grint
Mandy Parnell

Remixer of the Year

Disclosure (Howard & Guy Lawrence)
Matthew Herbert
Wideboys

UK Album Of The Year

Black Star – David Bowie
Love and Hate – Michael Kiwanuka
A Moon Shaped Pool – Radiohead

UK Single Song Release Of The Year, sponsored by Shure

This Is What Your Came For – Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna
Burn The Witch – Radiohead
Pillowtalk – ZAYN

Studio Of The Year

Abbey Road Studios
British Grove Studios
RAK Studios

The A&R Award

Toby L & Tim Dellow (Transgressive Records)
Bart McDonagh (Domino Records)
Nigel Reeve (Warner Music International)