JOHN LODER

'John Loder' (April 7 1946 - August 12 2005) was a British sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT and co-founder of the Southern Records distribution company with his wife Sue. He was also the studio engineer of choice for Crass Records, and was often considered to be the bands' '9th member'^[1]. Loder died of a brain tumour.
Loder was born near Plymouth and educated at boarding school before studying electrical engineering at London's City University. During his post-graduate work here he became involved in early experiments in digital encoding of audio for the military. By 1970 he had joined EXIT, alongside Penny Rimbaud, utilising a one-track tape-recorder. This led to Loder eventually founding a record studio in his garage after the disbanding of EXIT in 1974. In 1977 Loder was recording advertising jingles when his path crossed once again with Rimbaud, who had by now co-founded Crass, and who now invited Loder to become the band's engineer and financial manager, roles Loder happily accepted.
When Crass founded their own record label, Loder was used as engineer on most of the label's releases, and when Loder saw potential in a number of bands turned away by Crass Records due to ideological differences, Loder set up Southern Records, a distribution arm with several record labels attached.
Loder engineered and produced for many bands other than Crass, among them The Jesus and Mary Chain, for whom he engineered the recordings of the Psychocandy album, PJ Harvey, Babes in Toyland, Fugazi and Ministry.
John Loder was responsible for encouraging and establishing independent alternative internet ezines, donating the use of Southern's servers and bandwidth, taking part in pioneering online media streaming and simulcasting. http://web.archive.org/web/19970605012723/http://www.southern.com/CORE/

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1. Penny Rimbaud, John Loder obituary, ''The Guardian'', Friday August 19, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1552016,00.html


★ John Loder Penny Rimbaud

★ members of the mary chain Mikko Kapanen

★ In Memoriam: Southern Records founder John Loder (1946-2005)

★ Musicangle.com interview with Steve Albini by Michael Fremer ''The "Dean" of Alternative Rock Engineers Steve Albini—Way Back in 1993—Part II'' Accessed August 19 2005