At only 22 years of age, he’s produced, mastered and mixed some of Australia’s newest and most interesting releases including Chet Faker, Oscar Key Sung, I’lls, Naysayer & Gilsun, and Banoffee.
While working on the upcoming Fractures EP, Mark Zito (Fractures) and Eremin decided to collaborate on Eremin’s own release and with that, first single ‘Ghosts’ was born from the musical minds of two of Melbourne’s most promising young artists.
Before ‘Ghosts’ is released (June 30) we thought we should give you a run down on this criminally underrated producer, so we asked Eremin to give us a run down on some of his most impressive production work:
Chet Faker – Melt (ft. Kilo Kish)
(mixed & mastered) “Chet Faker emailed me out of the blue last August saying he wanted to release a new track within two days, a homage to the way he started his project – just throwing it up on SoundCloud. Not the easiest song I’ve ever worked on, partly because of his eccentric production habits – record all vocals in one take with spring reverb to make it real. There are no edits or auto tune because it was technologically impossible.”
Closure In Moscow – Pink Lemonade
(mixed) “The most fun I’ve ever had in the studio, period. First off I used to listen to these guys when I was the ripe age of 16 – meeting them in person and discovering we were on the same nerdy wavelength was about as good as it gets. The theme of the album was “cheeky”, highlights included transporting Chris into the Matrix, sneaking a Hanna Barbera sample into a song and mixing an actual Dinosaur Boss Battle.” You can stream the Closure In Moscow album on Tone Deaf.
Oscar Key Sung – Holograms
(overdubbed, mixed & mastered) “Holy hell, can this guy sing/write/produce. Despite that, Holograms became a collaborative piece of work between us. Oscar would show me a cinematic sound from a sci-fi film, we’d design something inspired by that to use in a track, record a new vocal line and then bond over Nicki Minaj and extremely low sub bass. It was the sound of the future, today.”
I’lls – A Warm Reception
(mastered) “From a band that I hold very close to my heart. Aside from being the first music I’ve ever heard to feature triple tracked drums, my favourite part would have been when we discovered a bass line at the end of Mine’s Here or My End’s Here or Nineteen that went as low as 27Hz. To roughly paraphrase, “we couldn’t hear it after the second note when we played it on the keyboard but we put it in anyway”.
Ben Wright Smith – If Living The Good Life Is Easy (Why Is This So Hard?)
(mixed & mastered) “One of many tracks I mixed and mastered with Ben and his all-star crew last year, full of faultless arrangements and nifty production ideas. Things started to get serious when Ben introduced me to his right-hand man/guitarist Jesse, who’d recently taken up the banjo too. Thankfully we still made it out alive with the record intact, for it to easily become one of my favourites.”
Japanese Wallpaper – Breathe In (ft. Wafia)
(mastered) “The only project I’ve ever had where we had to rearrange the track in mastering. Gab Strum (aka Japanese Wallpaper) pulls out his laptop, opens the GarageBand session, we shift some things around and HEY now we’re cooking. One hour of actual mastering later and we were left with this finished piece of bliss. He’ll probably call me out on this story though, that 17-year old has memory like a book. I’m more of the magazine type, nothing stays longer than a week.”
Andrei Eremin’s Upcoming Releases…
Fractures – self-titled EP
(overdubbed, mixed & mastered) “The secret’s out – Fractures and I worked on an EP together earlier this year in an attempt to collate the seemingly endless bank of singles he’s stored up for the Winter. We both share a love for pristine production, which led to my paranoia about being a profoundly boring person after he spent the week on the couch behind me, giving the silent thumbs up to everything I did. Word on the street is that we worked on a song together too, so there’s two things to brace yourself for.”
Rat & Co – Binary
(mixed & mastered) “Making albums with Rat & Co is always too much fun, mainly because we go all out to create the ultimate trippy headphone experience. Is that someone talking behind you? Nope, that’s part of the song. Same deal with the motion sickness you’re experiencing. But then at the heart of it, they still make rock solid, well-executed sci-fi beats. The best is still yet to come, watch out for Binary on people’s “best of 2014″ lists.”
Andrei Eremin & Fractures’ (Mark Zito) first single ‘Ghosts’ is out June 30. For more info on Andrei visit www.andreieremin.com.
