Brian Deck – Producer/Engineer
For the past fifteen years or so, drummer Brian Deck has played or produced some of the Midwest's more adventurous pop music. Much of Deck's work bears the imprint of Chicago, the vast cultural wasteland he calls home. Possessed by a surreal, grizzled sense of Americana, Deck's work evokes the clangor of the Windy City's meatpacking district at the turn of the century.
Idful Music, the studio he designed and built in the late 1980's, spawned quite a few notable records (such as Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville). Deck worked there while making records and touring with his band, Red Red Meat, which was signed to Seattle's Sub Pop label. He later left Idful and recorded bands such as cult legend Souled American in spaces ranging from abandoned social halls to cramped living rooms. After Red Red Meat made its experimental final album, 1998's There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight, its members formed a bevy of satellite projects - Califone, Loftus, Orso, and Sin Ropas - that took the former band's sound to new, more elemental ends.
Selected Discography
| Artist | Album | Label |
| Souled American | Flubber | Rough Trade US |
| Souled American | Around The Horn | Rough Trade US |
| Souled American | Sonny | Rough Trade DE |
| Shrimpboat | Speckly | Specimen Products |
| Shrimpboat | Duende | Bar None |
| Every Good Boy | Social Graces | Émigré |
| Every Good Boy | Baling Wire and Bubblegum | Émigré |
| Fondly | F is for Fondly | Scratchie |
| Boomhank | Ishly Ghost Fly | Hairy Parrot |
| Wheat | Medieros | Sugar Free |
| Chris Mills | Every Night fight for you Life | Sugar Free |
| Chris Mills | Kiss it Goodbye | Sugar Free |
| Chris Mills | The Silver Line | Mom's |
| Red Red Meat | Red Red Meat | Perishable |
| Red Red Meat | Bunny Get s Paid | Sub Pop |
| Red Red Meat | Star Above the Manger | Sub Pop |
| Cash Money | Black Hearts & Broken Wills | Touch and Go |
| Cash Money | Halos of Smoke and Fire | Touch and Go |
| Cash Money | Black Pudding | Touch and Go |
| Califone | Califone | Perishable/Fly Daddy |
| Califone | Califone | Perishable/Road Cone |
| Califone | Roomsound | Perishable |
| Loftus | Loftus | Perishable |
| Orso | Orso | Perishable |
| Orso | Long time Gone | Perishable |
| Drumhead | Drumhead | Perishable |
| Modest Mouse | The Moon and Antarctica | Epic |
| Ugly Cassonova | Sharpen your Teeth | Sub Pop |
| 40 Piece Choir | Face Your Fear | Blue Room |
| National Trust | Dekkagar | Thrill Jockey |
| Chiyoko | Cinematic | Boo the Cat |
| Dianne Izzo | ||
| Holopaw | Fields of Artichokes | |
| Fireshow | Above the Volcano of Flowers | Perishable |
| Fireshow | Fireshow | Perishable |
| Fruitbats | Echolocation | Perishable |
| Frontier | Suture | Perishable |
| Talulah | ||
| Silver Schmateez | Anathema | Roscoe |
| Bikes Will Take Us | Some Small Revenge | Sniveling |
Contact:
email briandeck@enginestudios.com
ph. 773-772-6200
