Producer Management

Nettwerk Producer Management congratulates Chris Lord-Alge and Don Was on their wins at the 2010 Grammy Awards!

Grammy-winning mixer Chris Lord-Alge continued his successful partnership with Green Day with his mix of their latest album 21st Century Breakdown, which took home the Grammy for Best Rock Album. This brings Chris's Grammy total to 4, including previous wins with Green Day in 2004 for Best Rock Album (American Idiot) and in 2005 for Record Of The Year (Boulevard of Broken Dreams).

Grammy-winning producer Don Was produced the album Family Time for Ziggy Marley, which took home the Grammy for Best Music Album For Children. Don previously won Grammy awards in 1989 for Album of the Year with Bonnie Raitt's classic, Nick of Time, and in 1994 for Producer of the Year. 

This past Sunday, November 22, the American public voted Gloriana as the Breakthrough Artist of 2009 at the American Music Awards. Their self-titled debut entered the Billboard Top 200 at #3 in early August, following the strength of their smash single, "Wild At Heart." The Nettwerk connection? Producer Management client Matt Serletic developed, co-wrote and produced the entire debut album, and even signed the group to his own Emblem Records. 

Matt Serletic is a Grammy Award-winning producer and writer whose credits include the creation of such enduring classics of pop music as Carlos Santana’s “Smooth,” Rob Thomas’ “Lonely No More,” matchbox twenty’s “Push” and Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing.”

Debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart, Bon Jovi's The Circle, which includes the hit single "We Weren't Born To Follow," gives Nettwerk client and Grammy-winning mixer Bob Clearmountain another #1 album to add to his impressive discography. Clearmountain has enjoyed success before with Bon Jovi, having mixed the albums These Days and Bounce, as well as the classic single "Always."

Congratulations Bob!

Rock superstar Daughtry's new album Leave This Town--produced by Howard Benson, engineered by Mike Plotnikoff and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge--debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with 270,000 sold in its first week, giving Daughtry  the distinction of the only American Idol alumni with back to back #1 albums. 

Grammy Award winning Mixer Chris Lord-Alge is continuing his successful partnership with Waves LTD--the leading innovator of audio signal processing tools--with the introduction of the CLA Classic Compressors, four impeccable models of compressors considered as classic by audio engineers the world over.   Chris will introduce and give a live demonstration of the CLA Classic Compressors at a private event at his studio, Mix LA, in Los Angeles on July 22nd. 

Chris has previously partnered with Waves LTD with his line of signature presets for the SSL 4000 Collection, a bundle of plug-ins that precisely recreate the sonics of the legendary Solid State Logic 4000 series recording console. 

Producer/Writer Matt Serletic is having a four star summer with releases from Rob Thomas and Gloriana.   The highly anticipated second solo album from Rob Thomas, Cradlesong, was released on June 30th and came in last week at #3 on the SoundScan, with over 121,000 albums sold. Rolling Stone gives Cradlesong a four star review, stating that Serletic’s production is “sleek and seamless.”

Country Weekly gave Gloriana’s EP “The Way It Goes," which includes the smash hit and Serletic-produced single “Wild At Heart,” a four star review as well. Serletic is currently working on an album for Tyler Hilton and will once again be collaborating with Santana for his next album. 

The soundtrack to perhaps the biggest movie of the summer, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has been given a little help from some of the biggest producers and mixers in the music industry and on the Nettwerk Producer Management roster.

Tracks on which Nettwerk clients worked include Green Day's "21 Guns" (Chris Lord-Alge mixed), Cheap Trick's "Transformers: The Fallen Remix" (Chris Lord-Alge mixed), Theory of A Deadman's "Not Meant To Be" (Howard Benson produced, Chris Lord-Alge mixed, Mike Plotnikoff engineered), Hoobastank's "I Don't Think I Love You" (Howard Benson produced, Chris Lord-Alge mixed, Mike Plotnikoff engineered), Mike Plotnikoff engineered), Nickelback's "Burn It To The Ground" (Randy Staub mixed), and Taking Back Sunday's "Capital M-E" (Tom Lord-Alge mixed).

The reviews are in on Howard Benson's productions on Kelly Clarkson's fourth album All I Ever Wanted.  Benson produced six tracks on the album, including smash single "I Do Not Hook Up" which charted in the Top 40 and in the Top 20 at Hot AC.  Other tracks from the Grammy-nominated producer include: "Cry," "Don't Let Me Stop You," "Longshot," "Ready," and "Can We Go Back."

"Taking no chances, Clarkson enslists a roster of hitmakers, including...Daughtry producere Howard Benson who scores two slam dunks: 'Don't Let Me Stop You' and 'I Do Not Hook Up.'" -- People Magazine

Juanes' latest album La Vida...Es Un Ratico, which was mixed and engineerd by Nettwerk Producer Management client Thom Russo, won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards. In November, the album scored five Latin Grammys, including Record Of The Year ("Me Enamora"), Album Of The Year (La Vida...), and Best Short Form Music Video ("Me Enamora").