Josh Abrahams
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![]() Josh Abrahams is the owner, manager, in house writer/producer/engineer, and all-round smartypants here at Fishtank. He is obsessed with vintage recording gear; it's his fault the equipment list is so long. He is always up for a cup of tea and a chat about the possibility of bringing your next project to Fishtank. Here is are some of his acheivement highlights to date:
1991- formed FSOM with Davide Carbone & Steve Robbins 1996- FSOM's first album ‘Chapter One' won an ARIA award for best dance release, Josh signed as a solo artist to Carl Cox's label Worldwide Ultimatum, with the global release of his first album, ‘Satyricon’ 1996- 'Satyricon' named one of the top 20 records of the year in UK’s Muzik magazine1996- co-produced with Baz Luhrmann the #1 UK pop smash "Everybody's free to wear sunscreen", along with several other songs on Luhrmann's album ‘Something for Everybody’ 1998- produced several songs for Gerling’s album ‘Headcleaner’ 1999- Josh's 2nd solo album ‘Sweet Distorted Holiday’ received six ARIA award nominations, and won two - best dance release and best independent release 1999 - Josh's song ‘Addicted to Bass’ achieved platinum sales in Australia 1999 - 2001- Co-produced the soundtrack for the film ‘Moulin Rouge’, taking on role of Musical Director for the last 8 months of post production 2001- Produced Amiel's Gold selling album ‘Audio Out’, which contained the platinum selling single ‘Lovesong’ 2001- signed to Sony UK and released the album ‘Stuck in a groove’ under the moniker of Puretone. In England, 'Addicted to Bass' spent two months in the UK top 10, peaking at #2 and reached #1 in the USA Billboard Dance Chart 2002- wrote the additional music and produced songs on the soundtrack for the Australian film ‘One Perfect Day’, won an IF award for these efforts in 2004 2003- remixed a number of Australian artists, including Icehouse and John Farnham 2003- wrote and performed all the music for the new Ang Lee feature film ‘One Last Ride’ 2004- played piano and Music Directed for The Soubrettes Cabaret Tingel Tangel in the Edingurgh Fringe Festival 2005- wrote and produced the music for several tv commercials, including the ‘Go For It Girl’ campaign for Portmans clothing, the Bailey’s “Melt” campaign, and the worldwide LG technology campaign 2006- ran the late night slot in the first Spiegeltent to arrive in the USA, at Bard University in upstate New York 2007- commenced work with theatrical director/producer Michael Gracey on the musical ‘Fast Love’ 2007 – 2008- co-wrote and co-produced 7 tracks for the Kaz James album ‘If They Knew’ 2008- Music Directed ‘Desir’, a theatrical production in the New York City Spiegeltent 2009- teamed up with Davide Carbone to form the music production house Samplify, together with Carl Cox they co-wrote and co-produced Carl's forthcoming album 2010- wrote and produced the music for the internation Tourism Australia campaign
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Davide Carbone
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