Chris Tabron

Chris Tabron is a Grammy award-winning American record producer, mixer, and engineer, based in New York City.

Chris Tabron
Chris Tabron Photo by Maria Cobb
Background information
Occupation(s)	Record producer, engineer, mixer, musician, composer, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, programming
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Columbia, Sony, Atlantic, Universal Motown, RCA Records, Downtown Records
Website	http://www.christabron.com

As a producer or mixer, Tabron has worked on records by Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Mary J. Blige, Common, The Strokes, Robert Glasper, and Erykah Badu, including the single "Standing on the Sun (feat. Mr. Vegas)" for Beyoncé^[1] and Glasper's Miles Ahead (soundtrack) which won a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.^[2][3] as well as The New Abnormal by The Strokes which won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021. Additionally, Chris has worked as a producer or mixer with a wide array of artists across all genres including Lianne La Havas, Battles, The Voidz, and Son Lux. In 2020, he executive produced and mixed House of Zef, the final album for South African duo, Die Antwoord.^[4] Tabron is known for hybrid mixing, an approach that utilizes both analog and digital equipment to achieve vast sonic textures and fast workflows.^[5]

Tabron was founder and multi-instrumentalist of the electronic-pop group, The Ten Paces, which released Cacophonics in 2005 on Sidepocket Recordings, that Tabron produced and engineered.^[6] He also does hip-hop, pop, and remix production work under the moniker Madison Avenue Girls. Tabron was musical director for top-ten Billboard hip-hop duo Chiddy Bang (Virgin Records) on their release tour for their debut album, Breakfast, which included performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno^[7] and Conan as well as for runway shows during New York Fashion Week. In this capacity, he has DJ'ed or written original compositions for designers Phillip Lim, Forever 21, Erin Fetherston, and Juan Carlos Obando.

From 2005 to 2008, Tabron published articles as a music journalist for The Village Voice^[8] and Dusted Magazine. In 2015, he wrote a chapter for the anthology The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop entitled "The Glass: Hip Hop Production."^[9]

From 2007 to 2010, Tabron was senior house engineer at Future Shock Studio, a recording studio in Brooklyn, New York, owned by Grammy-nominated producer/engineer Alex Newport. At Future Shock, Tabron worked on albums by artists such as Death Cab for Cutie, ("Long Division" from Narrow Stairs, 2008), Frank Turner (Poetry of the Deed, Epitaph Records 2009), and So Many Dynamos.^[10]

In 2007, Tabron received a Master's Degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct instructor at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.

References

1. "Vintage King: 20 Questions With Chris Tabron". February 2019.
2. "Chris Tabron IMDB". IMDb.
3. "AllMusic Miles Ahead Soundtrack: Awards". AllMusic.
4. "Producing Die Antwoord's House of Zef with Chris Tabron". Waves.com. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
5. "The State of Hybrid Mixing in 2020". 20 July 2020.
6. "D.W. Fearn Podcast Interview". My Take on Music Recording. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
7. "The Tonight Show IMDB". IMDB.
8. "The Village Voice Authors". villagevoice.com. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
9. Tabron, Chris (2015). "The glass: Hip-hop production". Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. pp. 135–151. doi:10.1017/CCO9781139775298.013. ISBN 9781107037465.
10. "Mix Magazine: The Producer's Guide To Mixing". 30 March 2018.

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chris Tabron.

• Official website
• Vintage King: 20 Questions with Chris Tabron
• Mix Magazine: The Producer's Guide to Mixing w/ Chris Tabron
• Chris Tabron on Allmusic.com
• The Ten Paces on iTunes
• "More Low End Theories That Usually Avoid Cliché" The Village Voice
• "The Soul of Detroit Hip Hop Bows Out Soulfully" The Village Voice