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James Martin Hannett [1] (31 May 1948 – 18 April 1991) was a British record producer, musician and an original partner/director at Tony Wilson 's Factory Records.
Jun 14, 2019 · Born in 1948, he went to Manchester Polytechnic to study chemistry but sound and technology was always his main fascination, to the point where he would even starve...
Mar 22, 2017 · Hannett is a textbook case, creating legendary work between the late ‘70s and his last production in 1990, a year before dying, weighing 24 stone, aged 38, defeated by his addictions. But he left behind some of the most memorable, era-defining records in British history.
Mar 12, 2014 · The headstone of Martin Hannett’s gravestone reads simply ‘the creator of the Manchester sound’ – a fitting tribute to a true musical visionary. Hannett, who died of heart failure at the age of 42, is largely credited with revolutionising the Manchester music scene.
Apr 11, 2014 · A new film documentary celebrates the work of one of the men behind the bands who created the Manchester sound in the 1970s and 80s. Martin Hannett was a producer at Factory Records, and worked...
Aug 11, 2016 · Martin Hannett at Strawberry Studios. Like all the key players in the Factory Records story, Hannett was a study in dualities. Depending on you asked, he was either a self-important and insufferably mean drug addict, or a forward-thinking technician and true visionary.
Apr 6, 2014 · Martin Hannett. Yet since his death, the work of the man behind the sound of Joy Division’s classic albums, Unknown Pleasures and its follow up Closer, has rarely received close attention.
Factory Records' in-house producer and legendary sonic visionary. Punk induced the birth of three significant labels in Manchester: New Hormones, Rabid, and latterly Factory.
Soon I learned that the architect of the LP sounds I adored was a producer named Martin Hannett. His specialties included reverbed drums, echoing vocals, icy synthesizers, clanking/crashing sound effects, prominent bass, and effected guitars.
