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James Blake, Disclosure, Daft Punk, Four Tet & more nominated for Music Producers Guild awards

10 December 2013, 15:35 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton
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The nominees for the 2014 Music Producer Guild awards have been revealing, with the likes of James Blake, Daft Punk, Disclosure and Four Tet set to battle it out for the coveted accolades.

Daft Punk see themselves up against Bowie producer Tony Visconti and Yeezus-helmer Rick Rubin for “International Producer of the Year”, while Disclosure stand a chance of winning “Breakthrough Producer of the Year”.

Elsewhere, Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden and MJ Cole are both listed for “Remixer of the Year”, James Blake, Foals and Laura Marling are all up for “UK Album of the Year”, while Adele, Everything Everything and Foals again are nominated for “UK Single Song Release of the Year”.

The ceremony will be held in London on 13 February, heralding excellence in music production.

Check out the full list of nominations beneath, via Clash:

UK Producer of the Year, sponsored by The BRITS 2014:
Paul Epworth
Flood (Mark Ellis) & Alan Moulder
Ethan Johns

International Producer of the Year, sponsored by Beats by Dr Dre:
Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo)
Rick Rubin
Tony Visconti

Recording Engineer of the Year, sponsored by Rode:
Catherine Marks
Guy Massey
Mark Rankin

Mix Engineer of the Year, sponsored by Solid State Logic:
Tom Elmhirst
Flood (Mark Ellis) & Alan Moulder
Mark ‘Spike’ Stent

Mastering Engineer of the Year:
John Dent
Barry Grint
Mandy Parnell

Breakthrough Producer of the Year, sponsored by Focusrite/Novation:
Dan Smith & Mark Crew
Disclosure (Guy Lawrence, Howard Lawrence)
Duncan Mills

Breakthrough Engineer of the Year
Dan Cox
Catherine Marks
Matt Wiggins

Remixer of the Year:
Freemasons (Russell Smith & James Wiltshire)
Four Tet (Kieran Hebden)
MJ Cole (Matthew Coleman)

UK Album of the Year, sponsored by Universal Audio:
James Blake – Overgrown
Foals – Holy Fire
Laura Marling – Once I was An Eagle

UK Single Song Release of the Year, sponsored by Shure:
Adele – Skyfall
Everything Everything – Kemosabe
Foals – My Number

Studio of the Year, sponsored by KMR Audio:
British Grove Studios
RAK Studios
Strongroom Studios

The A&R Award:
Chris Briggs
Imran Ahmed
Jim Chancellor

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