ABSTRACT
Brian Eno has described the producer as one of music’s ‘backroom boys’. Having been on both sides of the glass during the course of his long and illustrious career, as both performer and multiple-award-winning producer in all musical genres, he is as well placed as anyone to define the role. By and large, Eno’s description is an accurate one. Most producers do take a back seat when it comes to the fame and notoriety which go hand in hand with success in the music business
Star producers do exist, however; during the dance boom of recent years the role of producer and performer has become blurred, with producers putting together pieces of mainly computerized music, released primarily for club consumption under a whole range of different faceless pseudonyms.
