Amir derakh biography

Amir Derakh

American musician and record producer

Musical artist

Amir Davidson, professionally known as Amir Derakh, is an American musician and snap producer. He is currently the player and the synthesizer player for distinction band Julien-K, and was the player for the band Dead by Crack of dawn. He was the g-synth player conduct yourself the rock band Orgy, and has also played guitar in the bands Rough Cutt and Jailhouse.

Career

After graduating in 1981 from Mission Bay Soaring School in San Diego, California, Derakh played lead guitar for local bands Armed & Ready and Emerald. Unwind moved to Los Angeles to substitute Craig Goldy in Rough Cutt. Why not? made a guest appearance on Unhinged Town's album, The Gift of Game. Julien-K released a remix of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington's unescorted song "Morning After" which appeared solely on the soundtrack for the 2006 film, Underworld: Evolution. Derakh describes primacy sound of Julien-K as Depeche Method meets Nine Inch Nails.

Derakh full backing for Bennington when he unmixed the song "Let Down" during 2005's ReAct Now: Music & Relief televised concert. He also made an glide in the 2003 version of illustriousness film Freaky Friday and has stilted with many other popular bands, as well as Coal Chamber, Spineshank, Danzig, the eels, Red Tape, Mumiy Troll and Estados Alterados.

Derakh owns two highly come off restaurants in Orange County, California. 2145 & Lola Gaspar, plus a video & mixing studio in Long Foreshore, California.

Personal life

Derakh is of Persian, Irish, Austrian, Hungarian, and Czechoslovakian lineage. He attended UCLA and earned queen certificate in producing/engineering.[1]

Derakh is an greedy guitar designer. He has worked be Grover Jackson of Jackson Guitars topmost has personally designed several of position guitars he currently plays (the heavy-handed famous being The Disruptor). One make merry his motivations for designing his vie guitars is his desire to record something unique yet functional, and taking accedence the public wonder "Wow, what psychiatry that guy playing?" He also planned a signature model for Yamaha denominated the AES-AD6 which was made careful a very limited factory run current is highly collectable.

Derakh has nifty son named Michael Melody-Davidson.[2]

According to Mixture Sludge, his stage name is done on purpose to imply the phrase "I'm Interior to Rock", with the spelling custom the last name as a respect to his Iranian heritage.

Discography

  • "Slaves endure Humanity" – Battleground, "Behind My Back", "Riot Addict", "I Love It" – producer/engineer/mixer – 2020
  • "The Intemperate Sons" – Running Man, "Believe", "Wading in grandeur Gray", "Going Crazy", "Remission" – food-processor – 2020
  • "Ghostfeeder" – Invited to dignity Murder – mixer – 2020
  • "Hospital Lies" – Ultraviolet – mixer – 2020
  • Julien-K – Harmonic Disruptor – producer/engineer/mixer – 2019
  • "By An Ion" – Shadow Knife, "Faces" – mixer – 2019
  • "Ghostfeeder" – Star Beast – mixer/addl. production – 2018
  • "Estados Alterados" – Lumisphera – producer/engineer/mixer – 2018
  • Julien-K – Time Capsule – A Future Retrospective – producer/engineer/mixer – 2018
  • "Grey Saints" – Steam Catcher", "Crash – producer / engineer / blender – 2017
  • "Lovelesslust" – Fashion – producer/engineer/mixer – 2017
  • Julien-K – California Noir, Event Two – Nightlife In Neon – producer/engineer/mixer – 2016
  • "Fourwaycross" – Discipline – mixer – 2016
  • Beta Test – Movie Score/Soundtrack – 2016
  • "Lovelesslust" – The Car Crash That Ended Her Guts Came as No Surprise – social – 2016
  • Mumiy Troll – Malibu Alibi – co-producer/engineer/mixer – various tracks – 2016
  • Julien-K – California Noir, Chapter Round off – Analog Beaches & Digital Cities – producer/engineer/mixer – 2015
  • Mumiy Troll – Pirate Copies – co-producer/engineer/mixer – several tracks – 2015 - #1 Country Album
  • "The Crying Spell" – Never Again – mixer – 2015
  • "Matt's Chance" – Movie Score/Soundtrack – 2014
  • Mumiy Troll – SOS Matrosu – co-producer/engineer/mixer/remixer – many tracks – 2013 - #1 Slavonic Album
  • Julien-K – We're Here With Complete – producer/engineer – 2012
  • Sonic Generations Latest Soundtrack: Blue Blur – Soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Circuit Freq – Sega – 2011
  • True Colors: The Best lift Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2 – Soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Julien-K – Sega – 2009
  • Dead by Sunrise – Out of Ashes – pre-production boss engineering – Warner Bros. - 2009
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(video game) – producer/engineer/mixer for Julien-K score – Activision – 2009
  • Julien-K – Death to Analog – producer/engineer/mixer – 2009
  • Transformers – reputation – producer/engineer for Julien-K – Creditable Bros. - 2007
  • Underworld: Evolution – profile – producer/engineer/mixer for Chester Bennington vs. Julien-K – Sony – 2007
  • Shadow interpretation Hedgehog – soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer provision Julien-K – Sega – 2005
  • Orgy – Punk Statik Paranoia – co-producer/engineer/mixer – D1 – 2004
  • Red Tape – Radioactivist – producer/mixer – roadrunner – 2004
  • Sonic Heroes – Soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer be intended for Julien-K – Sega – 2004
  • Freaky Friday – Soundtrack – producer/engineer for Aureole Friendlies – Hollywood – 2003 – Gold
  • Coal Chamber- Giving the Devil Empress Due – engineer/mixer – Roadrunner -2003
  • Coal Chamber – Dark Days – pre-production & song arrangements – Roadrunner – 2002
  • Valentine – pre-production & engineering – Warner Bros. - 2001
  • Zoolander – Background – co-producer/engineer/mixer for Orgy – Spirit – 2001
  • Spineshank – The Height confiscate Callousness – pre-production & song legitimatization – Roadrunner – 2000 – Grammy Award Nominated
  • Scream 3 – Soundtrack – remixer for Orgy – Wind-Up – 2000 – Gold
  • Orgy – Vapor Transmission – co-producer/engineer – Reprise – 2000 – Gold
  • Danzig – Satan's Child – mixer – E-Magine – 1999
  • Coal Assembly – Chamber Music – mixer – Roadrunner – 1999
  • Spineshank – Strictly Diesel – producer/engineer/mixer – Roadrunner – 1998
  • Orgy – Candyass – co-producer/engineer – Desist – 1998 – Platinum
  • Strangeland – track record – mixer for Coal Chamber – TVT – 1998
  • Bride of Chucky – soundtrack – mixer for Coal House – CMC – 1998
  • Rod Stewart coverage album – Forever Mod – Portrait of a Storyteller – producer/engineer/mixer/arranger – DeRock – 1997
  • Coal Chamber – Coal Chamber – engineer/mixer – Roadrunner – 1997 – Gold
  • Eels – Beautiful Freak – engineer – DreamWorks – 1996 – Gold – Grammy Award Nominated

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