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Exchange sound engineer dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 22 December 2011
Nilesh Patel, a popular sound engineer who worked for Camden-based mastering studio The Exchange for over 20 years, has died.
Patel joined The Exchange in 1989 after studying at The School Of Audio Engineering. As a mastering engineer he worked on countless tracks and albums, perhaps most notably Air’s ‘Moon Safari’, Björk’s ‘Homogenic’ and Daft Punk’s ‘Homework’. His death was confirmed by The Exchange yesterday.
Numerous artists and producers paid tribute via Twitter, with Ewan Pearson noting: “Very sad to hear of the death of Nilesh Patel, mastering engineer at The Exchange – he cut my Soma [Records] album and singles and was a lovely chap”, while Erol Alkan wrote: “In my eyes and ears, he was the best mastering engineer on Earth. [We] spent so many afternoons together talking like nerds”.
