Mark Saunders Remixes

Lady Gaga 'Monster (Mark Saunders Remix)'

I was definitely thinking about the 80's Duran Duran spin off band Power Station when I did this!

Stadium Love - Metric (Mark Saunders Remix)

Tokyo Denmark Sweden/Mark Saunders -Turning Time (Alt Mix Instrumental)

The Hollow Men - The Moon's A Balloon (Mark Saunders remix)

I love this track. Very Siouxsie and The Banshees I thought.

The Heart Throbs - She's In A Trance (Mark Saunders Remix)

This was a fun track of Randy's to remix. In the end he released at as the main version.

Randy Jones 'Hard Times' Mark Saunders Disco Remix

Cool New Zealand duo Arles asked me to remix this song back in 2019. Big Tricky fans! This wasn't the final version of the mix but I like this one.

ARLS 'Pace' Mark Saunders remix

This was early on in my career and I felt very luck to get a chance at remixing this song which was produced by my bosses at the time, Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley at West Side Studios where I got my first start in studios.

Rome Wasn´T Built In A Day

The Jeremy Days 'Rome Wasn´t Built In A Day' Mark Saunders 12" Remix

The coolest mega star I've worked with. Always a great pleasure to work with him. Remixed this in my studio in NYC

U.B. Jesus

David Byrne 'U.B. Jesus' Mark Saunders Remix

I mixed a few songs for Lisa, the first being Coldcut's fabulous "People Hold On" which feature Lisa and it was here 1st hit. Even before it was released I was in her manager's office and she walked in. The manager said 'Hey Lisa, meet Mark, he's just mixed your first hit.You should give him a kiss!'. Without missing a beat she walked straight up to me and kissed me on the lips! No complaints from me.

Lisa Stansfield 'The Love In Me' Mark Saunders 12in remix

Not sure what happened to this band. Remixed at The Roundhouse Studios in Camden, London

The Party Girls 'You Crossed My Heart' Mark Saunders 12in remix

Imagine my excitement at being asked to remix a Madonna song.  'Vogue' was out at the time and I was hoping that I'd be remixing that song. I was a wee bit disappointed when I found out it was this song from her 'Breathless' album that I'd be working on, but I couldn't really turn down Madonna. I don't think Madonna actually sanctioned this remix at all - I think it was her A&R guy's idea.

I'm Following You (Remix)

Madonna 'I'm Following You' Mark Saunders Remix

MARRS  'Pump Up The Volume' Mark Saunders Remix

Lisa Hall 'Connection 17' Mark Saunders Remix

From back in 2005. Did this mix then completely forgot about it until I heard my 11 year old son, Owen playing it on his laptop. I said to him 'Wow, I don't know this remix - who did it', to which he replied...'err, you Dad!'

Shiny Toy Guns_'Le Disco (Mark Saunders Alt Mix)'

Rough remix from 2006. Sonically not perfect but I really like it musically. It was fun to play the bass on it!

The Shiny Toy Guns_'You Are The One (Mark Saunders remix)'

A collaboration between Matt and myself in 2006. Le Disko was a great track to work on and remix. This was a fun project that turned out rather well I'd say.

Le Disko (Mark Saunders/Matt Haick remix)_Shiny Toy Guns

Don't Cry Out (Mark Saunders remix) Shiny Toy Guns

It was very exciting to get to work on this track back in 1992. I did a single remix with Daniel Miller, the awesome boss of Mute Records. Afterwards I couldn't resist laying down some sections to make my own private extended 12" remix. It came as a shock to me that the original was only 2'20" when I first played the tape - it has everything that you need from a song in that short time. That's the genius of Vince Clarke.


Situation (Mark Saunders remix)_Yazoo

This started off as a 5.1 remix and was converted to stereo. It sounds awesome in 5.1. Michael Floyd came up with the initial idea for the remix and then we worked together on it. I got hold of the files for the original version of the song from Robert Smith because we briefly discussed doing a 5.1 remix version of the albums Disintegration and Wish. However the 5.1 format never really took off for music in a big way which is a great shame because it's awesome to mix in surround and the system in my studio sounds amazing. I have a SACD (Super Audio CD) 5.1 version of Dark Side Of The Moon which is glorious to listen to.


Pictures Of You (Mark Saunders/Michael Floyd remix)_The Cure

Mark's professional music career started as a drummer playing with Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash's stepdaughter, in 1982. The first time he went into a recording studio with her to record some demos, he was excited by the whole recording process and after the stint with Carlene finished in 1984, he landed a job as an assistant at West Side Studios, London working with renowned production pair Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley who had great success producing Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Elvis Costello and later Bush.

In 1985, Mark engineered the hit record ‘Dancing In The Street’ by David Bowie & Mick Jagger. A year later, he became a freelance engineer and was discovered by Rhythm King, a label at the forefront of the British dance music. Working on a couple of Bomb The Bass mixes led to co-producing Neneh Cherry’s no.2 US billboard smash ‘Buffalo Stance’ & the subsequent seminal multi platinum album ‘Raw Like Sushi’. Following this he worked on a flood of pop/dance work for acts including Erasure, Depeche Mode, Lisa Stansfield & Yazz as well we Ian McCulloch, The Mission (UK), The Farm, The Heart Throbs, Texas & The Sugarcubes.
Robert Smith from The Cure, employed Mark's radio friendly skills to mix all singles from the album ‘Disintegration’. One of these ‘Lovesong’ is The Cure's highest charting single peaking #2 in the Billboard Top 100. Mark went on to work on further Cure albums - UK no1 ‘Wish’, ‘Mixed Up’ & 'Wild Mood Swings'.

Tricky, a big fan of Marks work for the Cure, asked him to program, co-produce and mix his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Maxinquaye’ one of the definitive albums of the 90’s. This in turn led to Tricky fans John Lydon, David Byrne, Cathy Dennis and Cyndi Lauper hiring Mark to work on their albums.

In 1996 Mark moved his studio to Hell's Kitchen NYC and side stepped into writing and producing music for big brand campaigns for companies such as Nike, Lowes, Reebok & Motorola although he continued to work on select artist projects for Erasure, Femi Kuti and Marilyn Manson (‘From Hell’ film sound track). While diversifying into TV/Film work Mark became an early adopter of the surround sound format and has been brought on board to consult, record and mix surround projects for PBS, EMI, David Byrne, film director Luc Besson as well as an exclusive project for Apple as part of a their major product release of Logic 8.

Having worked on many commercially & critically acclaimed records as an engineer, producer & mixer Mark also steadily developed his writing skills. Co-writes have included with Cathy Dennis, PNAU, Kaz James (Bodyrockers) & Amalie Bruun.