I'm a Brisbane based recording engineer & record producer.  Throughout my career I've been lucky enough to work with some incredibly talented artists & bands, including The Medics, Kate Miller-Heidke, Tara Simmons, The Jungle Giants, Jac Stone, The Belligerents, Art of Sleeping, Mosman Alder, Darren Middleton & Ian Haug (Powderfinger), Jeff Martin (the Tea Party), Yves Klein Blue,  Big Scary, Jamie Lawson, Karl S.Williams, Morning Harvey, Deena & many more.  I work primarily out of Airlock studios, just north of Brisbane, but have also made records in a whole bunch of other places.  Please contact me if you have any questions in regards to availability, rates, etc.

Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician, producer, composer, and instrument builder. 

Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. Alongside being a longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, he is highly prolific and has released a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow (to name a few). Balancing dark ambience with smokey, pulsing rhythms, his compositions are perfectly restrained, textured and mesmeric. 

Cortini was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 through his work with Nine Inch Nails, making history as the only Italian musician to have ever been honored with this recognition. 

In 2021, in collaboration with boutique synth builders Make Noise, Cortini released his own, custom-designed, semi-modular synth, “Strega” (Italian for ‘witch’). That same year, he used Strega to build his latest full length, Scuro Chiaro [Mute], which Pitchfork described as “pitched somewhere between purgatory and the planetarium ... consistently managing to thrill and surprise”. 

In addition to years of extensive worldwide touring, Cortini has also soundtracked fashion shows including Alexander McQueen, Dior, and several of Fendi’s presentations. In 2022, he exhibited a high-concept audio installation called “Nati Infiniti” for Sonar 2022 at Museu de Lisboa’s “Fábrica de Moagem.” A live version of “Nati Infiniti” is set to debut at Berlin Atonal in 2023.

Alessandro Cortini’s music has been licensed for use in television, film and documentaries, games, and commercials, including FX’s hit show The Bear, “Thank You Very Much” a documentary about Andy Kaufman, Samsung, BMW, Sony, and Netflix. Remixes have also been a part of Cortini’s identity – remixing the likes of Depeche Mode to Mogwai to Death Cab For Cutie, Yann Tiersen to Vatican Shadow, and more between and beyond.

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“The Medics don’t simply make music – they move people.” Time Off Magazine

Music is at its best when it’s unpredictable. When it comes packed with surprises, the unexpected. Truly great music has always been about challenging convention, the ‘didn’t see that coming moment’. It’s a tradition that’s at the heart of The Medics – as both people and as artists.  It’s a sound that is all over the band’s stunning debut album Foundations (Footstomp/Warner) as featured on Triple J and includes the singles Griffin, Joseph, Slowburn and Beggars.  

The band’s story started in Cairns, far north Queensland, Australia and has seen their emergence as one of Australia's most genuinely exciting new bands performing at Splendour in the Grass, Big Day Out, Laneway, Groovin' the Moo, Woodford and The Dreaming Festivals. 

The Medics took out top honours at the 2012 National Indigenous Music Awards with wins for Album of the Year and Song of the Year for ‘Griffin and were crowned Best New Talent at the 2013 Rollingstone Awards. 

Kahl, Jhindu, Andrew and Charles are currently working on the follow up to Foundations for release in 2015. (Warner Music Australia) 






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