Tony Kuzub

Anthony Peter George Kuzub or simply Tony Kuzub, as he is better known, is a Canadian recording engineer and producer based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the founder of the now defunct High Voltage Recording, and is currently co-owner and head engineer of Tanda Recording. [ [http://www.kuzub.com/inside.htm Tony Kuzub - Recording Engineer / Producer - Saskatoon Saskatchewan - TANDAPHONIC Inc. - Tanda RecordingTony Kuzub - Recording Engineer / Producer - Saskatoon Saskatchewan - TANDAPHONIC Inc. - Tanda Recording ] ]

Biography

Kuzub was born April 4, 1983 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was raised. He attended Cardinal Leger Elementary School, and later moved to Evan Hardy Collegiate for high school. Something of a child prodigy, Kuzub showed precocious skills with computing and media equipment, often building computers from scratch, creating videos, and even establishing a viable recording studio in his mother's basement. At the age of ten he founded his first company, Copycat Recording, which duplicated audio CD's to cassettes for the benefit of those who did not own CD players. It was in high school that his talents truly began to blossom, as he founded High Voltage recording, and began to connect with budding musicians from the Saskatoon area. He also stood out as class president during his senior year.

Career

After graduating from high school in 2001, Kuzub moved his studio to the heart of downtown Saskatoon and began to engineer professionally. He also worked briefly during this period for the Media and Technology Division at the University of Saskatchewan, editing and arranging video for the local educational cable channel SCN. After leaving this job, he came to concentrate exclusively on recording and producing for his High Voltage label, working with such notable Canadian artists as The Wheatmonkeys, Joel Plaskett, North of Shorty, Spade the Shovelhead and Jordan Cook, and later on even more high-profile acts such as The Mars Volta. His impressive resume landed him a job as an engineer at the MuchMusic Video Awards (or MMVAs) in 2004, where he worked with such artists as The Beastie Boys, Evanescence, Hoobastank, Arcade Fire and Hilary Duff. Kuzub reprised this role in each of the years which followed through to 2007.

After cutting ties with his employee Sandy Burnett in late 2007, Kuzub closed High Voltage Recording. Soon after, Kuzub spent several months in Sydney, Australia, where he worked at Fox Studios as an audio editor before returning to Canada. Having forged a partnership with session/studio drummer Arlen Hall, Kuzub co-founded Tandaphonic Incorporated and its subsidiary Tanda Recording, a new recording company with a capacious studio, also based in Saskatoon. Here Kuzub works not only as a recording engineer and mixer, but has become even more active in the creative process as a producer.

Controversy

Kuzub made local headlines in 2006 when he identified a potential conflict of interest in the adjudication process to select a song for Saskatoon's centennial that same year. Speaking for a number of disenchanted members of the Saskatoon recording industry, Kuzub identified that one of the judges, Ross Nykiforuk, had overseen the selection of a former bandmate by the name of Corey Hildebrand as the winner of contest and the $1,000 recording contract that came with it. ["Saskatoon Star Phoenix", Wednesday, January 11, 2006]

Discography

Year Artist Album / "Song Name" Role

2008 Arms Up "Caroline"

P, M, E 2008 Jordan Cook

Seven Deadly Sins E, Cp, M, Ed 2008

Magic Band Magic Band E

2008 Sundown Strip

P, M, E 2007 Drowning Ophelia

TBA P, M, E 2007

Jeremy Lane Skeletonmask P, M, E

2007 Johnny Gritt Johnny Gritt

M, E 2007 Matty Powel

Ness Creek Sessions Ed 2008

Arms Up "Streets Cities", "Oh well" P, M, E

2007 Otenang

M 2007 Rising 4

"Before I Awaken" M, E 2007

Smokekiller "Out there" "Back to the Heart" M, E

2007 Spade the Shovel Head Get a Helmet

P, M, E 2007 Streetlight Scenery

P, M, E 2007

Sundown Strip P, M, E

2007 The Huxxtabulls The Huxxtabulls

M, E 2006 Everlong

Mixing 2006

Les Fabian "Here She Comes" M, E

2006 Letter Bomb

M, E 2006 Mykal Gambull

Volume 1 M, E, A 2006

Noel Wilcox "Generation Why" P, M, E

2006 North Of Shorty Trouble in Paradise

P, M, E 2006 Poser Disposer

A 2006

The ROA M, A

2006 The Wheatmonkeys "Television" and "Brightside"

M, E 2006 Whiskey Halo

M 2005

Darry Dinnell "Sorry Ms. Brandon" P, M, E

2005 FY Fy

E, A 2005 Holy Cross High School

Sound and Fury M, E 2005

Hush Twins A, E

2005 Joel Plaskett Live at Amigo's

E, M 2004 Holy Cross High School

Sound and Fury E 2004

Liberated Noise A

2004 Orchestra Diamante Orchestra Diamante

E, M, A 2003 Clete Rekve

"Sleepin' on the Engine" M, E 2001

Ambush Rural Brewery P, M, E

2001 Tint

M, E

P=Producer
M=Mixed or Remixed

Ed=Editor
E=Engineer
D=development
Cp=Co-Producer
A=Assistant

Notes

Links

* Personal website & Discography: http://www.kuzub.com/

* Tanda Recording: http://www.tandarecording.com/

* Saskatoon Centennial Song Controversy: http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=6e4804ff-836d-4e57-8f45-45f7202b1404&k=25863