Pete Hammond has been a musician since he was fourteen years old. He played bass guitar in live touring bands for many years and his band was signed to the Polydor record Label for a time. He also studied, and became qualified as, an electronic engineer. His first involvement in the recording industry was in 1974, when he started to do some part time maintenance work in a small London studio nammed TMC. he eventually totally rebuilt the studio in 1977. During this period he was allowed to use the studio in down time, and learnt his skills as a recording engineer. He went on to engineer and co-produce (although he never was credited as co-producer in the early days) several hits in the late 70's, having 12 UK TOP 40 hits in the first year of becoming a professional sound engineer.
In 1982 he bought a half share in the famous London studio "THE WORKHOUSE", which was losing money and in debt. He turned the studio into a highly successful business, and five years later sold it for a large profit. During his time at The Workhouse, the studio produced many international hits including UK no. 1 singles by Paul Young, Musical Youth and T'PAU.
Pete was continually having hits records as a mixer/remixer/producer and, in 1987, was approached by Pete Waterman to join his PWL organisation. he took the position of Chief Mix Engineer and Producer, and agreed to let Pete Waterman manage his career. His credit on all the PWL and Stock Aitken Waterman records was : "Mixed by Mixmaster Pete Hamnmond". This credit gave the impression that he merely mixed the records as an engineer, which was not in fact accurate. He was actually adding another layer of production, which almost always involved him adding many of his own performances to the final production. Pete always new he was, in effect, a fourth member of the Stock Aitken and Waterman production team, however he was never treated, or credited as such and received no royalties for his work. Because of this, and because of serious management conflicts of interests, Pete left PWL in January 1991.
In 1989 Steve Hammond, who is also a musician and had been working with Pete whenever possible, started work as a technical engineer at PWL. Amongst other things, he was responsible for building the PWL CD mastering suite. Steve resigned at the same time as Pete to enable them to work together as a team.
They produced and mixed records for many artists including hits for the boy band "Take That". In the Autumn of 1991 they were approached by the Zomba group of companies. They signed a three year contract with Zomba in January 1992.
In December 1992, pete was approached by Mr. Tom Yoda, from the Japanese record company AVEX D. D., to mix an album for the new Japanese band T.R.F., a "Tetsuya Komuro" production. (during his time at PWL, Pete worked for Tetsuya, a Japanese writer/member of the band "T.M. Network". The two singles he remixed for him both went on to make no. 1 in Japan and sold over one million copies). The previously unknown T.R.F. are now, to quote a Tokyo D.J., "Gods" in Japan. Pete and Steve played a very important part in many of the T.R.F. albums. Their task was to make the music sound European. They were responsible for many of the musical parts/sound effects and structural arrangements, and were given total control over the final sound and compilation; even down to the mastering, which was done at Zomba's Battery Studios in London. Since then Pete and Steve have remixed almost all the T.R.F. records, which have sold over thirty million units in Japan.
In September 1994, Pete and Steve decided to start their own record production company. they now have a growing catalogue of masters, and are currently doing business with companies all over the world.
Pete has been credited on 126 UK hits singles (11 of which were No. 1 and 55 were TOP 10) and countless albums between 1978 and 1995.
Steve Hammond, although working in the music industry on a full time basis, is also currently at University studying Economics and Politics.
This 'biography' is courtesy of Outernational Productions Ltd