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Ariel Rechtshaid (/ˈrɛkʃaɪd/ REK-shyde;[1]) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. His accolades include three Grammy Awards for music production.

Ariel Rechtshaid
Rechtshaid in 2013
Background information
Born	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Record producer, songwriter, audio engineer, mixing engineer
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar keyboards bass drums percussion

Rechtshaid was the lead singer and guitarist of the ska/pop-punk band The Hippos, and the bassist and producer of indie folk-rock group Foreign Born. In 2006, he produced the Billboard Hot 100 number one-charting single "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's. He co-wrote and produced Usher's 2012 single "Climax", which won the 2013 Grammy award for Best R&B Performance. Rechtshaid was nominated for the 2014 Grammy award for Producer of the Year. He has won Grammys for production on Vampire Weekend album Modern Vampires of the City (2013, Best Alternative Music Album), Adele album 25 (2015, Album of the Year), and for another Vampire Weekend album Father of the Bride (2019, again Best Alternative Music Album).[2][3][4]

His production, songwriting, and mixing credits include Haim, Vampire Weekend, Madonna, Usher, Adele, Brandon Flowers, Charli XCX, Kelela, Cass McCombs, Solange Knowles, Tobias Jesso Jr., Murs, Sky Ferreira, We Are Scientists, Kylie Minogue, U2, Glasser, Alex Clare, and Major Lazer.[5]

Early life

Ariel Rechtshaid was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, a first-generation American born to Israeli immigrants.[6] He is of Jewish background.[7][8][9] He attended Hamilton High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he would form his first band, The Hippos.[10] One of his high school classmates was rapper Murs with whom he would later record and produce.[11]

Career

The Hippos

Rechtshaid would help form the band in 1995, while he and other members were still in high school.[5] He fronted the band as the singer and guitarist with friends James Bairian on bass, Louis Castle on trumpet, Brandon Bairian on percussion, Roman Fleysher on saxophone, Danny Rukasin on trombone, and Kyle Briggs on drums. They began to play shows around southern California, and recorded and self-released cassette demos titled Spreading the Cheese and Attack of the Killer Cheese. Shortly after this they were joined by Rich Zahniser on trombone. Despite their proximity to the Orange County ska scene, they found themselves shut out since they were from Los Angeles. Still, through perseverance and talent, they established themselves among a ska scene including bands such as Reel Big Fish, No Doubt, Dance Hall Crashers, and The Aquabats. The band would go on to release two full-length albums on Fueled By Ramen/Vagrant Records and Interscope, as well as a self-released third full length consisting of demos produced by Rechtshaid from their later years.[12]

"By the time [Rechtshaid] was 18/19, [he] knew [he] wasn't happy – and [he] quit. Part of the problem was benchmarking his efforts against his heroes".[5] He later wrote the music in different genres for commercials.[5]

Foreign Born

Rechtshaid joined the band as a bassist and producer in Los Angeles in late 2003. They self-released their first 12" single ("We Had Pleasure" b/w "Escape"), followed by their debut EP "In the Remote Woods" via StarTime International Records. While touring the US and UK with St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Rogue Wave, Jason Collett, Cold War Kids, Giant Drag, and We Are Scientists, they recorded their first full-length album, On the Wing Now, in the fall/winter of 2005, and officially released the album with Dim Mak on August 21, 2007. They released their second album, Person to Person, on Secretly Canadian on June 23, 2009.

Production, writing, and mixing

After Plain White T's' 2006 single "Hey There Delilah", which Rechtshaid recorded and produced, eventually reached no. 1 / 2 on the US / UK charts respectively he started getting approached by labels and managers.[5]

Rechtshaid's production, songwriting, and mixing is found on a wide range of albums and genres. He has written with and produced for acts such as Haim, Vampire Weekend, Adele, Beyoncé, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Usher, Blood Orange, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX, Kelela, Solange Knowles, Sky Ferreira, Plain White T's, Cass McCombs, Theophilus London, Glasser, We Are Scientists, Major Lazer, Foreign Born, Valencia, and Murs.[13][14][15] He is also a partner in music publishing and production company Heavy Duty.[16]

He is also a three-time Grammy award winner.[17]

Personal life

During the production of Haim's second studio album Something to Tell You (2017), Rechtshaid was diagnosed with stage I testicular cancer.[18] He was previously in a relationship with Haim frontwoman Danielle Haim.[19]

Discography

Producer and Writer Discography

Best effort list of songs produced (co-produced) and/or written (co-written) by Ariel Rechtshaid. His credits may also include instrumentation, vocals, arrangement, engineering, mixing, and others.[n 1]

Year	Artist	Album / song	Label
2022	Wallows	Tell Me That It's Over	Atlantic
	Charli XCX	Crash – "Lightning"
2021	Kacy Hill	Simple, Sweet, and Smiling – "Seasons Bloom"	Self-released
2020	Haim	Women in Music Pt. III	Columbia, Polydor
2019	Vampire Weekend	Father of the Bride	Spring Snow, Columbia
2017	U2	Songs of Experience – "Lights of Home"	Interscope, Island, Universal Canada
	Kelela	Take Me Apart – "Waitin", "Take Me Apart", "Enough", "Better", "Blue Light", "Altadena"	Warp
	Haim	Something to Tell You	Columbia
2015	Adele	25 – "When We Were Young"	XL, Columbia
	Haim	"Cause I'm a Man" (remix)	non-album
	Little Boots	Working Girl – "Better in the Morning"	On Repeat, Dim Mak
	Brandon Flowers	The Desired Effect	Island
	Carly Rae Jepsen	Emotion – "All That", "When I Needed You"	Interscope
	Tobias Jesso Jr.	Goon – "Without You"	True Panther Sounds
	Rae Morris	Unguarded – "Skin", "Closer", "For You", "Don't Go", "Do You Even Know?", "This Time", "Not Knowing"	Atlantic
	Madonna	Rebel Heart – "Living for Love", "Unapologetic Bitch", "Bitch I'm Madonna" (feat. Nicki Minaj), "Veni Vidi Vici" (featuring Nas)	Interscope
2014	Charli XCX	Sucker – "Doing It" (feat. Rita Ora)	Atlantic
	Beyoncé	Beyoncé: Platinum Edition (also More Only (EP)) – "Ring Off"	Columbia
	Charli XCX	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – "Kingdom" (feat. Simon Le Bon)	Republic
	Calvin Harris	Motion – "Pray to God" (feat. Haim)	Columbia, Fly Eye
	Kylie Minogue	Kiss Me Once – "If Only", "Golden Boy"	Parlophone
2013	Sky Ferreira	Night Time, My Time	Capitol
	Jagga	"Brutal Beauty"
	Haim	Days Are Gone – "Falling", "Forever", "The Wire", "Honey & I", "Days Are Gone", "My Song 5", "Go Slow", "Let Me Go", "Running If You Call My Name"	Polydor
	Mikky Ekko	"Kids"	RCA
	Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	XL
	Charli XCX	True Romance – "Nuclear Seasons", "Take My Hand", "Stay Away", "Set Me Free", "Black Roses", "You're the One", "How Can I", "Lock You Up"	Atlantic
	YADi	"The Blow"	Warner
	Snoop Lion	Reincarnated	RCA
	Major Lazer	Free the Universe – "You're No Good", "Reach for the Stars"	Secretly Canadian
	Little Boots	Nocturnes – "Satellite"	On Repeat
	Solange Knowles	True (EP)	Terrible
2012	No Doubt	Push and Shove – "Push and Shove" (feat. Busy Signal and Major Lazer)	Interscope
	Sky Ferreira	Ghost (EP) – "Lost in My Bedroom", "Everything is Embarrassing"	EMI
	Charli XCX	You're The One (EP) – "Nuclear Seasons", "Stay Away"	Iamsound, Atlantic
	Usher	Looking 4 Myself – "Climax"	RCA
	Justin Bieber	Believe – "Thought of You"	Island
2011	Theophilus London	Timez Are Weird These Days – "Why Even Try" (feat. Sara Quin), "Stop It"	Warner, Reprise
	Cass McCombs	Wit's End	Domino
	Blood Orange	Coastal Grooves	Domino
	Alex Clare	The Lateness of the Hour	Island
	Active Child	You Are All I See	Vagrant
	Cass McCombs	Humor Risk	Domino
2010	We Are Scientists	Barbara	PIAS Recordings
	Rolo Tomassi	Cosmology	Hassle
	Glasser	Ring	True Panther Sounds
2009	Cass McCombs	Catacombs	Domino
	Foreign Born	Person to Person	Secretly Canadian
2008	Valencia	We All Need a Reason to Believe	Columbia
	We Are Scientists	Brain Thrust Mastery	Virgin EMI
2007	Foreign Born	On the Wing Now	Dim Mak
2006	We Are Scientists	Crap Attack	Virgin EMI
	The Blood Arm	Lie Lover Lie	City Rockers
	Plain White T's	Hey There Delilah	Hollywood
	Plain White T's	Every Second Counts	Hollywood
2005	We Are Scientists	With Love and Squalor	Virgin EMI
	Plain White T's	All That We Needed	Fearless
	Foreign Born	In the Remote Woods	StarTime International
2004	Solea	Solea	Textbook Music
2003	Murs	The End of the Beginning	Definitive Jux
	Armor for Sleep	Dream to Make Believe	Equal Vision

Composer Discography

• 2021: Gossip Girl soundtrack [20][21][22]
• 2022: The Santa Clauses soundtrack [23][24]

With The Hippos

• 2003: The Hippos, Olympic Records (LP)
• 1999 August: Heads Are Gonna Roll, Interscope (LP)
• 1997 February: Forget the World Fueled By Ramen/Stiff Dog/Vagrant Records (LP)

With Foreign Born

• 2009 June: Person to Person, Secretly Canadian (LP)
• 2007 August: On the Wing Now, Dim Mak (LP)
• 2005 June: In the Remote Woods, StarTime International Records (EP)

References

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