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John Oswald
Canada • b. 1953-05-30
John Oswald is credited on 171 releases across 37 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
171
Pressings credited
37
Albums
6
Decades active
42
In collections
Biography
John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. He is best known for coining the term "plunderphonics", the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
171 releases · 37 albums · active 1977–2025
- Performance · 133
- Other credits · 91
- Production · 57
- Engineering · 38
- Mastering · 12
Studios: The Music Gallery · Grant Avenue Studio · Skywalker Sound · Mystery Laboratory
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- CCMC
- Owen Maercks
- Pizzicato Five
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- Martha And The Muffins
- Kronos Quartet
- Plunderphonics
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