Engineering

Mike Olsen

of The Hidden Cameras, cellist

Canada • b. 1974-06-28

Mike Olsen is credited on 13 releases across 5 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1999–2001 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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13

Pressings credited

5

Albums

2

Decades active

12

In collections

Biography

Michael Peter Olsen (born June 28, 1974) is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, composer and arranger currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Olsen has collaborated live on tour and on records with bands and artists such as Arcade Fire, Drake, K-OS, Jim Guthrie, Kevin Hearn, The Constantines, Gentleman Reg, Great Lake Swimmers, The Hidden Cameras, and Zoon. He is also well known as a producer and has worked with Ohbijou, and Spiral Beach. Olsen was a founder and operator of the Toronto recording studio Uncomfortable Silence. Olsen currently fronts the Toronto band Our Founders, whose members include Spencer Cole of Weaves. Their album The Nines was released in October 2013. He was a Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab Resident from 2014 to 2015 in Toronto. As a solo artist, Olsen released a full-length record titled Yearning Flow in the spring of 2021 on the Canadian independent label Hand Drawn Dracula.

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13 releases · 5 albums · active 1999–2001

  • Engineering · 13

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