I'm a bit surprised I'm the guy posting this here ... Mr. Loder died in London early Saturday morning. Here's the details so far:

http://www.johnloder.blogspot.com/

I never knew the man, but given his strong body of work, his influence, and his distinguished collaborators, I'm certain both music and the world in general will be a poorer place for his absence.

ah fuck

that

sucks

I am so sorry to hear that.

John Loder was a visionary and an inspiration. My sincere condolences to the entire Southern family. One of the true originals has passed.

Zak
THICK

About half the records I bought when I was in high school had his name in the credits. I won't begin to mention how often it appeared once I got involved in college radio.

It's hard for me to directly make an emotional connection to his passing, as he's always appeared as a name on my record collection, and never someone I met...

...so I'm really thankful to read all the comments in the blog entry and get a sense of what he was like.

Please. If you did meet him, and have enough worthy of commenting, I encourage you to do so and add your words. Because I felt the emotional hit after reading those initial comments, and I think there deserves to be more recollections and stories about him. I want a reason to feel the impact, because his work has had a tremendous influence on the side of my life that I'm passionate about. (Just as much as John Peel did... even though I've never met him either.)

Man, that sucks.
That guy worked on like half my record collection.
I remember when I was like 15 or 16 and saw his name on some record I had just bought and thinking to myself

my brain wrote:Whoa, the dude from MTV News mastered this record?

Then I figured out that I was thinking of Kurt Loder.

i didn't know john well, but he mastered a couple of silkworm records and i stayed at his place once, when steve and i were in london to master various things.

he was an unusual guy--he was charming, a little intimidating, drily funny, direct yet rather polite. i think about the questions he had to answer from me before the mastering session for _in the west_, though....'patience' is the word that comes to mind.

before i stayed at his place, i already knew all about at the way steve does things and the way corey rusk does things. i walked into john's building and saw the breadth what he had been doing and the way he did it--with southern studios, the label and its mail-order system, even the organization of his personal living space. and i thought 'aha! so _that's_ where they got it.'

he loved music. his love for it just kinda poured out of him when he talked about it.

resquiscat, mr. loder

While my (very limited) encounters with him lead me to the conclusion that he wasn't exactly a 'people person', he was clearly a talented man, and an astute mover in business terms.

Where do Scientologists go when they die?

This is a real shock. The man was definitely an inspiration. My sincere condolences. I'm sure that his influence will live on in the hearts of many.

our heroes heroes
our inspirations inspirations
we are grandsons to a movement
with a spine that never breaks
kept in its truest form
lets strive to keep it
that way

rip: john loder