Dave Trumfio

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Dave Trumfio
Born	16 August 1968 (1968-08-16) (age 39)
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Occupation(s)	Record Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Composer, Musician
Instrument(s)	Guitar , Bass, Keys, Vocals, Programming
Years active	1968 – Present
Label(s)	Kingsize Platters, ALMO Sounds, Rondor/Universal
Associated acts	The Pulsars
Website	http://www.kingsizesoundlabs.com

David Trumfio (born in Chicago in 1968) is a record producer, mixer, engineer and songwriter. Dave grew up in Mt. Prospect Illinois, Chicago and was a staff engineer after apprenticing at Seagrape Recording Studios. He then started his home studio called Kingsize Recording Den and officially opened Kingsize Soundlabs in Chicago's Wicker Park district in 1991. Currently residing in the Los Angeles area; he runs Kingsize SoundLabs, a recording studio in Silver Lake, California. He has worked with acts such as Wilco,^[1]Ok Go,^[2] Patrick Park. ^[3]

Contents 1 Early Work 2 The Pulsars 3 Recent Work 4 Discography '90 - '00 5 Discography '00 - present 6 References

[edit] Early Work

His early work included recordings by The Mekons, Wilco, Alternative TV, Young Marble Giants guitarist Stewart Moxham and British rock band The Pretty Things.

"Dave Trumfio knew he wanted to make recording his life from the day he bought his first multitrack, a Fostex X15 4 track, way back in 1984." ^[4]

[edit] The Pulsars

Dave Trumfio was the lead man in the 90's new new-wave band The Pulsars^[5] . The Pulsars, made up of brothers Dave and Harry Trumfio, released a few EPs in the early '90s before getting signed to Herb Alpert's Almo Records.^[6] The Pulsars signed contracts with Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss's post A&M venture ALMO Sounds in 1995.

Like The Modern Lovers in the '70s (who recorded one of my top three albums of all time), the Pulsars were yet another cool cult band that broke up after one album before they even had a chance to hit their stride. -Pope Penguin

"Dave Trumfio began his career leading his own band, the Pulsars, to a deal with Almo Sounds/Geffen Records in the mid-Nineties."^[7]

[edit] Recent Work

Dave Trumfio has worked for many indie labels; such as Merge, Teenbeat, Touch and Go Records / 1/4 stick, Minty Fresh, Simple Machines, Darla Records and Vagrant. Dave also helped launch the careers of OK GO ^[8] (Capitol Records), singer songwriter Patrick Park (Hollywood), Gay disco band The Aluminum Group (Minty Fresh) and funk musicians The Baldwin Brothers (TVT).

Trumfio has recently worked with Built To Spill, Jesus and Mary Chain, American Music Club, Booker T and new new wave revivalists The Rentals.

[edit] Discography '90 - '00

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• Big Jack Johnson — Daddy, When Is Mama Comin' Home (1991)
• Mr. Fingers — Introduction (1992)
• Certain Distant Suns — Huge E.P. (1992)
• Ashtray Boy — Honeymoon Suite (1993)
• Certain Distant Suns — Happy on the Inside (1994)
• Various Artist — Insurgent Country, Vol.1: For a Life of Sin (1994)
• DQE — But Me, I Fell Down (1994)
• Pigface — Notes from Thee Underground (1994)
• The Mekons — Retreat from Memphis (1994)
• The Pretty Things — Wine, Women & Whiskey: More Chicago Blues & Rock Sess (1994)
• Jonboy Langford & The Pine Valley Cosmon — Misery Loves Company: Songs of Johnny Cash (1995)
• The Handsome Family — Odessa (1995)
• Number One Cup — Possum Trot Plan (1995)
• Holiday — Holiday (1995)
• Number One Cup — Divebomb (1996)
• The Handsome Family — Milk and Scissors (1996)
• Yum-Yum — Dan Loves Patti (1996)
• The Coctails — Live at Lounge Ax (1996)
• Holiday — Ready, Set, Go (1996)
• Butterglory — Are You Building a Temple in Heaven (1996)
• Rico Bell — Return of Rico Bell (1996)
• Motorhome — Sex Vehicle (1996)
• The Pulsars — Submission to the Masters (1996)
• Godzuki — Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1996)
• The Pulsars — Pulsars (1997)
• Palace Music — Lost Blues & Other Songs (1997)
• Tsunami — Brilliant Mistake (1997)
• hollAnd — Your Orgasm (1997)
• Billy Bragg & Wilco — Mermaid Avenue (1998)
• Aluminum Group — Piano (1998)
• The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group — Sniff (1998)
• Sally Timms — Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (1999)
• Wilco — Summerteeth (1999)
• Floraline — Floraline (1999)

[edit] Discography '00 - present

• Tristeza — Dream Signals In Full Circles (2000)
• Aden — Hey 19 (2000)
• Koufax — It Had to Do With Love (2000)
• Billy Bragg & Wilco — Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 (2000)
• My Morning Jacket — At Dawn (2001)
• Jenny Toomey — Antidote (2001)
• Gift Original Soundtrack — Original Soundtrack (2001)
• Wayne Kramer — Adult World (2002)
• Franklin Bruno — Cat May Look at a Queen (2002)
• The Baldwin Brothers — Cooking with Lasers (2002)
• Irving — Good Morning Beautiful (2002)
• Various Artist — MTV2 Handpicked, Vol. 2 (2002)
• Mates of State — Our Constant Concern (2002)
• Koufax — Social Life (2002)
• Ok Go — Get Over It (2002)
• Slowrider — Nacimiento (2002)
• Ok Go — Ok Go (2002)
• Earlimart — Avenues (2003)
• Patrick Park — Loneliness Knows My Name (2003)
• The Sun — Love & Death (2003)
• Jamison Parker — Notes & Photographs EP (2003)
• Underworld Original Soundtrack — Original Soundtrack (2003)
• Chuck Prophet — Age Of Miracles (2004)
• Kool Keith/Kutmasta Kurt — Break U Off/Takin' It Back (2004)
• Thelonious Monster — California Clam Chowder (2004)
• Simon Joyner — Lost with the Lights On (2004)
• Elkland — Apart (2005)
• Elkland — Apart (The Remixes) (2005)
• Elkland — Golden (2005)
• Nothing Painted Blue — Taste the Flavor (2005)
• Grandaddy — Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla (2005)
• Grandaddy — Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006)
• Future Pigeon — Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (2006)
• The Baldwin Brothers — The Return of the Golden Rhodes (2006)
• The Adored — New Language (2006)
• Devics — Push the Heart (2006)
• Nadine Zahr — Underneath the Everyday (2006)
• Earlimart^[9] — Mentor Tormentor (2007)
• Acute — Arms Around a Stranger (2007)
• Let's Go Sailing — Chaos in Order (2007)
• Patrick Park — Everyone's in Everyone (2007)
• Kristin Mooney — Hydroplane (2007)
• American Music Club — Golden Age (2008)
• E for Explosion — Reinventing the Heartbeat (2008)
• Great Northern — Sleepy Eepee (2008)
• Devics — Distant Radio (2008)

[edit] References

• Dave Trumfio: Monthly Special at vintageking.com
• Interview with Dave Trumfio ( Wilco, OK Go, Patrick Park) at vintagemicrophone.com