Engineering · Production
Paul Q. Kolderie
Paul Q. Kolderie is credited on 3,278 releases across 502 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
3,278
Pressings credited
502
Albums
5
Decades active
630
In collections
Biography
Paul Q. Kolderie is an American record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, the Go-Go's, and Mike Gordon of Phish. He usually works with production partner Sean Slade. Kolderie and Slade were friends from Yale University, where they played in bands together. They also became members of Sex Execs, a Boston-based new wave music band of the early 1980s. The duo had their formative experience as producers while they were in Sex Execs. Most of the group lived in a house in Dorchester, Boston that was wired up as a primitive studio. Other bands came over to record as well, including a local act called Three Colors, which featured saxophonist Dana Colley, later of Morphine. As Sex Execs became more successful, they started recording in professional studios such as Syncro Sound, which was owned by the Cars. Kolderie learned from the engineers there. He recorded an EP for Three Colors at Syncro, earning his first production credit. In 1985, Kolderie and Slade helped create Boston's Fort Apache Studios with Jim Fitting, another friend from Yale and Sex Execs, as well as musician-producer Joe Harvard. Kolderie has also played in the Detroit-based cowpunk band, Goober & the Peas, and contributed to Raisins in the Sun.
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Credited work
3,278 releases · 502 albums · active 1982–2026
- Engineering · 3,866
- Production · 1,951
- Performance · 111
- Other credits · 49
- Mastering · 6
Studios: Fort Apache · Q Division Studios · Fort Apache North · Camp Street Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

The Bends
1995

Doolittle
1989

Pablo Honey
1993

Live Through This
1994

Cure For Pain
1993

Let's Face It
1997

Yes
1995

Bug
1988

Wild Mood Swings
1996

Good
1992

Green Mind
1991

Come On Pilgrim
1987

Best Of Pixies (Wave Of Mutilation)
2004

Like Swimming
1997

Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
1988

The Satanic Satanist
2009

Complete 'B' Sides
2001

My Iron Lung E.P.
1994

At The BBC
1998

Clueless - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1995

Death To The Pixies
1997

Lovelife
1996

Only Everything
1995

Censored Colors
2008
Frequent collaborators
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