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Nick Sansano (born 1963 in The Bronx, New York City) is an American record producer, engineer, and musician. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, he began his career at Greene St. Recording, where he recorded and mixed for a variety of ground-breaking hip hop artists including Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Rob Base and Run DMC. From there, he went on to co-produce Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and Goo, two critically acclaimed and historical alternative music recordings that changed the landscape of popular music[citation needed]. He also engineered and mixed selections from Public Enemy's albums It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Fear of a Black Planet and Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age. Additional hip hop credits include Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and mixing the rap classic "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock. He also worked with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (ACME), Bubblies (No Brain, No Headache...), Stuck In The Sound (Shoegazing Kids), Le Tigre (This Island), Galactic (Late For The Future,[1] Love 'Em Tonight: Live at Tipitina's), Stanton Moore (Flyin' The Koop), and The Grassy Knoll (III).'[2]
Sansano is the Chair and a full-time professor at The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.[3]
- ^ Budnick, Dean (1 November 2003). Jam bands. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-87930-745-5. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ Johnson, Blair. "In the Groove with Nick Sansano". Mix Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Recorded Music Faculty Directory".