Alt-J, Jamie XX, The Maccabees & more among Music Producers Guild Awards shortlist

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This year’s shortlist for the Music Producers Guild awards has been unveiled.

Among the nominations are Damon Albarn for ‘UK Producer Of The Year’, Jack White for 
’International Producer Of The Year’ and Adele for ‘
Live Production Of The Year’.

Alt-J (pictured above at their Mercury win), Ed Sheeran and Florence and The Machine are set to fight it out for ‘UK Album Of The Year’, while The Maccabees are up for ‘Single Song Release Of The Year’.

Elsewhere, 
Jamie xx,
 Matthew Herbert and 
UNKLE

 all feature in the ‘Remixer Of The Year’ category.

The Beatles producer Sir George Martin CBE
 will also be awarded with the ‘Outstanding Contribution To UK Music’ award.

The full shortlist is as follows:


UK Producer Of The Year (sponsored by The BRIT Awards 2013): Damon Albarn, 
Jake Gosling and
 Paul Epworth

International Producer Of The Year (sponsored by British Grove Studios): 
Danger Mouse,
 Jack White 
and Max Martin

Remixer Of The Year:
 Jamie xx,
 Matthew Herbert and 
UNKLE

UK Album Of The Year:
 Alt-J – ‘An Awesome, Wave’
, Ed Sheeran – ‘+’, 
Florence + The Machine – ‘Ceremonials’
 and Paloma Faith – ‘Fall To Grace’

UK Single Song Release Of The Year:
 Ed Sheeran – ‘Lego House’,
 Paloma Faith – ‘Picking Up The Pieces’,
 Plan B – ‘Ill Manors’
 and The Maccabees – ‘Pelican’

Live Production Of The Year (sponsored by Shure):
 Adele Live at Royal Albert Hall 2011, 
Bon Iver at AIR Studios
 and The Olympics – Opening Ceremony

Outstanding Contribution To UK Music (sponsored by PPL
): Sir George Martin CBE