associated_acts death_date background birth_date article_title name occupation
crass 12 august 2005 non_performing_personnel 07 april 1946 john loder -lrb- sound engineer -rrb-
 john loder audio engineer , record producer
john loder -lrb- sound engineer -rrb-

john f. loder -lrb- 7 april 1946 -- 12 august 2005 -rrb- was an english sound engineer , record producer and founder of southern studios , as well as a former member of exit and co-founder of the southern records distribution company with his wife sue .
he was also the studio engineer of choice for crass records , and was often considered to be the band 's `` ninth member '' .
loder was born near plymouth and educated at boarding school before studying electrical engineering at london 's city university .
during his post-graduate work there , he became involved in early experiments in digital encoding of audio for the military .
by 1970 he had joined exit , alongside penny rimbaud , utilising a one-track tape-recorder .
this led to loder eventually founding a record studio in his garage after the disbanding of exit in 1974 .
loder was recording advertising jingles in 1977 when his path crossed once again with rimbaud , who had by then co-founded crass , and at this point invited loder to become the band 's engineer and financial manager , roles loder happily accepted .
when crass founded their own record label , loder worked as an engineer on most of the label 's releases , and when loder saw potential in a number of bands turned away by crass records due to ideological differences , loder set up southern records .
loder engineered and produced for many bands other than crass , among them the jesus and mary chain , for whom he engineered the recordings of the `` psychocandy '' album , big black 's `` songs about fucking '' , pj harvey , babes in toyland , fugazi , ministry and shellac .
in the mid-1980s , loder established a television production facility at southern .
its notable output included the music show `` snub tv '' , which after first being syndicated nationwide in the usa , went on to further success on bbc2 and in other countries .
loder was responsible for encouraging and establishing independent alternative internet ezines , donating the use of southern 's servers and bandwidth , taking part in pioneering online media streaming and simulcasting .
loder died of a brain tumour in 2005 , aged 59 .
