Flood

Flood is the artist name of british producer Mark Ellis. He was born August 16, 1960 in London. He began his career in the late 1970s and collaborated with Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire or even New Order before contributing to the albums of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums and The First Born is Dead and Kicking Against the Pricks). His collaborations with the most iconic remain those with the likes of U2 (Achtung Baby, 1991, Zooropa in 1993 — with Brian Eno and The Edge — and then Pop in 1997), the group Nine Inch Nails albums Pretty Hate Machine, Brokenet The Downward Spiral), PJ Harvey album To Bring You My Love), Depeche Mode (the impressive sounds of Violator in 1990, and then Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993), three albums from Erasure (the first two Wonderland in 1986 and The Circus in 1987, and then their 9th album Loveboat in 2000), Showtime Nitzer Ebb in 1990, as well as Ebbhead in 1991 (co-produced with Alan Wilder), as well as the Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness in 1995). It has produced This Is War, the third album from Thirty Seconds to Mars. In 2013, he mixed Delta Machine, the 13ealbum of Depeche Mode. His nickname "Flood" comes from the fact that he had the reputation of often spilling tea on the tables mixing in the studio at the beginning of his career ("flood" in English means stream, flood, flood ... ).