Dave Ogilvie
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Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer, mixer, songwriter and musician based in Vancouver.
Ogilvie started his recording career as a mixing engineer at Mushroom Studios. He frequently collaborated with industrial band Skinny Puppy as both a band member and producer. He also worked as a producer, engineer and mixer on several projects with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, including engineering and remixing NIN singles, co-producing Marilyn Manson's album Antichrist Superstar and remixing David Bowie's single "I'm Afraid of Americans".
Over his career has worked with such artists as Loverboy, 54-40, SNFU, Ministry, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rob Halford and Mötley Crüe. He founded his own industrial pop band, Jakalope, in 2003.
Career
Early career
Born in Montreal, Ogilvie attended the music program at a local college where he took classes taught by audio engineer Lindsay Kidd.<ref name="PACIENZA">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="HAYNES">Template:Cite news</ref> Kidd left his teaching job to work in Vancouver and Ogilvie followed months later, acquiring a job at Mushroom Studios in 1984, eventually working as an assistant to producer Bruce Fairbairn.<ref name="HAYNES"/><ref name="COOPER">Template:Cite news</ref>
His early work included assisting Kidd with the engineering of the album Worlds Away (1982) by Strange Advance and the Images in Vogue's EP Educated Man (1982).<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> He assisted with the recording of Keep It Up (1983) by Loverboy, which was produced by Fairbairn and whose chief engineer was Bob Rock.<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref>
Amongst other artists, he continued to work with Images In Vogue, engineering their self-titled EP released in 1983, followed by their EP Rituals (1984), and their full-length album In the House (1985).<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> Ogilvie's first work as a solo-producer was on 54-40's self-titled major label debut album, released in 1986.<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> He also engineered the tracks "Breathe" and "Faith Collapsing" on the 1989 album The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste by Ministry.
Work with Skinny Puppy and Trent Reznor
Images in Vogue band-member, Kevin Crompton (later known as cEvin Key), invited Ogilvie to provide recording and mixing work on his new project, industrial band Skinny Puppy.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Ogilvie co-produced Skinny Puppy's 1984 record label debut EP Remission, which is one of the first known commercial releases to use a TR-909 drum machine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ogilvie contributed to all of Skinny Puppy's releases until their 1996 album The Process, after which the band went on hiatus for several years.<ref name="Ain't Dead">Template:Cite magazine</ref> During his tenure with Skinny Puppy, Ogilvie was at times listed as a member of the band in album liner notes and toured with the band.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also worked with Key on his side project Hilt.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> While Ogilvie shares a surname with Skinny Puppy frontman, Kevin Ogilvie (aka Nivek Ogre), the two are not related.<ref name="Ain't Dead"/>
Ogilvie's work with Skinny Puppy brought him to the attention of Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who invited Ogilvie to co-produce and engineer Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar (1996).<ref name="COOPER"/> He worked with Reznor on remixes of David Bowie's single "I'm Afraid of Americans" (1997), and co-produced the album Voyeurs (1998) by Rob Halford's band Two.<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> Ogilvie also engineered tracks on Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile (1999).<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref>
Jakalope
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Ogilvie formed the industrial pop band Jakalope in 2003.<ref name="Sperounes">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He met the band's first vocalist Katie B at The Warehouse Studio where she worked as a receptionist.<ref name="Sperounes"/> Reznor produced, wrote and played on several tracks of their first album It Dreams (2004) and co-produced their second album Born 4 (2006).<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> The band's third album, Things That Go Jump in the Night (2010), featured musician Chrystal Leigh on vocals.<ref name="HAYNES"/>
Other mixing and production work
Ogilvie mixed Sloan's studio album debut Smeared (1992). He remixed Mötley Crüe's 1994 single "Hooligan's Holiday" and the band's 1997 single "Afraid".<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> He also produced the albums The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed (1995) and FYULABA (1996) by SNFU.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Since the 2010s, Ogilvie's work has increasingly ventured into the pop market, partly due to his ongoing collaborations with Josh Ramsay, a producer and lead vocalist of the pop band Marianas Trench.<ref name=SOS>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His work with Ramsay including the mixing of Carly Rae Jepsen's 2011 hit single "Call Me Maybe".<ref name=SOS/> Ogilvie also produced tracks on the Marianas Tench album Masterpiece Theatre (2009), and mixed tracks on Ever After (2011), Astoria, and Haven (2024).<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref><ref>Template:Discogs release</ref>
Ogilvie produced Men Without Hats' 2012 album Love in the Age of War,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> mixed two tracks on Avril Lavigne's 2013 self-titled album.,<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref> and produced The Birthday Massacre's 2017 release Walking with Strangers.<ref>Template:Discogs release</ref>
He was nominated for Producer of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>