Background
Loder was born near Plymouth and educated at boarding school before studying electrical engineering at London"s City University.
Loder was born near Plymouth and educated at boarding school before studying electrical engineering at London"s City University.
City University London.
He was also the studio engineer of choice for Crass Records, and was often considered to be the band"s "ninth member". 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 television, which after first being syndicated nationwide in the United States of America, 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.
