U.K. producer John Rivers is an accomplished studio man with records by groups such as
the Specials,
the Swell Maps, and
Love and Rockets to his credit. Though he has produced high-energy reggae and dance for
the Specials, and off shoots
Fun Boy Three, his specialty is the kind of moody, melodramatic, layered music of groups
Love and Rockets and
Dead Can Dance. In the '90s he used his considerable skills to produce for '60s-revivalists
Ocean Colour Scene and
Daniel Ash.
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Steve Kurutz, Rovi