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Producer, record label owner, and recording artist Tom Rothrock has played an integral part in the careers of Elliott Smith, James Blunt, and Beck before launching a solo career with the 2006 album Resonator. Beck's breakthrough hit, "Loser," was originally released on Bong Load Custom Records, a label Rothrock formed in the early '90s with fellow producers/musicians Rob Schnapf and Bradshaw Lambert. Rothrock and Schnapf went on to record Beck's platinum-selling debut, Mellow Gold, with another producer, Carl Stephenson. Rothrock and Schnapf also handled production for the track "Ramshackle" on Beck's 1996 album Odelay, and a year later the pair were nominated for an Oscar for their recording of Elliott Smith's "Miss Misery," featured in Gus Van Sant's film Good Will Hunting. Smith's 1997 album Either/Or and his 1998 effort XO were also helmed by the duo, and two years later they were responsible for the crisp sound of Richard Thompson's Mock Tudor. Their work on the Supreme Beings of Leisure's 2000 self-titled album found them firmly in command of the trip-hop sound. In 2002 Rothrock worked on the heralded About a Boy soundtrack with Badly Drawn Boy and in 2004 he composed the incidental music for the Michael Mann film Collateral. His work on James Blunt's 2005 album Back to Bedlam helped earn Blunt five Grammy nominations that year. In 2006 he began his solo career with the full-length and entirely instrumental Resonator, named after a type of acoustic guitar with a metal center that's often referred to by its brand name, Dobro. The Bong Load Custom Records label was revived to release the album.
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Tom Rothrock is an international music producer, composer and musician. Tom Rothrock has produced albums with James Blunt, Foo Fighters, Moby, Beck, Badly Drawn Boy, R. L. Burnside, Yonder Mountain String Band, Athlete, Sloan, Roman Carter and soundtracks for notable motion pictures as Good Will Hunting, Collateral (film), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. James Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam, has been noted as the "decades best selling album" (2000's). The album also entered the Guinness Book of World Records, with most albums sold in a year in the UK, when it sold 2,368,000 copies in 2005.
Rothrock also produced (along with Rob Schnapf) Elliott Smith's albums Either/Or, XO (on which he also created the drum loop for the song "Independence Day") and Figure 8. The duo also produced and mixed the Foo Fighters, Toadies, Wool, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Fu Manchu and Richard Thompson.
Rothrock, started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 1990s enlisting recording partner Rob Schnapf and former Record Plant Recording Studios co-worker, Bradshaw Lambert. Bong Load Records is notable for releasing Beck's "Loser" single which became the first number one, non-major label single since FM radio became mainstream. Rothrock first heard Beck when he saw him jump onstage to play in between bands during a show at Jabberjaw club and approached him afterwards about recording his songs. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's critically acclaimed major label debut.
In film, Rothrock produced the original songs for the About A Boy soundtrack and score with Badly Drawn Boy. He composed music for the film Collateral directed by Michael Mann and is credited on the song "Goofy Goober Rock" on the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack. His recording of R. L. Burnside's "It's Bad You Know" was included on The Sopranos original television soundtrack release.
Rothrock produced, recorded and mixed James Blunt's album All the Lost Souls. In 2007, Rothrock released his own instrumental solo debut titled Resonator on the re-launched Bong Load Records.
