Mark Saunders was awarded a platinum disk this week for sales of A-Ha’s last album ‘Foot of the mountain’ in Germany.

Mark has been busy these last few weeks on the other side of the Atlantic mixing tracks in 5.1 surround for an up and coming Luc Besson film. The six songs he is mixing are by acclaimed french artist Matthieu Chedid with features from Sean Lennon & Vanessa Paradis.

Here is the excellent new video for JES’s cover of the classic Cure song ‘Lovesong’. The song was produced by Richard Robson & JES. Mixed by Mark Saunders @ BEAT360 with engineering duties handled by Richard Robson, Tom Fritze & Ollie Hammett

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We have had the pleasure of the multi-talented A list actor, musician & DJ – Idriis Elba (also known as Stringer Bell from The Wire) in the studio this past month. Ollie has been recording vocals alongside vocal coach Ken Hicks as well as mixing numerous tracks including his next single ‘Private Garden’ from his excellent forthcoming Ep ‘High Class Problems’ due out Feb 2010.

We were delighted to have fantastic Aussie band PNAU at BEAT360 studios recently working with Mark Saunders on a track for their next record! The music is sounding brilliant and we hope to see them again soon. Below are some pics from the sessions..

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A-Ha’s much anticipated latest album has entered the UK charts at no. 5. A-Ha spent time at BEAT360 late last year working on the album with producer Mark Saunders.

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Kaz James of Body Rockers ‘I Like the way you move’ fame is in the studio this week writing/producing tracks with Mark. In case you have been living under a rock these last few years here’s a video to that classic track.