Cenzo Townshend

Over the last twenty years Cenzo Townshend has been involved in mixing best selling albums and singles from talents such as: Everything Everything, Editors, U2, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Florence & the Machine, The Maccabees, George Ezra, Ben Howard, Jamie T, Bloc Party and Jake Bugg.

Cenzo began his career in the 80s working at Trident Studios, eventually working as an assistant engineer for Alan Moulder, Mark ‘Spike’ Stent and ‘Flood’. Afterwards he worked independently with producer Ian Broudie for 8 years and then joined producer Stephen Street at The Bunker in Olympic Studios until its closure in 2009. Since then he has been awarded ‘Best Mix Engineer’ by The Music Producers Guild in 2009, 2010 as well as being nominated 8 times. He has also been recognised for his award winning works; UK Single Release - Pelican by The Maccabees in 2013 & UK Album of the Year - Fever Dream by Everything Everything in 2019.

Cenzo also specialises in radio mixes for the likes of BBC radio and acts such as: Lighthouse Family, Kylie Minogue, The Specials, Franz Ferdinand, Tom Jones, Wild Beasts, Christine and The Queens, Bat For Lashes, Soak, Rat Boy, Beach Baby, Jungle and Paul Heaton.

Currently Cenzo is the commander in chief at Decoy Studios where he mixes.