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Some of his biggest collaborations include The Smashing Pumpkins , U2 , Depeche Mode , Nitzer Ebb , Nine Inch Nails , The Jesus & Mary Chain , Erasure , Curve , Anna Domino , Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey . BIOGRAPHY Not much is publicly known about Flood's personal life. He was born in Manchester U.K. in 1960. CAREER Flood's music career began in the late 1970's. In 1978, he got a job as a runner at London 's Morgan Studios. In 1981, Flood went on to work solo, scoring his first major studio project as an assistant Audio Engineer on New Order 's debut '' Movement ''. He went on to work alongside Soft Cell , Psychic TV , and Cabaret Voltaire before helming his first true production project with Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds on '' The Firstborn Is Dead '' and '' Kicking Against The Pricks '' and with Erasure on ''Wonderland'' (1986), ''The Circus'' (1987). 1987 saw Flood's first big commercial break when he Engineered U2 's '' The Joshua Tree '' alongside producer Brian Eno . From there, he worked with Nine Inch Nails on '' Pretty Hate Machine '', Depeche Mode on '' Violator '', and Pop Will Eat Itself on ''This is the Day, This is the Hour, This is This''. He then went on to work again with U2 on '' Achtung Baby ''. In 1993, Flood graduated from engineering U2 's albums to producing them, sharing duties with Brian Eno on '' Zooropa ''; this same year he also reunited with Depeche Mode on their '' Songs Of Faith And Devotion '' album. In 1994, he worked again with Nine Inch Nails , this time on the ground-breaking '' The Downward Spiral ''. 1995 put Flood with two new bands, The Smashing Pumpkins for '' Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness '' and PJ Harvey for '' To Bring You My Love '' - albums that were smash hits that year. Shortly thereafter, he assisted producer Nellee Hooper on The Sneaker Pimps 's '' Becoming X ''. In 1997, Flood teamed up with U2 once again to produce '' Pop ''. The next year, he assisted Billy Corgan and Brad Wood on The Smashing Pumpkins 's '' Adore '' and co-produced PJ Harvey 's album '' Is This Desire? ''. In 2000, he co-produced '' MACHINA/The Machines Of God '', by The Smashing Pumpkins , with Corgan. He also mixed Erasure 's '' Loveboat ''. In 2002, he co-produced '' I To Sky '', by JJ72 . Summer 2005 sees him mixing A-ha 's eighth album, '' Analogue '', to be released in November 2005. In late 2005 and early 2006, Flood also worked on mixing Placebo 's new album, Meds , which was released in March 2006. He has also begun production on The Killers ' new album, due out in Spring of 2006. REFERENCES
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