JOSH KORODY
Josh Korody is a Producer-Mixer-Engineer-Artist who has been a staple figure in the Canadian music world for the last decade. Korody co-built and operated the acclaimed studio “Candle Recording” for 10 years with great success watching bands/artists from every level enter its doors from Gordon Downie (The Tragically Hip) and Jeremy Taggart (Our Lady Peace) to emerging artists making their first album. Recent accomplishments have included landing 2 different songs in 2 large scale Motion Picture Soundtracks. One being the song "Thin Flesh" by the band Traitrs (Co-Produced, Mixed & Engineered) in the 2024 remake of "The Crow" as well as Tess Park's song "Somedays" (Mixed) featured in 2024's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Josh has worked with Juno & Polaris winners and nominees Japandroids, Fucked Up, The Dirty Nil, The Beaches, Cadence Weapon, Tanya Tagaq, Dilly Dally, Zoon and Weaves as well as Socan Music Prize winners Partner. He’s managed to work with UK’s Dean Blunt (Rough Trade) and the Barcelona band Mourn (Captured Tracks). Exclaim named Dilly Dally's sore one of the best records of the decade as well as Rough Trade named Tallies S/T Debut in the best albums of 2019. In 2022 he saw success with his project Breeze for his “Only Up” album receiving positive reviews from Pitchfork and AllMusic, a KEXP appearance and nonstop radioplay in the US. Korody likes to also work closely with the independent label Hand Drawn Dracula. He has mixed both full length albums by the psych songwriter Tess Parks and has also produced every release by the goth duo Traitrs both who have had much international success.
Korody is also an artist as well releasing music with his Indie Brit Pop inspired project Breeze, his Techno/Electronic based project Nodding Heads & Nailbiter and his former Shoegaze/Alternative band Beliefs. He Also runs his own Techno focused label Nodding Heads Records as well as a monthly radio show on ISO radio. In 2022 Now Magazine called Korody the unsung hero of the Toronto music scene. Being a musician and songwriter himself, he has a knack for understanding musicians/artists and offers a decade of studio and creative-decision expertise; finding a balance between lifting an artists potential, nurturing their strengths and tackling the difficult decisions one needs to make in the creative process.
These days Josh currently does most of his tracking work at Wychwood Sound in Toronto and has a home mixing studio.