June 13, 2024
John Nathaniel recently co-produced and mixed Platinum-certified Top Gun: Maverick’s soundtrack song “I Ain’t Worried” by OneRepublic, which has more than a billion streams on Spotify. He also worked on multiple titles from OneRepublic’s latest album “Human”, that topped the digital sales charts in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and France, amongst others. John is behind the production of the songs “Top Of The World” and “Carried Away” by Shawn Mendes, featured in the movie “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.” He also worked on Kygo's Gold-certified single "Lose Somebody" and mixed two Gwen Stefani’s songs appearing on her “You Make It Feel Like Christmas” deluxe album. Furthermore, he co-produced and mixed “Room For You” by Madison Beer and mixed Switchfoot's singles "Native Tongue" and "Voices" from their “Native Tongue” album, which won Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year at the 50th GMA Dove Awards. John received 8 SOCAN Awards for his #1 songs on the Top 100 radio charts, co-writing, producing and mixing all of them. He was also awarded the prestigious 2017 “SOCAN Songwriter of the Year Award”.
There are a lot of projects that I’m really happy to have been a part of but one in particular that comes to mind is the song “Wild Life” performed by OneRepublic. That song is special because of its format and cinematic style. I’m also a huge fan of its euphoric nature. Also from the same group, “I Ain’t Worried”, I love how fun that song is and it was surreal seeing it in the movie "Top Gun : Maverick" and knowing I was part of it.
Every project is different, sometimes I’ll start from scratch and co-write, produce and mix the record on top of developing a sonic identity with the artist. Other times I get hired to mix a record and put the finishing touches on it.
I did two years of classical piano when I was a child and I was always drawn to it… Listening to records and imagining new melodies. When I was 15, I picked up a guitar because I was obsessed with Green Day. I got interested in production in my early 20s and became focused on making records sound “finished”, hence the mix aspect.