Bjarte Ludvigsen, a.k.a. Blue, is a record producer from Bergen, Norway. He started out as a drummer for the Norwegian-Grammy Award winning band Poor Rich Ones. In 1997, after working as a session musician for several years and as an assistant engineer at Sigma Audio, Bjarte started together with Christer Hjelmeland. After helping several acts rise to the ranks and signing with major companies, the studio got popular with more established Norwegian artists. In 2004, Bjarte Ludvigsen took over the company and is now the owner of the studio. In 2007, he produced and engineered William Hut's gold selling album Nightfall, where he also played drums, keyboards and programmed. The single "Take it easy" stayed 29 weeks in the Top 20 charts, reaching number 1 and sold 3 times platinum. Bjarte Ludvigsen has been working with acts such as; William Hut, Askil Holm, Corvine, Lorraine, Furia, Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band, Röyksopp, Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, Tucos lounge, Ephemera, Matias Tellez, Syme, Marthe Valle, Chand and Malsain. Bjarte Ludvigsen owns . The company creates useful and professional sounding plugins for the studio recording business. The first commercial plugin released was Bandecho which is a tape delay plugin and the company is well known for its Drummix line. Bjarte Ludvigsen has written several screenplays and was in 2010 signed to the company Woolf+Lapin for a manuscript called The Divided Story. Discography _________________________________ Doddo og Unge Frustrerte Menn, Doddo og Unge Frustrerte Menn, 1995 Ephemera, Temporarily Happy, BMG Norway AS, RCA 1996
Diverse Artister, This is Norway, 2002 Furia,...And Then We Married The World, MTG, Dreamlab Records 2003 Multipass, This is Jiggy Jiggy, 2003 Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band - Think Twice / Dub Pirates / A Special Morning, Emperor Norton 2003 Lorraine, Lorraine EP,Rec90 2003
Lorraine, Perfect Cure, Rec90 2004
Diverse Artister, Gullars...og barndommen fortsetter PS! Records 2004 The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, Big Dipper Records 2004
Syme, Planetarium 2004 Tucos Lounge, Bounty 2004 Malsain, They Never Die, Karisma Records 2005
Brimstone Solar Radiation Band, Solstice, Big Dipper Records 2005
Bart, Esperanto Of Cool, More Cowbell Records 2008 Brimstone, Smorgasbord,, Big Dipper 2009 Fenrik Lane, 317, 2010 Major Parkinson, Songs from a Solitary Home, Degaton Records 2010 Alfred Hall, So Bright Waterfall Music 2011 Marthe Valle, Si Universal Music 2o12 Chand Torsvik, Livet Ditt 2012 William Hut, The Gathering Universal Music, 2012
