Joel Ford first exploded onto Brooklyn’s electronic music scene as the formidable leftfield synth-duo Games, and later as Ford & Lopatin. While maintaining projects as an artist, Joel has spent the past decade working as a producer, mixer, engineer and composer for such projects as Oneohtrix Point Never, How To Dress Well, Jacques Greene, Autre Ne Veut, Com Truise, Cyril Hahn, Alex Cameron, North Americans, Kirin J Callinan, Heathered Pearls, and Young Ejecta.

Joel has recently emerged as a premier game audio sound designer after mixing Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda: Cadence of Hyrule (OST). The 2019 Nintendo release features gameplay based mostly around the music and has been heralded as “the best Legend of Zelda offshoot ever made” -Polygon.

His forward thinking blend of analog and digital processing makes him a flexible and powerful sound designer, churning out successful works in the TV / Advertising, Film, Game Audio, and Music worlds.

Joel works out of his studio in East Los Angeles owned and run by his record label, Driftless Recordings.