Dave Trumfio

Trumfio grew up in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, and was a staff engineer after apprenticing at Seagrape Recording Studios.Kening, Dan (1996) [https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-69131593 "Rising stars The Trumfio brothers are ready to shine with a record deal and an upcoming Pulsars' album"]{{dead link|date=July 2021}}, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), November 29, 1996 He started his home studio, Kingsize Recording Den, and officially opened Kingsize Soundlabs in Chicago's Wicker Park district in 1991 with partner Mike Hagler. He currently{{when|date=February 2020}} resides in Los Angeles and runs Kingsize SoundLabs, a recording studio in Glassell Park, California.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

{{Quotation|"Dave Trumfio knew he wanted to make recording his life from the day he bought his first multitrack, a Fostex X15 4 track, way back in 1984."{{Cite web|url=https://vintageking.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603045022/http://vintageking.com/site/files/trumfio.htm|url-status=dead|title=Vintage King Audio - Pro Audio Equipment & Sales - Studio Design & Audio Integration|archive-date=June 3, 2008|website=Vintageking.com}}

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His early work included recordings by Evil Beaver, The Mekons, Wilco, Alternative TV, Young Marble Giants guitarist Stewart Moxham and British rock band The Pretty Things.Weisbard, Eric (1997) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=xbtTqjWx8FsC&dq=%22trumfio%22+mekons&pg=PA155 Pulsars Pulsars]", SPIN, April 1997, p.155-6, retrieved January 8, 2012

He has since worked with acts such as Wilco,Baranowski, Niles (2001) "[http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2001-08-15/music/o-a-r-and-the-baldwin-brothers/ O.A.R. and the Baldwin Brothers]", Riverfront Times, August 15, 2001, retrieved January 8, 2012{{cite web

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}} OK Go,[http://www.tsunamient.com/files/DaveTrumfio.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819051857/http://www.tsunamient.com/files/DaveTrumfio.pdf|date=August 19, 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vintagemicrophone.com/JShop/page.php?xPage=article13.html |title=Shop Unavailable |publisher=VintageMicrophone.com |access-date=July 31, 2014}} and Patrick Park.Deming, Mark "[http://www.allmusic.com/album/come-what-will-r1732481/review Come What Will Review]", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6042333/a/Lonliness+Knows+My+Name.htm |title=Patrick Park – Loneliness Knows My Name CD Album |publisher=Cduniverse.com |date=February 3, 2004 |access-date=July 31, 2014}}

Trumfio has worked for independent record labels such as Merge, TeenBeat Records, Touch and Go Records/Quarterstick Records, Minty Fresh, Simple Machines, Darla Records and Vagrant. He has also produced recordings by singer songwriter Patrick Park,Santangelo, Antonia (2003) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=1CkEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22trumfio%22+producer&pg=PA57 Patrick Park Under the Unminding Skies]", CMJ New Music Monthly, June 2003, retrieved January 8, 2012 chamber pop band The Aluminum Group,Richards, David (1999) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=bw0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22trumfio%22+producer&pg=PA16 Minty Fresh's Floraline Gives '80s-Style Pop a New Spin for the Present]", Billboard, May 1, 1999, p. 16, retrieved January 8, 2012Ankeny, Jason "[http://www.allmusic.com/album/plano-r366846/review Plano Review]", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012 funk musicians The Baldwin Brothers,Farr, Sara (2002) "[http://www.prefixmag.com/features/the-baldwin-brothers/file-tvt-records-artist-the-baldwin-brothers-under/12457/ File TVT Records artist the Baldwin Brothers under 'junktronic']", Prefix, January 1, 2002, retrieved January 8, 2012 Number One Cup,Bush, Nathan "[http://www.allmusic.com/album/possum-trot-plan-r226527/review Possum Trot Plan Review]", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012 and Franklin Bruno.Sarvady, Glen (2002) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=LyoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22trumfio%22+mekons&pg=PA75 Franklin Bruno – A Cat May Look at a Queen]", CMJ New Music Monthly, November 2002, retrieved January 8, 2012

Trumfio has more recently worked with Built To Spill,Paine, Kelsey (2009) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=SP9l9_UNIm4C&dq=%22trumfio%22+producer&pg=PT32 Buolt to Spill There Is No Enemy]", Billboard, October 17, 2009, p. 33, retrieved January 8, 2012 American Music Club, Booker T, new wave revivalists The Rentals, and Australian band Papa vs Pretty.{{cite web |url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36726/Exclusive-Papa-Vs-Pretty-announce-new-album-shows |title=Exclusive: Papa Vs Pretty announce new album, shows |publisher=Fasterlouder.com.au |date=August 26, 2013 |access-date=July 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827020723/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36726/Exclusive-Papa-Vs-Pretty-announce-new-album-shows |archive-date=August 27, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Trumfio was the frontman in the 1990s new-wave band The Pulsars, in which he did "everything but play the drums", his brother Harry acting as the band's drummer.Molanphy, Chris (1997) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=MC0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22trumfio%22+pulsars&pg=PA12 Pulsars / Pulsars]", CMJ New Music Monthly, May 1997, p. 12, retrieved January 8, 2012

After releasing their debut single, the band signed to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss's post A&M venture Almo Sounds in 1995, and released an album and two EPs.

He also played in Ashtray Boy,Anderson, Lydia (1996) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22trumfio%22+mekons&pg=PA14 Pulsars]", CMJ New Music Monthly, November 1996, retrieved January 8, 2012Rothschild, David (1996) "[https://archive.today/20130131172956/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/17168682.html?dids=17168682:17168682&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+07,+1996&author=David+Rothschild.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=ASHTRAY+BOY'S+FUTURE+RESTS+ON+NEW+RELEASES+AND+PSYCHIC+CONNECTION&pqatl=google Ashtray Boy's Future Rests on New Releases and Psychic Connection]", Chicago Tribune, June 7, 1996, p. 6, retrieved January 8, 2012 The Mekons (intermittently), in Sally Timms' band,Sullivan, Jim (1995) "Timms' new act: melancholy cabaret", Boston Globe, May 11, 1995, p. 71 and on The Aluminum Group's Plano album.Romero, Michele (1998) "[https://ew.com/article/1998/08/21/music-review-plano/ Music Review: 'Plano' (1998) The Aluminum Group]", Entertainment Weekly, August 21, 1998, retrieved January 8, 2012 After bassist Sarah Corina left the Mekons in 2015, Trumfio replaced her, at least through 2025.{{cite web

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|title="It looks like an accident...." Live review: The Mekons, Harrisburg, PA, July 17, 2015

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|title=I was at Mekonville. Where were you?

|author=Terrell, Steve

|date= August 11, 2017

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• Big Jack Johnson — Daddy, When Is Mama Comin' Home (1991)
• Mr. Fingers — Introduction (1992)
• Certain Distant Suns — Huge E.P. (1992)
• Ashtray Boy — Honeymoon Suite (1993)
• Certain Distant Suns — Happy on the Inside (1994)
• Various Artists — Insurgent Country, Vol.1: For a Life of Sin (Bloodshot Records, 1994)
• DQE — But Me, I Fell Down (1994)
• Pigface — Notes from Thee Underground (1994)
• The Mekons — Retreat from Memphis (1994)
• The Pretty Things — Wine, Women & Whiskey: More Chicago Blues & Rock Sess (1994)
• Jonboy Langford & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts — Misery Loves Company: Songs of Johnny Cash (1995)
• The Handsome Family — Odessa (1995)
• Number One Cup — Possum Trot Plan (1995)
• Holiday — Holiday (1995)Klein, Joshua "[http://www.allmusic.com/album/holiday-r228480/review Holiday Review]", AllMusic, retrieved January 8, 2012
• Number One Cup — Divebomb (1996)
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• Yum-Yum — Dan Loves Patti (1996)
• The Coctails — Live at Lounge Ax (1996)
• Holiday — Ready, Steady, Go (1996)
• Butterglory — Are You Building a Temple in Heaven (1996)
• Rico Bell — Return of Rico Bell (1996)
• Motorhome — Sex Vehicle (1996)
• The Pulsars — Submission to the Masters (1996)
• Godzuki — Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1996)
• The Pulsars — Pulsars (1997)
• Palace Music — Lost Blues & Other Songs (1997)
• Tsunami — Brilliant Mistake (1997)
• hollAnd — Your Orgasm (1997)
• Billy Bragg & Wilco — Mermaid Avenue (1998)
• Aluminum Group — Plano (1998)
• The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group — Sniff (1998)
• Sally Timms — Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (1999)
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• Tristeza — Dream Signals In Full Circles (2000)
• Aden — Hey 19 (2000)
• Koufax — It Had to Do With Love (2000)
• Billy Bragg & Wilco — Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 (2000)
• The Prescriptions — Why We Don't Rent to Women (2000)
• My Morning Jacket — At Dawn (2001)
• Jenny Toomey — Antidote (2001)
• Justin Planasch — Roam (2001)
• Gift Original Soundtrack — Original Soundtrack (2001)
• Wayne Kramer — Adult World (2002)
• Franklin Bruno — Cat May Look at a Queen (2002)
• The Baldwin Brothers — Cooking with Lasers (2002)
• Irving — Good Morning Beautiful (2002)
• Various Artists — MTV2 Handpicked, Vol. 2 (2002)
• Mates of State — Our Constant Concern (2002)
• Koufax — Social Life (2002)
• Ok Go — Get Over It (2002)
• Slowrider — Nacimiento (2002)
• Ok Go — Ok Go (2002)
• Earlimart — Avenues (2003)
• Patrick Park — Loneliness Knows My Name (2003)
• The Sun — Love & Death (2003)
• Jamison Parker — Notes & Photographs EP (2003)
• Underworld Original Soundtrack — Original Soundtrack (2003)
• The Velvet Teen — Elysium (2004)
• Chuck Prophet — Age Of Miracles (2004)
• Kool Keith/Kutmasta Kurt — Break U Off/Takin' It Back (2004)
• Thelonious Monster — California Clam Chowder (2004)
• Simon Joyner — Lost with the Lights On (2004)
• Elkland — Apart (2005)
• Elkland — Apart (The Remixes) (2005)
• Elkland — Golden (2005)
• Nothing Painted Blue — Taste the Flavor (2005)
• Koufax – Hard Times Are in Fashion (2005)
• Grandaddy — Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla (2005)
• Grandaddy — Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006)
• Future Pigeon — Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (2006)
• The Baldwin Brothers — The Return of the Golden Rhodes (2006)
• The Adored — New Language (2006)
• Devics — Push the Heart (2006)
• Nadine Zahr — Underneath the Everyday (2006)
• Earlimart[http://rocksellout.com/2007/08/13/earlimart-mentor-tormentor] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010204609/http://rocksellout.com/2007/08/13/earlimart-mentor-tormentor |date=October 10, 2007 }} — Mentor Tormentor (2007)
• Acute — Arms Around a Stranger (2007)
• Let's Go Sailing — Chaos in Order (2007)
• Patrick Park — Everyone's in Everyone (2007)
• Kristin Mooney — Hydroplane (2007)
• American Music Club — Golden Age (2008)
• E for Explosion — Reinventing the Heartbeat (2008)
• Great Northern — Sleepy Eepee (2008)
• Devics — Distant Radio (2008)
• The Rentals — Songs About Time (2009)
• Built to Spill — There Is No Enemy (2009)
• MC Lars — This Gigantic Robot Kills (2009)

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• Papa vs Pretty — White Deer Park (2014){{cite web|title=Exclusive: Papa Vs Pretty announce new album, shows|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36726/Exclusive-Papa-Vs-Pretty-announce-new-album-shows|publisher=FasterLouder.com.au|access-date=August 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827020723/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36726/Exclusive-Papa-Vs-Pretty-announce-new-album-shows|archive-date=August 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}
• Mekons — Deserted (2019)Information on the website of Bloodshot Records
• Dogstar — Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (2023){{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/p/ChQAYz_u7u6/?hl=en | title=Instagram|website=Instagram.com }}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.thepulsars.com/ The Pulsars official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080603045022/http://vintageking.com/site/files/trumfio.htm Dave Trumfio: Monthly Special] at vintageking.com
• [http://www.vintagemicrophone.com/JShop/page.php?xPage=article13.html Interview with Dave Trumfio (Wilco, OK Go, Patrick Park)] at vintagemicrophone.com

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