Moulder's musical career started in the early 1980s at
Trident Studios in London. As an assistant engineer, he worked with influential producers like
Jean-Michel Jarre, drawing from them great familiarity with electronic sounds and textures. Also an engineer at Trident was
Flood with whom Moulder would often collaborate in the future. Moulder assisted in one of Flood's recording sessions with
The Jesus and Mary Chain, and found that the often fractious and troublesome band enjoyed working with him. The Mary Chain invited Moulder to engineer their live sounds and, eventually, to engineer their 1989 album
Automatic. The album's production was praised for its combination of thick, noisy guitar with a polished, listener-friendly tone, and the Mary Chain's former label,
Creation Records, soon had Moulder producing records for
Ride,
My Bloody Valentine and
Swervedriver. ==Selected credits==