Martin Charles Rushent (11 July 1948 – 4 June 2011)[1][3] was an English record producer, best known for his work with the Human League, the Stranglers and Buzzcocks.

[1] Rushent left school and started working at a local chemical factory and then with his father before embarking on his music career in the early 1970s as a studio engineer.

He worked on sessions for Fleetwood Mac,[7] T. Rex, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Petula Clark, Jerry Lee Lewis and Osibisa.

Rushent produced the group's Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes and Black and White albums and recorded demos for Joy Division, before tiring of his commute to London and left UA at the end of the 1970s.

[1][6] Rushent expressed a desire to move away from guitar bands, and bought a Linn LM-1 drum machine,[9] Roland MC-8 Microcomposer and Jupiter-8 synthesiser to learn sequencing and synthesis techniques.

[10] Rushent's production on Dare frustrated the group's guitarist Jo Callis, as the only guitar on the album was used to trigger a gate on the synthesiser.

[6] Rushent built a home studio around a Mackie console, Alesis ADAT HD24 recorder and Cubase 5,[8] with which he produced music by the Pipettes,[10] Does It Offend You, Yeah?

[14] At the time of his death, Rushent was working on a 30th anniversary version of Dare, remixed like Love and Dancing but using traditional musical instruments instead of synthesisers.