Wikipedia simply has him down as a “record producer” to distinguish him from Mike Dean, the Premier League referee, while others have called him “hip‑hop’s biggest stoner”. While Mike Dean’s list of his activities may already sound quite impressive here, a cursory glance at his track record makes clear that he’s in fact dramatically understating what he is up to. Instead, I mix a little, I produce a little, I engineer a little, I master a little, and so on. “I could not imagine being just a mixer, and all you do every day is to mix, mix, mix. With an extraordinary track record as producer, songwriter, musician, mixer and remixer, Mike Dean is a one‑man music industry.