Jim Monaghan

Jim Monaghan, known professionally as Jim the Boss, is a producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer from Secaucus, New Jersey, known for his work with recording studio Hoboken HiFi and record label Hudson Soul.

Career[edit]

Jim’s career started in 2013 with his first official solo release, a 3 track EP called Dub-O-Tron 3000 released on the Boom One Records label,^[1] which thrust his skills into the spotlight and started attracting artists to his studio. In the same year, Jim would go on to meet Miserable Man, an Italian street busker, and join forces to produce a 45rpm 7-inch disc with Dave Hillyard of The Slackers, an EP called American Sessions.^[2]

In 2013, Jim also founded Hoboken HiFi at the famed Neumann Leather Building in Hoboken, New Jersey.^[3]. At Hoboken HiFi, Jim and his house band, known as The HiFi Rockers, produce music on vintage analog equipment with some experimental creations designed by Jim himself, including microphones and a reverb unit known as “The Slinky,”^[4] as well as "Reverb Squared" (a iron squarebeam) and the "Cigar Box" (mattress springs stretched and bolted to the inside of a cigar box).

In 2016, he would produce his second album “Hudson Soul”^[5], which would go on to be nominated by the Independent Music Awards. This release was declared ‘full of musicality, passionately produced and voiced, and all to support a talented musician’s family in need of financial support’ by NiceUp,^[6] and ‘a stylistic evacuation to the analog seventies’ by ReggaeHr.^[7]

In 2017, Jim left Boom One Records and, with the help of label owner Justin Butler, started his own record label called Hudson Soul. It was also during this era that he would produce Sananga’s “Gold Rush”, Eddie Skuller’s “Trust The Rhythm Track”, Jaime Hinckson's “Yaad Breeze,” and his 2019 album “Dub in HiFi,”^[8] which would be described as ‘[sounding] terrific, nice and rough and edgy, [containing] tons of quotes that are really fun to track down and also [offering] wonderful melodies’,^[9] and also secure Jim a second nomination for the Independent Music Awards.

Jim is known for his dub remix style, most notably recording a new rhythm track for the song “Money” with Horace Andy and his own house band, for the Echo Beach release “Horace Andy – Broken Beats 2.” He also provided remixes for Little Harry’s “Life No Easy”^[10] and Major Mackerel’s “Princes Prophets and Priests”.^[11]

Awards & Recognition[edit]

Discography[edit]

As producer/engineer[edit]

• Dub-O-Tron 3000 (2003, Boom One Records) as Jim The Boss
• Everyone Is Equal (2013, Hoboken HiFi) with Miserable Man
• American Sessions (2014, Hoboken HiFi) with Miserable Man
• Soundsystem King (2014, Boom One Records) as Jim The Boss
• Cure/Calico (2014, Total Runtime) with Kiwi - Cure
• Fatty Fatty (2015, Boom One Records) with Doctah X
• Hudson Soul (2016, Boom One Records) as Jim The Boss
• Gold Rush (2017, Hudson Soul) with Sananga
• Stand For Truth (2017, Hudson Soul) with B. Davis
• Yaad Breeze (2017, Hudson Soul) with Jamie Hinckson
• Days and Nights (2018, Blossom Theory/Bendo Music) with Yellam
• Dub in HiFi (2019, Hudson Soul) as Jim The Boss
• Feeling The Vibes (2019, King Tappa Productions) with King Tappa
• On a Ride (2020, Hudson Soul) with Alex Tea^[15]
• Trust The Rhythm Track (2020, Hudson Soul) with Eddie Skuller^[16]
• El Primo (2021, no label) with Ned Goold
• 9 to 5 (2022, King Tappa Productions) with King Tappa^[17]

As remixer[edit]

• I Kalytery Moy Mera (2015, Geomagnetic Records) The Unholy Union remix
• La Revancha (2017, no label) Los Aggrotones remix
• Life No Easy (2017, Pomegranite Sounds) Little Harry remix
• Overdubbed (2018, Echo Beach) Dubmatix/Sly and Robbie remix
• Money (Horace Andy Broken Beats 2) (2020, Echo Beach/Hoboken HiFi) Horace Andy remix
• Princes, Prophets, Priests (2020, Deeper Vision Records) Major Mackerel remix
• Quest for Freedom (2020, no label) Samur-I/Grove/JDPL remix
• Waiting On You (2020, no label) Pat Van Dyke remix
• Peace Gun (2021, no label) The Human Rights remix

As musician[edit]

• Everything Is Equal (2013) organ/piano for Miserable Man
• American Sessions (2013) organ/piano/guitar for Miserable Man
• Soundsystem King (2014) all instruments
• Fatty Fatty (2015) organ/piano for Doctah X
• Hudson Soul (2016) organ/piano/guitar/percussion
• Overdubbed (2018) bass/hi-hat for Dubmatix/Sly and Robbie
• Dub in HiFi (2019) organ/piano/guitar
• Princes, Profits, Priests (2020) piano for Major Mackerel
• Money (2020) synth/guitar for Horace Andy

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