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===Producer=== In addition to producing his own music on the albums ''I Get Wet'', ''The Wolf'', ''Close Calls with Brick Walls'', and ''You're Not Alone'', Andrew has produced and mixed music for other artists as well as working on special commercial music projects. These include the production of music exclusively for commercial use on television and radio. In 2008, Andrew gained new notoriety for recording a song called "The McLaughlin Groove", based on an exchange between [[Wikipedia:Pat Buchanan|Pat Buchanan]] and [[Wikipedia:ohn McLaughlin (host)|John McLaughlin]] on the political television show ''[[Wikipedia:The McLaughlin Group|The McLaughlin Group]]''. The song was commissioned by the Public Radio International show ''Fair Game'', on which Andrew has appeared for interviews.<ref>[http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/fairgame/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=683137 Fair Game: The McLaughlin Groove] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212030240/http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/fairgame/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=683137 |date=February 12, 2009}}. publicbroadcasting.net</ref> In 2004, Andrew recorded a television jingle for [[Wikipedia:Kit Kat|Kit Kat]] candy bars, and rewrote their trademark "Give Me A Break" slogan into a new song.<ref name=loudwire/> The recording appeared in a variety of 30-second, 45-second, and 1 minute commercials, broadcast on television worldwide. "I avoided working with other people for many years, partly out of paranoia, and partly out of an earnest desire to stand on my own. After a while, I got tired of thinking that way, and it just seemed natural to do the opposite of what I had done before. I like making music with other people. I can still make music by myself too."<ref>[http://www.andrewwk.com/production.php Production]. Andrew W.K.. Retrieved June 29, 2012.</ref> Andrew's earliest external production work was with the group [[Wolf Eyes]], on their now out-of-print 12-inch EP ''Fortune Dove''. The last track on that album, "What Kind of Band?" features Andrew W.K. on vocals explaining why he enjoys listening to Wolf Eyes. Since then, he's chosen to work on a select and seemingly random set of projects, beginning with production and mixing on the album, ''Through The Panama'', by Brooklyn, NY based three-piece [[Wikipedia:art rock|art rock]] band, [[Wikipedia:Sightings (band)|Sightings]]. The album was jointly released by Load Records and [[Wikipedia:Thurston Moore|Thurston Moore]]'s [[Wikipedia:Ecstatic Peace!|Ecstatic Peace!]] label in October 2007. At the end of 2007, Andrew accepted an invitation to produce a new album, ''Repentance'', for veteran reggae artist [[Wikipedia:Lee "Scratch" Perry|Lee "Scratch" Perry]]. The two had met when Andrew interviewed Perry for DirecTV.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1047168/perry-wk-make-unlikely-recording-team|title=Perry, W.K. Make Unlikely Recording Team|magazine=[[Wikipedia:Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|quote=The two artists met in Austin earlier this year when W.K. interviewed Perry for a DirecTV special about South by Southwest. .... They met again a few months later in New York at a taping for W.K.'s in-development TV series ''Smokeshow.'' "I ended up meeting people from Narnack that night and I expressed my admiration for Lee," W.K. says. "I asked what he was doing for his next album and said I'd like to be involved. Some time went by and then they asked me to produce."|date=November 30, 2007|access-date=December 4, 2007|last=Wood|first=Mikael|location=[[Wikipedia:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]]| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071201185951/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1047168/perry-wk-make-unlikely-recording-team| archive-date= December 1, 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref> "Repentance" was nominated for "Best Reggae Album" in the 2009 Grammy Awards.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091005210920/http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/51st_show/list.aspx The 51st Grammy Awards Winners List]. grammy.com</ref> On February 20, 2008, Andrew released an exclusive ringtone commissioned by Universal Music Japan for the Japanese mobile phone market. The song is called, "Sonna no Kankei Ne Rock", which celebrates a then popular catch-phrase by a TV Talent, "Sonna no Kankei Ne, Hai Oppappi!" This translates to, "I Don't Give A Damn, Yes Oppappi!" The ringtone was first announced on a Japanese national T.V. program called ''Music Station'' and had over 3,500 downloads that day. Cumulative sales of ringtone are over 20,000. Andrew's song debuted at No.1 in Label Mobile's International daily ringtone chart. Label Mobile is the biggest mobile retailer in Japan.<ref>[http://www.andrewwk.com/news.php News]. Andrew W.K.. Retrieved June 29, 2012.</ref>
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