Tamir Muskat (in Hebrew תמיר מוסקט) is an Israeli musician/producer-sound engineer who was born and raised in Petach Tikva, Israel as son of a Romanian immigrant. His father was the manager of Anzeagi Conservatorion for music in Petach Tikva. As a teenager, he was already a prominent rock drummer and percussionist. Early on, Tamir started producing Israel's first thrash metal records in his basement studio but also began working with Sephardic Eastern singers of Greek and Turkish origin in a highly ornamented style that is Middle Eastern in nature.

Tamir moved to the United States in 1995 and joined the band Izabo. In 1996, Tamir joined the internationally acclaimed band Firewater as a drummer and producer. With Firewater, he toured the world and made three albums, two of which he produced. Tamir founded Vibromonk Records with Dan Shatzky, which has become an important music production studio in New York City. Since then Tamir has produced albums with exceptional artists from around the world, and has helped create a unique musical palette. As a member of the instrumental trio Big Lazy, he released The Big Apple's Creme de la Crème, called "primeval, lurid, mournful, frantic, pretty, dissonant, stark, lush" by The Village Voice and "elegantly gritty stunningly beautiful music" by The New Yorker. Big Lazy has written music for various films, and toured with The White Stripes, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverent Horton Heat, Tom Tom Club and Firewater.

In 2002, Tamir launched a project called J.U.F., with Ori Kaplan and members of Gogol Bordello. This electro/Gypsy/punk band created a new music scene in New York City, making remixes for Gypsy labels in Europe and DJing.

The collective Balkan Beat Box is a progression of this style of music, taking a worldly approach to the music of their ancestors and evolving it to not only include the region of the world that they emigrated from, but also to incorporate the musical styles from their parents' and grandparents' birthplaces.

In 2007, Muskat opened Vibromonk East in Tel Aviv, where he produces records for artists from around the globe.

Discography Asaf Avidan -"Different Pulsess" - producer, musician, engineer, mixer Oren Barzilay - "Sorrow demons joy blizzards" - producer, musician, engineer, mixer Firewater - "The Golden Hour" - producer, musician, engineer, mixer Hava Alberstain - "Ech etslecha" - producer, musician, engineer, mixer Balkan Beat Box - - band member Give Blue Eyed Black Boy Nu Med J.U.F - "Gogol Bordello VS Tamir Muskat" - band member Alaev Family and Tamir Muskat - producer, musician, engineer, mixer Big Lazy - 3 albums - Band member / Producer External links http://www.Ape-Records.com/ http://www.balkanbeatbox.com/ Vibromonk Records Techno Fusion from Balkan Beat Box Interview http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Arts/Article.aspx?id=285694 v t e Firewater Tod Ashley Yonadav Halevy Stefano Iascone Çosar Kamçı Uri Brauner Kinrot Massimo Piredda Adam Scheflan Duane Denison Yuval Gabay Kurt Hoffman George Javori Oren Kaplan Ori Kaplan Jim Kimball Tamir Muskat Tim Otto David Ouimet Hahn Rowe Paul Wallfisch Studio albums Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire The Ponzi Scheme Psychopharmacology The Man on the Burning Tightrope The Golden Hour International Orange! Cover albums Songs We Should Have Written Singles "Dropping Like Flies" Related articles Articles Bloodshot Records Jetset Records Groups The Denison/Kimball Trio Foetus Hugo Largo The Jesus Lizard Laughing Hyenas Th' Legendary Shack Shakers Motherhead Bug Mule Soul Coughing Sulfur Swans Tomahawk