Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England) is one of Britain's premier alternative rock record producers. He has worked with such artists as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Elastica, Gary Numan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Curve, Ride, Lush and My Bloody Valentine, Lostprophets, Shihad, Ivyrise and Placebo, as well as with many American artists, including The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, The Smashing Pumpkins, Them Crooked Vultures, Death Cab for Cutie, Ontronik (The Apex Theory), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Puscifer, Blonde Redhead, How to Destroy Angels, Interpol, Against Me!, the Morning After Girls and Foo Fighters.
From an early age, Moulder had an interest in music, listing among his favourite artists Cream and The Beatles. The first album he ever bought was Electric Warrior by T. Rex, and was immediately impressed by the quality of that album's recording. He joined his first band as a teenager and recorded a demo in a local studio; it was there that he realised that it had been the production that he had so enjoyed on that T. Rex record, and discovered that he was more interested in music engineering than in performing.