Vincenzo " Cenzo" Capellini Townshend (born 25 March 1963) is an English record producer, mixer, and audio engineer, and has worked with artists and bands including the Rolling Stones, a-ha, Kaiser Chiefs, U2, Snow Patrol, Florence + the Machine, Jamie T, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, the Maccabees, Jamie Cullum, Mystery Jets, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Thirty Seconds to Mars. Townshend was awarded 'Mix Engineer of the Year' for two successive years by the Music Producers Guild Awards in 2009 and 2010, and nominated again in 2016, 2017 and 2018." Muse thank Rick Rubin for teaching them 'how not to produce' at Music Producers Guild Awards", NME, 11 February 2010, retrieved 2011-06-10
Townshend was educated at Milton Abbey School in Dorset.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 volume 3, page 3923.
As of 2012, Townshend mixed from his Decoy Studios in Woodbridge Suffolk.
| +Cenzo Townshend discography | ||
| Oh Wonder | No One Else Can Wear Your Crown | |
| Keane | Cause and Effect | |
| The Specials | Encore | |
| Rat Boy | SCUM | |
| Maxïmo Park | Risk to Exist | |
| You Me At Six | Night People | "Take on the World" |
| Amy Macdonald | Under Stars | |
| James Blunt | The Afterlove | Make Me Better |
| Passenger | Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea | |
| Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Familia | |
| Jake Bugg | On My One | |
| Suede | Night Thoughts | |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Stay Together | various |
| The Feeling | The Feeling | |
| a-ha | Cast in Steel | "Cast in Steel" "Mythomania" "She's Humming A Tune" "Giving Up The Ghost" "The End Of The Affair"(only included in bonus disc) |
| The Maccabees | Marks to Prove It | |
| Everything Everything | Get to Heaven | various |
| SOAK | Before We Forgot How to Dream | "Sea Creatures" "B a noBody" |
| All We Are | All We Are | various |
| Rhodes | Wishes | |
| FFS | FFS | various |
| Jamie T | Carry on the Grudge | |
| Jungle | (Single) | "Time" |
| Port Isla | (Single) | "In The Long Run" |
| Foxes | Glorious | |
| Sivu | Something On High | various |
| The Family Rain | Under the Volcano | |
| Dotan | 7 Layers | |
| Ward Thomas | (Single) | "Push For The Stride" |
| Passenger | Whispers | (Single) |
| Lissie | Back to Forever | |
| Together Pangea | Badillac | |
| Skaters | Manhattan | |
| Devlin | A Moving Picture | tracks |
| Kensington | Vultures | |
| Tom Jones | Spirit in the Room | "Hit or Miss" |
| Miles Kane | First of My Kind | |
| Sharon Van Etten | Tramp | (Single) |
| King Charles | LoveBlood | |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Start the Revolution Without Me | |
| Paper Route | The Peace of Wild Things | |
| The Maccabees | Given to the Wild | |
| Snow Patrol | Fallen Empires | Various |
| Kate Miller-Heidke | Nightflight | |
| Alex Winston | Velvet Elvis | |
| Eskimo Joe | Ghosts of the Past | |
| Crystal Castles | Crystal Castles II | "Not In Love" (Ft. Robert Smith) |
| Guillemots | Walk the River | "I Must Be A Lover" |
| Patrick Wolf | Lupercalia | |
| Friendly Fires | Pala | |
| The Feeling | Together We Were Made | |
| The Horrors | Skying | "Changing the Rain" |
| Bryan Ferry | Every Kingdom | |
| Devlin | Bud, Sweat and Beers | |
| Grinderman | (Single) | "Palaces of Montezuma" |
| Detroit Social Club | Existence | |
| Tom Jones | Praise & Blame | "Did Trouble Me" |
| Yeasayer | (Single) | "Madder Red" |
| Jamie Cullum | The Pursuit | "Don't Stop the Music" |
| Corinne Bailey Rae | The Sea | "Paris Nights/New York Mornings" |
| Starsailor | All the Plans | |
| Florence + The Machine | Lungs | |
| Hockey | (Single) | "Too Fake" |
| U2 | No Line on the Horizon | Various |
| Franz Ferdinand | ||
| Jamie T | Kings & Queens | "various" |
| Ida Maria | Fortress Round My Heart | |
| Editors | In This Light and on This Evening | |
| Late Of The Pier | Fantasy Black Channel | |
| Elbow | (Single) | "One Day Like This" |
| Infadels | (Single) | "Make Mistakes" |
| Infadels | (Single) | "Free Things For Poor People" |
| Primal Scream | Beautiful Future | "Beautiful Future" & "Can't Go Back" |
| Jamie T | Panic Prevention | "various" |
| Peter Bjorn and John | Writer's Block | "Young Folks" ft. Victoria Bergsman |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob | |
| Athlete | Beyond the Neighbourhood | |
| Babyshambles | Shotter's Nation | |
| Bloc Party | A Weekend in the City | |
| Editors | An End Has a Start | |
| Interpol | Our Love to Admire | "No I In Threesome" |
| The Maccabees | Colour It In | "About Your Dress" |
| Mystery Jets | Diamonds in the Dark EP | |
| Snow Patrol | Eyes Open | |
| Graham Coxon | (Single) | "What Ya Gonna Do Now?" |
| Babyshambles | The Blinding EP | |
| Mystery Jets | Floatsam and Jetsam EP | |
| Graham Coxon | Love Travels at Illegal Speeds | |
| Editors | The Back Room | |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Employment |
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