After the album was recorded at the Garden, it was mixed at Hansa Studios in Berlin, which at the time had the biggest SSL mixing board (56-channel) in the world. Jones felt his contributions merited inclusion in the production team, and he was given co-producer credit (with Miller and the band) for the next two Depeche albums - Some Great Reward and Black Celebration - which effectively began his production career.

Reward includes the clangorous single "Master and Servant"; the spooky, thought-provoking "Blasphemous Rumours" and "Shake the Disease"; and the band's first U.S.-charting single "People Are People" (No. 13) (for which Jones did not receive production credit). Celebration features the great meditation on death "Fly On the Windscreen," as well as "Stripped," and the peppy, paranoid "A Question of Time."

Having met and fallen in love with Anete Humpe, lead singer of the German new wave pop band Ideal, and delighted with the Hansa Studio, Jones moved to Berlin in '83 and stayed until '92. There Jones engineered and/or produced quite a few German bands, including Ideal and avant-noise band Einsturzende Neubauten.

In the late-80s Jones produced art-punk pioneers Wire, and over the course of two exceptional albums (The Ideal Copy, A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck) aided in the band's transition from thrash/minimalism to powerful, Gang of Four-type alterna-funk ("Ahead"), and floral neo-psychedelia ("Kidney Bingos").

When the Wall came down in '89, Berlin changed from a cloistered enclave of the West embedded in the East to just another city, and gradually lost its appeal for Jones, who returned to London in '92.

Since then he has produced transplanted Australian Simon Bonney, the tasty jungle and electronica of Sheep On Drugs, and even reunited with old friends Depeche Mode to help mix and engineer tracks for Ultra ('97). He produced the instrumental soundtrack to the Australian film To Have and to Hold with Nick Cave in '95; and has co-produced three albums for techno- oppers Erasure (Vince Clarke, Andy Bell), including the wildly successful Wild!, with the luxuriant "Blue Savannah" and the anthemic "Star."