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We music supervised Sebastian Strasser's latest BMW campaign. Having previously worked with Seb on his spectacular 'Audi Mechanics' spot, we knew the score had to be anything from ordinary – that’s why we brought in the Swedish musical wizard, Marshman, to compose an original track. The result, a breathtaking vocal-soaked assault on the ears.

Thanks to Christoph Petzenhauser for asking us to be part of the team.

Production Co: Anorak
Director: Sebastian Strasser
Producer: Christoph Petzenhauser
Editor: Ted Guard @ Rock Paper Scissors/NYC
Original Composition: Marshman

When we were asked to find an existing track for this Beck's Sapphire Super Bowl spot, we had a sneaking suspicion that Chet Faker's incredible cover of No Diggity was going to grab all of the attention during that hugely important half time slot. Guess what, it did. Mission accomplished.

Artist: Chet Faker
Track: No Diggity

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For more than sixteen years, award-winning Irish composer, Stephen Rennicks, has been crafting inimitable soundtracks for the best of independent cinema and television in Ireland, the UK, Europe and America. 2016 sees Rennicks' work gracing two of the most exciting feature films of the year, Lenny Abrahamson's Oscar-winning drama, Room, and the truly remarkable documentary, Forever Pure.

Based on Emma Donoghue’s bestselling novel of the same name and starring Brie Larson (Best Actress at this year's Academy Awards), Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen and William H. Macy, Room was nominated for four Oscars in total, with Abrahamson picking up his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

Maya Zinshtein’s Forever Pure is an extraordinary feature-length documentary on the transfer of two Chechen Muslim soccer players to Israel’s Beitar Jerusalem FC. It's already received great reviews from the likes of Vanity Fair and the Hollywood Reporter, and looks set for a full international theatrical release.

Room marked Rennicks’ fifth collaboration with Abrahamson and theirs has become one of contemporary cinema’s most extraordinary partnerships. Their first feature film collaboration, Adam and Paul, won Best Film at the 2004 Irish Film and Television Awards. They collaborated again in 2007 on Garage (Best Film at the Torino Film Festival, CICAE Art Cinema Award at Cannes) and What Richard Did in 2012, a film praised by the international press and awarded the Golden Tulip for Best Film at the 32nd Istanbul International Film Festival. Frank, released in 2014, saw the Rennicks-Abrahamson collaboration hit a new high. A film with music at its heart, Rennicks’ songwriting, score and musical direction were unanimously praised, and the film’s soundtrack, released on Silva Screen Records, was named number three in Mojo’s soundtrack albums of 2014.

Outside of his partnership with Abrahamson, Rennicks has written acclaimed scores for Richie O’Donnell’s celebrated 2010 documentary, The Pipe; Paddy Breathnach’s 2004 comedy Man About Dog and 2016 drama, Viva; Stephen Bradley’s 2005 horror comedy, Boy Eats Girl; and John Butler’s 2013 hit, The Bachelor Weekend (The Stag). His recent television work includes Channel 4’s 2015 hit drama, Not Safe for Work, written by playwright DC Moore and starring Zawe Ashton.

There’s an old joke about drummers being people that hang around with musicians. 

The drum-only track on this spot we music supervised for Heineken blows that theory right out of the water. This deep dark groove is a custom composition produced for us by Carla Azar – quite simply one of the finest drummers on the planet. It’s been our mission to work with Carla since hearing her band, the L.A underground three piece, Autolux. Azar’s extraordinary drum skills have also landed her onstage with the likes of Jack White and T-Bone Burnett, amongst so many others. Carla Azar is that rare breed in music that’s becoming all-but-extinct - a true artist.

The spot was directed by Sebastian Strasser, who we’ve previously worked with on AUDI and BMW, and who most definitely knows how to bring all the components of a spot together for something that becomes greater than the sum of its parts. 

The icing on the cake was when Sebastian asked our very own Raife to dust off his drumsticks to be the desert drumming astronaut that kicks off the spot. One giant step for… oh please!

Director: Sebastian Strasser
Composer: Carla Azar
Production Co: Radical Media
Producer: Ben Schneider
Agency: Publicis Italy  
Agency Producer - Silvia Cattaneo
Creative Director - Marco Venturelli                                      
Editor: Paul Hardcastle @ Trim
SFX - Raj @ GCRS

Radical Media, Berlin asked us to help sort the music for Sebastian Strasser's latest Audi spot.

It was easy to see from the storyboard that we were going to need an epic score to back up Sebastian’s epic creative vision. So we brought in the genius LA-based composer, Robert Cairns to flex his muscle.  And never ones to go half way, we flew out to LA to record the drums with the mighty Carla Azar (Autolux/Jack White), while the masterful Gus Seffert (Beck/Black Keys) took on the synth and bass duties to complete what was one hell of a ride.

Thanks to Christoph Petzenhauser for asking us to be part of the team.

Production Co : Radical Media
Agency: Thjink
Director: Sebastian Strasser
Producer: Christoph Petzenhauser
Original Composition: Rob Cairns

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Dirty Soup adds some sparkle to the latest campaign by Tiffany & Co.

When Ogilvy & Mather NYC asked us to score a collection of commercials for the world-famous jewelry store, Tiffany & Co, we couldn’t have been more up for the task ahead. The brief was to score instantly identifiable, timeless arrangements that could work with any classical instrumental line-up. We engaged top composer and session musician, Nikolaj Torp Larsen. Nikolaj has played with some of the biggest names in music. From contemporary artists such as Adele, Mark Ronson, Florence And The Machine and Lana Del Rey - and regularly playing sessions for the super heavyweight, Academy Award-winning producer, Paul Epworth, as well as lending his unique musical style to legendary artists such as The Specials, Klaus Voormann and Yusuf Islam – Nikolaj is a musical force in his own right. We were in no doubt he would deliver a timeless score to round off what was a truly beautiful campaign to work on.

Thanks to Kirsten Arongino and Ted Guard for asking us to be part of the team.

Production Co: Ogilvy & Mather NYC
Director: Keith Ehrlich
Producer: Kirsten Arongino
Editor: Ted Guard @ Rock Paper Scissors
Original Composition: Nikolaj Torp Larsen

Dirty Soup joined forces with JWT and the superstar director Jake Nava to create two very special tracks for the British Army’s 2014 and 2015 advertising campaigns. 

When we say Jake's a big deal, we really do mean big. He's worked on music videos for artists including Beyonce and the Rolling Stones and directed advertising campaigns for the likes of Armani, Puma, Diet Coke, Bacardi and HSBC.

The story behind the spots was 'More Than Meets The Eye', so we knew we had to find a very special composer to score the music – someone not only talented, but capable of bringing something unexpected to the mix. That’s why we asked Faith SFX, one of the worlds greatest beatboxers to work his magic by recording the tracks by using only his unbelievable, all-natural skills. The combination of his vocal-only approach and Jake’s powerful visuals created something truly special. The results – as you can hear, well they're pretty astonishing!

Huge thanks to Rebecca Hunter at JWT for bringing us in to supervise the music!

Agency: JWT
Producer - Rebecca Hunter
Director: Jake Nava
Original Composition - Faith SFX

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When Rattling Stick director Ed Morris asked Dirty Soup to help him create a track for his new spot for the Royal Navy, we knew only British music royalty would do, so we called Bernard Butler to ask him if he'd record an original track for the campaign. As you can see from the film, the partnership between Ed and Bernard proved to be pretty dynamic.

Campaign Magazine had a chat with our very own Raife Burchell and the legendary Bernard Butler about how he came to write the soundtrack for the latest Royal Navy campaign.

Production co: Rattling Stick
Director: Ed Morris
Producer: Chris Harrison
Original Composition: Bernard Butler

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We were thrilled to have been asked to help find musical talent for ‘What If’, a short film directed by STREETDANCE duo Max and Dania, produced by Vertigo Films and commissioned by BBC Films and Film Four as part of the 2012 London Film Festival programme. 'What if’ is a rendering of Rudyard Kipling’s much loved poem If; and tells the story of Joe (George Sargeant), a young teen, who learns, through an older, wiser man, played by Noel Clarke, the fundamental life lessons on nobility, patience and generosity; lessons on how to become an admirable young man.

Check out Bigz, Lady Leshurr , and none other than Faith SFX doing their thing in the film - also keep an eye out for screenings on BBC iPlayer, 4OD and Cineworld and Odeon cinemas.

Dirty Soup Presents is a series of live sessions held at locations across Soho House's global network. It takes a lot to impress their discerning clientele, so we make sure to pull out all the stops. Every. Damn. Time. Since the series started some of the artists to perform for us so far have included; Ed Harcourt, George Ezra, Rita Ora, Cold Specks, Liam Bailey, Laura Mvula, Mystery Jets, Charli XCS, The Smoke Fairies, John Grant, Naughty Boy, Tom Odell, Son Of Dave and Villagers. 

Keep an eye out for our future events state side as we're now booking in NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami and Toronto.

18 bikes, 3 weeks and miles of tarmac saw Honda travel to Slovenia using the beauty of the Alps to frame Honda’s new collection and capture the spirit of Honda’s exciting new collection of motorbikes... and we sorted the music.

With decidedly different vibes to the three spots we were asked to work on, we worked hard to find the perfect tune for each one. Eventually we settled on I Got A Thing by Hanni El Khatib and Brice Davoli's hypnotic Luna Mia Cara for spots one and two. We decided to go for a different approach for the final spot, so we commissioned Maxwell Scott to compose an original track. 

Thanks to Kream London for asking us to be involved.

Tracks used:
Luna Mia Cara by Brice Davoli
I Got A Thing by Hanni El Khatib
Original composition by Maxwell Scott

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Dirty Soup has a direct line to the coolest DJs out there. We've helped brands enlist the services of The Maccabees, Alison Mosshart, Lliana Bird (Xfm), Carl Barat, Hot Chip, Naughty Boy and Death in Vegas – just to name a few.

Get in touch if you want us to help you find the perfect DJ for your event.

Dirty Soup teamed up with Rattling Stuff and Colour TV to produce a music session for GQ.com and the GQ iPad App .

The session features the American multi award winning singer-songwriter, John Grant, and was filmed at Gibson Guitar Studios in London.

John spoke to GQ about the writing process behind his acclaimed debut album ‘Queen Of Denmark’, and the emotional heartache behind ‘Vietnam’, the new and exclusive track he performed for the session.

GQ Sessions are directed by Cassidy Burcher, produced by Genevieve Stevens, with our very own Raife Burchell, Ringan Ledwidge and Jay Pond-Jones as executive producers.