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The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 based, Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 winning producers
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson
Michael Simpson (producer)

Michael Simpson, also known as "E.Z. Mike", is one-half of the Los Angeles, California-based producing duo the Dust Brothers. He has also done producing on his own....
) and King Gizmo (John King
John King (producer)

John King, also known as "King Gizmo", is a music producer and one-half of the Los Angeles, California-based duo the Dust Brothers. As the Dust Brothers, King and Michael Simpson were noted for their dense sampling-based music, notably on the Beastie Boys' 1989 album Paul's Boutique, and later in 1996 with Beck's Odelay....
), famous for their sample
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
-based music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 in the 1980s & 1990s, and specifically for their work on the album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s Paul's Boutique
Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique is the second studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released July 25, 1989 on Capitol Records. Featuring production by the Dust Brothers, the recording sessions for the album took place at Mario G's Studio in Los Angeles and The Opium Den in Brooklyn, New York from 1988 to 1989, after which the recordings un...
 by the Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
, Odelay
Odelay

Odelay is the second major-label studio album recorded by alternative rock artist Beck, originally released June 18, 1996. After the mainstream success of "Loser ", Odelay featured several hit Single , including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut ," and "The New Pollution." The album peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart and eventua...
 by Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, and the soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 to the film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, Fight Club
Fight Club (film)

Fight Club is a 1999 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the 1996 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and follows a nameless protagonist , an everyman and an unreliable narrator who feels trapped with his white-collar position in society....
.

Dust Brothers started working together in 1985 at the Pomona College
Pomona College

Pomona College is a private university residential college Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the U.S....
 radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
, KSPC
KSPC

KSPC is a non-commercial radio station in Claremont, California, broadcasting on 88.7 FM Broadcasting, airing college radio programming. The programming is divided into blocks by music genre: Underground, Classical, Americana, World, Jazz, and Hip-hop....
, hosting a weekly hip-hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 show, started by Simpson in 1983, called 'The Big Beat Showcase'.

They eventually turned to DJing
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
 at parties, and in 1987 began writing
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
 and producing
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 for the Delicious Vinyl
Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl is an United States independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 in music and based in Los Angeles, California....
 label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
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The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 based, Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 winning producers
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson
Michael Simpson (producer)

Michael Simpson, also known as "E.Z. Mike", is one-half of the Los Angeles, California-based producing duo the Dust Brothers. He has also done producing on his own....
) and King Gizmo (John King
John King (producer)

John King, also known as "King Gizmo", is a music producer and one-half of the Los Angeles, California-based duo the Dust Brothers. As the Dust Brothers, King and Michael Simpson were noted for their dense sampling-based music, notably on the Beastie Boys' 1989 album Paul's Boutique, and later in 1996 with Beck's Odelay....
), famous for their sample
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
-based music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 in the 1980s & 1990s, and specifically for their work on the album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s Paul's Boutique
Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique is the second studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released July 25, 1989 on Capitol Records. Featuring production by the Dust Brothers, the recording sessions for the album took place at Mario G's Studio in Los Angeles and The Opium Den in Brooklyn, New York from 1988 to 1989, after which the recordings un...
 by the Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
, Odelay
Odelay

Odelay is the second major-label studio album recorded by alternative rock artist Beck, originally released June 18, 1996. After the mainstream success of "Loser ", Odelay featured several hit Single , including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut ," and "The New Pollution." The album peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart and eventua...
 by Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, and the soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 to the film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, Fight Club
Fight Club (film)

Fight Club is a 1999 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the 1996 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and follows a nameless protagonist , an everyman and an unreliable narrator who feels trapped with his white-collar position in society....
.

1980s

The Dust Brothers started working together in 1985 at the Pomona College
Pomona College

Pomona College is a private university residential college Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the U.S....
 radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
, KSPC
KSPC

KSPC is a non-commercial radio station in Claremont, California, broadcasting on 88.7 FM Broadcasting, airing college radio programming. The programming is divided into blocks by music genre: Underground, Classical, Americana, World, Jazz, and Hip-hop....
, hosting a weekly hip-hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 show, started by Simpson in 1983, called 'The Big Beat Showcase'.

They eventually turned to DJing
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
 at parties, and in 1987 began writing
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
 and producing
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 for the Delicious Vinyl
Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl is an United States independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 in music and based in Los Angeles, California....
 label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
. There they produced and sequenced Tone Loc
Tone Loc

Tone Loc is the stage name of Anthony Terrell Smith , a Grammy Award nominated United States rapper and actor, best known for his deep, gravelly human voice and his million selling hit singles, "Wild Thing " and "Funky Cold Medina"....
's album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, Loc-ed After Dark
Loc-ed After Dark

Loc-ed After Dark is the debut album by rapper, Tone Loc. The album was released in 1989 for Delicious Vinyl Records and was a huge success, making it to #1 on the Billboard 200 and #3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop album charts....
, featuring the rap
Rapping

Rapping is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in Hip Hop music, but the phenomenon predates Hip Hop culture by centuries....
 single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 "Wild Thing
Wild Thing (Tone Loc song)

"Wild Thing" is the name of rapper Tone Loc's 1989 hit single from the album Loc-ed After Dark. The title is a reference to the phrase "doin' the wild thing," a euphemism for sex, unlike The Troggs' hit song, "Wild Thing", in which the "wild thing" was a girl....
", which reached number two on the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
. They also produced two tracks on Young MC
Young MC

Marvin Young better known by his stage name Young MC is a British born, American Rapping. He is best known for his 1989 Chart-topper "Bust a Move "....
's debut album Stone Cold Rhymin
Stone Cold Rhymin'

Stone Cold Rhymin' is the debut album by rapping Young MC. It was originally released in 1989 on Delicious Vinyl and was later re-issued by Rhino Records....
.

Through a mutual friend, Matt Dike, the Dust Brothers were introduced to Adam Yauch
Adam Yauch

Adam Nathaniel Yauch , better known as MCA and Nathaniel H?rnblow?r, , is a founding member of Hip hop music trio the Beastie Boys....
 of the Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
. Dike played some instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 music created by the Dust Brothers for Yauch, and he recruited the Dust Brothers to make the music for the second Beastie Boys album, Paul's Boutique
Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique is the second studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released July 25, 1989 on Capitol Records. Featuring production by the Dust Brothers, the recording sessions for the album took place at Mario G's Studio in Los Angeles and The Opium Den in Brooklyn, New York from 1988 to 1989, after which the recordings un...
, which was considered one of the best albums of all-time by Time Magazine in 2006.

1990s

Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
 had the Dust Brothers produce his album Odelay
Odelay

Odelay is the second major-label studio album recorded by alternative rock artist Beck, originally released June 18, 1996. After the mainstream success of "Loser ", Odelay featured several hit Single , including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut ," and "The New Pollution." The album peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart and eventua...
, released in 1996. The album spawned the hit songs "Where It's At
Where It's At

"Where It's At" is the first single from Beck's 1996 album, Odelay.Beck wrote the song in 1995. He premiered it at Lollapalooza 1995, in a version very similar to its incarnation on Odelay....
" (#64 on the Hot 100), "Devil's Haircut
Devils Haircut (song)

"Devils Haircut" is a single by Beck, taken from the album Odelay....
" (#94 on the Hot 100), "The New Pollution
The New Pollution

"The New Pollution" is a single by Beck, taken from his album Odelay....
" (#74) and "Jack-Ass
Jack-Ass (song)

"Jack-Ass" is a single by Beck, taken from the album Odelay. The song is based on a sample of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", performed by Them , from their 1966 album Them Again....
" (#73). In 1995 they co-produced Vince Neil
Vince Neil

Vincent Neil Wharton is the lead singer for United States glam metal band M?tley Cr?e....
's, Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe

M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
's then ex-frontman's second solo album Carved In Stone
Carved in Stone

Carved in Stone is the second album by the progressive metal group Shadow Gallery, released in 1995 . An unreleased demo made for this album was released in the compilation album Prime Cuts ....
.

In 1997, the Dust Brothers produced a track with Korn called "Kick the P.A." for the Spawn
Spawn (film)

Spawn is a film adaptation of Todd McFarlane's creator-owned Spawn . It was released in the United States on August 1, 1997. The film was directed and co-written by Mark A....
 soundtrack; produced the hit "MMMBop
MMMBop

"MMMBop" is a song written and performed by the United States pop rock Rock band Hanson from their 1997 debut album Middle of Nowhere . "MMMBop" was one of the biggest debut singles of all time; it reached number one in 27 countries, including the United States, the UK, Germany and Australia; in the UK, the song sold 710,000 copies and s...
" for Hanson
Hanson (band)

Hanson is an American pop rock Band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
's first major label album Middle of Nowhere
Middle of Nowhere (Hanson album)

Middle of Nowhere is the third album by United States pop rock group Hanson , and the first to be released on a major label. Released in 1997, it features slicker studio production compared to their previous indie efforts Boomerang and MMMBop ....
; and created a song on the soundtrack to the Howard Stern
Howard Stern

Howard Allan Stern is an American radio presenter and media personality, best known for hosting The Howard Stern Show, currently an uncensored talk radio show that airs on Howard 100 on SIRIUS XM Radio....
 film Private Parts named "Tortured Man", featuring ad-libbed vocals by Stern. They also took part in the production of The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
 album, Bridges to Babylon
Bridges to Babylon

Bridges to Babylon is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1997. It would prove to be their final studio album of the 1990s and their last full-length release of new songs until 2005....
.

In 1998, the duo were approached by director David Fincher
David Fincher

David Leo Fincher is an American, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and music video director known for his dark and stylish movies such as Seven , Fight Club , Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button....
 to assemble the score
Fight Club (film)

Fight Club is a 1999 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the 1996 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and follows a nameless protagonist , an everyman and an unreliable narrator who feels trapped with his white-collar position in society....
 for the film Fight Club
Fight Club (film)

Fight Club is a 1999 in film Cinema of the United States film adaptation of the 1996 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and follows a nameless protagonist , an everyman and an unreliable narrator who feels trapped with his white-collar position in society....
, most notably "This Is Your Life", a song featuring lines from the film, including dialogue by the character Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men and his off-screen life is widely reported....
). This remains their only original release to date.

In 1999, the Dust Brothers collaborated with Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
 and Eagle Eye Cherry on Santana's multi-platinum album Supernatural. They received their first Grammy for 'Album of the Year'; after having received numerous nominations for their past work with Beck, Hanson and as artists for their instrumental song on the X-Files soundtrack. They also recorded, produced and mixed an album by the rap group 10 Cents, named Buggin Out.

2000s

In the 2000s, the Dust Brothers have had continued success, again collaborating with Beck on the album Guero
Guero

Guero is the sixth major-label studio album by Beck, first released in March 2005. It debuted on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Album chart at #2 , and in the UK at #15 ....
; Tenacious D
Tenacious D

Tenacious D is a Satire rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of musicians and actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass .Tenacious D formed in 1994 when the members performed as an acoustic duo....
 on their self-titled debut; Linkin Park
Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
 with a track called "With You" on their album Hybrid Theory
Hybrid Theory

Hybrid Theory is the debut album by the American nu metal band Linkin Park, released on October 24, 2000 through Warner Bros. Records. The album was a huge commercial success, selling over 10 million units in the United States alone and peaking at number two on the Billboard 200 while also reaching high positions on other Record chart...
; remixing the Styles Of Beyond
Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond is an underground music Hip hop music group from Los Angeles, California, more specifically the San Fernando Valley. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn and Tak , Colton Raisin Fisher , and producer Jason Rabinowitz ....
 track "Winnetka Exit" on their promotional CD Spies Like Us; and producing the They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
 album The Else
The Else

The Else is the twelfth studio album by rock music duo They Might Be Giants, released by Idlewild Records in 2007. The album was produced in part by The Dust Brothers, along with Pat Dillett and the band....
.

Note

  • The Dust Brothers was also the original name used by The Chemical Brothers
    The Chemical Brothers

    The Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons . Initially they called themselves "The Dust Brothers", after the noted United States Dust Brothers, but the threat of legal action from the originals led them to change their name in 1995....
    , as an homage to the American duo, but they changed their name when they were threatened with a lawsuit by the producer duo.


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