Dave Sardy

David Sardy (more commonly known as D. Sardy) is a Brooklyn born-and-raised composer, musician, songwriter, and record producer

Biography

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a "Hardcore super-producer."^[1]

In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother; he has also received three Grammy Awards (for OK GO, Wolfmother and Marilyn Manson) and multiple Brit Awards for Oasis, Marilyn Manson and Wolfmother and The Ting Tings. He was Grammy nominated again in 2007 for LCD Sound System's "Sound of Silver" and 2010 for the Band Of Horses album "Infinite Arms"

Sardy has been involved with some of the most popular licensed music for film and advertising although never writing for directly for commercials, he has produced music used in many campaigns including 3 key iPod campaigns, Jet, Wolfmother, The Ting Tings

He finished producing Oasis' seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, in 2008. This was Sardy's second time working with the band, having produced their 2005 album Don't Believe the Truth and recently finished producing Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Sardy recently scored the Stage6 Logo for Colombia as well as the films 21 and Zombieland, both of which went to number one at the US box office. More recently Sardy contributed work to "The Green Hornet" and "Eat Pray Love" and scored the upcoming "Premium Rush" and "Ghost Rider 2, the Spirit of vengeance"

Productions

Sardy has produced and mixed for the following artists, among others:

• The Airborne Toxic Event
• Atari Teenage Riot
• Autolux
• Badly Drawn Boy ^[2]
• Band of Horses
• Barkmarket
• The Black Angels
• Black Mountain
• Boy Kill Boy ^[3]
• Brand New
• Bush
• Brendan Benson
• Carey's Problem
• Jimmy Gnecco
• Johnny Cash
• Campfire Girls
• Children Collide
• Cold War Kids
• Cop Shoot Cop
• Children Collide
• Chris Cornell
• Crash Kings
• The Cubical
• Das Pop
• The Dandy Warhols
• Devo
• Dirty Pretty Things ^[2]
• Dragpipe
• Duels ^[2]
• Enon
• Evil Superstars
• Far
• Funeral Party
• Giant Drag
• Harmful
• Helmet
• The Hives
• Holy Fuck
• Hot Hot Heat ^[4]
• Hundred Reasons
• The Icarus Line
• Ida Maria
• Jay-Z
• Jet
• LCD Soundsystem
• Marilyn Manson
• Mel C ^[2]
• Monster Magnet
• The Mooney Suzuki
• Nine Black Alps ^[2]
• Nine Inch Nails
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
• Oasis^[5]
• Orange 9mm
• OK Go
• Mauro Pawlowski
• Primal Scream ^[2]
• Rage Against the Machine
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Reverend and The Makers
• Robert Francis
• The Revolution Smile
• The Rolling Stones
• SALEM
• Satin Peaches
• Serafin
• Shihad
• Slayer
• Soulwax
• Spoon
• Spongehead
• Supergrass
• The Strays
• The Thrills ^[2]
• Tegan and Sara
• The Ting Tings
• Twisted Wheel
• VAUX
• Vision of Disorder
• Rufus Wainwright ^[2]
• The Walkmen
• Hank Williams III
• White Denim
• Wolfmother

Other productions include:

TV show soundtracks: The Sopranos, Cold Case, Entourage, One Tree Hill, Criminal Minds, CSI:NY, Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, The O.C., Six feet Under, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, Dancing with the Stars, and Ed.

Video games: Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Gran Turismo 4, Dreamcast and PC game Le Mans 24 Hours 1999 Guitar Hero II, MotorStorm, Pure, Saints Row 2, Tony Hawk's Project 8, FlatOut 2, and Rugby 06;

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r316513
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Worlds End Producer Management
3. ^ Boy Kill Boy - Stars In The Sea
4. ^ Hot Hot Heat Find Love, Rolling Stone, August 2, 2004
5. ^ Goal! (2005) — Soundtracks

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