Music is magic.

Pure and simple. You feel it. You don’t think it. It can win your heart without a word. It can connect us without touch or travel. It can lure, persuade and convince without you ever having to consider, decipher or discern. It can raise hope and heal.

I wanted to create an environment where this gift and its application could be explored like never before.

That’s why I started Dirty Soup in London in 2011.

Dirty Soup is a frontier. A place pushing the possibilities in every way from music supervision, original composition, orchestral arrangement, remix, sound design, and live event curation and production.

We’re always exploring, always pushing, and always feeling it.

Yours truly,

Raife Burchell

Born in Portugal and raised in Brazil, Tristan Bechet creates ear-grabbing electronically driven art-rock. Bechet's idiosyncratic approach to composition uses a collision of electronic soundscapes and rhythmic melody; always unexpected, his search for the innovative and cutting edge is paramount to his work.

Bechet has composed for a myriad of projects, including The Creator's Project, where he developed an art installation of the re-imagined version of David Bowie's Life On Mars original iconic video. Another hybrid project featured Kanye West for 25 Magazine in a film piece of visual and sonic fetishes, culminating in a brutal collage.

TRZTN, Bechet's solo side project, is a very different beast. It has seen him collaborate with many musicians, artists and filmmakers. One constant collaborator is Karen O of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Together recording I Shall Rise; The Tomb Raider (Rise of The Tomb Raider) video game theme track. They also collaborated for the opening theme of the mini-series Hannah on Prime Video and Flesh and Bone on Starz. In addition, TRZTN was part of Karen O and the Kids, who together created the enchanting soundtrack for Spike Jonze's feature "Where The Wild Things Are".

TRZTN is also a regular collaborator with prominent fashion film directors such as Barnaby Roper, Nick Knight, Terry Richardson, and Mert and Marcus. These creative partnerships have seen his work feature in luxury brand campaigns and Fashion Films for Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Chanel and Givenchy, and on platforms such as Nowness.com and the New York Times.

Latest projects include his TRZTN album, 'Royal Dagger Ballet', which includes collaborations with Paul Banks from the New York band Interpol, Jonathan Bree, and Karen O, amongst others.

If you would like to enquire about working with Tristan, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Prior to launching Dirty Soup in 2011, Raife spent 15 years working as a session musician. This dream journey spanned everything from playing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury to TV appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Later with Jools Holland. It's a deep-rooted industry experience that makes Raife trusted by artists and music management alike.

As a music supervisor, Raife has adeptly placed music from every genre and engaged many of the world's most creative composers in all categories and media. His latest projects include the feature Die, My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; episodes 1 & 2 of season one of the Disney Plus TV series A Thousand Blows, written by Stephen Knight and starring Stephen Graham; and global brand campaigns for the directors, Jonas Lindstroem, Niklas Larson, and Miles Jay.

Raife still writes and performs and is currently engaged in two projects, with album launches set for 2025.

If you would like to enquire about working with Raife, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Berlin and LA-based composer team Matthias Biermann and Sebastian Pille met in 2013 and immediately realised they had a unique creative connection.

Before relocating from his native Netherlands to Berlin, Matthias Biermann studied jazz guitar at the Amsterdam Conservatory. After carefully honing his composition, writing and production skills, he fast became a staple of the German music scene. Matthias is in high demand as a composer, he continues to be a key part of the band Roosevelt, playing worldwide concerts, festivals and TV shows.

Sebastian Pille grew up in Northern Germany first hammering out a tune on his family’s piano at the age of five. After realising very early on that he wanted to dedicate his life to becoming a composer, he went on to study music for film at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts, where he was taught by, among others, the legendary film composer, Ennio Morricone. Following Pille’s contribution to the score for Labyrinth of Lies, which landed on the Oscar shortlist, he decided to relocate to Los Angeles where he continues to live and work.

Since joining forces, Biermann and Pille’s fledgeling partnership has seen them score global commercial campaigns for brands such as Mercedes Benz, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Facebook, Samsung and Mini.

If you would like to enquire about working with Matthias and Sebastian, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Prior to launching Dirty Soup in 2011, Raife spent 15 years working as a session musician. This dream journey spanned everything from playing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury to TV appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Later with Jools Holland. It's a deep-rooted industry experience that makes Raife trusted by artists and music management alike.

As a music supervisor, Raife has adeptly placed music from every genre and engaged many of the world's most creative composers in all categories and media. His latest projects include the feature Die, My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; episodes 1 & 2 of season one of the Disney Plus TV series A Thousand Blows, written by Stephen Knight and starring Stephen Graham; and global brand campaigns for the directors, Jonas Lindstroem, Niklas Larson, and Miles Jay.

Raife still writes and performs and is currently engaged in two projects, with album launches set for 2025.

If you would like to enquire about working with Raife, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Prior to launching Dirty Soup in 2011, Raife spent 15 years working as a session musician. This dream journey spanned everything from playing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury to TV appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Later with Jools Holland. It's a deep-rooted industry experience that makes Raife trusted by artists and music management alike.

As a music supervisor, Raife has adeptly placed music from every genre and engaged many of the world's most creative composers in all categories and media. His latest projects include the feature Die, My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; episodes 1 & 2 of season one of the Disney Plus TV series A Thousand Blows, written by Stephen Knight and starring Stephen Graham; and global brand campaigns for the directors, Jonas Lindstroem, Niklas Larson, and Miles Jay.

Raife still writes and performs and is currently engaged in two projects, with album launches set for 2025.

If you would like to enquire about working with Raife, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Award-winning composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Robert Cairns' eclectic body of work ranges from feature films to multi-season episodic television scores, to short, impactful main titles, commercials and brand identities.

Cairns recently won a coveted Annie Award – widely recognised as the Oscars for Animation – for his stand-out score on 'Sonnie's Edge', episode 2 of the Emmy-winning animated Netflix series, Love Death and Robots, which was produced by David Fincher, Tim Miller, Jennifer Miller and Josh Donen.

His many credits include The Forger starring John Travolta and Christopher Plummer, Stephen Soderberg's Magic Mike, Girl In Progress starring Eva Mendes, ABC's Suburgatory and CW's Ringer. He also worked on the Oscar-nominated animated short Gopher Broke, Dayyan Eng's Chinese comedy, Wished, as well as producing the main-titles for Stitchers.

Cairns has also produced and arranged an updated cover of the classic 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot me Down)' for the Titanfall II cinematic trailer and created a multi-genre mashup of Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky' for the Lawbreakers cinematic trailer.

As well as Cairns' vast body of work being featured across film and TV for the past 20 years, his extensive musical knowledge, skill and collaborative approach has made him a highly-valued creative partner on commercial campaigns for the likes of Audi and Mercedes, as well as video game franchises like Star Wars, Elder Scrolls and Halo.

Robert is currently working on season two of Love Death and Robots for Netflix.

If you would like to enquire about working with Robert, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Stepping into London’s East End during the Victorian era meant entering a dangerous and grim environment. The combination of winding streets, poor sanitation, and the presence of the city’s poorest residents created a volatile atmosphere, which was also home to a highly violent boxing scene. The gritty world serves as the backdrop for Steven Knight’s latest TV series, A Thousand Blows. Set in the 1880s, the series follows Hezekiah, a Jamaican immigrant portrayed by Malachi Kirby, who arrives in London with dreams of a new life, only to find himself drawn into the life of retired boxer Sugar Goodson, played by Stephen Graham. Meanwhile, Mary Carr, played by Erin Doherty, and her gang of thieves, known as the Forty Elephants, are plotting an ambitious crime spree. The series captures a world of both grit and seedy glamour.

If you would like to enquire about working with Raife, Ian, or Keana, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Episodes 1 & 2 Director Tinge Krishnan On Camera Music Supervisors Raife Burchell & Ian Neil Assistant Music Supervisor Keana Bernard Composer/Additional Music Christopher Nicolas Bangs

Steven Price is an Academy, Emmy, and Bafta Award-winning composer whose individualistic approach to scoring music to film has seen him work on many of the most innovative productions of recent years, from Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity to Edgar Wright's Baby Driver.

Whether it's incorporating original WW2 tanks in his score for Fury, starring Brad Pitt, or his wind instrument-driven score for Tom Harper's The Aeronauts, the music Steven creates seeks to give each story a completely unique voice, the result of a profoundly experimental and collaborative process.

Beginning his career in the late 1990s contributing to productions such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Batman Begins, Price went on to make his scoring debut in 2011 with Joe Cornish's horror comedy Attack The Block.

After winning a Bafta for his score for Sir David Attenborough's The Hunt, Steven went on to score Our Planet for Netflix Originals and the autobiographical documentary David Attenborough – A Life On Our Planet, for which Price won a Primetime Emmy. With performances of Our Planet Live In Concert at historic venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and The Hollywood Bowl, his musical masterpiece continues to sell out arenas across the US and Europe.

Recent projects include: Last Night In Soho, where he again teamed up with Edgar Wright; David Ayer's Suicide Squad; Oscar-nominated Netflix Animation Over The Moon; Michael Grandage's My Policeman, starring Harry Styles; Beast starring Idris Elba; Netflix Original's Heart Of Stone, directed by Tom Harper starring Gal Godot; the live-action animation hybrid Coyote Vs Acme; Los Frikis, the new feature from Peanut Butter Falcon directors Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson.

Steven's extraordinary music continues to enhance the ideas and images of the world's most respected brands and filmmakers.

If you would like to enquire about working with Steven, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Award-winning composer Stephen Rennicks has been crafting inimitable soundtracks for the best of Independent Cinema and Television for over twenty years.

Rennicks' latest projects include Conversations With Friends; the highly anticipated follow up to Normal People. The 12-part TV Drama, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Leanne Welham and produced by Element Pictures, airs on the BBC and Hulu on May 15th. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande; written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde, the sex-positive tale of empowerment and self-discovery stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack. And An Cailín Ciuín/The Quiet Girl is adapted from a short story by Claire Keegan and directed by Colm Bairéad. The mesmerising feature tells the story of a neglected girl sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.

In 2020 Rennicks scored 'Normal People', continuing his working partnership with director Lenny Abrahamson. The 12-part adaptation of Sally Rooney's bestselling novel tells the coming-of-age story of two young people moving from adolescence to young adulthood against the backdrop of Ireland during the global economic recession. It was one of the most-watched shows in 2020 on the BBC and Hulu, with the music on the show receiving outstanding reviews in publications such as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vice, The NY Times and The Hollywood Reporter.

Prior to Normal People, Rennicks and Abrahamson collaborated on the feature Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestselling novel of the same name starring Brie Larson (who picked up the Oscar for Best Actress), Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen and William H. Macy, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Abrahamson's first Oscar nomination for Best Director. And the breakout cult-hit, Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson - a film with music at its heart saw Rennicks' stand-out songwriting, score and musical direction unanimously praised. Rennicks won the 'Best Technical Achievement in Music' award at the British Independent Film Awards for his incredible work on the film. In addition, the soundtrack was named number three in Mojo's soundtrack albums that year.

Among Rennicks' other credits are Death of a Ladies Man - a feature about a carousing college professor played by Gabriel Byrne, whose life becomes blighted by surreal hallucinations; Maya Zinshtein's, Forever Pure, an extraordinary feature-length documentary on the transfer of two Chechen Muslim soccer players to Israel's Beitar Jerusalem FC; Spanish language film Viva, directed by Paddy Breathnach and set in the crumbling beauty of Havana, is an emotionally-charged drama about a hairdresser who is forced to quit performing at the local drag club by his boxer father; Muse, a psych-thriller about an academic who slips into a world controlled by the ancient spirits of inspiration, the Muses; while Birthmarked, starring Toni Collette, is an off-the-wall comedy about genetics, destiny and – ultimately – family.

If you would like to enquire about working with Stephen, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Ian Neil is a multi-award winning music supervisor with a career spanning over 25 years. His depth of knowledge across music research and handling music clearances has seen him supervise over 150 films for many of the world's most respected directors and producers.

Before becoming an independent film music supervisor, Ian took on the role of head of film and TV for Polygram Records and director of independent film, TV and advertising at Warner Chappell Music Ltd, placing the likes of Moby, Groove Armada and The Cardigans in many of the world's most recognisable commercial brand campaigns.

In his first outing in film, he supervised the box-office mega-hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. With a double-platinum winning soundtrack at the film's heart, a strong working relationship was instantly forged with Brit-director Guy Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn, making Ian the obvious choice to supervise Ritchie and Vaughn's follow up hit, Snatch, starring Brad Pitt. He has since supervised films such as the multi-award-winning Elton John biopic Rocketman; Anton Corbin's Control; Danny Boyle's 127 Hours; Shame & Widows, directed by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen; Kingsman: The Secret Service, starring Colin Firth and Samuel L. Jackson, and Kick-Ass with Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Part of securing his place in the industry as one of the most respected independent film music supervisors was as Director of Film & TV at Sony Music. During his eleven years at the label, Ian helped many Sony artists gain further success in sync, including Kasabian, Mark Ronson, Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man, Paloma Faith, The Clash, Primal Scream, Tom Odell & Tom Walker.

As well as serving as exec-producer on the Ian Dury Biopic, Sex & Drugs And Rock & Roll, directed by Matt Whitecross, the upcoming documentary 'Who Killed The KLF?', with long time collaborator Chris Atkins, and 'I Still Breathe', directed by Alfred Bailey, Ian's current supervision projects include Elizabeth, Tetris, The Son, Ipcress Files, Quant, Culprits, and Pistol, directed by Danny Boyle.

Ian is a Board Member of the Sensoria Film and Music Festival and The Teenage Cancer Trust.

If you would like to enquire about working with Ian for Film and TV projects, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Prior to launching Dirty Soup in 2011, Raife spent 15 years working as a session musician. This dream journey spanned everything from playing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury to TV appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Later with Jools Holland. It's a deep-rooted industry experience that makes Raife trusted by artists and music management alike.

As a music supervisor, Raife has adeptly placed music from every genre and engaged many of the world's most creative composers in all categories and media. His latest projects include the feature Die, My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; episodes 1 & 2 of season one of the Disney Plus TV series A Thousand Blows, written by Stephen Knight and starring Stephen Graham; and global brand campaigns for the directors, Jonas Lindstroem, Niklas Larson, and Miles Jay.

Raife still writes and performs and is currently engaged in two projects, with album launches set for 2025.

If you would like to enquire about working with Raife, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Prior to launching Dirty Soup in 2011, Raife spent 15 years working as a session musician. This dream journey spanned everything from playing the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury to TV appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Later with Jools Holland. It's a deep-rooted industry experience that makes Raife trusted by artists and music management alike.

As a music supervisor, Raife has adeptly placed music from every genre and engaged many of the world's most creative composers in all categories and media. His latest projects include the feature Die, My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; episodes 1 & 2 of season one of the Disney Plus TV series A Thousand Blows, written by Stephen Knight and starring Stephen Graham; and global brand campaigns for the directors, Jonas Lindstroem, Niklas Larson, and Miles Jay.

Raife still writes and performs and is currently engaged in two projects, with album launches set for 2025.

If you would like to enquire about working with Raife, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Jaime worked as an artist manager for eight years at Sir Elton John’s management company Rocket Music, which represents artists such as Ed Sheeran and Lily Allen. Jaime managed singers & bands such as Easy Life and Pnau, as well as working across Rocket’s full-roster on live tour scheduling and artist development. She also helped organise club nights across London, with DJ residencies in the West End, Shoreditch & Camden.

Jaime heads-up Dirty Soup’s existing track research and playlist curation. She recently sound-tracked two global Mini campaigns, which were produced by Iconoclast Berlin and directed by WE ARE FROM LA.

Jamie studied American Literature & Film Studies at Sussex University and is based between London, Los Angeles & New York.

If you would like to enquire about working with Jaime, email us at contact@dirtysoup.com

Westman’s limitless knowledge of the musical process knows no bounds. And with a pair of the most finely tuned ears in the industry, his hands-on approach has seen him sculpt music for the world’s most recognisable brand campaigns and work with many of the world’s most talented artists - from Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Danny Elfman, Quincy Jones, all the way through to Timbaland and James Murphy.

In recent years, Westman has teamed up with Dirty Soup Founder Raife Burchell to Music Supervise This American Life - Ends of the Earth. The spellbinding documentary feature, Bombshell, The Hedy Lamarr Story, directed by Emmy-award winning journalist, Alexandra Dean, produced by Adam Haggiag, and Executive Produced by Susan Sarandon - and To Dust - a dark, brooding tale in which Matthew Broderick tries to help Géza Röhrigg (Son of Saul), a Hasidic cantor in upstate New York, come to terms with the untimely death of his wife.

There isn’t enough bandwidth on the World Wide Web to host all of the projects Karl worked on before joining Dirty Soup’s Music Supervision roster.

If you would like to enquire about working with Karl, email contact@dirtysoup.com

From his debut record, 'Multifunktionsebene' in 2001, to his most recent Grammy-nominated album, 'LP5', Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, continues to be recognised as one of his generation's defining electronic music artists.

Born in Quedlinburg, Germany, nestled deep within the Harz mountains, where, in the mid-nineties, he started his musical career as a techno DJ. Ring has since released five full-length albums under the Apparat moniker and four full-length albums with the experimental techno-pop trio Moderat, which Ring founded with Berlin producers Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary.

For his compositional work, Ring regularly joins forces with composer, producer, and live touring band member Philipp Thimm. The pair first scored the features,' Traumland' and 'Equals', starring Kristen Stewart, which saw them pick up the coveted Soundtrack Stars Award at the Venice Film Festival. Next up was Elisa Mishto's debut feature, 'Stay Still'. They then went on to forge a creative bond with Italian director Mario Martone, first scoring his feature, 'Il Giovane Favoloso', for which they won the Piccioni Award for Best Soundtrack at the 71st Venice Film Festival in 2014, and 'Capri Revolution', which saw them pick up an Italian Oscar for Best Soundtrack by the Academy of Italian Cinema at the David Di Donatello Awards, Best Soundtrack at the 75th Venice Film Festival, and Best Score at the Bari International Film Festival in 2019.

In Theatre, Ring and Thimm have twice collaborated with influential German theatre director Sebastian Hartmann on his series of acclaimed five-hour stage productions. First was 'War and Peace, which played to sold-out audiences at Germany's most prestigious theatre festival, Theatertreffen. Hartmann then asked them to help him bring Dostojewski's 'Demons' to life at the Schauspiel Theatre in Frankfurt.

Ring's music has also been licensed for countless Film and TV projects. Including playing a pivotal musical role in the Oscar-Nominated, 'Annihilation', starring Natalie Portman, the season four finale of Breaking Bad', the hit TV series, 'Nikita', the opening title sequence for the Netflix Originals series, 'Dark' and 'Bad Kingdom' for Apple TV.

To enquire about working with Sascha, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Alex Brady-Epton is a composer, record producer, mixer and DJ.

After gaining critical acclaim for his production work with the band Spank Rock, Epton went on to forge a creative bond with the internationally revered label XL Records. A unique relationship that has seen Alex collaborate with acclaimed artists, such as FKA Twigs, Arca, Kali Uchis, Wiki, Amber Mark, Skepta, Aj Tracey, David Byrne and Jack Penate.

In addition to his eclectic production work, Epton has brought his unique musical voice to global commercial brand campaigns and short film projects, including the spellbinding GANG, directed by Clayton Vomero. Juvenile, directed by Jovan Todorovic, and After Maria - the hard-hitting Netflix Documentary-Short that chronicled the harrowing aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Highly sought-after by artists in a variety of genres, NYC based Epton has produced remixes for The Kills, Kele Okereke, Björk, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Thom Yorke, TV on the Radio, Lily Allen, Kool Keith, Kylie Minogue, Beach Fossils, Neon Indian and others.

If you would like to enquire about working with Alex, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Aska Matsumiya is a classically-trained pianist, artist, and composer.

Matsumiya's career in scoring music for film kicked off when Spike Jonze asked to use her music as the theme song for his short film; I'm Here. The soundtrack went on to pick up the award for Best Original Music at the AICP Awards, and Aska has never looked back.

Recent projects include Halle Berry's directorial debut Netflix feature, Bruised - A24's After Yang, starring Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith, where she partnered with legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Phoenix Rising, directed by Oscar-nominated Amy Berg, is a 2-part documentary for HBO Max that follows Evan Rachel Wood's journey to pursue justice following domestic abuse. And directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Tessa Thompson, The Listener tells the harrowing story of a helpline volunteer fielding calls from broken people on the edges of society.


The past years have seen Matsumiya work on back-to-back projects, including the 2020 HBO series Betty with long-time collaborator Crystal Moselle, a series based on the Sundance breakout film, Skate Kitchen. Matsumiya and Moselle previously collaborated on Moselle's award-winning documentary, The Wolfpack, with Aska's haunting score garnering high praise across the industry. She also composed the sublime electronically-driven score for the life-affirming Japanese feature, 37 Seconds, which won the coveted Panorama Audience award at the Berlin Film Festival. Selah & The Spades, directed by Tayarisha Poe; I'm Your Woman, directed by Julia Hart, written and produced by Jordan Horowitz (La La Land); and This Is Personal, which saw Aska once again collaborate with Amy Berg.

Having picked up Gold for Best Original Music at the Ciclope Creative Festival for Daniel Askill's Audi Electric Wave film, Matsumiya is also in high demand in the commercial space. You can hear her compositions on campaigns for Porsche, Levi, Chanel, Hermes, Miu Miu, and Prada.

Outside of scoring music to film, Aska and Alex Somers (Jónsi/Sigur Rós) teamed up to create the musical soundscapes for 'If Only the Sea Could Sleep', an exhibition of painter Claire Tabouret's work at HAB Galerie in Nantes, France. Aska and Alex's pieces included field recordings of boats creaking and chimes swinging in the wind - the feeling of being in the middle of the ocean. Their soundscapes were played throughout the event space's 24-channel-surround-sound speaker system, separating each element of the compositions to intertwine and flow effortlessly alongside Tabouret's mesmerising paintings.

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Award-winning composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Robert Cairns' eclectic body of work ranges from feature films to multi-season episodic television scores, to short, impactful main titles, commercials and brand identities.

Cairns recently won a coveted Annie Award – widely recognised as the Oscars for Animation – for his stand-out score on 'Sonnie's Edge', episode 2 of the Emmy-winning animated Netflix series, Love Death and Robots, which was produced by David Fincher, Tim Miller, Jennifer Miller and Josh Donen.

His many credits include The Forger starring John Travolta and Christopher Plummer, Stephen Soderberg's Magic Mike, Girl In Progress starring Eva Mendes, ABC's Suburgatory and CW's Ringer. He also worked on the Oscar-nominated animated short Gopher Broke, Dayyan Eng's Chinese comedy, Wished, as well as producing the main-titles for Stitchers.

Cairns has also produced and arranged an updated cover of the classic 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot me Down)' for the Titanfall II cinematic trailer and created a multi-genre mashup of Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit in the Sky' for the Lawbreakers cinematic trailer.

As well as Cairns' vast body of work being featured across film and TV for the past 20 years, his extensive musical knowledge, skill and collaborative approach has made him a highly-valued creative partner on commercial campaigns for the likes of Audi and Mercedes, as well as video game franchises like Star Wars, Elder Scrolls and Halo.

Robert is currently working on season two of Love Death and Robots for Netflix.

If you would like to enquire about working with Robert, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Christopher Nicholas Bangs is a London based composer and record producer.

Bangs kicked off his compositional career in 2011, gaining high praise for his score for the multi-award winning feature 'Junkhearts', directed by BAFTA award-winning director Tinge Krishnan and starring Eddie Marsan, Romola Garai and John Boyega.

Most recently, you will have heard his electronically driven score for the Apple TV+ show 'WeCrashed'. Starring Academy Award Winning Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, the show chronicles the turbulent rise and fall of the co-working space company WeWork.

Other projects include the award-winning Netflix feature-length hit TV musical, 'Been So Long', staring Michaela Cole and Arinze Kene; the feature-length documentary 'Battle of The Sexes', which tells the story of the legendary tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs; and the award-winning, 'Soon Gone - A Windrush Chronicle’, for the BBC and Young Vic. Bangs also composed the claustrophobic score for 'Panic'. Directed by Sean Spenser, the feature-length thriller starring David Gyasi (Interstellar/Cloud Atlas) follows a journalist suffering from PTSD confined to his apartment after witnessing a murder in a neighbouring tower block. He then shifted musical gears on the feature-length road-trip comedy, 'Highly Functional’. Directed by Marc Forby, the film tells the story of a washed-up country singer. As well as composing the score, Christopher also co-wrote and produced the original Country songs which appear throughout the film.

Along with producing records under the monikers Shadow Orchestra and Talk In Colour, Bangs has dedicated much of his time in this area of his career to collaborating with a plethora of young and up and coming artists, including Livvy Nicole, Scarlet (Hedera), Kerri Watt, Me For Queen and Jessica Sharman.

If you want to enquire about working with Christopher, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Award-winning composer Stephen Rennicks has been crafting inimitable soundtracks for the best of Independent Cinema and Television for over twenty years.

Rennicks' latest projects include Conversations With Friends; the highly anticipated follow up to Normal People. The 12-part TV Drama, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Leanne Welham and produced by Element Pictures, airs on the BBC and Hulu on May 15th. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande; written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde, the sex-positive tale of empowerment and self-discovery stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack. And An Cailín Ciuín/The Quiet Girl is adapted from a short story by Claire Keegan and directed by Colm Bairéad. The mesmerising feature tells the story of a neglected girl sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.

In 2020 Rennicks scored 'Normal People', continuing his working partnership with director Lenny Abrahamson. The 12-part adaptation of Sally Rooney's bestselling novel tells the coming-of-age story of two young people moving from adolescence to young adulthood against the backdrop of Ireland during the global economic recession. It was one of the most-watched shows in 2020 on the BBC and Hulu, with the music on the show receiving outstanding reviews in publications such as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vice, The NY Times and The Hollywood Reporter.

Prior to Normal People, Rennicks and Abrahamson collaborated on the feature Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestselling novel of the same name starring Brie Larson (who picked up the Oscar for Best Actress), Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen and William H. Macy, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Abrahamson's first Oscar nomination for Best Director. And the breakout cult-hit, Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson - a film with music at its heart saw Rennicks' stand-out songwriting, score and musical direction unanimously praised. Rennicks won the 'Best Technical Achievement in Music' award at the British Independent Film Awards for his incredible work on the film. In addition, the soundtrack was named number three in Mojo's soundtrack albums that year.

Among Rennicks' other credits are Death of a Ladies Man - a feature about a carousing college professor played by Gabriel Byrne, whose life becomes blighted by surreal hallucinations; Maya Zinshtein's, Forever Pure, an extraordinary feature-length documentary on the transfer of two Chechen Muslim soccer players to Israel's Beitar Jerusalem FC; Spanish language film Viva, directed by Paddy Breathnach and set in the crumbling beauty of Havana, is an emotionally-charged drama about a hairdresser who is forced to quit performing at the local drag club by his boxer father; Muse, a psych-thriller about an academic who slips into a world controlled by the ancient spirits of inspiration, the Muses; while Birthmarked, starring Toni Collette, is an off-the-wall comedy about genetics, destiny and – ultimately – family.

If you would like to enquire about working with Stephen, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Ian Neil is a multi-award winning music supervisor with a career spanning over 25 years. His depth of knowledge across music research and handling music clearances has seen him supervise over 150 films for many of the world's most respected directors and producers.

Before becoming an independent film music supervisor, Ian took on the role of head of film and TV for Polygram Records and director of independent film, TV and advertising at Warner Chappell Music Ltd, placing the likes of Moby, Groove Armada and The Cardigans in many of the world's most recognisable commercial brand campaigns.

In his first outing in film, he supervised the box-office mega-hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. With a double-platinum winning soundtrack at the film's heart, a strong working relationship was instantly forged with Brit-director Guy Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn, making Ian the obvious choice to supervise Ritchie and Vaughn's follow up hit, Snatch, starring Brad Pitt. He has since supervised films such as the multi-award-winning Elton John biopic Rocketman; Anton Corbin's Control; Danny Boyle's 127 Hours; Shame & Widows, directed by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen; Kingsman: The Secret Service, starring Colin Firth and Samuel L. Jackson, and Kick-Ass with Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Part of securing his place in the industry as one of the most respected independent film music supervisors was as Director of Film & TV at Sony Music. During his eleven years at the label, Ian helped many Sony artists gain further success in sync, including Kasabian, Mark Ronson, Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man, Paloma Faith, The Clash, Primal Scream, Tom Odell & Tom Walker.

As well as serving as exec-producer on the Ian Dury Biopic, Sex & Drugs And Rock & Roll, directed by Matt Whitecross, the upcoming documentary 'Who Killed The KLF?', with long time collaborator Chris Atkins, and 'I Still Breathe', directed by Alfred Bailey, Ian's current supervision projects include Elizabeth, Tetris, The Son, Ipcress Files, Quant, Culprits, and Pistol, directed by Danny Boyle.

Ian is a Board Member of the Sensoria Film and Music Festival and The Teenage Cancer Trust.

If you would like to enquire about working with Ian for Film and TV projects, email contact@dirtysoup.com

Aska Matsumiya is a classically-trained pianist, artist, and composer.

Matsumiya's career in scoring music for film kicked off when Spike Jonze asked to use her music as the theme song for his short film; I'm Here. The soundtrack went on to pick up the award for Best Original Music at the AICP Awards, and Aska has never looked back.

Recent projects include Halle Berry's directorial debut Netflix feature, Bruised - A24's After Yang, starring Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith, where she partnered with legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Phoenix Rising, directed by Oscar-nominated Amy Berg, is a 2-part documentary for HBO Max that follows Evan Rachel Wood's journey to pursue justice following domestic abuse. And directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Tessa Thompson, The Listener tells the harrowing story of a helpline volunteer fielding calls from broken people on the edges of society.


The past years have seen Matsumiya work on back-to-back projects, including the 2020 HBO series Betty with long-time collaborator Crystal Moselle, a series based on the Sundance breakout film, Skate Kitchen. Matsumiya and Moselle previously collaborated on Moselle's award-winning documentary, The Wolfpack, with Aska's haunting score garnering high praise across the industry. She also composed the sublime electronically-driven score for the life-affirming Japanese feature, 37 Seconds, which won the coveted Panorama Audience award at the Berlin Film Festival. Selah & The Spades, directed by Tayarisha Poe; I'm Your Woman, directed by Julia Hart, written and produced by Jordan Horowitz (La La Land); and This Is Personal, which saw Aska once again collaborate with Amy Berg.

Having picked up Gold for Best Original Music at the Ciclope Creative Festival for Daniel Askill's Audi Electric Wave film, Matsumiya is also in high demand in the commercial space. You can hear her compositions on campaigns for Porsche, Levi, Chanel, Hermes, Miu Miu, and Prada.

Outside of scoring music to film, Aska and Alex Somers (Jónsi/Sigur Rós) teamed up to create the musical soundscapes for 'If Only the Sea Could Sleep', an exhibition of painter Claire Tabouret's work at HAB Galerie in Nantes, France. Aska and Alex's pieces included field recordings of boats creaking and chimes swinging in the wind - the feeling of being in the middle of the ocean. Their soundscapes were played throughout the event space's 24-channel-surround-sound speaker system, separating each element of the compositions to intertwine and flow effortlessly alongside Tabouret's mesmerising paintings.

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Ethan Houser is a sound designer and composer whose deep love of storytelling lives at the heart of his work.

Originally from Minneapolis, now based in Berlin, Houser's passion for fusing sound design and original composition has seen him create sonic world's for the industry's most revered Creative Agencies, Production Companies, and globally recognised brands such as Hennessy, Swatch, Sony, Coca-Cola, H&M, and Volkswagen.

If you would like to enquire about working with Ethan, email us at contact@dirtysoup.com

Steve Fanagan is a multi-award-winning sound designer, supervising sound editor and sound re-recording mixer.

Since joining Dirty Soup’s sound design roster for Commercial Branded Content, Steve has created the sonic worlds for brands such as Johnny Walker, Nivea, Porsche and Facebook.

For Film and TV, Steve has won five IFTA Awards, an MPSE Golden Reel Award, was Emmy-nominated for his work on Game Of Thrones, picked up HPA and Music + Sound nominations for his work on Room, and in 2020 was Bafta nominated, along with Niall Brady and Niall O’Sullivan for his work on Normal People, the breakout BBC and Hulu success of the spring.

Steve is a member of BAFTA, MPSE, EFA, BIFA and IFTA.

If you would like to enquire about working with Steve for Commercial Branded Content, email us at contact@dirtysoup.com

Brian’s career kicked off in style when, at age 16, he with his classmate Damien Rice started playing music together in school. This led to them forming the indie band Juniper and then later Bell X1, with whom Brian went on to record four albums and extensively tour the world.

Brian then set about creating The Cake Sale – a project set up to raise funds for the international charity Oxfam. The all-star-line-up featured Snowpatrol’s Gary Lightbody, The Cardigans Nina Persson, The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon, Lisa Hannigan, Glen Hansard, and Paul Noonan from Bell X1. The record was released in Europe and America to huge critical acclaim, became a multi-platinum selling hit, and still generates royalties for Oxfam.

Not being able to ignore his lifelong calling to score music to picture, Brian up’d sticks and moved to Berlin, where he converted a 3500sq ft factory in the heart of Kreuzberg into a modular recording studio complex. The studio became home to a head-spinning stable of composers including Hildur Guõnadóttir, Dustin O’Halloran, Rutger Hoedemaekers and the late, great Jóhann Jóhannsson - with whom Brian collaborated with on various TV and Film projects including Transparent, The Mercy, Mary Magdalene & I Love Dick.

After eight busy years in Berlin, Brian decided to return to his roots in his native Ireland. Inspired by the vast wooded landscape of County Wicklow, he designed and built ‘Treehouse Studios’, a stunning log cabin recording studio at the foot of Carrick Mountain.

In the spring of 2021, while most of the world was still in lockdown, Brian recorded his debut solo album Imbrium. The Sunday Times described the record as “nine unadorned piano instrumentals capture the stillness of life suspended, each piece as delicate and moving as it is restrained. The result is a quietly meditative work perfectly in tune with our present lives”.

In addition to composing music for Film and TV, the worlds most revered advertising agencies continue to engage Brian’s talents to help them soundtrack global brand campaigns for clients such as Samsung, Google, Under Armour, Dodge, Toyota, Wolf Blass, Volkswagen, Ferrero Küsschen, Uniqlo & Pfizer.

Brian is also a director of the Irish Music Rights Organisation and is Chair of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland.

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London based, Jesse Elvis, aka Faith SFX is one of the worlds greatest beatboxers and vocal performers.

Described as "half-man, half-machine" – he has dedicated his life to honing his spellbinding vocal talents - recording and touring the world with artists including Plan B, Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, Emeli Sandé, Ms Dynamite, Akala, Lowkey, Skepta, Wretch 32, and the London Philharmonic & BBC Concert Orchestra.

As well as working alongside some of the music's biggest names – his work has appeared on global brand campaigns directed by ad industry heavyweights Jonas Lindstroem and Jake Nava. We also engaged SFX to appear alongside Lady Leshurr in 'What If', - a short film commissioned by BBC Films and Film Four as part of the London Film Festival programme.

Faith SFX's vocal-only approach is like no other.

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