Piers Baron (musician)

Piers Baron
Birth name Piers Baron
Born 29 October 1983 (1983-10-29) (age 33)
Origin Oxford, England
Genres Soundtrack
Occupation(s) Film composer, record producer, songwriter, musician, Remixer
Instruments Synthesizer, keyboards, electric guitar, Roland 808
Associated acts Nike Snowboarding
Breakbeat Kaos
Website Facebook

Piers Baron (born 29 October 1983) is an English film composer, record producer and musician based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his music production, particularly in drum and bass. He has produced original scores for skateboarding and snowboarding movies, including Nike Snowboarding's "Never Not Part 2".[1][2] Red Bull // Travis Rice movie The Fourth Phase[3] and viral hit Jetman : "Young Feathers" [4] He is currently also a member of the electronic pop band BLEITCH[5]

History

He joined up with Breakbeat Kaos and was known for dance-floor tracks, releasing "At the Drive In". His drum and bass records were featured on BBC Radio 1, and were successful on UK dance charts, with two number one hits, seven top tens and six top three hits. Producing music under the name "Baron", his remix of Total Science's drum and bass track "Nosher" was a success.

Score work

Flip Skateboards Extremely Sorry skateboarding movie

From 2006 to 2009, he worked with Flip Skateboards creating a soundtrack for their DVD Extremely Sorry, which was released in 2009. Prior to the movie's release, Baron relocated to Los Angeles

In August 2009 Flip released an Extremely Sorry web trailer, officially announcing that Baron had made the soundtrack for their forthcoming skate film, with the accompanying press release generating considerable interest

The soundtrack was released by Volcom Entertainment, a collaboration with musicians including Lemmy of Motörhead, Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Jim Lindberg of Pennywise, Stephen Mcbean of Black Mountain, Warren G, Snoop Dogg, Mike Conte of Early Man, Mack Winston and ((sounder)).

On 15 June 2010, Extremely Sorry won the Transworld Skateboarding Award for Best Film.

On 2 September 2010, at the annual LA Skate Film Festival, Baron won the award for best soundtrack. Flip also won best movie.

"Baron.ft.Black Mountain – The End of the Beginning" from the soundtrack is featured in the video game Tony Hawk Shred.[6]

Volcom snowboard movie 9191

Baron worked on the soundtrack for 9191, the first snowboarding movie to feature an original sound track. It featured music from artists such as Hesta Prynn, Lombardo, Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers, Jamie Blake, Conte of Early Man and snowboarder Jamie Lynn.

9191 was released on 13 September on iTunes and 28 September on DVD. It received favourable reviews. The film won awards, including the ESPN Snowboard Picture Award for Best Soundtrack, Best Movie and Best Soundtrack at the Summit Action Sports Film Festival

In June 2011, Ty Evans and Spike Jonze used "Bury Your Bones" for their 3D skateboard film Unbeleafable 3D. The same song was also featured in Canadian TV series Being Human.

Nike Snowboarding's Never Not Part 2

Baron's soundtrack for Nike Snowboarding's Never Not Part 2, was his longest and most detailed soundtrack to date.

Never Not Part Two was initially released as a free podcast via iTunes. It charted at Number One in ten countries and Top Ten in fourteen in its first week and received the Best Documentary award at The Reels Film Festival in France.[7]

As of August 2013, Baron began crediting his work under his full name Piers Baron.

Jetman : "Young Feathers"

in July 2015, Piers completed an all original score to now viral movie Jetman : Young Feathers, the score spawned the songs "As Our Witness", "Cold Call", "Underwater Universe" and end credits track "Whats Next?". The piece received favorable reviews and has since release reached 11.5 Million views on YouTube

BLEITCH

He is one half of electronic pop band BLEITCH with Madelyn Deutch. The band released their debut single "This Is Our Youth" in July 2014 and their follow up single "Paint By Numbers" in May 2015.

Awards

Selected production and writing credits

Collaborations

UK chart success

He has had three top 75 hits in the UK:

In November 2006, he scored a number 1 on the UK Dance Chart with his track "Drive In, Drive By", he had also debuted at number 1 previous to this with his collaboration with Pendulum. He has had six Top 3 and seven Top 10 Hits in the UK Dance Chart.

Drum and bass remixes

References

  1. ↑ "Soundtracks: " Never Not Part 2 " X Piers Baron - Snowboard Magazine". Snowboardmag.com. 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  2. ↑ "Never Not Making Music - The Piers Baron ITW". Methodmag.com. 2013-11-15. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  3. ↑ http://www.snowboardingfilms.net/tune/piers-baron-the-last-night-on-earth. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ http://lybio.net/jetman-dubai-young-feathers-4k/sports/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Live FAST Magazine". Livefastmag.com. 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  6. ↑ "Tony Hawk Shred » Soundtrack & Score". Ost.co. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  7. ↑ Youri Barneoud (2015-07-28). "The Reels 2013: And the winners are". Onboardmag.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
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