| Stephen Hilton | |
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| Birth name | Stephen Hilton |
| Occupations | Composer, music producer, musician |
Stephen Hilton is a composer, record producer, musician and programmer. He currently has a publishing deal with Universal Music.[1]
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Hilton wrote the original score for "The Children" (Vertigo Films), "New York Town Killers" (Independent), "Salvage" (Hoax Films) and "Vida Ballet" (Tigerlily Films), to name a few. He collaborated with renowned composer David Holmes on "Cherrybomb" and "Hunger", which received critical acclaim worldwide.[2]
His electronic work on movie scores comprises some 20 Hollywood features including two James Bond movies; "The World Is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day". Other credits include Oceans 11, 12 & 13, "Moulin Rouge!", "Shaft", "Zoolander", "The Bone Collector", "Plunkett and MacClean", "Analyse That", "Buffalo Soldiers" and Luc Besson's "Kiss Of The Dragon".[3]
Hilton recently produced the score for the new Caroline Aherne film, in collaboration with Badly Drawn Boy.
Stephen co-wrote the track "Drone Zone" with Siouxsie Sioux, for her long awaited solo artist album MantaRay. Stephen has worked with many artists, and has contributed to the works of Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Moloko, Isaac Hayes, The Pet Shop Boys, Scott Walker, Pulp, David Holmes, Bomb the Bass, Mel C, The Divine Comedy, Dirty Vegas, Martina Topley-Bird, Natasha Bedingfield, Joy Zipper, The John Spencer Blues Explosion, David Arnold, Trevor Horn and Rick Nowels.[3] He has also remixed songs by Orbital, Craig Armstrong and Primal Scream. Stephen composed, produced and mixed the music for the National Movie Awards.[4]
Stephen formed The Free Association with David Holmes. Together as a band of composers and producers they scored the futuristic love story, Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom.[5] This resulted in a nomination for European Composer of the Year at the European Movie Awards. The Free Association also scored Bronwen Hughes' film Stander, based on a true story about South African chief of police in 1979. The Free Association’s album received critical acclaim and the band embarked on an extensive European tour, performing at Glastonbury, V2003, Kristiansand and Roskilde and on BBC's Later with Jools Holland. The band’s music features on a variety of car adverts, including a Renault Clio Campaign (UK) and a VW Campaign (Germany & Turkey). Other repertoire has been licensed to CSI - the American Crime drama series amongst other TV series.[4]
Stephen is one half of electronic rock band FlyKKiller (now called FLYKKLLR), his debut artist project with vocalist Pati Yang.[6] They were reviewed by The Sunday Times as the “best psyched up twisted soul record of the year”. The LP was released in October '07.[7] His work is notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. and includes a remix of the single by David Holmes.
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