The Solos is an award winning music company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, whose music and sound design has been used in movie trailers for 1917, Captain Marvel, Dark Phoenix, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Godzilla, Black Panther and in ads for Adidas, Audi and British Airways. The company was founded by André Ettema after having worked for about 6 years with Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. Junkie XL in Amsterdam and Los Angeles on his productions. The Solos grew rapidly as a company and a collective of composers, musicians, sound designers and programmers and is now a 10 person strong band. Buma Stemra, the Dutch public rights organisation, has awarded The Solos with a Buma Award for advertising music in 2017 for the music in the Daredevil trailer. The Solos started their own label and publishing company aptly named The Solos for the releases of their trailer and promo music on the worldwide portals. In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic The Solos released 2 EP’s and a full length album called ‘Infected’. ‘Infected’ was inspired by the brightest ideas and the darkest moods that we experienced in the last few months. The Solos are also closely working with international companies like Native Instruments and Steinberg supplying content for their musical products, it est synthesizer presets and sample libraries. The company partners André Ettema and Dennis Braunsdorf also partner in Prolody, a company focussing on emotive speech synthesis and analysis.
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Amsterdam, Noord Holland 1018JA, NL
With our own Aline Bruijns, MPSE
We’re very excited to announce Komplete 15, the latest edition of our do-it-all music production bundle. There are so many fresh tools on board including Alicia's Electric Keys, iZotope Ozone 11 Standard, Kithara, Vocal Colors, and much more. Plus, it includes Kontakt 8 – a huge update that reinvents our virtual instrument platform with a whole new set of intelligent tools and countless sound design options. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eDkKxbr5
We are sending out our new sound libraries Rogue Wave and Rust. Rogue Wave features sounds taken from scores by Jóhann Jóhannsson and has been created in collaboration with FOCUS by Cutting Edge. Rust is our new 2024 collection of fierce, gritty and rusty trailer sounds made at junkyards, scrapyards and the wasteland. Let us know if you want to be included in our mailing list, industry only. #RogueWave #Rust #SoundDesign #WeAreTheSolos
Kontakt 8 is out! We worked on Conflux, an instrument with a deeply cinematic character which blends real-time wavetable and FM functionality with excellent organic source material. Try it out! #Kontakt8 Native Instruments #WeAreTheSolos
Balalaika and beyond and cinematic guitars, raw organic tones with modern techniques, this is Khitara. Cinematic guitars, we had the pleasure of working on sounds for this library. Native Instruments Audio Imperia LLC #SoundDesign #WeAreTheSolos
Coming soon Komplete 15 by Native Instruments We had the pleasure to work on Khitara, a cinematic collection of sound designed guitars and plucked instruments and Conflux, a new instrument for Kontakt 8 using enhanced wavetable features which allows organic and synth-based sounds to be modulated in real-time. #Khitara #Conflux Ramon Kerstens Richard Veenstra #WeAreTheSolos
We worked with Steinberg Media Technologies on demo music for their new Spectral synthesizer X-Stream. Cues by Hamed Golchin and Denis Kaydalov. #XStream #WeAreTheSolos
There are infinite realities, this is one of them. Excited to have our work featured in the trailer for Dark Matter on Apple TV+. #DarkMatter #WeAreTheSolos
He is coming. Thanks Focus Features and AV Squad for using our Deep Sub Drone in the trailer for Nosferatu. Succumb to the Darkness. #Nosferatu #WeAreTheSolos
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