Dust Brothers

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The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles-based producers "E.Z. Mike" (Michael Simpson) and "King Gizmo" (John King), famous for their creation of sample-based music in the 1980s, and specifically for their work on the groundbreaking albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys and Odelay by Beck. More recently, they again collaborated with Beck on the album Guero, and worked with Tenacious D on their self-titled debut. They also helped Linkin Park on their debut album Hybrid Theory.

They produced Tone Loc's album, Loc'ed After Dark and Young MC's first album. In 1997 they produced the hit "MMMBop" for Hanson's first major label album Middle of Nowhere.

In 1998, the duo was approached by director David Fincher to assemble the acclaimed score for the film Fight Club, most notably "This is Your Life", a song featuring lines from Fight Club [1], including the "You are not the contents of your wallet" speech by Tyler Durden.

Simpson went on to compose the scores for the films Road Trip, Saving Silverman, Freddy Got Fingered and, most recently Stick It where in addition to composing the original score, he teamed up with rapper Talib Kweli to produce and perform the song "Abra Cadabra". He has also contributed original music and songs to such films as Zoolander and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.

The Dust Brothers also produced a track with Korn called "Kick the P.A." for the Spawn soundtrack in 1997.

The Dust Brothers also remixed the Styles Of Beyond track "Winnetka Exit", which made its way onto a Styles Of Beyond promotional CD Spies Like Us / Winnetka Exit.

John King teamed with Medeski Martin & Wood to create their 2004 album End of the World Party (just in case). King also recently worked on the 2005 Garbage album Bleed Like Me. His production work on "Bad Boyfriend" made it on the album, but his work on tracks "Space Can Come Through Anyone" and "It's All Over But The Crying" were respectfully relegated to b-side status and unreleased.

E.Z. Mike is the musical director and frequent guest of tomgreen.com, Tom Green's live Internet show. In addition, E.Z. Mike and Tom Green created the Keepin' It Real Crew who recorded the album "Prepare for Impact" released by Sony Records in 2006.

They are currently collaborating with They Might Be Giants on their new album, due out in 2007.

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The Dust Brothers name was also the original name used by The Chemical Brothers as an homage to the American duo, who had to change their name when they were threatened with lawsuit by the producer duo. [2]