Dave Sardy

{{Short description|American musician, composer, and producer (born 1967)}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Dave Sardy

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| birth_name = David Stuart Sardy

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| genre = {{hlist|Film score|alternative rock|hard rock|indie rock}}

| occupation = {{flatlist|

  • Film composer
  • musician
  • songwriter
  • record producer

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David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is an American composer, musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winning record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock, hard rock, electronic related genres, and then to scoring feature films.

Biography

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a "Hardcore super-producer."{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r316513|pure_url=yes}}

In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA Awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother; he has also received five Grammy Awards (for Toots and the Maytals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, OK Go, Wolfmother and Marilyn Manson) and multiple Brit Awards for Oasis, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother and The Ting Tings. He was Grammy-nominated again in 2007 for LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver and in 2010 for the Band of Horses album Infinite Arms.

Sardy has been involved with some of the most popular licensed music for film and advertising. Although never writing directly for commercials, he has produced music used in many campaigns, including 3 key iPod campaigns: Jet, Wolfmother, and The Ting Tings.

He produced Oasis' seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, in 2008. This was Sardy's second time working with the band, having produced their 2005 album Don't Believe the Truth and he worked with Noel Gallagher again in 2011 with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Sardy scored the Stage 6 Films logo for Sony Pictures Entertainment, as well as the films 21 and Zombieland, and the drama End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, all of which went to number one at the US box office. More recently, Sardy contributed work to The Green Hornet, Lawless, and Eat Pray Love and scored Premium Rush, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Sabotage, and The Beekeper working once again with director David Ayer.

In 2019, Sardy produced a new studio album by The Who.{{Cite web|title=DAVID SARDY - interview by Peek-A-Boo magazine|url=http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/david-sardy-2019/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be|language=en}} And in 2020 Co wrote and produced a new Modest Mouse album called The Golden Casket

Sardy's sister Marcia Schofield played keyboards for the British band The Fall.

Film scores

class="wikitable"
Year

! Title

! Director

! Studio(s)

! Notes

2008

! 21

| Robert Luketic

| Columbia Pictures
Relativity Media
Trigger Street Productions

| Also music supervisor

2009

! Zombieland

| Ruben Fleischer

| Columbia Pictures
Relativity Media
Pariah

| {{N/A}}

rowspan="4"|2012

! Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

| Neveldine/Taylor

| Columbia Pictures
Marvel Knights
Crystal Sky Pictures
Hyde Park Entertainment
Imagenation Abu Dhabi

| {{N/A}}

21 Jump Street

| Phil Lord
Christopher Miller

| Columbia Pictures
Relativity Media
Original Film
SCJ Studios

| Composer of additional music
Composed by Mark Mothersbaugh

Premium Rush

| David Koepp

| Columbia Pictures
Pariah

| {{N/A}}

End of Watch

| rowspan=2| David Ayer

| Open Road Films
StudioCanal
Exclusive Media
Crave Films
CECTV Films
Emmett/Furla Films

| {{N/A}}

2014

! Sabotage

| Open Road Films
Universal Pictures
Albert S. Ruddy Productions
Crave Films
QED International
Roth Films

| {{N/A}}

2016

! Monster Trucks

| Chris Wedge

| Paramount Pictures
Paramount Animation
Disruption Entertainment

| {{N/A}}

2017

! Bright

| David Ayer

| Netflix
Overbrook Entertainment

| {{N/A}}

2019

! Zombieland: Double Tap

| Ruben Fleischer

| Columbia Pictures
Pariah

| {{N/A}}

2021

! Ida Red

| John Swab

| Saban Films
Roxwell Films
BondIt Media Capital

| {{N/A}}

rowspan=2| 2022

! A Lot of Nothing

| Mo McRae

| RLJE Films
Secret Society Films
Scalable Content
Traction
Anonymous Content

| {{N/A}}

Candy Land

|rowspan=3 |John Swab

| Quiver Distribution
Roxwell Films

| {{N/A}}

rowspan=2 |2023

! Little Dixie

| Paramount Pictures
Roxwell Films
TPC

| {{N/A}}

One Day as a Lion

| Grindstone Entertainment Group
Roxwell Films

| {{N/A}}

rowspan=2| 2024

! The Beekeeper

| David Ayer

| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Miramax
Cedar Park
Punch Palace Productions

| Co-composed with Jared Michael Fry

Long Gone Heroes

| John Swab

| Lionsgate
Grindstone Entertainment Group
Phoenix Media & Entertainment

| {{N/A}}

Productions

Sardy has produced and mixed on the following albums, among others:

=Other musical contributions=

Other productions include:

Film soundtracks: The Green Hornet, Wanted, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I Love You, Man, Igby Goes Down, Flushed Away, Shrek the Third, Jackass Number Two, Shoot 'Em Up, The Replacements, Little Nicky, Antitrust, Sugar & Spice, Crazy/Beautiful, Summer Catch, Clockstoppers, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, Foolproof, Dig!, Delirious, Man of the Year, Numb, If I Stay, The Big Bounce, The Holiday, Wild Hogs, What Happens in Vegas, A Lot like Love, Grind, Going the Distance, EuroTrip, The Longest Yard, She's Out of My League, Battle of the Year, TMNT, The Comebacks, Drillbit Taylor, School for Scoundrels, The Game Plan, Spring Breakdown, 500 Days of Summer, Lesbian Vampire Killers, The Hangover, MacGruber, Here Comes the Boom, The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King, War Dogs

TV show soundtracks: The Sopranos, Cold Case, Entourage, One Tree Hill, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, The O.C., Six Feet Under, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chuck, Fresh Meat, Beauty and the Geek Australia, Roswell, Teachers, Dancing with the Stars, Skins, 24, and Ed.

Video game soundtracks: Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Gran Turismo 4, Le Mans 24 Hours, MotorStorm, Pure, Saints Row 2, NHL 2004, Tony Hawk's Project 8, FlatOut 2, and Rugby 06.

References

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