User:Philip Steir

Philip Steir

Philip Steir is an accomplished musician, remixer, composer and music producer. As a drummer, he played in the critically acclaimed band Consolidated he co-founded, which was signed to Nettwerk Records  and later London Records. Consolidated released five albums between 1990-1996. Philip co-wrote all of the band’s material, as well as doing much of the  producing of the bands studio work.

After the success of Philip’s first remix for Consolidated, “This Is Facism”, which went  to #1 on the U.S. dance charts, he started receiving  phone calls from record labels to remix other artists  on their roster. In 1996 he opened his own studio in San Francisco (Toast), where he remixed tracks for  numerous top artists including No Doubt, New  Order, Korn, Moby, Rob Zombie, Foreigner, Smashmouth,  Bush,  Live, Cake and others.

Philip’s remix of Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride", for the movie "Go", set the ball  in motion for many classic tracks to be remixed for  movies, clubs and TV commercials. His “Magic Carpet Ride” remix was licensed by Dodge and  then Skechers for both of the companies major TV ad  campaigns. It was also eventually used in other films and TV shows as well.

Philip’s reputation as a remixer eventually led to production work. He produced the Grammy nominated album Arepa 3000 (best alternative Latin album) in  2001, for the Venezuelan band, Los Amigos Invisibles. The album was also nominated for a Latin Grammy Award (best rock album).

Philip also produced the majority of tracks on the Maverick debut album Falling Uphill for Lillix. Falling Uphill was an international success spawning hits in  the United States, Canada and Asia. The album has now been certified gold in Japan. The success of the song “What I Like About You,” which  Philip produced for the TV show of the same name, was  also the hit song in the movie and soundtrack for “Freaky  Friday.” When the band No Doubt started work  on their Rock Steady record, they began first in San  Francisco recording with Philip at his studio where  the song “Hey Baby” was  born, and eventually went on to win the Grammy Award for best pop single  in 2003.

Philip was also the music producer and music supervisor for The WB TV Network's image campaigns, producing  the theme music for 5 seasons of the network’s  image campaign. The campaigns in which Philip did the music for won both he and the network 4 Promax  awards for best Network promo.

Philip is now living in Los Angeles, where his reputation for remixing classic tracks for film and TV led him  to develop a project for Warner Brothers Records to  remix past hit songs from the Warner Bros tape vaults  / back catalog. The album, “What Is Hip?”, released on Warner Bros Records and whose title track  was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 features classic  songs by America, Doobie Brothers, Rod Stewart, George  Benson, Ambrosia and Tower of Power redone. The album includes remixes by other top producers and DJ’s. It was conceived and executive-produced by Philip, as was his remix of the Devo classic “Whip It” and  Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me,” from  the project which have been receiving license sync’s  from film, TV and ad campaigns. Philip’s remix of Seals & Crofts’ classic hit song “Summer  Breeze” was prominently featured in a summer  ad campaign for Gap and was a come back hit on AC radio.

After remixing the same theme song he originally produced for the WBTV series “What I Like About You,” Philip  was asked by the shows producers if he would join the  show as composer, music producer and music  supervisor, and has just completed his third season  on the hit  series.

In February of 2006, Philip was hired as a consultant by the ad agency Chiat Day in Los Angeles as a music supervisor and researcher on their Apple computer account. Then in June of 2006 Chiat Day asked Philip to be the music supervisor and researcher for the upcoming fall  ipod TV spot.

Philip has just recently completed work on a remix project for Rhino/Warner Music Group where he remixed and executive produced a project featuring classic  original hits by the legendary Bee Gees. This double CD will be released in the fall of 2007.