Tyler Bates

Tyler Bates is a music producer and composer for films. His most known work includes "The Hangman's Song" and various other tracks from the zombie horror film Dawn of the Dead. Other projects include See No Evil and Slither.

Biography

From a very young age Bates would read the liner notes to learn as much as he could about music. His mother listened to a variety of music so Bates was exposed to a variety of different styles of music; from Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair to Joni Mitchell and the Beatles.

When he was older, he moved to Los Angeles to find a career as a songwriter and producer. In between music jobs, he'd take on small jobs including painting houses. He also joined a number of different bands.

300 Soundtrack controversy

300's soundtrack has been accused of borrowing many elements from Elliot Goldenthal's 1999 soundtrack for Titus, which caused some controversy in the film composer community. 300's "Remember Us" is identical in parts to the end of Titus's "Finale". Also similar is 300's "Returns A King" to Titus's "Victorius Titus".

Portal On.net revealed that the intro to the song "Message For The Queen" has the same melody as the Macedonian folk song "Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce". However, the soundtrack author Tyler Bates failed to provide proper attribution, and now claims the melody as his own copyrighted work.

This song has been included in numerous anthologies and has been covered by many singers from the Balkans, including Aleksandar Sarievski (who wrote the song and composed the melody), Ceca, Toše Proeski, Haris Džinović, Šerif Konjević and Karolina Gočeva, among many others. During the last 60 years, this was one one of the songs that people of former Yugoslavia most often associate with Macedonia, as shown in the 1998 movie Powder Keg by Serbian director Goran Paskaljević. On.net also published a response by Tyler Bates, who claims that he "can't say there is a specific source of inspiration for the cue."

Discography

Soundtrack albums

• The Crow: City of Angels
• Roseland (with Azam Ali from Narada/Six Degrees)

Film soundtracks

• Dawn of the Dead
  • "The Hangman's Song"
  • "How Will Your God Judge You?"
  • "America Always Sorts Out Its Shit"
  • "That Dog's Just Fucked Up"
  • Subterannean Sewer Attack"
• The Stand
  • "300" (promo short)
• The Devil's Rejects
  • "Shootout"
  • "Staples"
  • "Another Failed Escape"
  • "Mama Pulls the Trigger"
• The Last Time I Committed Suicide
• City of Ghosts
• Goodnight
• BAADASSSSS!
  • "Angel Muse"
  • "Bills' L.A. River Stunt"
• Get Carter
  • "Main Titles"
  • "House Of Cards"
  • World Upside Down
• The Dead Will Tell
  • "Emily Investigates"
  • "I Had A Breakdown"
• Night at the Golden Eagle
  • "Gabriel"
  • Closet Voyeur"
• Wasted
  • "Back On Junk"
• See No Evil
  • "Making a Monster"
• Halloween
  • "Halloween Theme 2007"
  • "The Shape Stalks Laurie"

External links

• Tyler Bates' Website (includes samples of music and many video clips from movies worked on)
• Tyler Bates at IMDb