Music producer Charlton Hill and world-renowned producer/composer ‘Shave’ form Uncanny Valley

Music Producer Charlton Hill (ex-Supersonic EP) and world-renowned producer/composer ‘Shave’ have joined forces to form an independent music and sound production company, Uncanny Valley, from a studio base in Sydney’s Tamarama Beach.

Dedicated to delivering inspired original composition and sound design for the advertising and television industries, Uncanny Valley also provides an interface between agencies, unsigned acts and labels for license material and recording artist collaboration.

Shave has only recently returned to Australia after 5 years in Londonworking in the pop, dance, film and television industries. During thistime he composed for the likes of Bacardi, KFC, AT&T, Toyota andChrysler and worked with big name directors including Nicolai Fuglsig(Sony ‘Balls’). His rise to fame as a producer includes credits forShapeshifters, Fatboy Slim, Cerrone, [Love] Tattoo, Etherfox andAntigone and he is currently writing and producing new material forDarren Hayes, Sydney’s ‘the Potbelleez’ and UK dance artist, SamObernik.

Hill, who also has a history as a major recording and touringartist, has produced compositions, sound design and post productionaudio for literally hundreds of music projects for the advertising andtelevision industries including major campaigns for Nike, Lexus, Nokia,Sony, P&G, Castrol, Panasonic, BBC and MTV. In 2009 he was invitedto speak at the illustrious AGIdeas Design Week in Melbourne on the artof ‘Sound as Design’. His experience has taken him around the worldwith more recent focus in Singapore, Japan and India.

Shave and Hill have already delivered on a local front this yearwith major compositions for Network Ten’s return of ‘So You Think YouCan Dance’ and ‘MasterChef’, Foxtel’s Winter Olympics, the ABC’s SleekGeeks II, MTV and TVCs for production companies, Curious Film andLuscious International.

Uncanny Valley is also now the exclusiveAustralian and New Zealand representative of award-winning U.S. musicand sound design venture ‘Squeak E. Clean Productions’. Founded bycomposer, producer and DJ, Sam Spiegel (left), aka Squeak E. Clean, thecompany has scored dozens of spots through collaborations with topcommercial directors including the likes of Mark Romanek, MalcolmVenville, Michel Gondry, Tarsem Singh, Lance Acord and Sam’s brother,Spike Jonze.

With access to an international team of composers and big nameperformers, Uncanny Valley has a powerful, collaborative approach tomusic creation and sonic/brand matching.

For all things Uncanny Valley and Squeak E. Clean contact EP CharltonHill on: +61 400 439 355 charlton@uncannyvalley.com.au and check outthese links: www.uncannyvalley.com.au  www.squeakeclean.com