Stargate was established in Trondheim, Norway. Ester Dean had written the lyrics for the song, but Mary J Blige thought the verses could be better, so we got Johntá Austin to write new verses, and then Mary J Blige came in to re‑sing the verses and do some additional vocals. "We will often try left-field ideas that we later adapt.

Stargate now have a room in Jay‑Z's prestigious Roc‑the‑Mic studio in New York, and have also joined forces with the rapper in a publishing company and record label called StarRoc.Stargate's ascendancy to the top of the American music scene came off the back of a lengthy involvement in the European music scene. You can sprinkle it with all sorts of stuff in the background, but you try to keep it focused on the lead vocal and you make sure that the melody and the lyrics are great.”Like more and more hitmakers these days, Stargate weave their magic using a state‑of‑the‑art Pro Tools system and little else. But we liked the name and somehow it stuck.”As a trio, it did not take long for Stargate to honour their name, and the first artist they propelled to the top of the charts was Noora Noor. We'll have the verses and choruses and bridges and transitions complete. It's better to just create something that you love, and then maybe afterwards you may think, 'Oh, this would be a good song for Whitney Houston.' Written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise. "In fact, we also engineer almost everything in our songs, apart from occasionally the vocals or the strings. "We only write when we're in our studio,” asserts Eriksen.

I'll have a very simple vocal chain and will just add a little bit of sparkle, some compression and an effect of choice, and it will sound great. I can have the right sounds in five minutes, and we have very effective and quick ways of working without compromising quality. "Basically, Tor and I are standing in front of each other, each behind a keyboard, and we jam. In the end, the chord sequence in 'So Sick' is pretty standard, but I think we would not have arrived at that choice of notes had we written it in another key. We generally prefer to develop a musical core before we do that. Stargate production discography. We use bright red and yellow and try to keep them separate.”Another element that adds to the duo's productivity is the fact that they prefer to write songs for the pure fun of it; although they do write to order, it's not their preference. "I think we were one of the first to move to Pro Tools for writing. My father had to raise my bed for me, so I could have equipment under the bed.”Given Eriksen's single‑minded determination it was not surprising that his first successes arrived quickly. At the age of 12, he already had a children's song on the radio that he had written with a childhood friend, and in 1991, when Eriksen was only 17, he enjoyed his first hit with a song called 'Friends', sung by Stella Getz. I also was very into jazz when I was young, and learned improvisation, which I think is a big strength. So from age 10 I started building my own studio. Finally, one of the producers on the album, Swizz Beats, said that she'd be crazy not to include the song on the album. It's what comes most natural for us.”Writers: Johntá Austin, Mary J Blige, Ester Dean, Stargate.

The 37‑year old was introduced to music technology as a child in Trondheim, the north‑western Norwegian coastal town where he grew up, in 1980. A couple of labels wanted the song, but for a while nothing happened, until Beyoncé heard it.

In the US alone, they have enjoyed a staggering 21 top 10 hits during the last four years. It's great!”  Mikkel Eriksen tells the stories behind some of the Norwegian duo's greatest hits.Writers: Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen, Amanda Ghost, Ian Dench, Beyoncé Knowles. Stargate is a record producing and songwriting team composed of Tor Erik Hermansen (born 14 October 1972) and Mikkel Storleer Eriksen (born 10 December 1972), based in Los Angeles. We then focus on writing and recording the music that we love the most, which is great. He will make all the sounds even louder and the bass even thicker and the vocal even brighter. Phil Tan [or KD Davis; see SOS October 2008 for an analysis of KD's mix of the Stargate track 'Closer'] might even use many of our mixing effects, but he will then make that sound even better. We put a lot of instrumental melodies in our music that singers and lyricists can use and adapt. One thing that makes things more straightforward is that in focusing on melodic ideas, we have learnt that we can keep tracks open and sparse. So we'd get a cappella versions of songs by Mary J Blige, Mariah Carey, Brandy, and others, and we'd create remixes, and these would often be the main European versions. Together with the topline writer we work, often tweak and simplify the song, and never quit before we feel we've got a killer hook.Critics found some of Stargate's succeeding works a replica of "Waterfall" did not enter the New Zealand Singles Chart, but reached number one on the New Zealand Heatseekers Singles chart. Ne‑Yo is also not locked into one genre, and when we presented the song to him, he wrote lyrics to it and added a melody, and magic happened. We have a G‑series SSL at Roc‑The‑Mic, but we only use four channels on it, two for Pro Tools and two for the iPod. A few months later, Shakira agreed to sing on the track, and she recorded the vocal and her people also added the ethnic strings and percussion break. Songwriter and producer Mikkel Eriksen explains how their hard work and talent brought success.Since 2006, Norwegian songwriting and production duo Stargate have been storming charts around the world.

I also had an Ensoniq Mirage, all the Roland stuff like TR303, 606, 808, 909 and MKS, and even an Emulator 2.

Most of the time we have more chords in a song, because we find it hard writing a great song on just one chord. "The song consists of a good feel in the harp sound, three drum sounds, an Indigo bass, and a lead synth, and that's it. It is like a different expression. So sometimes we choose to start in a song in a strange key, so you have to search your way and you can stumble across interesting things.

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