The Humble Brothers are an electronic music duo consisting of Canadian Ken "hiwatt

Hiwatt

Hiwatt was a British company that manufactured amplifiers for electric guitars and electric basses. Starting in the late 1960s, together with Marshall and Vox, the company contributed to the sonic image popularly termed "British sound"....

" Marshall and Tanzanian-born Traz Damji. They gained notoriety with their involvement in Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

 soundtracks, starting with 2001's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

-Development:Different versions of the game were produced for each game platform; the Xbox, GameCube and PC versions were developed in EA Seattle, a subsidiary of EA Canada, while the PS2 version was developed by EA Black Box in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Also, it did not feature a career mode...

. Two big projects followed, SimCity 4

SimCity 4

SimCity 4 is a city-building/urban planning simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. It was released on January 14, 2003. It is the fourth installment in the SimCity series. SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which adds features to the game...

and its expansion pack, Rush Hour, then remixes of other artists' songs as their production skills were noticed by the mainstream music industry. Their notable remixes include Linkin Park

Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...

's "One Step Closer"

One Step Closer (Linkin Park song)

"One Step Closer" is a song by the American rock band Linkin Park. It was released as the first single and second track of their debut album, Hybrid Theory. This song is also featured in the game Rock Band 2....

 ("1Stp Klosr"

Reanimation (album)

Reanimation helped the many underground hip-hop artists that it featured reach a larger audience, as well as changing the nature of the work so significantly that it could be considered an entirely new album...

) and Static-X

Static-X

Static-X is an American industrial metal band from Los Angeles, California. They were formed in 1994. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released six albums, their most recent being Cult of Static, which was released on March 17, 2009....

/Mephisto Odyssey

Mephisto Odyssey

Mephisto Odyssey is an American House music group from San Francisco California who have been credited with helping to pioneer the San Francisco house music sound. The group went on to release a number of self released singles until doing tenures at City of Angels and Warner Bros. Records from the...

 song "Crash" which was featured on the soundtrack of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is a 2000 direct-to-video animated film featuring the comic book superhero Batman and his archenemy, the Joker...

. The Humble Brothers have also remixed the Dry Cell song Body Crumbles. They are also responsible for producing "Terror Is Reality" for the Capcom video game Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2

is an action-adventure horror-comedy video game, developed by Capcom in partnership with Blue Castle Games, and was distributed by Capcom. It was released on September 24, 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and September 28, 2010 for Microsoft Windows. The Dead Rising staff returned to create...

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The Humble Brothers continue to produce music for video games, television, and remix albums.

External links

• The Humble Brothers website