IQ Beats

Infobox Company
name = IQ Beats
company_
type = Music Production
foundation = Summer of 2002
location_city = Seattle, WA
location_country = USA
location =
locations =
key_people = Michael Berlin, Steven Scalfati, Kip Beelman, Patrick Napper, Mark Hall, Dudley Taft
area_served = North America, Europe, UK, Asia, Australia
products = Radio jingles, music imaging, commercial library music

IQ Beats is a music production company specializing in radio jingles and library production music based in Seattle, Washington comprised of Michael Berlin (Co-Owner, CEO, Sales/Marketing), Steven Scalfati (Co-owner, Creative Director, Composer/Producer) Kip Beelman (Engineer/Producer), Patrick Napper (Composer/Producer), Dudley Taft (Composer/Producer) and is represented in the UK and Ireland by Mark Hall, in Australia by Big Bang & Fuzz, and in Europe by Music & Images.

History

Formed in the summer of 2002 by Reelworld alumni Michael Berlin and Steven Scalfati, the pair started with a bang by landing a custom commission for a new Fox FM package that has since gone on to be the most syndicated IQ Beats package ever. The immediate success of this package generated a buzz in the UK radio world that lead to a rapid-fire succession of commissions for The Century Network, WKTU and Heart 106.2 in London as well as a slew of orders for syndication.

Adding local audio engineer and record producer Kip Beelman (Sleater-Kinney, Maktub, Brandi Carlile, Juno, Kinski, The Posies, Ken Stringfellow, The Long Winters) a year later brought a new level of sonic integrity to the mix and the right person to manage the growing number of syndicated projects. Shortly thereafter local singer/songwriter Patrick Napper was brought on board with the TFM Radio package being his first effort.

Bringing on a second composer allowed chief creative director Steven Scalfati to produce IQ Production’s first library music release, RnB/DnB and a Few Breaks. As producing more titles in the series became a priority, local composer/producer and ace guitarist Dudley Taft was added to the fold to create Adrenaline Rock, the second disc in the ongoing series.

IQ Beats thrives to this day with packages in the Country, Hot AC, Rhythmic AC, Urban AC, CHR, Smooth Jazz, Rhythmic CHR, Hip Hop/R & B, Adult Hits, Sports Talk and News Talk formats airing in the United States and Canada as well as throughout the UK, mainland Europe, Russia and Asia throughout partnerships with European representative Music & Images and Australian representative Big Bang & Fuzz. The company’s success has allowed itself to keep innovating with their extremely popular and unique imaging tool called Country X Factor and the custom-produced Kickers airing on KAWO and KBWF.

In addition to producing world-class radio imaging products and commercial library music, members of IQ Beats have continued to perform into other areas of music and audio production: Kip Beelman continues to produce and engineer local bands, Steven Scalfati has recently tasted success doing remixes for Ashley Tisdale, Lady Sovereign, Jessi Melay and Stevie Nicks while continuing to perform live with Synth Club and Jackie Papers, Dudley Taft is a performing member of Spike and the Impalers, songwriter and guitarist for the hard-rock band Omnivoid, and band leader for the Dudley Taft Blues Overkill, while Patrick Napper has recently completed a variety of remixes (Nine Inch Nails, Angelique Kidjo featuring Peter Gabriel, Los de Abajo and Joi), continues to travel around the country doing his one-man live DJ performance billed as pnapper, writes, plays guitar and sings lead as a member of Omnivoid, co-writes, produces and performs as a member of Wordblender while also contributing production and horns to Lee Oskar of War, Charlie Loesel, and Lynval Golding of The Specials among others.

Contributors

* [http://www.kipbeelman.net/ Kip Beelman] (Engineer/Producer).
* [http://www.patricknapper.com/ Patrick Napper] (Composer/Producer).
* Steven Scalfati (Owner, Composer/Producer).
* Michael Berlin (Owner, CEO, Sales/Marketing).
* Mark Hall (UK Project Manager).
* Dudley Taft (Composer/Producer).

Clients

Released Tracks

IQ Production Library Music
* RnB/DnB and a Few Breaks
* Adrenaline Rock
* Ultimate News
* IQ Sports
* Feelgood

Remixes
* “Be Good to Me” by Ashley Tisdale – THC’s Scalfati Mixshow remix by Steven Scalfati
* “Love Me or Hate Me” by Lady Sovereign – Bridge and Tunnel remix by DJ Scalfonzo (Steve Scalfati)
* “Salala” by Angelique Kidjo featuring Peter Gabriel – Djin Djin Dub remix by pnapper (Patrick Napper)
* “What You Are” by Joi – U R Tranquility remix by pnapper (Patrick Napper)
* “Resistencia” by Los de Abajos - Regueton Rendicion remix by pnapper (Patrick Napper)
* “Survivalism” by Nine Inch Nails – Opal Club remix by pnapper (Patrick Napper)

External links

* [http://www.iqbeats.com IQ Beats.com]
* [http://www.iqbeatsblog.com IQ Beats Blog]
* [http://www.kipbeelman.net Kip Beelman’s site]
* [http://www.patricknapper.com Patrick Napper’s site]
* [http://www.musicandimages.nl Site of European reps Music & Images]
* [http://www.bigbangfuzz.com/ Site of Australian reps Big Bang & Fuzz]