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Patrick Savage, Jon Klein, Von Magnet, East Bay Ray, Gabi Delgado‑Lopez
Lost in Darkness (Fuzzion Remix)
Holeg Spies is a French-born composer and music producer best known for his collaboration in film music with Patrick Savage as Savage & Spies notably for the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), James Caan's thriller The Outsider and Raindance Film Festival award winning true story drama Selling Isobel by Rudolf Buitendach.
Since 1993, Spies is recognized as a leader and pioneer in the fusion of musical styles in the indie-music world. Headliner DJ of the first official electronic music tour in India he then joined the Out Soon booking agency alongside stars Jeff Mills and Carl Cox. Experienced in international collaborations, Holeg Spies has constantly explored cultures and sound-worlds to forge his own unique and unconventional style. From indie-rock to electronica/techno throughout ancient/world and orchestral music, Holeg worked with major record companies such as Universal Japan, BMG, Polygram and Sony ATV. Holeg Spies has composed and produced a massive amount of music pieces under several names: Holeg Spies and Spies since 1993, Savage & Spies since 2007, Olowex duo with Yannis Kamarinos since 2016, Spies Under Von Magnet Influence (2006), The Star Shrink Shooters (2008) and Kore kosmou (2013). Jon Klein (Siouxsie and the Banshees), East Bay Ray (Dead Kennedys). Holeg also produced for numerous artists and labels in more than 20 countries such as Anne Clark, Citizen aka Vitalic, Von Magnet among others.
Trained at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), Holeg created the avant-garde, transmedia "Spies" project in the mid 90's with Thierry Saint-Paul and Alexandra Mercier. Together, they have created the notinism art movement throughout the installation and transmedia art-concept, "Notinism.org". In the continuity, Holeg has developed multisensory and pluridisciplinary art pieces merging music, ballet, cinema, painting and various digital art forms. American curator David d'Heilly wrote: "SPIES' work transmits a vast rosetta stone facilitating communication between the world of ancient thaumaturgical wisdom and our current network society".
In Japan where he toured and provided art installations frequently over a 10-year period (1997-2007) having been introduced by Mike Maguire (Juno Reactor), he met director Miike Takashi in 2002. SPIES scored an exclusive 4' trailer for his award-winning movie Ichi the Killer and decided then to concentrate his musical composition for films. Holeg got started in the American film industry with his contribution to the theatrical trailer of Michael Bay's Hitcher. In 2006, he met Patrick Savage and together created the Savage & Spies composer-duo. From 2011 to 2014, Holeg Spies joined ICM Partners alongside a stable of film luminaries that includes Ennio Morricone, Al Pacino as well as music superstars Beyoncé, Eminem and Lou Reed.
