Hitmaker of the Month: Heavy Duty Projects Goes From No. 1 Kids Album with ‘Muppets Mayhem’ to Music for ‘Spider-Verse,’ ‘Beef’ and Beyond
variety.comA.D. Amorosi When Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Kid Albums chart in May with “The Muppets Mayhem: Music from the Disney+ Original Series,” Heavy Duty Projects’ producers, songwriters and supervisors were in on its success with songs in the series, as well as its soundtrack album.
It’s a historic first for the “artist” in question; Dr. Teeth made its first televised appearance on the 1975 pilot of “The Muppet Show,” with 2023’s “Muppet Mayhem” being the only time they topped a Billboard charts.
However, it’s not the only recent feather in the cap of Grammy-winning producer Ariel Rechtshaid’s Heavy Duty Projects. Heavy Duty’s fingerprints are all-over 2023’s animated blockbuster “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” working with Sony for multilingual covers of Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” for the recent film (including Heavy Duty signee Isabella Lovestory) and for its “The Sunflower Covers EP.” Heavy Duty’s team has been part of the music for Netflix’s “Beef” action-dramedy, including actor Steven Yeun’s in-character, fan-fave cover of Incubus’ “Drive,” now included on “Beef: The Bonus Tracks EP.” Heavy Duty composer Amanda Yamate was not only behind the score of “Every.
Body” which premiered at June’s Tribeca Film Festival, but also co-scored Netflix’s upcoming Adam Sandler feature “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!” with Haim’s Este Haim.
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