Incorporated Elements Explained

Incorporated Elements
Founder:Ric Robbins
Genre:Hip hop, Pop/R&B, Dance, Pop
Country:US
Location:Nashville, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio

Incorporated Elements is an American music production company founded in the late 1990s by producer/DJ, Ric Robbins (also known as DJ Form). Incorporated Elements works in many areas of production, including artist production and development and music for film, television, video games, and advertising. Incorporated Elements works out of the Nashville, Tennessee, based studio named the Inc.Spot.

Robbins' ultimate vision for Incorporated Elements is that it becomes a company that helps up-and-coming producers, artists, songwriters, engineers, and bands fully realize their goals and dreams in the music industry. I.E. is making plans to open a multi-use complex in the Franklin, Tennessee, area to offer writing rooms, studios, training, and practice rooms. They want to aid in launching the next generation of music professionals.

Awards and nominations

Incorporated Elements has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for their work with the hip-hop group, Grits, and R&B/Pop singer, Ayiesha Woods.[1] [2] [3]

As a production team, Incorporated Elements has also been nominated for nine Dove Awards, winning three.

Year Category Title Outcome
1996 Rap/Hip-Hop/Dance Album of the Year "Mental Releases" Nominated
1999 Rap/Hip-Hop/Dance Recorded Song of The Year "Plagiarism" Won
2000 Rap/Hip-Hop Recorded Song of the year "They All Fall Down" Won
2003 Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year "The Art of Translation" Won
2004 Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year "Lil Irocc Williams" Nominated
2004 Urban Recorded Song of the Year Nominated
2006 Rap/Hip-Hop Recorded Song of the Year "We Don't Play" Nominated
2006 Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year Nominated
2008 Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year Nominated

Discography

Production and writing

Title Artist Year
Mountains (album) - 12 songs Connor Flanagan - Produced by Ric Robbins for I.E. and Andrew "Hawksilver" Piland. Written by Connor Flanagan with Ric Robbins and Andrew "Hawksilver" Piland 2016
Catch My Breath written by I.E.'s, Eric Olson with Kelly Clarkson and Jason Halbert 2012
Somebody That I Used To Know (Remix) 2012
Domino (Remix) 2012
Rolling in the Deep (Remix) 2011
Break The Silence 2011
Airplanes remake Lisa Scinta 2011
Who Dat Girl remix 2011
You Love Me remix 2011
The Day We Fell Apart remix 2010
Love God, Love People remix 2010
You Don't Know What Lonely's Like 2010
If I Can't Have You remix 2009
Don't Ever Give Up on Me 2009
I Saw You 2008
Nobility Shonlock – 7 songs 2007
Introducing Ayiesha Woods 2006 (Grammy-nominated)
7 GRITS – 5 songs 2006
Dichotomy B GRITS – 4 songs 2005 (Grammy-nominated, Dove-nominated)
Love, Peace, and Happiness 2004 (Dove-nominated)
Boogiroot DJ Maj – 1 song 2005 (Dove-nominated)
Lil IROCC Lil IROCC – 6 songs 2004 (Stellar winning)
10 songs 2002 (Grammy-nominated, Dove winning, Top selling Christian Hip-hop record of all time)
The Ringleader DJ Maj – 1 song 2003
Unlocked Verbs – 2 songs 2003 (Dove nominated)
Full Plates DJ Maj – 7 songs 2000
Action Figure 2000
Grammatical Revolution GRITS – 10 songs 1999 (Dove winning, BET & MTV2 most requested)
The Wax Museum DJ Maj – 12 songs 1998
Are We There Yet? 1998
The Syllabus Verbs – 12 songs 1998
Factors of the Seven GRITS – 9 songs 1997 (Dove winning)
6 songs 1996
Mental Releases GRITS – 6 songs 1995 (Dove nominated)

Production and writing for film and television

Dark and Lovely TV commercial (2013)
Gillette TV commercials (2012)
For Colored Girls (Motion Picture – 2010)
Lie To Me (Fox – 2010)
Nikita (TV series) (CW – 2010)
Takers (Motion Picture – 2009)
Dirt (FX – 2008)
Friday Night Lights (TV series) (NBC – 2008)
The Shot (VH-1 – 2007)
(Style – 2007)
Slow Burn (2007)
Bones (TV series) (Fox – 2007)
Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift (2007)
Big Momma's House 2 (2006)
The Perfect Man (2005)
Spanglish (2004 – Oscar nominated)
Something's Gotta Give (2003 – Oscar nominated)
Lockdown (2000)
America's Next Top Model (VH-1, UPN)
Las Vegas (NBC)
Joan of Arcadia (CBS)
Boston Public (Fox)
MTV Cribs (MTV)
Pimp My Ride (MTV)
Made (MTV)
High School Stories (MTV)
Punk'd (MTV)
Most Requested (MTV)
Your Face or Mine (MTV)
Driven (VH-1)
Third Watch (NBC)
Resurrection Blvd. (Showtime)
and over 450 others.

Other remixes, DJ, programming

Kelly Clarkson – tour pre-production & DJ/bandmember – Ric "DJ Form" Robbins (2007–2011)
Kirk Franklin (2007)
The Newsboys (2007)
Britt Nicole (2007)
Portable Sounds – Toby Mac (2007)
Chaotic Resolve – Plumb (2006)
Bounce Remix – George Huff (2005)
Welcome To Diverse City – Toby Mac (2004)
All Things New – Steven Curtis Chapman (2004)
John Reuben Remix album – 5 songs (2004)
The Art of Transformation remix album – GRITS (2004)
One Love – Kimberley Locke (2004)
Here We Go Remix – GRITS and Talib Kweli (2003)
Beautiful Lumps of Coal – Plumb (2003)
Momentum – TobyMac (2001)
Left of the Middle (single remixes) – Natalie Imbruglia (1999)
SonicFlood – SonicFlood (1999)
Vegas Car Chasers – Silage (1998)
Candy Coated Waterdrops – Plumb (1998)
White Lines Remix – Duran Duran (1997)
Under The Influence – Anointed (1996)
Lovin' The Day – Out of Eden – (1995)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Complete list of Grammy Award nominations. Old.post-gazette.com. 25 December 2021.
  2. Web site: USATODAY.com - Complete list of Grammy Award nominations. Usatoday30.usatoday.com. 25 December 2021.
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131213230829/http://www2.grammy.com/images/49th_Press_List.TXT . 13 December 2013 . dmy-all .