Tom Salta, also known as Atlas Plug (stylized ATlA5 PlUG), is an American recording artist and soundtrack composer. He has composed soundtracks for many video game titles, including '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2'', '' Cold Fear'', ''

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'' and '' Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X''. Salta's score for ''Red Steel'' received an award for "Best Original Score" in

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's Best of 2006 awards. Salta works in multimedia including

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, and

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Atlas Plug

Tom Salta is also behind the Atlas Plug moniker, and released his first album, '' 2 Days or Die'', in February 2005.

Notable works

''Prince of Persia''

The contemporary world music score of '' Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands'' features performances recorded with percussionist Bashiri Johnson, and vocals by world music singer Azam Ali and international recording artist Judith Bérard. It also features world music and middle-eastern instrumentation such as doubek,

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, khangira,

bowhammer In music, a bowhammer is a device used when playing a cymbalum to strike, pull across or pick the strings in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. It was devised to replace the mallets that were traditionally used to play the cymbalum. Unlike ...

, cymbalom, lakota slide, walimba,

ney The ''ney'' ( fa, Ney/نی, ar, Al-Nāy/الناي), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Persian music and Arabic music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continually ...

duduk The duduk ( ; hy, դուդուկ ) or tsiranapogh ( hy, ծիրանափող, meaning “apricot-made wind instrument”), is an ancient Armenian double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. It is indigenous to Armenia. Variations of th ...

, and custom-made instruments.

''Red Steel 2''

For ''

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,'' Salta composed a 'Wild West' guitar-driven score blended with Asian music influences. He enlisted the guitar performances of studio musician Steve Ouimette and recorded various instrumentalists for Chinese percussion,

shakuhachi A is a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the .

fue is the Japanese word for bamboo flute, and refers to a class of flutes native to Japan. come in many varieties, but are generally high-pitched and made of a bamboo called . The most popular of the is the . Categorization are traditionally ...

pipa The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a () is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets rang ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

. Salta's contemporary and traditional Japanese musical score for the original ''Red Steel'' won IGN's

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Award for Best Original Score.

''Tom Clancy'' franchise

The anthemic military-themed orchestral scores for ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2'' fuse electronic sounds into the score to capture the hi-tech aesthetic of the games for which he was nominated for “Best Video Game Score” at the

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. Salta's anthemic orchestral scores for the Tom Clancy franchise captured the attention of the US Marines and subsequently he was assigned to create the music for the Marine Corps' latest recruitment commercial entitled "America's Few." Most recently Salta composed the live-action trailer for '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier'' and the score for Ubisoft's

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real-time strategy game ''

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''.

Discography

Recording under the artist name “Atlas Plug”, tracks from his album '' 2 Days or Die'' were used by television shows on ABC, CBS, MTV, NBC as well as national commercials. His Atlas Plug music can also be heard in the soundtracks to games such as '' Crackdown'', ''

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'' and '' Project Gotham Racing 3''. Salta's orchestral music for Hollywood movie trailers and promos includes '' Toy Story 3,

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...

Spider-Man Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book '' Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962) in the ...

, Astro Boy, and Coraline''. Prior to his composing career, Salta toured with and worked on releases by artists such as

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched ...

, Junior Vasquez, Everything But The Girl, Deep Forest,

Mary J. Blige Mary Jane Blige ( ; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Often referred to as the " Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and " Queen of R&B", Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Award ...

and

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want What ...

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