Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums

Sam Spiegel is an American DJ, producer, composer, and director from Rockville, Maryland who grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.
As a child, Spiegel studied classical voice, cello, and flute. By his teens, he enjoyed hip hop music.
In addition to creating his own material, Spiegel has worked with musicians such as Kanye West, Ben Lee, Maroon 5, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He has scored commercials for companies including Converse, Levi's, Reebok, ESPN, T Mobile, Jose Cuervo, and Saturn. His production company scored the video game Skate 2. Though he attempts to create music free of record label restraints, Spiegel also licenses his songs whenever possible so as to maximize exposure for his work. He produces albums under the name Squeak E. Clean.
Spiegel is the brother of film director Spike Jonze. They collaborated on the Adidas TV commercial Hello Tomorrow, for which Spiegel created the score sung by Karen O. The titular song briefly reached No. 1 on the iTunes singles chart. Spiegel also wrote the score for Jonze's 2010 short film I'm Here, and produced an original song with Ape Drums featuring Assassin for Jonze's Kenzo World advertisement.