New York music house Metatechnik has amped up its musical reach by bringing Akemi Fujita, Vance Jenkins and Akintayo Adewole onto its crew of composers.

Jenkins and Adewole, who work together under the handle Vance and Ty, specialize in hip hop and R&B. The New Jersey natives bumped into Metatechniks Georg Bissen and Victoria Gross who were mastering tracks for the duo. Aggressive beats and strings, stuttering urban jazz and smooth jams round out their portion of the company album.

"They do authentic hip hop and stylistically, it's a good addition to what we are doing. I don't think the three of us are really capable of doing the nitty-gritty thing they do," says Bissen.

Bissen specializes in techno, Gross in pop and folk while Metatechniks third composer, Shahin Motia, deals in post-rock. Fujita focuses more on the experimental and ambient sides of electronic music. Dense soundscapes, ambiguous guitar progressions and dubbed out layered drums are some of the elements she blends with processed and filtered tones.

"I feel a lot of time in advertising you find music houses that are pretending to write electronic music. For example, when I try to do hip hop, I won't be able to create as authentic a soundtrack as Vance and Ty. That would be more of an imitation rather than the real thing. What we are trying to establish is an authenticity and style that isn't imitating anything," says Bissen. Gross adds:

"We wouldn't say we can't do accordion polka music, but it's not what we would do best."