Commercial pop and R&B, written cinematically — hooks up front, rhythm borrowed from everywhere.
Original songs and productions by HAKEZE. AI-assisted guide vocals are used on selected demos for artist recut; human vocalists and collaborators are credited by name.
Five original songs, one fully developed girl-group world—written, composed and produced before an act was attached. Built for a label developing a group, or an existing artist ready for a distinct next chapter.
Select a song · playback continues in orderSongs developed with other writers, vocalists and producers — human collaboration, clearly credited.
Topline and lyric to other producers' tracks. Further co-writes available on request.
Topline and lyric by Earl Cole and Hayley Brooke
Vocals by Hayley Brooke
Produced by Andrew Camp
Written in a room for an ad campaign brief.
Original songs open for the right artist. Each can be recut as written or developed around a specific voice, project and creative direction.
Directed and scored the award-winning documentary. Music written to carry the story rather than steer it.
▶Composed, arranged and produced by Earl Cole. Full composition, 3:18.
A finished EP — written, produced and mixed. Four songs, hook-led and built around one voice, open for a solo artist to take. Closes on Singularity, a duet with Heiress.
Ask to hear itDance records and slow ones. Songs for a full room and songs for a quiet one.
Commercial pop is the target — hooks, structure, something you can sing back on one listen. Getting there is experimental: new sounds, unusual structures, whatever makes the record unmistakable.
Ideas can arrive in pieces. The skill is hearing which ones belong to the same thing — the sound, the look, the room it lives in — and getting there fast enough that it still feels found.
HAKEZE is Earl Cole — a producer, songwriter and composer in Los Angeles, working in the commercial and cinematic pop lanes.
The foundation is jazz and classical, with rock, soul and hip-hop in the hands — and rhythm pulled in from wherever the song wants it, any era, fused into the record rather than quoted on top of it.
The subject is always human — the small admissions people don't usually make out loud, scored like they matter.
Keys first, then the arrangement is built around what was played.
Most of the work is deciding what not to keep. A part that is not holding weight comes out, however good it sounded going in.
HAKEZE develops each record through original musical ideas, lyrics, composition, instrumental performance, production and creative direction. AI-assisted tools are used in demo development for guide vocals and arrangement exploration. Human vocalists and collaborators are credited by name. Featured vocals are demonstrations for artist recut unless otherwise identified.
Hooks, melodies and lyrics built into complete records — written for a specific voice, in an artist’s style, or building the sound they do not have yet.
FOR Artists & A&R · Writing roomsReharmonizing, restructuring, building the parts around a vocal. Charts on paper when there are players.
FOR Artists · Other producersPerformed at the keys, then programmed and arranged. Blank page to finished master, one point of contact for the record and its sound identity.
FOR Artists & A&RFilm, series and campaigns. Classical form underneath, a pop ear on top.
FOR Directors · AgenciesOriginal compositions for film, series, trailers and campaigns — instrumentals, TV mixes and cut-downs available.
Hear a co-write FOR Music supervisors · Publishers
HAKEZE is looking for publisher- or label-backed artist projects, selective cuts, writing rooms, production collaborations and music for picture.
