Incorporated Elements
Incorporated Elements is a music production company founded in the late 1990s by producer/DJ, Ric Robbins. 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.As a production team, Incorporated Elements has also been nominated for 9 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 | "Love, Peace & Happiness" – Out of Eden | Nominated |
| 2006 | Rap/Hip-Hop Recorded Song of the Year | "We Don't Play" | Nominated |
| 2006 | Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year | Dichotomy B | Nominated |
| 2008 | Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year | Redemption | Nominated |
Discography
Production and Writing
| Title | Artist | Year | |
| Mountains - 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 | Gotye | 2012 | - |
| Domino | Jessie J | 2012 | - |
| Rolling in the Deep | Adele | 2011 | - |
| Break The Silence | Kelly Clarkson | 2011 | - |
| Airplanes remake | Lisa Scinta | 2011 | - |
| Who Dat Girl remix | Flo Rida | 2011 | - |
| You Love Me remix | Kelly Clarkson | 2011 | - |
| The Day We Fell Apart remix | Kelly Clarkson | 2010 | - |
| Love God, Love People remix | Israel Houghton | 2010 | - |
| You Don't Know What Lonely's Like | written with Kelly Clarkson | 2010 | - |
| If I Can't Have You remix | Kelly Clarkson | 2009 | - |
| Don't Ever Give Up on Me | written with Kelly Clarkson | 2009 | - |
| I Saw You | written with Kelly Clarkson | 2008 | - |
| Nobility | Shonlock – 7 songs | 2007 | - |
| Introducing Ayiesha Woods | Ayiesha Woods | 2006 | - |
| 7 | GRITS – 5 songs | 2006 | - |
| Dichotomy B | GRITS – 4 songs | 2005 | - |
| Love, Peace, and Happiness | Out of Eden | 2004 | - |
| Boogiroot | DJ Maj – 1 song | 2005 | - |
| Lil IROCC | Lil IROCC – 6 songs | 2004 | - |
| The Art of Translation | 10 songs | 2002 | - |
| The Ringleader | DJ Maj – 1 song | 2003 | - |
| Unlocked | Verbs – 2 songs | 2003 | - |
| Full Plates | DJ Maj – 7 songs | 2000 | - |
| Action Figure | Verbs | 2000 | - |
| Grammatical Revolution | GRITS – 10 songs | 1999 | - |
| The Wax Museum | DJ Maj – 12 songs | 1998 | - |
| Are We There Yet? | John Reuben | 1998 | - |
| The Syllabus | Verbs – 12 songs | 1998 | - |
| Factors of the Seven | GRITS – 9 songs | 1997 | - |
| Reality Check | 6 songs | 1996 | - |
| Mental Releases | GRITS – 6 songs | 1995 | - |
Production & Writing for Film & TV
Dark And Lovely |Dark And Lovely TV CommercialGillette |Gillette TV commercials
For Colored Girls
Lie To Me
Nikita
Takers
Dirt
Friday Night Lights
The Shot
Slow Burn
Bones
Big Momma's House 2
The Perfect Man
Spanglish
Something's Gotta Give
Lockdown
America's Next Top Model
Las Vegas
Joan of Arcadia
Boston Public
MTV Cribs
Pimp My Ride
Made
High School Stories
Punk'd
Most Requested
Your Face or Mine
Driven
Third Watch
Resurrection Blvd.
and over 450 others.
Other Remixes, DJ, Programming
– tour pre-production & DJ/bandmember – Ric "DJ Form" RobbinsKirk Franklin
The Newsboys
Britt Nicole
Portable Sounds – Toby Mac
Chaotic Resolve – Plumb
Bounce Remix – George Huff
Welcome To Diverse City – Toby Mac
All Things New – Steven Curtis Chapman
John Reuben Remix album – 5 songs
The Art of Transformation remix album – GRITS
One Love – Kimberley Locke
Here We Go Remix – GRITS and Talib Kweli
Beautiful Lumps of Coal – Plumb
Momentum – TobyMac
Left of the Middle – Natalie Imbruglia
SonicFlood – SonicFlood
Vegas Car Chasers – Silage
Candy Coated Waterdrops – Plumb
White Lines Remix – Duran Duran
Under The Influence – Anointed
Lovin' The Day – Out of Eden –