{{lowercase title}} {{Short description|Canadian musician}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=February 2017}} {{unreliable sources|date=February 2017}} {{Undisclosed paid|date=May 2020}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = xSDTRK | image = XsdtrkwalkinginToronto.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Yonatan Ayal | alias = Yoni, Soundtrack | birth_place = Montreal, Canada | genre = Pop, R&B, soul, rock, alternative, industrial | occupation = Record producer, songwriter, singer, musician | instrument = Vocals, guitar, piano, drums, keyboard, sampler, drum machine, DAW | years_active = 2009–present | label = Primary Wave, BMG | website = {{URL|xSDTRK.com}} }} '''Yonatan Ayal''', known professionally as '''xSDTRK''' (pronounced "soundtrack") is a Canadian songwriter and music producer. Starting with the piano at the age of three, xSDTRK studied at the Toronto Royal Conservatory, and has since moved on to become a multi-instrumentalist working in various musical genres.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socan.ca/news/anglophone-song-whatta-night|title=I-Notchz Win Socan Award|publisher=SOCAN|date=October 22, 2011|access-date=2013-04-03|archive-date=October 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018233748/http://www.socan.ca/news/anglophone-song-whatta-night|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Partial discography== {| class="wikitable" ! Title ! Artist ! Credit ! Year ! Record label |- | "Spin" | Megan Thee Stallion featuring Victoria Monét | Co-Writer & Producer | 2024 | Hot Girl Productions |- | "Hands Off Me" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2020 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Pirouette" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2020 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Sunday Morning" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2020 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Easy on Yourself" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2020 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Count Me Out" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2019 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Back to Life" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2019 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Darling" | Chiiild | Co-Writer & Producer | 2019 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- | "Hold You Back" | Emotional Oranges | Co-Producer | 2019 | Avant Garden, Island Records |- |We need to talk |Tayla Parx |Co-Writer & Producer |2019 |Atlantic Records |- |Me vs Us |Tayla Parx |Producer |2019 |Atlantic Records |- |Drowning |Mario |Co-Writer & Producer |2018 |New Citizen, Empire |- |Losing it over you |Matoma ft Ayme |Co-Producer |2018 |Parlophone |- |Focus |Allie X |Co-Writer & Producer |2018 |Twin Music |- |Not so bad in La |Allie X |Producer |2018 |Twin Music |- |Science |Allie X |Co-Producer |2018 |Twin Music |- |Little things |Allie X |Co-Producer |2018 |Twin Music |- |Can't Stop Now |Allie X |Producer |2018 |Twin Music |- |Girl of the year |Allie X |Co-Producer |2018 |Twin Music |- |Be Good To Me |Jacob Banks ft Seinabo Sey |Co-Writer & Producer |2018 |Interscope |- |No Strings |Nicole Millar |Co-Writer & Producer |2018 |EMI |- |Over my dead body |Ebenezer |Co-Writer & Producer |2018 |Interscope |- |Daddy Issues |Josephina |Co-Writer & Producer |2018 |Mirror to Mind Records |- |South Beach |Tayla Parx ft Chiiild |Producer |2017 |Atlantic Records |- |Cheap liquor |Tayla Parx |Producer |2017 |Atlantic Records |- |Act Right |Tayla Parx |Producer |2017 |Atlantic Records |- |Jeffery |Tayla Parx |Producer |2017 |Atlantic Records |- |Selfish |Daley |Co-Writer & Producer |2017 |Bmg |- |Careless |Daley ft Chiiild |Co-Writer & Producer |2017 |Bmg |- | Mercy||Jacob Banks||Co-Writer & Producer||2017||Interscope
|- |F**k it tho |Keshia Chante |Co-Writer & Producer |2017 |Universal |- |- | Body to Body||Dragonette||Co-Writer & Producer||2016||Universal |- |- | Karma ||Troi Irons||Producer||2016||Def Jam |- |- | Today ||Troi Irons||Co-Producer||2016||Def Jam |- |- | Call Me ||Troi Irons||Additional Production||2016||Def Jam |- |- | Hard II Love ||Usher||Co-Writer & Producer||2016||RCA |- |- | Stronger ||Usher||Co-Writer & Additional Production||2016||RCA |- |- | Body Talk ||LYON||Co-Writer & Producer||2016||Black Box |- |- | Falling Up ||LYON||Co-Writer & Producer||2016||Black Box |- |- | Silverlight ||LYON||Co-Producer||2016||Black Box |- | Workin||Vory||Co-Writer & Producer||2016|| |- |- | Tu+Yo / You+Me ||Alx Veliz ||Writer & Producer||2016||Universal Music |- | Thunder ||Chloe x Halle ||Co-Writer & Producer||2016||Parkwood Entertainment |- |- | Healer||Moxie feat GoldLink||Co-Writer & Producer||2016|| |- | Mind||Jack Ü||Co-Writer||2015||OWSLA/Mad Decent/Atlantic Records |- |I Think we'd feel good together ||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- | Hold on forever||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Wind it up||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |The Great Unknown||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Absence of Affection||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Things you said||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Paper Dolls||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |NLYTM||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Heaven help me||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Lie to me||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |All the best things||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- |Steady||Rob Thomas||Programmer||2015||Atlantic Records/Emblem Music |- | After Tonight||ASDF ft Melanie Fiona||Co-Writer & Producer ||2015||Independent |- | Acting Like That ||Jennifer Lopez feat Iggy Azalea|| Producer ||2014||Capitol |- | So Good ||Jennifer Lopez || Producer ||2014||Capitol |- | Revolution||Catey Shaw||Co-Writer||2014||Complex/Left Hook |- | Sweet Talker||Jessie J||Co-Writer||2014||Lava Records/Republic Records |- | Oxygen||Ryan Mcdermott||Producer W/ Ryan Mcdermott||2013||GOOD Music |- | Tell the world||Jessie Labelle||Writer & Producer W/ Tawgs Salter||2012||WAX/Universal Music |- | Moment that we stop||Jessie Labelle |Producer W/ Tawgs Salter||2012||WAX/Universal Music |- | Connected||Karl Wolf||Writer||2012||Lone Wolf/Republic Records |- | Numb||Karl Wolf||Writer & Producer||2010||EMI |- | 80s baby||Karl Wolf||Writer & Producer||2010||EMI |- | Whatta Night||Ricky J ||Producer||2010||Eone |- | Yalla Habibi||Karl Wolf||Producer||2009||EMI |- |}
===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" |Year ! rowspan="2" |Single ! colspan="2" |Chart positions<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acharts.us/performer/karl_wolf |title=Karl Wolf chart positions |publisher=Acharts.us |access-date=2011-03-10}}</ref> ! rowspan="2" scope="col" style="width:12em;" | Certifications ! rowspan="2" |Role |- ! style="width:30px;" | CAN ! style="width:30px;" | JPN |- |- |- ||2017 |"Body 2 Body" by Dragonette | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — | * | style="text-align:left;" |Writer & Producer |- |- |- |- ||2017 |"Fuck it tho" by Keshia Chante | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — | * | style="text-align:left;" |Writer & Producer |- |- |- |- ||2016 |"Mind" by Jack U | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — | * | style="text-align:left;" |Co-Writer |- |- ||2015 |"Hold on Forever" by Rob Thomas | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — | * | style="text-align:left;" |Programmer |- |- ||2014 |"Revolution" by Catey Shaw | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — | * | style="text-align:left;" |Co-Writer |- ||2013 |"Oxygen" by RyanMcDermott | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — * | | style="text-align:left;" |Writer & Producer |- ||2013 |"Tell the world" by Jesse Labelle | style="text-align:center;" | 28 | style="text-align:center;" | — | * | style="text-align:left;" |Writer & Producer |- ||2011 |"Whatta Night" by Ricky J | style="text-align:center;" | 42<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acharts.us/song/53714 |title=Whatta Nght Charting |publisher=Acharts.us |access-date=2013-04-03}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;" | — | * CAN: Gold<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=whatta%20night&ica=False&sa=&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist |title=Whatta Nght Certification |publisher=Music Canada |access-date=2013-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519112956/http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=whatta%20night&ica=False&sa=&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist |archive-date=May 19, 2014 }}</ref> | style="text-align:left;" |Producer |- ||2010 |"80's Baby" by Karl Wolf | style="text-align:center;" | — | style="text-align:center;" | — | | style="text-align:left;" |Producer |- ||2009 |"Yalla Habibi" by Karl Wolf | style="text-align:center;" |24 | style="text-align:center;" |51 | * CAN: Gold<ref name="musiccanada">{{cite web|url=https://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=karl%20wolf&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist |title=Karl Wolf certifications |publisher=Music Canada |date=December 1, 2011 |access-date=2011-12-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502114325/http://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=karl%20wolf&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist |archive-date=May 2, 2012 }}</ref> | style="text-align:left;" |Producer |- |}
==Awards and nominations== {| class="wikitable" ! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" |Awards and nominations for xSDTRK |- ! style="background:#bcbcbc;" |Year ! style="background:#bcbcbc;" |Award ! style="background:#bcbcbc;" |Category ! style="background:#bcbcbc;" |Nominated Work ! style="background:#bcbcbc;" |Result |- |2011 |Juno Awards |R&B/Soul Recording of the Year |''Nightlife by Karl Wolf'' |{{nom}} |- |2011 |SOCAN |Anglophone Song of the Year<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.socan.ca/news/anglophone-song-whatta-night |title=I-Notchz win Socan Award |publisher=Socan |access-date=2011-03-10 |archive-date=October 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018233748/http://www.socan.ca/news/anglophone-song-whatta-night |url-status=dead }}</ref> |"Whatta Night" |{{won}} |- |2016 |Grammy Awards |Best Dance/Electronic Album |Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü |{{won}} |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526230822/http://xsdtrk.com |title=Official website |date=mdy}}
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