Early

Born in Chingford, East London, 1971, Chingford's claim to fames seems to extend to
Samantha Fox, Blazin' Squad and David Beckham.

An unremarkable childhood mostly spent playing computer games and playing keyboards when
I really should have been convincing girls it was a great idea to let me see them naked
So, that kind of proves, music is my life and always will be, I've always loved music since a
child and when I got my first home computer,
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I knew that music and computers was what I wanted to spend most of my time with

From getting that computer along with a Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga,
making music with them was what I wanted to do

Bands

As far back as I can remember, i've always wanted to be a composer.....

Inbetween playing computer games as my main way of spending time between sleeping and eating, I always thought I'd get the big break, end up on Top of the Pops,
and the rest would be cigar shaped swimming pools, champagne and every sordid whim of mine eagerly taken care of.

Having said that, if you were to hear what was produced during this period,
I'd be lucky to get free entry to the municipal swimming pool, a can of tizer and being put into care, but you have to have dreams.

Between 1991 and 1995, I was messing about in the following

FWNT - 1991 to 1992

Graeme Norgate - Synths, drum programming
Kieran Othen - Guitars, Synths, Vocals
Peter Marshall - Guitars, Synths
Richard Parr - Bass, Engineering
Simon Broadley - Bass
Kevin Clarke - Drums

The Catch - 1991 - 1992

Graeme Norgate - Synths, drum programming
Kieran Othen - Vocals, Guitars, Synths
Helen Smith - Vocals
Peter Marshall - Guitars, Synths
Richard Parr - Bass, Engineering
Simon Broadley - Bass
Kevin Clarke - Drums

DYDX - 1992 to 1994

Graeme Norgate - Synths, Samples, Drum Programming
Kieran Othen - Vocals, Synths, Samples, Drum Programming
Peter Marshall - Guitars, Synths
Richard Parr - Engineering
Autogeddon - 1993 - 1996

Andrew N Trail - Vocals, Synths, Programming
Graeme Norgate - Synths, Samples, Drum Programming
Kevin Clarke - Drums
Richard Parr - Live Engineering
Alicandria ? - Guitars

I may have more info on these projects, maybe even downloads, DYDX and Autogeddon were quite good in my opinion

Work

In 1994 I landed a job writing music for video games at Rare Ltd
and worked on the following games

Fascination remix - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

 

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Music Download - Help yourself. If you fancy some more, there's always my bandcamp or youtube page.

 

 

 

Video Games

 

Goldeneye - 1997

Credits for the complete score can be found here
Aztec Complex
Single Player Death
Multi Player Death
Egyptian Temple
Elevator
Disused Military Depot
Switch On
Runway
Runway Ending
Surface 1
Surface 2
Surface Ending
Converted Missile Train
Subterranean Caverns

Original Jungle Piece

Jungle

Suspense Tunes

Aztec Suspense
Caverns Suspense
Egyptian Crypt Suspense
Jungle Suspense
Military Depot Suspense
Runway Suspense
Surface 2 Suspense
Train Suspense

Early Midi Versions

Original Jungle Piece
Military Depot
Train

 

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Killer Instinct Gameboy Conversion - 1995

I recently found a plugin for winamp that plays music from gameboy roms, so for any completests out there
I've uploaded the Game Boy soundtrack for Killer Instinct...don't get too excited though

Title Tune

Glacius

Sabre Wulf

Jago

Spianl

T.J. Combo - Street

T.J. Combo - Gym

Fulgore a new low, this really sucks

Chief Thunder

Orchid

Eyedol

Humiliation

Game Over

Complete Game Fanfare

 

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Donkey Kong Land - Gameboy - 1994

A warning for those who've never heard of a gameboy, the sound chip was pretty primitive,
and it's the sort of stuff that gave computer music it's bad rep for so many year.
as in.."oh, you do music for computer games, you mean all those bleeps and blops"
Well here are those bleeps and blops.

I'm sure the level titles from the game had more imaginative titles that are presented here
but I'm confident we'll all cope and won't lose too much sleep over my filenaming

Sky
Airship
Building Site
Construction Site
Skyscraper
Boss
Last Boss
Mountain

and all this from somebody the Rare bosses felt could only do "dark".
If the above tunes are dark, then slap my arse and call me Susan

 

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Haze - 2008

Haze Radio Station

Where to start......

There was an idea that you'd be able to listen to the Mantel 102 Radio station within your HUD.
As you only play a Mantel Trooper for a 3rd of the game, that would limit it's use

So the next idea was to have propaganda mines dotted around the game, broadcasting this station,
so even, when playing for the Promised Hand, you'd get to hear it

Time ran out and then some on the project development,
so the radio station it went onto the long list of features that would have been nice given time list.

Let me tell you, it was a long ass list

Orchestrating something as big as the radio station, mean't we had to move on it and get it recorded,
if it were to have a chance of being completed

So, in the end, we did it, but time ran out to implement it, so unless you stood on the deck of the land carrier (the first level), you'd never hear it.

Seems a shame

So, grab it now, while you can

This is the English version, bizarrely, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian versions were also recorded.

What we have hear is interviews, DJs, film reviews, adverts, jingles, and a generous amount of Hip Hop supplied by the Trailblazers

Included in this piece, we have, music by Christian Marcussen, indents by Jeremy Corbett, script by Rob Yescombe,
actors including Martin T Sherman, Aleks Krotoski (of Bits fame), Calrla Prada, Edward Yescombe, Lucy Middleweek, Nigel Whitmey,
Rupert Degas, production, engineering and direction by yours truly.

 

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