Music is my life and always will be, I've always loved music since a child and when I got
my first home computer, a 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
In 1994 I landed a job writing music for video games at
Rare Ltd I worked there until 1999, and in that time worked on the following games
Killer Instinct for Arcade, Super Nintendo and Gameboy
Killer Instinct 2 conversion for Super Nintendo although this wasn't released
Donkey Kong Land for Gameboy
Blastcorps for N64
Goldeneye for N64
Diddy Kong Racing for N64
Jetforce Gemini for N64
Perfect Dark for N64
In 1999 I started at Free Radical Design and I'm still there today. So far I've done
Timesplitters for Playstation 2
Timesplitters 2 for Playstation 2, Gamecube and Xbox
Second Sight for PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC - (what do you mean you've never heard of it!)
Timesplitters Future Perfect for PS2, Xbox and Gamecube
Haze for PS3
Battlefront 3 and 4 for Lucas Arts - regretably now canned
Boasting
I've been nominated for a few Bafta's over the years - alas did not win.
Have won a couple as a team effort - but to get one for my own work would be cool - one day!
Timesplitters 2 was featured in Shaun of the Dead - To have my music in such a great film
was a real honour.
Previous claim to fame was working as an extra - Goth boy drinking in pub in the Bill
was by far my finest hour :)
I've remixed Goteki a couple of times and Illumina, but am open to more work as it's a fun
thing to do - get in touch
Music
E FOR ELECTRO
Far too many to list really.... but I'll have a go, including guilty pleasures
Genre wise
Goth, Industrial, some EBM, some Synthpop, C64, eletro, early 90s indie, Orchestral.
I'm sure I've missed loads. There are many bands where one album has been the soundtrack
to a part of my life - but there's too many to list here.
And One
Apoptygma Berzerk
Bauhaus
Beethoven (Symphonies)
Covenant
Cure (up to about 10 years ago)
Cursor Miner
Depeche Mode
Grandmaster Flash, Streetsounds stuff,
Cybotron that kind of thing),
Die Krupps
Feindflug
Front 242
Front Line Assembly
Gary Numan
Goteki
Icon of Coil
Jean Michel Jarre
Kraftwerk
Ladytron
György Sándor Ligeti
Martin Galway
Mesh
Michael Nyman
Ministry
Mozart
My Bloody Valentine
Nitzer Ebb
Numb
OMD
Orbital
Pet shop boys
Pop will eat itself
Prodigy
Rob Hubbard
Rotersand
Seize
She Wants Revenge
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
Skinny Puppy
Soft Cell
Soman
S.P.O.C.K
VNV Nation
Movies
Shaun of the Dead, Withnail and I, The Third Man, Bladerunner, The Shining, Memento, Life is Sweet, American Beauty, Leon, Raising Arizona, Hot Fuzz, Requiem for a Dream, Human Traffic, Pulp Fiction, City of Angels (or Wings of Desire depending on how I'm feeling), Trainspotting, Run Lola Run, Fargo
Television
Family Guy
Spaced
The Simpsons
I'm Alan Partridge Peep Show
Bottom
Young Ones
Monk
Mock the Week
Black Books,
Saxondale,
QI,
Filthy Rich and Cat Flap,
Red Dwarf (up to about series 5),
Black Adder,
Bad News,
More Bad News,
Fistful of Travellers Cheques,
15 Storeys High,
Big Train
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
8 Out of 10 Cats
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
Books
All the Hitchhiker books,
Dirk Gently,
and anything by Douglas Adams,
Martin Amis but I've found him
difficult going recently,
some Terry Pratchett,
Stephen Fry,
David Baddiel,
Robert Newman,
The Gobbler by Adrian Edmonson,
Iain Banks,
music biographies,
Ian Fleming even though he is a daft rascist
I have worked as a composer and sound designer for video games for over 15 years, starting at Rare, Free Radical and now Crytek UK
Have a browse of the music player, it's all my own handy work. Some of it will sound better after you've had a few,
but then what doesn't.
People seem to like Spaceways and Planet X.
I like Anaconda, Spy Fi and the Circus (big top)
My best achievement is "Scotland the Brave"
And my cheekiest achievement is "Scrapyard" as it's the
noiziest piece I've written and I managed to get it
into a game that sold over 2 million copies
Take that! Mr. Man!
have a dig around, tell me what you like, it'll make me a happy man
I found out that watching Beyonce is much more entertaining, when the music is supplied by Ultraviolence, check it out
My remix for Seize is now available, check it out on iTunes.
My remix for Goteki is also available again on iTunes.
Who I'd like to meet:
People with common interests, people who want fun out of life, musicians and creatives
Ta for adding me. Nice to see someone who actually knows the sitcom Bottom. Lol you have awesome taste in comedy and films! Great knowing that one of my favourite musicans has decent taste in TV. Anyway yeah, I was bored for a couple of days at uni so I made a remix of one of your songs (hope ye don't mind). Anyway yeah check it out if ye want, see what you think. (Its the Construction Level from Donkey Kong Land.)
Hi Graeme thanks for the add, ive been meaning to ask for a while, being a big fan of goldeneye on the 64, ive always been interested how you actually created the music for the game, and what equipment you used to make it back then. cheers Tom.
You are the best composer!!! I love all your musics and and I listen to your songs every week. When I broadcast your music I have very good feedbacks. Thanks to accept me as a friend
You're kitty is still purring! You need to update boi!!!!!!! You've been doing stuff, going out, and on the scene! Put some pics of the madness on here....we all wanna know what you've been doin....b/c its cray :)
Hey Graeme. I'm a real big fan of the music you have made - mainly Killer Instinct and Goldeneye. Can I ask what equipment do you use to record/compose music?
Time divides the paths we walk,
We do not see each other's fork,
Each has our vision maimed and short,
Yet fate is feeling without seeing,
The sense the paths we walk.
Time divides the paths we walk,
We're torn to tread a different fork,
Each has our vision tears and joy,
Yet fate is harder without barter,
The Seance of paths we walk.
Hello .. What a new ! Free Radical has closed and TimeSplitters 4 is no more. Alot ppl wanted TS4 , trust me .. We don't want TS4 picked up , we just want the real TimeSplitters . This is a bad new =( And what about you? you've some problem with your work so if FRD is closed ? I hope you stay in your job because you are a pro. Try to answer , thanks .
