Artist Feature #3: Jesper Kyd
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Jesper Kyd is well known for his work on the Assassin's Creed series, but he has a long history filled with incredible music. Let's take a look at some early works!
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TRACKLIST:
[intro]
0:00 Ezio's Family (Amiga edit) (Assassin's Creed 2)
[AMIGA]
0:26 Slide (Sound of Silents, Amiga)
1:21 Hardwired Theme (Hardwired, Amiga)
2:43 Radio Moscow (Optic Nerve, Amiga)
[FM Untz]
3:22 Introduction (AWS Pro Moves Soccer, Sega Genesis)
4:13 Underwater / Level 9 (Sub-Terrania, Sega Genesis)
5:50 Bishop (X-Men: Mind Games (prototype), 32X)
6:48 Night Mission (Red Zone, Sega Genesis)
8:33 Big Machines (The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Sega Genesis)
[going harder]
9:46 Tunnels (AMOK, Sega Saturn)
11:23 Title (Scorcher, PC)
12:53 Spaceship (MDK 2, Sega Dreamcast)
13:43 Sinner's Beat (Messiah, Windows)
[going next gen]
14:54 Main Title (Hitman: Codename 47, Windows)
16:25 Suspect Andre Serena (Minority Report: Everybody Runs, Gamecube)
17:15 Spy Theme (Splinter Cell: Choas Theory, Windows)
18:05 Access the Animus (Assassin's Creed, PS3)
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CITATIONS:
4:50 Edge (UK), issue 8, page 72
4:50 Computer & Video Games (UK), issue 150, page 82
4:50 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US), issue 57, page 162
4:50 GamePro (US), issue 58, page 34
4:50 Mean Machines Sega (UK), issue 19, page 60
4:50 Mega (UK), issue 20, page 26
8:13 Mean Machines Sega (UK), issue 25, page 66
9:55 web.archive.org/web/2001041807...
13:37 www.gamestm.co.uk/features/be...
15:24 www.cinemablend.com/games/Inte...
17:37 web.archive.org/web/200810062...
19:16 web.archive.org/web/200810062...
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ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE:
Sub-Terrania:
• Mega Drive Longplay [2...
Red Zone:
• Mega Drive Longplay [2...
The Adventures of Batman and Robin:
• Mega Drive Longplay - ...
AMOK:
• A Casual Look At.. AMO...
Scorcher:
• Sega Saturn Longplay [...
MDK 2:
• MDK 2 (Dreamcast) Game...
Messiah:
• Let's Play Messiah (PC...
Hitman: Codename 47:
• PC Longplay [786] Hitm...
Minority Report: Everybody Runs
• Dolphin Emulator 4.0.2...
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory:
• Splinter Cell Chaos Th...
Assassin's Creed:
• PS3 Longplay [120] Ass...
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Check out the full soundtrack for the games featured here!
Sound of Silents (Amiga musicdisk)
• The Silents - Sound Of...
AWS Pro Moves Soccer:
• Introduction - AWS Pro...
• Menu - AWS Pro Moves S... (no playlist, but only two songs...)
Sub-Terrania:
• [SEGA Genesis Music] S...
X-Men: Mind Games (prototype):
• Video
Red Zone:
• [SEGA Genesis Music] R...
The Adventures of Batman and Robin:
• [SEGA Genesis Music] T...
AMOK:
• AMOK (SS) | Original S...
Scorcher (both versions):
• Video
Messiah:
• Video
Hitman: Codename 47:
• Hitman: Codename 47 Or...
Assassin's Creed:
• Video
of course, you should also check out the demos he's been involved with!
Hardwired:
• The Silents & Crionics...
Optic Nerve:
• Silents [1993] "Optic ...
32X Demo:
• Sega 32X Tech Demo
An overview of The Silents, which Jesper was a member of:
www.pouet.net/groups.php?which...
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NOTES:
Thanks to Kirsten Bogden for acting as a liaison between myself and Jesper!
Thanks to Jesper Kyd for taking the time to offer feedback and corrections on this video!
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Jesper Kyd can be found at:
www.jesperkyd.com/
/ jesperkyd
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This is what I love so much about this series, being able to have a bit more of a deep dive and general history of these composers careers, especially if I only knew some for a few of there soundtracks. Jesper Kyd is absolutely one I was impressed finding out more of his earlier stuff, I love Amiga deep diving as well and anytime a composer has good amount of material there, just makes the music discovery more thrilling. But of course I knew Jesper for his Genesis/Mega Drive work, and always loved a good bit of his work was also associated on games pushing hardware limitations, as of course with Red Zone and Adventures of Batman & Robin, I am always amazed with what those games were able to showcase with the graphics, Red Zone is always a personal favorite, and of course the soundtracks are just BANGERS. Absolutely loved that sound driver bit because I feel that information never gets as much attention, of course hearing it is enough to understand how impressive it is, but knowing any information about what sound driver certain composers used and what it was capable of is always a delight. Jesper's rave/electronic era is also just so good, I love seeing composers still keep it up even after not working with chiptunes and limited hardware anymore.
But of course that is what makes it interesting with seeing what these composers do when the 2000's came around and if they still primarily worked on consoles or PC stuff that was doing more redbook/non-chiptune soundtracks and of course eventually just all digital with endless potential of music to have in a game, I think that 2013 interview pretty much said it best. But another fantastic Artist Feature for a composer that definitely has good exposure thanks to stuff like Hitman and Assassins Creed, but hopefully his earlier stuff gets even more attention, superb job GST!
Skipping Freedom Fighters was a crime here. But still, I am in love with your transitions. This was a blast to experience.
Agreed, Also not linking the Helicopter game with Hitman Blood Money Apocalypse is a WarCrime!
I saw the episode you did on Tim Follin, and was going to suggest Jesper Kyd as another one of these, before I saw how old the video was. But then going through your library, I FOUND THIS WAS THE NEXT ONE! I am so happy about this. His music has been some of my favorites, from when I was a kid like Sub-Terrania, to more recent things like the Assassin's Creed series, and stuff that I only discovered recently like Red Zone and Adventures of Batman and Robin... which is definitely an OST that does NOT need to go as hard as it does, and yet...
This is so good GST!!! Jesper Kyd's contributions to the Mega Drive are insane, besides those scores, I only knew his Assassins' Creed joints and Darksiders II. Great work once again buddy :) !!
Wow I used to jam to Adventures of Batman & Robin tunes. This is the guy responsible. They were so good!
listen to subterania and red zone osts too
That was the first soundtrack I made an effort to listen back to on it's own... recorded it from my genesis to a tape, blasted it in my car... since then I rarely feel the need to do this with an OST, it's THAT good!
The intro to Radio Moscow is actually the part I like the most. The ravey stuff isn't my thing, and it's a shame because I _LOVE_ the intro.
I am so glad you put that AWS Pro Moves Soccer track in there. I discovered it on a ROM compilation and it blew me away!
Your artist features are always really awesome. Keep it up!
I didn't know he did scorcher... that game rocked!!!
Excellent vid dude!!!
I love this channel! 🔊🎶💕
the speed up transition into the batman & robin track is the hardest shit ive ever heard
Awesome compilation
Great effort! Chapeau bas!
This is amazingly good. Thank you!
Another fascinating video and a great ending to the visuals for the mix as well. Favorite track is the one off of Messiah, but hard electronic isn't really my thing. His forward thinking and style are very cool, though.
Jesper Kyd also worked on one of my favorite games ever, Borderlands 1. I love welcome to fyrestone.
Very nice! Good job!
I love AMOK for its atmosphere. It looks unique and the soundtracks sounded so modern at this time. Red Zone is a game i'd love to add to my collection. I'm afraid to see its price today.
I didn't know he worked on AMOK. That's something I got in a bundle of Saturn games and never really bothered looking at.
Very good video! Great selection of songs too.
Of Kyd's works, one I don't see much about is his work on Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 for the original Xbox; he contributed a few tracks to that game ("Red Room", "Istanbul Cafe", and ".59 Remix"), which are very good and very Kyd, especially "Red Room".
I've always loved Jesper Kyd's work since when he did Sub-Terrania's music. He's actually one of my favorite musicians and one of my inspirations in the music I compose
Greatest mix work @GST!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
We need more game music tunes than movies like sountrack. Games are not movies nor TV series, but today playing multiplayer with microphone and hearing others players talking, the devs is geting out the game music/soundtrack importance, I think. When the game have a game music tune like on its sountrack I mute others players to hear it. LOL Today is near a game by year is coming with a true game music soundtrack away from movies ost style.
;D
Love the videos man, not hard to see you worked very hard on them. Very informative, keep it up. Also I just plain old got a soft spot for the earlier era of video game music.
shows resemblance "Uncanny", yep, that and the giant "KYD" logo above DJ booth lmfao
Great video c: Your artist features in particular are quite something.
Would love to hear an Artist Showcase on Alexander Brandon.
Неожиданно хороший выбор треков, спасибо! :)
Привет давним коллегам с game-ost-а, хоть и опоздавшим на "вечерину". Чтот вернулся спустя 5 лет на этот видос, проскроллил и увидел твой коммент. Как жизнь с тобой обращается, Дима? В Ростове или переехал?
8:30 that transition!!!
Kyd's Genesis music is some of the most orgasmic stuff I've heard from an FM chip. Still my favorite stuff he's ever done, and that's coming from someone who loves his Hitman and Assassin's Soundtracks. His Genesis music is far superior to those OSTs, although those OST's are masterpieces in themselves.
The end bit is weird to me given that the Mega Drive actually has one of the best sound setups of its time and from what I listened of Jesper more recent productions, I find that, in comparison, his Mega Drive soundtracks stand out more compared to what was around back then, I mean, there's nothing like Red Zone or Adventures of Batman & Robin on others sytems.
btw your video reminds me to dig Scorcher, that game looks great.
Also as a DJ myself, I appreciate how your "Artist Feature" videos are made, some sweet transitions there! ;)
As a big fan of Kyd this video was a HUGE find for me. You shouldn't have skipped contracts though. It gave him Bafta Award.
I wish you could include Freedom Fighters OST... love it more than everything from Jesper Kyd
You can clearly know it's jesper behind the vermintide/darktide OST he made recently ! unmissable beats...
I agree Hardwired is one of the most fundamental demos for the Amiga. However, it can't exactly be promoted as truly original content, since Jesper more or less ripped parts of it from David Whittaker's 1986-title "Panther" for the C64.
I'm pretty sure, that if you asked Jesper today, he'd probably not be overly satisfied with that particular piece of music. But that's just my guess, really ;)
His later work stands second to none in my book, and it's fun to have been part of the demoscene long enough to actually remember Silent-productions from demoparties :D
huh! Giving the two a listen, I can tell they're similar, but it doesn't strike me as plagiarism.
as for your guess: I can actually comment on that! I asked Jesper a few questions while making this video, and one of them happened to be about his favorite Amiga tunes. he replied with this list:
"Observations (SOS 2), Last Roundabout (SOS 2), Global Trash 3 (Hardwired Demo), Ministry (Expose Demo) and Radio Moscow (Optic Nerve Demo) (in no particular order)"
also, greets from a younger, more passive observer and admirer of the demoscene!
This series is already really good, could you do an Artist profile on the guy who did the SHINOBI music ?!?
Damn I Wish I Had that Amiga Tracker
Kyd is a god!
11:23 Scorcher is on saturn too
For 3D graphics like Red Zone they placed additional microcontroller inside cartridge itself. It's like +1 GPU. I knew that from Virtua Racing cartridge.
Not in this case
Great video. Sad you skipped over Freedom Fighters, though. That game had a great soundtrack.
while its great, it kind of already follows the style of hitman 2.
Kyd also did a couple of tunes on the C64 before becoming a legend on the Amiga. HVSC has them.
check out the timeline at 1:04. if you pause in time, you can see I added "Jesper's first ever song released" at the end of 1986, which is referring to those C64 tunes!
GST大好き so you did lol. I'm quite enjoying your general presentation style and attention to detail, one which just eclipsed mine :)
Do you have the Link to the chiptune song at the beginning? The chiptune Version of the Ezio´s Family Track.
II heard plenty of NiN influence in RedZone. I wonder if he was a fan? or maybe just a contemporary.
he has a ton of very industrial yet rhythmic tunes - they are much closer to the european EBM scene, then to Reznor's rocky stuff. but then again, EBM was NIN's main inspiration at the moment, so it seems.
15:50 Vangelis vibes
You spoof the Assassin's Creed III logo for the titlecard, but he didn't work on that one, sadly. Just the kinda boring Zimmeresque work of Lorne Balfe, who also composed the cutscene music for Assassin's Creed Revelations.
Disappointing that you didn't choose to go over his Hitman: Blood Money work, as I feel it's a defining achievement of his career.
14:30 Sam Hyde
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