Artist Feature #3: Jesper Kyd

[@messiahmozgus]

Skipping Freedom Fighters was a crime here. But still, I am in love with your transitions. This was a blast to experience.

[@City-Hunter]

Agreed, Also not linking the Helicopter game with Hitman Blood Money Apocalypse is a WarCrime!

[@Nikos8BitStereo]

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!

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

Wow I used to jam to Adventures of Batman & Robin tunes. This is the guy responsible. They were so good!

[@filevans]

listen to subterania and red zone osts too

[@tommj4365]

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!

[@MegaDriveProfile]

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 :) !!

[@hornox4life]

I love this channel! 🔊🎶💕

[@neptronix]

I didn't know he did scorcher... that game rocked!!! Excellent vid dude!!!

[@zones6089]

the speed up transition into the batman & robin track is the hardest shit ive ever heard

[@prince_nocturne]

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...

[@therealtgvenom]

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

[@wea69420]

His Hitman 2 OST is burned forever into my mind

[@NightpireVideos]

Awesome compilation

[@trulyinfamous]

Jesper Kyd also worked on one of my favorite games ever, Borderlands 1. I love welcome to fyrestone.

[@Fabio.M.Brito.]

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

[@andyukmonkey]

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.

[@mitthjarta5]

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.

[@M4R14NO94]

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".

[@ahsukfagwwgbfakywgfkagwkfg]

Your artist features are always really awesome. Keep it up!

[@ryzmaker11]

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! ;)

[@kamerologia]

Great effort! Chapeau bas!

[@caynoh3200]

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.

[@stepasidecitizen3747]

I wish you could include Freedom Fighters OST... love it more than everything from Jesper Kyd

[@shane-movedtodifferentacco5508]

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.

[@ImperatorGrausam]

Would love to hear an Artist Showcase on Alexander Brandon.

[@nobel11]

This is amazingly good. Thank you!

[@PartizanRus]

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.

[@pipeop4903]

Not in this case

[@slusheewolf2143]

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.

[@MooseSMW]

Very nice! Good job!

[@selfknowledge9560]

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.

[@DraganStojanovicdrogi]

8:30 that transition!!!

[@ImperialPimp]

This series is already really good, could you do an Artist profile on the guy who did the SHINOBI music ?!?

[@agrecascinogameplaym]

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.

[@filevans]

11:23 Scorcher is on saturn too

[@FutureTelevision]

Неожиданно хороший выбор треков, спасибо! :)

[@TrueNeutralEvGenius]

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?

[@BuzzaB77]

II heard plenty of NiN influence in RedZone. I wonder if he was a fan? or maybe just a contemporary.

[@eastwestlost]

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.

[@Punqtured]

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

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

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!

[@geminielectro]

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.

[@himeji6815]

You can clearly know it's jesper behind the vermintide/darktide OST he made recently ! unmissable beats...

[@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section]

Do you have the Link to the chiptune song at the beginning? The chiptune Version of the Ezio´s Family Track.

[@Jetsetlemming]

Great video. Sad you skipped over Freedom Fighters, though. That game had a great soundtrack.

[@fartloudYT]

while its great, it kind of already follows the style of hitman 2.

[@zenithquasar9623]

Kyd is a god!

[@nebzshady9389]

Damn I Wish I Had that Amiga Tracker

[@LocalAitch]

Kyd also did a couple of tunes on the C64 before becoming a legend on the Amiga. HVSC has them.

[@GSTChannelVEVO]

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!

[@LocalAitch]

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 :)

[@tcscomment]

15:50 Vangelis vibes

[@Nukle0n]

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.

[@57Rye]

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.

[@desktorp]

14:30 Sam Hyde