Simon Robertson & Stephen Root
Simon Robertson & Stephen Root
Genres: video game music, Soundtrack, House, techno, electronica
Simon Robertson
About Simon Robertson & Stephen Root
Simon Robertson (AKA Gen'ik) and Stephen Root were the two composers and producers for the first two entries of EXTREME-G futuristic racing game series. The first game Extreme-G released on Nintendo N64 exclusively features uplifting techno music with groovy bass lines and memorable melodies. Extreme-G: XG2 (sometimes spelled as Extreme-G 2", "extreme-g XG2" or even "Extreme-G: -XG2-" due to the logo's multiple interpretations), however, was released on N64 and PC, therefore each port contains its own OST version with both, in regards to the musical style, shifted towards drum 'n' bass and jungle. While the N64 version has a minimalistic soundtrack, mostly based on the drum loops, percussions and bass lines with a dark touch and not much melody to it, the PC port contains a fully developed HQ score with atmospheric and melodic jungle and drum 'n' bass even with some lucid feel. The latter had the CD-DA format so one could easily throw the game's disc into a CD player and listen to it as a regular music album. Both soundtracks fully share only "Hydra Prime", "Introduction" themes, the track "Farron" shares the same beat and bass line but is reduced due to N64's sound chip limitations. The metadata confusion in terms of album names also takes place for the reason of having two ports of the game and the soundtracks produced by the same artist, so it has lead to a situation when a track list doesn't exist for any album on last.fm. In addition to the original game soundtracks promo CDs were released by a French magazine about the Nintendo 64 "X64". "extreme-G - Official Remixes [X64 Magazine Le CD]" consists of four remixes by Stephan Bohemian, Bubble Bass & Hot Frog and seven non-compressed original tracks from the game. "Extreme-G 2 - Le Remix Officiel !" contains remixes only, it's believed they were also produced by Simon Robertson & Stephen Root. The two have also contributed to Re-Volt soundtrack along with Larry Lush, Phil Earl and Dominic Glynn. The tracks from Extreme-G: XG2 and Extreme-G remixes also appear on Acclaim Chill Out and Acclaim's Raving X-Mas CDs respectively, released via Chris Hülsbeck's synSONIQ Records label. Simon Robertson has also produced soundtracks for: Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. (N64) (1999)Fur Fighters (2000)Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge (2001)Driven (PS2) (2001) and (GC) (2002) He's also cited as composer for Forsaken soundtrack that has been produced by Stephen Root, Dominic Glynn by various sources. Under an alias Gen'ik Simon Robertson released three solo albums for No Bones Records in the early 00s: Just Add Dope (2000)Outside In (2001)Xhale (2003) Stephen Root has contributed to a variety of soundtracks for games published by Acclaim Entertainment, such as: Alien Trilogy (1996) (PS1)Die Hard Trilogy (PS1) (1996) with Neil PalmerForsaken (PS1) (1998) with Dominic GlynnBurnout (2001) and Burnout 2 (2002) with Steve Emney Forsaken OST (PS1 and PC ports) also goes under The Swarm's authorship since the name of Root and Glynn's duo. They've also released Forsaken: The Music CD for No Bones Records with the soundtrack original tunes and remixes.
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