Graeme Norgate

Who is Graeme Norgate?

Graeme Norgate is an English video game music composer, who has composed music for a variety of video games developed by Rare. His first project at Rare was writing the music for the Game Boy game, Donkey Kong Land. He also contributed to the soundtracks of Blast Corps and GoldenEye 007. Graeme was an employee of Free Radical Design; The company was later bought out by Crytek; Norgate retained the position of audio director after company's buyout. His recent scores include Second Sight and the TimeSplitters series of video games.

Originally working at a bank before joining Rare in 1994, Norgate worked on the music of such games as GoldenEye 007 and Blast Corps. A friend of fellow Rare composer Robin Beanland, the two worked on the original soundtrack to Killer Instinct in the 1990s. He also composed music for other Rareware games, such as Diddy Kong Racing, Jet Force Gemini, and Perfect Dark.

Norgate played synthesizer and programmed drums for the bands "FWNT" and "The Catch" between 1991 and 1992. He also works under the alias of Virez when remixing, he has remixed several songs for bands such as Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Goteki, Code 64, Seize and Illumina.