James Elsey
@jameselseymusic
Composer for Games | #BAFTAConnect | Beyond Hanwell, Evil Dead: The Game, Fully Ramblomatic, Beatstar, Chrome Valley Customs, Amazing Frog?, Welcome To Hanwell | London, UK www.jameselseymusic.com
Here's to another incredible Develop Conference & game dev holiday on the beach! An amazing turnout for this year's Metal Meet. Huge thanks to Inferno Studios & Liquid Crimson for sponsoring us again. Great to catch up with everyone, meet new people & look forward to doing it all again next year!
Straight off an incredible System Of A Down show last night, I'm Brighton Bound for Develop Conference! My water bottle has had a glow up courtesy of this years Metal Meet stickers and looking forward to seeing everyone there tomorrow at 3pm. See you at the beach!
1 week to go until Develop Conference and look what arrived! 🤘 We've already hit well over 100 attendees for this year's Metal Meet and I can't wait to see everyone in Brighton. RSVP: www.linkedin.com/events/devel...
Great to work with the folks at Phantom Power Trailer Music once again with tracks on two of their recent Album releases! My track 'Mistress Machine' features on 'Fractal', Dark Minimalist Electronic and 'Standing Together' on 'Horizon', Inspirational Orchestral Hybrid.
We're back! 🤘 The Develop Conference Metal Meet returns for it's 2nd year at the Fortune Of War, 3-5pm on Wednesday 15th July. Huge thanks to both our returning sponsers Liquid Crimson & Inferno Studios who are again kindly putting some money behind the bar. RSVP: www.linkedin.com/events/devel...
Another amazing @gameaudiosymposium.bsky.social is wrapped and it was an honour to present to the biggest audience I've ever spoken in front of so far! To be speaking alongside incredible talks on Battlefield 6, Hellblade 2 & Saros to name a few was daunting and nerve-racking, but hugely rewarding.
The new Edwards Baritone guitar made it back home safe and sound from Japan! Despite the jetlag I was itching to test it out and absolutely chuffed with how it plays. My first guitar with an Evertune Bridge which maintains perfect and stable Drop G tuning along with the extended 27 inch scale 🤘
When in Japan, bring home a Japanese Guitar! Huge thanks to Lam at ESP Guitar Workshop in Ochanumizu, for his help sourcing me this beautiful ESP Edwards Baritone Guitar. Now to try and get it home in one piece.
Great fun to work on some big Orchestral Fantasy Themes on my track 'Worlds Of Wonder', for Frontier Trailer Music's 'Castles And Gnomes 2' album! Coming soon via Slipstream Music.
I had so much fun at last year's Game Audio Symposium that I'm coming back as a Speaker! I'm thrilled to be taking part with my talk 'Composing Better, Stronger, Scarier (On An Indie Horror Sequel)'. There's a ton of incredible talks over two days and I look forward to seeing everyone in Leeds!
A fantastic two days of London Games Festival, spread across the Games Meet Music event and New Game Plus! Great to see so many familiar faces on the panels, catch up with lots of folks and meet new people doing cool work in the industry.
An absolutely fantastic day at Guildford Games Fest and it was so good to take part in the Music Essentials panel on the Audio Track. Great insights across all of the talks and chats in the pub and Awards Party!
Guildford Games Fest bound! And still picking my jaw up off the floor after seeing Between The Buried And Me last night 🤘
One week to go until #GuildfordGames Fest! Looking forward to taking part in the Music Essentials 2.0 Panel on this years Audio Track with an absolutely stacked lineup of speakers!
I'm thrilled to be taking part in this years #GuildfordGames Fest on the Audio Track! Huge thanks to Barney Pratt who has once again put together a fantastic day of speakers and look forward to seeing everyone in Guildford on Friday 20th Feb!
Another fantastic BAFTA Music Masterclass, with Austin Wintory, Jesper Kyd and Borislav Slavov. Great insight from the panel and chats at the drinks afterwards!
Kickstarting the year with my track 'Super Charged' on Jolt Trailer Music's 'Reboot 4' album, Glitchy Modern Fun Action. Coming soon via BMG.
Huge thanks to @matombler.bsky.social for once again including me in his epic annual list of Games Composer's Favourite OST's of the year! There was plenty of incredible music released this year and you can check out the full list here: www.videogameschronicle.com/features/thi...
Closing out the year with a fun, final Library Music contribution and my track 'Pressure Cooker' on Frontier Trailer Music's Cyclone 4: Hybrid Percussion album. Coming soon via 5 Alarm Music.
A couple of small tactical Black Friday purchases this year to improve my Metal Production. Here's a quick demo I put together utilising Odeholm Drums & Thall Amp to create a huge sounding low tuned Metal pairing, with Runa: Elder Scoring Strings for additional lead textures 🤘
Too early for Develop Conference? Visited Brighton this weekend and it seemed wrong not having all the awesome Game Dev folks around town!
Always fun watching your mates band play in a bar the size of a living room and dressed up as a big paper mache Horror Dungeon! 💀
Happy Halloween folks! 🎃 💀 👻 In honour of the spookiest time of year, here's that time I turned my own voice into a choir of demonic, doll children on Beyond Hanwell.
Huge congrats to @fayju.bsky.social on the launch of Amazing Frog? on Xbox Game Preview as it nears 1.0! It was a joy writing a bunch of fun music that spans so many different genres/styles on this project. It's rare to see a small studio able to put so much love and time into a single project.
Amazing evening at the Orchestral Tribute to Tim Burton & Dark Fantasy by Moonlight! 🌙