Straylight Productions
{{Infobox company
| founded = {{start date and age|1994}}
| founders = {{ubl|Andrew Sega|Dan Gardopée}}
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Straylight Productions was a team of video game music composers and producers, founded in 1994.{{cite web | url=http://www.deusex-machina.com/articles/alexbrandon.asp | title=Interview with Alex Brandon | publisher=DeusEx Machina | access-date=14 August 2014 | archive-date=13 January 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113164143/http://www.deusex-machina.com/articles/alexbrandon.asp | url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.straylight-productions.com/ |title=Straylight Productions |website=www.straylight-productions.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981205102228/http://www.straylight-productions.com/ |archive-date=5 December 1998 |url-status=dead}}
Overview
The founding musicians were Andrew Sega and Dan Gardopée,{{cite web | url=http://necros.gibdon.com/news/interview | title=Andrew "Necros" Sega Interview | publisher=necros.gibdon.com | date=July 19, 2011 | access-date=July 20, 2011 | author=Augustini, Petrit | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717023422/http://necros.gibdon.com/news/interview | archive-date=July 17, 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://www.unrealsp.org/legacy/community/interviews/brandon-18-09-06.html | title=A Conversation With Alexander Brandon | publisher=UnealSP.org | access-date=14 August 2014}} joined later by Alexander Brandon.{{cite web | url=http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/alexanderbrandon.shtml | title=Interview with Alexander Brandon | publisher=Game Music Online | date=November 2007 | access-date=14 August 2014 | author=Bezeau, François}} Straylight composed soundtracks for Origin Systems' Crusader series. They also worked with Epic Games, for whom music was produced for Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Tyrian, and Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (the original Jazz Jackrabbit music was by Epic's own Robert A. Allen). Their last project was the soundtrack for Ion Storm's Deus Ex. Alexander Brandon was assisted by Michiel van den Bos with some of the soundtracks, although Van den Bos was not a part of Straylight.
Andrew Sega had all but left the company before the soundtrack for Unreal was started, but as an "honorary member" of Straylight, a cleaned-up version of his "Isotoxin" piece, minus the introduction, was included in the soundtrack. Likewise, his "Mechanism Eight" piece was included in the Unreal Tournament soundtrack.
The name of Straylight Productions came from the Villa Straylight in William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Former members
Productions
Straylight Productions has composed music for the following video games:
- Crusader: No Remorse (1995)
- Tyrian (1995)
- Crusader: No Regret (1996)
- Unreal (1998)
- Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (1998)
- Unreal Tournament (1999)
- Deus Ex (2000)