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Tim Wright
Tim Wright in 2008
Tim Wright in 2008
Background information
Also known asCoLD SToRAGE
GenresElectronica, Contemporary classical music, Ambient music, Video game music
Occupation(s)Composer, programmer, creative director, managing director
Years active1989–present
Websitewww.coldstorage.org.uk

Tim Wright, known professionally as Cold Storage (stylized as CoLD SToRAGE), is a Welsh video game music composer most known for his work in video game soundtracks such as Shadow of the Beast II, Agony, Lemmings, Wipeout and Colony Wars. As company director of Jester Interactive Limited, Checkmate Solutions Limited and Tantrumedia Limited he also designed and developed Music Sequencing Software titles including MUSIC™, MTV Music Generator™, MTVMG2™, MUSIC 2000™, MUSIC 3000™, Pocket Music™ and several eJay™ titles.

His first commercial works were created using the Amiga in the early 1990s and featured in computer games published by Psygnosis.

Wright left Sony in 1997 to form Jester Interactive with the key goal of developing music creation software for home consoles. In his role as creative director at Jester, he has designed Music and Music 2000 for the PlayStation and MTV, along with Music Generator and Music 3000 for the PlayStation 2 before leaving along with his brothers to form Checkmate Solutions Limited.

At Checkmate, Wright developed several musical sequencing products for Empire Interactive plc. under the eJay brand. After several products were developed, Wright left to form his own company, Tantrumedia Limited.

Wright currently manages Tantrumedia Limited and their audio division where he composes music, designs music sequencing software and oversees the production of websites and other multimedia projects.[1]

Career

While working as a computer programmer for Littlewoods/Index the Catalogue Shop in the late 1980s, Wright penned compositions for computer-based demos. One of these, entitled "Puggs in Space", caught the eye of Psygnosis' then managing director, Ian Hetherington. This led to Wright creating music for a number of Psygnosis' Amiga and Atari ST games, some of which won awards.[2] This initial freelance work eventually led to him leaving his programming job for Littlewoods and going to work full-time at Psygnosis, as their senior sound artist on projects such as Lemmings, Wipeout, Wipeout 2097 and Colony Wars.

Leaving Psygnosis in 1997, Wright was involved in the formation of Jester Interactive Ltd.,[3] with the intention of bringing music creation and mixing to Sony's original PlayStation console. The MUSICtm and MTV Music Generator series received industry awards & accolades,[4] and spawned several incarnations of the MUSICtm Software before Wright finally departed with his brother Lee to form Checkmate Solutions Limited to design a new range of eJay music sequencing software.

In 2003, Wright formed his own multimedia company called Tantrumedia Ltd., involved in web space provision, website creation, software production, design & print and music. He also set up an official website to host much of his musical output under the name.[5]

In 2005, as well as releasing the CoLD_SToRAGE double album Melt, he designed a new version of the dance & hip hop eJay music software for Empire Interactive, and made a return to Wipeout, this time for the Sony PSP with Wipeout Pure.

2006 saw Wright create more music for games, this time on the Nintendo DS, PSP and PC for forthcoming titles.[6]

In 2008, Wright released his Android Child and Cold Storage HD albums.[7]

In 2009, Wright penned music for more games on the DS, Wii and PlayStation 3, most notably Gravity Crash. He also released his fourth studio album, entitled Project Moonbounce 2009, which features sounds created by bouncing radio signals off the moon[8] as part of World Moonbounce or EME (Earth Moon Earth) day.[9]

The soundtrack album to Gravity Crash was released in 2010 and is Wright's fifth studio album, entitled Gravity Crash Anthems. This is quickly followed by his sixth studio album, Tik Tak.[7]

Wright created his longest track ever, "Tangerine", which weighs in at 9 minutes and 31 seconds. This track was given away free to anyone who participated in the 2010 Cold Storage Easter Promotion. As such the track was a limited edition download. It was unavailable to the general public until it was made available on Bandcamp on Easter 2015.

Early in his career, Wright was the victim of plagiarism. Keyboardist Stian Aarstad copied the title track of the Amiga game "Agony" when he was recording an album with Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir; Aarstad also stole from other artists for this album.[10] Wright was not compensated for this plagiarism.[11]

Awards and accolades

  • Golden_Joystick_Awards 1995 : "Best Game Music - WipEout on Sony PlayStation"
  • Golden Joystick Awards 1997 : "Best Sounding Game - WipEout 2097 on Sony PlayStation"
  • Official PlayStation Magazine Awards 1999 : "MUSICtm - Most Innovative Game"
  • Sony Computer Entertainment America Awards 2000 : "MTV Music Generator - Most Innovative Game"
  • BAFTA Nomination 2000:[12] "Interface Design : MUSIC 2000 by Jester Interactive"
  • Remix64 ROTY Awards 2015:[13] "Best Newcomer (C64 or AMIGA) CoLD SToRAGE"

Video games

  • Awesome (Amiga, 1990)
  • Carthage (Amiga, 1990)
  • Tentacle (Eldritch the Cat, Amiga, 1990)
  • The Killing Game Show / Fatal Rewind [FMV Intro] (Amiga, 1990)
  • Lemmings (Amiga, 1990)
  • Shadow of the Beast 2 (Amiga, 1990)
  • Armour-Geddon (Amiga, 1990)
  • Powermonger (Amiga, 1990)
  • Leander / Galahad (Amiga, 1991)
  • Amnios (Amiga, 1991)
  • Lost Soul ([[Atari ST, 1991)
  • Agony (Amiga, 1992)
  • Aquaventura (Amiga, 1992)
  • Shadow of the Beast 3 (Amiga, 1992)
  • Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings (Amiga, PC, Macintosh, PlayStation, 1992)
  • Holiday Lemmings (Amiga, DOS, Macintosh, 1992)
  • Puggsy (Amiga, 1993)
  • Last Action Hero (Mega-CD, 1993)
  • Combat Air Patrol (PC, 1993)
  • Phoenix Rising (Mega-CD, 1993)
  • Sensible Soccer (Mega-CD, 1993)
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Mega-CD, 1994)
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (Mega-CD, 1994)
  • Microcosm (Amiga CD32, 1994)
  • No Escape (Mega-CD, 1994)
  • Mickey Mania (Mega-CD, 1994)
  • Magician's Castle (Amiga, 1994 - Unreleased)
  • Championship Soccer 94 (MegaCD, 1994)
  • Wipeout (PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PC, 1995)
  • Flink (Amiga CD32, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD, 1995)
  • Wipeout 2097 (Amiga, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PC, 1996)
  • Krazy Ivan (PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PC, 1996)
  • Formula One (PlayStation, PC, 1996)
  • Adidas PowerSport Soccer (PlayStation, 1996)
  • Lemmings for Windows 95 & Lemmings Paintball (PC, 1996)
  • Necromantics (formerly Magician's Castle on AMIGA) (PC, 1996)
  • Adidas PowerSport Soccer International 97 (PlayStation, 1997)
  • Chomper (Psion 3, Psion 5, Psion Revo, 1997)
  • Thunder Truck Rally (PlayStation, PC, 1997)
  • Codename: Tenka (PlayStation, 1997)
  • Colony Wars (PlayStation, 1997)
  • Brainless (PlayStation, 1998)
  • WipEout64 (N64, 1998)
  • MUSIC: Music Creation for the PlayStation (PlayStation, 1998)
  • Tellurian Defence (PC, 1999)
  • Music 2000 / MTV Music Generator (PlayStation, PC, 1999)
  • MTV Music Generator 2 (PS2, 2001)
  • Supertruck Racing (PS2, 2002)
  • Pocket Music (Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, 2002)
  • Music 2002 Slinky Club Edition (PC, 2002)
  • Music 3000 / Funkmaster Flex's Digital Hitz Factory (PS2, 2003)
  • Jet Set Willy (J2ME, 2004)
  • Wipeout Pure (PlayStation Portable, 2005)
  • Ring Factory (PC, 2005)
  • Dance eJay 7 (PC, 2005)
  • HipHop eJay 6 (PC, 2005)
  • Techno eJay 5 (PC, 2006)
  • R&B eJay 1 (PC, 2007)
  • eJay Virtual Music Studio (PC, 2007)
  • Sudoku (NDS, 2007)
  • TT Superbike Legends (PS2, 2008)
  • eJay eQuality (PC, 2008)
  • Spellbound Party (Wii, 2009)
  • Spellbound (NDS, 2009)
  • Gravity Crash (PS3/PSP, 2009)
  • Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/DS/PC/Mobile, 2010)
  • Skillz (Xbox/PC, 2010)
  • Sodium 2 (PS3, 2011)
  • Psychroma (iOS, 2011)
  • Extreme Bingo (Facebook, 2012)
  • Adventure Dungeon (iOS, 2012)
  • Travel Bug (PS Vita, 2012)
  • Boxbeats (PS3, 2012)
  • Table Top Racing (iOS, 2013)
  • Write Your Own Music (Xbox 360, 2013)
  • Slipstream GX (PC, 2013)
  • Table Top Racing (Android/PSVita, 2014)
  • Gravity Crash (PS Vita, 2014)
  • Dynablaster Revenge (PC, 2014)
  • Gravity Crash Ultra (PS4/PS Vita, 2014)
  • Pacer (PS4/Xbox One/PC, 2020)

Film scores and soundtracks

  • Traveller: RED (Merkelbach Films, 2006)

References

  1. ^ http://www.bwrweira.co.uk Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine BWRW EIRA
  2. ^ "Golden Joystick Awards 2010 - About The Joysticks". Computerandvideogames.com. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Composer Interview: CoLD SToRAGE (Tim Wright) - OCRWiki - OverClocked ReMix". Ocremix.org. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Codemasters". Codemasters. Retrieved 30 August 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Official CoLD SToRAGE Website". Coldstorage.org.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Music, Sound Effects and Voice Over for Games, Video, Film TV, Websites and Media Projects". Bwrw Eira. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  7. ^ a b "Cold Storage". Coldstorage.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  8. ^ jeriaska on 6 October 2009 12:00 AM (6 October 2009). "Sound Current: 'CoLD SToRAGE Audio Trip – Project Moonbounce 2009'". GameSetWatch. Retrieved 30 August 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "World Moon Bounce Day Celebrates 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing « National Space Society Blog". Blog.nss.org. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Dimmu Borgir – Stormblåst – Least Worst Option". 2 March 2015.
  11. ^ http://www.psygnosis.org/games/agony/files/notes.txt [bare URL plain text file]
  12. ^ " ""BAFTA Nominee Music 2000 Jester Interactive"".
  13. ^ ""Remix64 ROTY Awards 2015"". 8 December 2020.
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