London Gaming Con Event Details:

• Date: 3rd-4th Dec 2011
• Time: 11am – 1am
• Location: Rocket Complex, 166 Holloway Road, London. N7 8DB
• Tickets: Full day – £10. Evening only (after 5pm) – £5
• Event Planner: Available here
• Note: Over 18s only

You can also watch Tim’s last gig at the Sunrise Festival 2011 here. I hope to see some of you at London Gaming Con and at Tim’s gig on Saturday. I will be tweeting from the event so keep an eye on TheAvgGamer.

You can buy Android Child from the CoLD SToRAGE website for £12.99. Also it’s only available as a download (154mb zip) at the moment and consists of 21 tracks that aren’t available anywhere else and a HTML booklet. I’ve bought it and it contains some great tracks.

According to Tim, Android Child was:

2 years in the making, this album is a very personal work inspired by the ups and downs of life and is dedicated to Brian, my father-in-law, who sadly passed away well before his time last year. Whereas MELT was a collection of ideas I’d had for some time, Android Child was composed from start to finish as an entity, and I think the tracks compliment each other quite well.

Hopefully Sony Liverpool will suddenly wake up to the fact that what’s missing from the next Wipeout game is CoLD SToRAGE tracks. Tim’s dropped them a friendly email expressing his desire to be part of the franchise. So it’s over to you Sony Liverpool, time to make it happen.

David Whittaker

• Greatest hits: Speedball (1988), Shadow of the Beast (1989), Xenon II – Megablast (1989)
• Listen to his music @ ExoticA Game Music Archive
• Comments: Xenon II – Megablast…need I say more? David Whittaker has written some of the most memorable music to the early Bitmap Brothers games

Chris Hueslbeck

• Greatest hits: R-Type (1989), Turrican I (1990), Turrican II (1991), Star Wars – Rogue Leader (2001)
• Listen to his music @ ExoticA Game Music Archive
• Comments: Factor 5 games have always been accompanied by fantastic music courtesy of Chris Hueslbeck from the wonderful Turrican series to most recent Star Wars Gamecube games. He has a load of albums available on his website if you like his music

Tim Wright

• Greatest hits: Lemmings (1991), WipEout(1996), WipEout 2097 (1997), WipEout Pure (2005)
• Listen to his music @ www.coldstorage.org.uk
• Comments: In my mind the best tracks on all the WipEout games have always been the ones written by CoLD SToRAGE (Tim Wright). You can listen to his fantastic music by downloading tracks from his website (free of charge!). Don’t forget to listen to Messij and Doh which are my favourite tracks from WipEout. Back in January 2006 I commented on Tim’s newest album – Melt which you can check out by clicking here

Richard Joseph

• Greatest hits: Gods (1991), Chaos Engine (1993), Speedball II (1991), Cannon Fodder (1993)
• Listen to his music @ ExoticA Game Music Archive
• Comments: “War, it’s never been so much fun…” (Cannon Fodder title music) I’ve loved his music since his early collaborations with the Bitmap Brothers (Gods, Chaos Engine, Speedball II and Magic Pockets) and then with Sensible Software (Cannon Fodder, S.W.O.S)

Koji Kondo

• Greatest hits: Super Mario Bros (1985), Super Mario 64 (1996), Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time (1998)
• Listen to his music @ Play any Nintendo game!
• Comments: Nintendo’s in house musician…mmm, there’s one or two iconic soundtracks in his discography! Personally I loved the music to Ocarina of Time as it was memorable, suited the gameplay perfectly and most importantly, it didn’t annoy the crap out of you!