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2016 & beyond of Podcast,videogame,tech,anime& underground rap music

music for animation

music for commercials and other quickies

Fav Songs

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Rock It (pre-console version)

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Neo Cortex (pre-console version)

Pax•Am Days out now - Download on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/FOBPaxAmDays

PAX AM Days

Love, Sex, Death

Here's a demo I did for a Target commercial. I'll post the approved version at some point.

Target Visa #3 (demo)

Crash Bandicoot - Heavy Machinery (pre-console version)

Jak3 - Precursor Sub Rails (pre-console version)

Jak II: Renegade - main theme (full-length version)

theme song to the animated TV pilot "Big Babies"

Big Babies opening theme (alt)

The Sunrise Expedition

Nikko Victory Lap

This was written for a forest level in *Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy*. The level did not end up in the game but the music was re-worked and re-purposed for the fishing challenge part of the game.

Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Forest (demo)

This is from the *Jak II: Renegade* game soundtrack. It was written for the desolate area of Haven City.

Jak II: Renegade - Deserted City (pre-console version)

pre-console mix from the *Crash Bandicoot: Warped* soundtrack

Crash Bandicoot: Warped - Under Pressure (pre-console version)

Crash Bandicoot: Warped - Future Frenzy (pre-console version)

Bikini Beach (redux)

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Tiny Tiger (pre-console version)

Eat The Sun - Welcome To Greenfield

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Coco's Theme (pre-console version)

Cheesecake Casserole opening titles

For Jillette Johnson the journey has been as integral to her musical experience as the destination. Jillette, who began taking music lessons and penning songs as a child, has been performing live since she was 12, captivating audiences with her sultry, thoughtful piano-driven tunes. The musician, now 24, has spent the last decade cultivating her sound and defining her unique perspective. When she moved to New York City from her small town of Pound Ridge, NY at 18, Jillette was already familiar with the city and its clubs, from Sidewalk Cafe to The Bitter End to Rockwood Music Hall. 

In early 2012, Jillette inked a deal with Wind-up Records, who were drawn in by her track “Cameron,” an inspirational number that explores the struggle of a transgendered person whom Jillette knows. The song appeared on the singer’s five-track EP, Whiskey & Frosting, which came out in August 2012, a prelude to her June 25, 2013 Wind-up Records’ debut album release, Water In A Whale. Culled from six months worth of recording sessions at Wind-up’s New York studio, the album traces Jillette’s experiences and ideas about living in the city and being young in today’s society. She finished the album fall 2012, just before going out on tour, and as it turned out those weeks on the road shifted the musician’s sensibilities. 

“There’s this funny thing that happens when you go on the road,” Jillette says. “Because you’re not around the people that you’re normally around and you’re in a different environment and you’re constantly being creative and putting out things. Your voice starts to change, both literally and figuratively. I just started growing really rapidly and my perspective started changing a lot. I got back two weeks before Christmas and I knew that we had to have everything done by the first of the year. So I had six months to make the record and two weeks to change everything. A lot of artists don’t get that opportunity, to be able to have the album that they made and come back and make tweaks. That’s pretty rare and I got to do it.”

The final album, which features the five tracks found on Whiskey & Frosting, centers on Jillette’s soaring vocals and the sparse, haunting piano lines she wrote to accompany them. Produced by Peter Zizzo (Vanessa Carlton, Avril Lavigne) and Michael Mangini (Joss Stone, David Byrne), the album reveals Jillette’s pensive reflections on the world around her, all of which lead to a deeper understanding of self-identity. The real power comes from those songs about the musician herself, however and the rest of the album follows in tone.

Water In A Whale opens with the explosive and powerful, “Torpedo,” a song about resilience. “I wrote it about my relationship with my career and my unwillingness to give up on my dream,” says Jillette.  “I've been writing and playing music for whoever would listen since I was a little kid, and with that has come a lot of rejection and heartache. ‘Torpedo’ is about absorbing those blows to my ego and then bouncing right back up to fight.”

The poignant “Cameron,” was written both from personal experience with someone the musician knows and from the idea of what it means to grapple with who you are. The glowing number focuses on what it means to be authentic to ones’ self, a universal theme. “I do have someone in my life that’s transgendered and I’ve learned a lot from this person,” Jillette says. “But I think I actually wrote ‘Cameron’ more about myself and about that feeling of being alien in your own skin. It’s been really awesome to play that song around the country and meet people who share stories that may have to do with being transgendered or may have to do with feeling a little bit different.” 

“When the Ship Goes Down,” a hushed ballad, plays with the idea of the immortality you feel when you’re young while the sultry “Bassett Hound” offers an unbalanced account of unrequited love, based on, as Jillette says, “every time I showed too many of my cards and wanted someone too much.” The ethereal “Pauvre Coeur” treads similar ground, excising the anger the singer felt about a relationship that started to “devour” her. “True North,” a soaring and epic number written in that urgent two-week period last winter, touches on what it means to return home, a fulcrum for the musician’s ideas about her identity.  “It’s about coming home and accepting the failures that you endure along the way,” Jillette says. “And realizing that you’re gonna have a place to come home to, and that’s the home inside your own head when all the other voices go away. Because they’re not you so they don’t care enough to stay that long. You’re still going to have your own voice and that’s what coming home means to me.”

Jillette brings her impassioned live aesthetic onto the album, infusing each number with a sense of intimacy and fervor. The songs shift from light-hearted buoyancy of “Bassett Hound” to the heavy urgency of “Cameron,” showcasing a viable array of musical – and lyrical – inspiration. For Jillette, whose years of experience and practice have set her up for what’s to come, the goal is to bring these songs to life for as many people as possible. 

“The next year or two I think are wide open, in terms of what amazing things could happen,” the singer says. “And I think it’s just up to me to work hard every day and have a lot of luck. I hope to really build my live show. I can’t get to hung up on what exactly will happen. It’s really just about every day playing my heart out and connecting with fans over human experiences.” 

Torpedo

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The Bite-Sized Adventures Of Sam Sandwich - Throwing Cheeseburgers (original version)

Something New

New song "Take Me To Heaven" from Filter out everywhere now! 
DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/1OCf2F9
STREAM: bit.ly/1VdUzID 
New album 'Crazy Eyes' out April 8th, 2016.

Filter Album The Sun Comes Out Tonight - Available Everywhere Now
Mastered for iTunes + Bonus Tracks: ow.ly/lI4S8 
CD/Vinyl/Digital on Amazon: ow.ly/lI4W1 
Listen on Spotify (ow.ly/lI55U) and Rhapsody (ow.ly/lI5bq)

Surprise

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Crash Bandicoot Warped - Midnight Run (pre-console version)

This was my first attempt at music for the CB Warped underwater levels. The final version ended up being a lot more moody and atmospheric.

Crash Bandicoot Warped - Under Pressure (demo)

Josh Mancell is a Los Angeles-based composer. He has created music for multi-million unit selling video game franchises (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter), Emmy award-winning television (Clifford the Big Red Dog), festival-acclaimed independent films (The Wake of Light, Love Comes to the Executioner, A Star for Rose, Eat the Sun, etc) and a diverse array of commercials (including Target, McDonalds, EA Games and AT&T), logos and other visual media. Josh is also involved with several bands as both a performer and a producer (Exploding Flowers, Vagrant Winter, Fun Time Objects, Cellborg) and has guest lectured/panel-participated at American Film Institute, Berklee College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Sarah Lawrence College, UC Irvine, Cal Poly Pomona and LA College of Music College. His iconic music for the Crash Bandicoot video games was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2018 and music from both the Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter games was performed by the Manchester Video Game Orchestra in 2022.

Bikini Beach (redux)

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