Yess! I love this intro, it sends chills all over

Hey Josh, may I ask you, how long did it take you to compose one track for Crash Bandicoot? And what was your thinking process while making a skull-route remix? This composition sounds so unique like it was ahead of its time...

Ah one of my missing favourites. Finally this guitar sounds right. The console version uses just same sample from regular Hang Eight in same key going out of tempo.

The wait was worth it to hear this track in all its uncompressed glory

Please, I NEED the Snow Go death skull route theme!

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Hang Eight skull route (pre-console version)

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.

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