I get a faint Jak & Daxter vibe from this track. I love it!

Heh! Gotta love that Tawna bonus level quote! Or was the Tawna level quoting this demo?

definitely sounds like Jak & Daxter, the lost precursor city themes come to mind

Hey, mr. Josh, do you know that happened with your website Joshmancell . com ?

@user-726535428: This was written 5 years before TPL so it's actually the other way around.

sounds like the same notes used in misty island, i like this tho. would be interesting to here crash in this direction

This reminds me a bit of the underwater themes from Crash 3

This is amazing, and having heard the Jak and Daxter soundtrack as well, it's amazing hearing the similarities in insturments :,)

I hear the bassline from Turtle Woods here but in drum form

You can definitely tell the one behind this would go on to do Jak and Daxter.

Here's an example of the early 'ambient' direction for CB1 - less tune, more vibe )))

Crash Bandicoot - Jungle Boulders xp2 (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.

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