Interesting that so many of these sections ended up in the Haven Mine music.

Say Josh, I know this might be late to ask, but what were yer thoughts of the sequel's change in tone compared to the first game?
I read an interview somewhere that you said it felt "forced."
Does that still hold true?

Interesting! So for night and different sections of Haven City, it was initially planned to have different music?  Still awesome how you are showing us these demos, man :D

Woah! With the Spyro (Kurzweil 2500) tinkle bells! :O On the Roland SC-8820 it's called "Rama Cymbal".

The game is great and all, with with extra music it could have been FANTASTIC.

Having different music for different parts of the city would have been great, I wonder why exactly that was dropped from the final game. Was this track ever implemented into a build of the game during development?

Jak2 Renegade - Haven City bazaar variant2 (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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