music for animation

robots on broadway

thrift store with ma

theme song to the animated TV pilot "Big Babies"

Big Babies opening theme (alt)

theme song to the animated TV pilot "Ace Bogart"

Ace Bogart opening theme (alt)

The Sunrise Expedition

Micro-Pathways Unlimited

This is one of three original demos submitted for the Clifford theme song. Yes, I ended up working on the series...

Clifford The Big Red Dog - theme (instrumental demo)

one of the original pieces written for the *Clifford The Big Red Dog* tv show... 
It was re-edited and re-interpreted many times throughout the series.

Clifford the Big Red Dog - Walking to School

an instrumental demo written for the (unreleased) Mutato Muzika version of the *Clifford The Big Red Dog* album

Clifford the Big Red Dog - Dogs on the Run

written for the indie game Project: Cyborg (release date: TBA)

Project: Cyborg - main theme (alt mix)

Bikini Beach (redux)

one of the original pieces written for the *Clifford The Big Red Dog* tv show... 
It was re-edited and re-interpreted many times throughout the series.

Clifford The Big Red Dog - Build A Bigger Doghouse

from the tv series *Gary The Rat* ... used in a dream sequence where Gary is having the night of his life in Vegas - until his head gets cut off (again).

Gary The Rat - Luck Be A Rodent (full mix)

This was written as a demo for The Gap... a frenetic animation of the classic cat vs dog antics. Musically, the concept was *Looney Toons goes techno* (yeah, yeah, I know)

GAP cats n dogs (demo)

one my first demo/experiments created/recorded at Mutato Muzika (1992)

Exotic Robotic 92

Wish Mission

Mystical Oracle

Unsupervised Antics

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

Something New

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.

music for animation

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