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  • Dominator (Matt Gray, 1989) songsystem-3 's shoot-'em-up (1989) with a soundtrack by matt-gray — "By the time I did Dominator for System 3, a dance-track influence was increasingly creeping into my tracks" — and the tune whose subtune 6 became the …
  • Last Ninja 2 (Matt Gray, 1988) songsystem-3 's 1988 sequel, scored by matt-gray as its in-house musician: a full soundtrack of loaders and level tunes written "from mid-January until early April" 1988 — "about as big a project as you would want to …
  • Matt Gray personBritish C64 composer (born May 1970 in Kent), in-house at system-3 for last-ninja-2 , dominator , Tusker and Vendetta , freelance for codemasters , Thalamus, Incentive ( driller ), hewson , Silverbird and Dalali; he …
  • Reyn Ouwehand personDutch C64 composer who joined maniacs-of-noise by 1990-03-15 (introduced to charles-deenen by Dave Hogendorf) and "left by May 12 to join system-3 "; VGMPF dates his membership "late 1989?–1990" (source: …
  • C64.COM interview #36: Matt Gray (2014) summaryThe most technical of matt-gray 's interviews: how his player was organised, what made its vibrato "his", which games he did in which year and how long each took, and the Compunet-to-System 3 career path.
  • Remix64 — Last Ninja 2 vs Ninja Remix: what's the deal? (Chris Abbott) summaryWhy the cartridge re-release of last-ninja-2 has a completely different soundtrack — a one-page case study in the practical meaning of "a game has one music driver".
  • Retro Gamesmaster — Matt Gray Interview (Peter Ward) summaryThe interview with the most complete game-by-game commentary from matt-gray — dates, fees, what was cut — and his one-paragraph description of the C64 workflow.
  • RVG Interviews: Matt Gray (2016) summaryA forum-sourced interview whose value is one answer on technique: matt-gray on the "note or chord plex", pulse-width sweeps on chords, drums by waveform switching, and the fact that "even putting a vibrato on a sound …
  • Vandalism News #63 — Interview with Matt Gray (Jazzcat, 2014) summaryThe longest matt-gray interview: how he learnt 6502 to build his player, what he thinks a player is, why System 3 let him go, the Sanxion trick behind his Bangkok Knights bass, and his 1990s pop career (Motiv8, …