Robin Beanland

Robin Beanland
Nationality	British
Occupation	Composer

Robin Beanland is a British composer of video game music, composing music for numerous Rare titles, such as the Killer Instinct franchise, Conker's Bad Fur Day (which he also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Seavor), and many others. Prior to joining Rare, Beanland composed music for TV and films. The only current game that he continues to produce music for is Sea of Thieves.^[1]

Video game music credits

Year	Title	Notes
1994	Donkey Kong Country	With Eveline Fischer and David Wise[2]
	Killer Instinct	With Graeme Norgate
1996	Killer Instinct 2/Gold
1997	GoldenEye 007	With Norgate and Grant Kirkhope[3]
1999	Conker's Pocket Tales	With Fischer
	Jet Force Gemini	With Norgate and Alistair Lindsay
	Donkey Kong 64	Support team
	Donkey Kong Country (GBC Version)	Donkey Kong Country Game Boy Color Team
2000	Perfect Dark	Staff ("Trent's Henchmen")
2001	Conker's Bad Fur Day	Also co-wrote the game's script with Chris Seavor
2002	Star Fox Adventures	Performed various instruments
2003	Donkey Kong Country (GBA version)	With Jamie Hughes
2004	Sabre Wulf
	It's Mr. Pants	With Fischer and Wise
2005	Banjo-Pilot	With Hughes
	Conker: Live & Reloaded
	Kameo: Elements of Power	Sound effects and character voices.
2006	Viva Piñata
2008	Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise	Rare Family
	Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts	With Kirkhope and Dave Clynick
2010	Kinect Sports	With Dave Clynick
	Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing	Special thanks
	I Wanna Be the Boshy	Uses music from Killer Instinct
2011	Kinect Sports: Season Two
2012	Kinect PlayFit
	Fable Heroes	With Steve Burke
2013	Killer Instinct	Original themes, special thanks
2014	Kinect Sports Rivals
2015	Rare Replay	With Richard Aitken
2018	Sea of Thieves
	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Original game supervisor (Banjo & Kazooie DLC)
2020	Battletoads	Special thanks

Awards

Year	Title	Recipient	Result
2001	British Academy of Film and Television Arts award	Conker's Bad Fur Day[4]	Win
2019	Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score for	Sea of Thieves[5]	Win

See also

• DK Jamz

References

1. VGM Rush's Beanland profile. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
2. Rare: Scribes (December 21, 2005) at Internet Archive "Robin did Funky's Fugue, Eveline did Simian Segue, Candy's Love Song, Voices of the Temple, Forest Frenzy, Tree Top Rock, Northern Hemispheres and Ice Cave Chant, and the rest was the doing of Mr. Wise."
3. @grantkirkhope (25 January 2023). "Here's the run down of who wrote what on Goldeneye" (Tweet) – via Twitter. ^{[better source needed]}
4. "BAFTA Awards - Interactive Sound in 2001". BAFTA Awards. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
5. "Winners Announced for The Ivors 2019". The Ivors Academy. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2020.

External links

• Robin Beanland on MySpace
• Robin Beanland discography at MusicBrainz
• Profile at MobyGames
• Robin Beanland at IMDb
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
• Gamezone interview on scoring the music for Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts