Graeme Norgate is a British

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composer who has composed music for a variety of video games developed by Rare. His first project at Rare was writing music for the

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game, ''

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''. He also contributed to the soundtracks of ''

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'' and '' GoldenEye 007''. Norgate was later an employee of

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, the company was eventually bought out by

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and renamed to Crytek UK; Norgate retained the position of audio director after the company's buyout. Norgate later moved to

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after Crytek closed down Crytek UK. Originally working at a bank before joining Rare in 1994, Norgate worked on the music of such games as ''GoldenEye 007'' and ''Blast Corps''. A friend of fellow Rare composer

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, the two worked on the original soundtrack to ''

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'' in the 1990s. He also composed music (but was not fully credited) for other Rareware games such as ''

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'', ''

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'',
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''. Norgate played synthesizer and programmed

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for the bands 'FWNT' and 'The Catch' between 1991 and 1992. He also works under the alias of Virez when remixing, he has remixed several songs for bands such as

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and Illumina.

Video game soundtracks

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