Robin Beanland

Robin Beanland
NationalityBritish
OccupationComposer

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

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.


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