


That was Dirt 2 - and that was more a high energy rock, electro soundtrack.īut when it came to Dirt 3 it was an entirely different game. We have a list of the music on the box, so people wanted to know what these tracks were. People wanted to know what the music was. Noticed one of the fans uploaded songs from the game on Youtube, no visuals, just a Dirt 2 grab and the song, and these things were getting 50, 80, 100 thousand hits before they were taken down for copyright reasons. And one thing Codemasters was noticing that was people were commentating on the soundtrack. So when Dirt 3 rolled round you were the logical choice?Ĭ.S:Dirt 2 did really well. I got involved with Dirt 2 soundtrack, got some cool brands involved and brought my world, the world I work with, into the gaming world of Codemasters. "I do point-to-point rally racing but I want to make it a bit cooler and have a cool soundtrack, like you have with your snowboard films and and I want to bring that vibe over and bring those brands in that you work with, all the cool skate, snowboarding and clothing brands" - so that's all how it got started.

Three years ago, Guy Pierce from Codemasters came to me and said he wanted to bring my world into his.
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Meanwhile I made six snowboard films, released two CD soundtracks, the went into full-on TV production, presenting a TV series for Channel 5 called Rad, an action sports show. I started loaning him snowboards, got him into that and my action sports world, and he got a taste for it. Guy Pierce is now the brand director over at Codemasters. There was a guy who worked for him called Guy Pierce. At the time a buddy of mine was over at Sony PlayStation called Jeff who was head of Marketing.
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We released a movie through Sony Music and soundtrack through Columbia records. I'd travel the world and we ended up doing a record deal with Sony. Here, here discusses how he became linked with the Dirt series and his meticulous approach to its soundtrack.įirst, some background how'd you get into this?Ĭhristian Stevenson:Back in the 90s I used to make snowboard movies. We covered last week the rules to creating the perfect soundtrack with Christian.
