Neil D. Voss

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Neil D. Voss (born 1974) is a critically acclaimed composer who writes techno soundtracks for Nintendo video games. Voss' first work was Tetrisphere in 1997 and then The New Tetris in 1999 both for the Nintendo 64. Voss has since moved to working on the Game Boy Advance, producing soundtracks for Racing Gears Advance in collobration with Orbital Media Inc.

[edit] Background

At the early age of 12, Neil Voss began playing with electronic music on his Commodore 64 and this hobby soon became a big part of his life. He later became an underground electronic music developer, but saw his fellow composers signing to game developers, and so he joined H20, a third party developer for Atari’s Jaguar. His first project was Phear, but after Jaguar failed, it was moved to Nintendo and expanded into Tetrisphere. As audio director, Voss produced, composed, and engineered the whole soundtrack for Tetrisphere, which most say made the game a hit.[1] Voss went on to create more hit techno music in the N64 puzzle game, The New Tetris. This soundtrack became an instant favorite.[2] Later in 2005, Voss worked on Racing Gears Advance for the Game Boy Advance which won for best use of sound by IGN.[3]