Graeme Norgate

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Graeme Norgate is a video game music composer, who has composed music for a variety of video games developed by Rare, Ltd.. His first project at Rare was writing the music for the Game Boy game, Donkey Kong Land. He also contributed to the soundtracks of Blast Corps and GoldenEye 007. Graeme is currently employed by Free Radical Design. His recent scores include Second Sight and the Timesplitters series of video games.

Originally working at a bank before joining Rare in 1994, he later would become famous for taking part in the music of such games as GoldenEye 007 and Blast Corps. When asked what was his worst piece of work was, however, he said "Oh Jesus. One of my tracks for BlastCorps on the N64. It was when the space shuttle took off. It was completely inappropriate. I still cringe every time I hear it."

Apparently a good friend of fellow Rare composer Robin Beanland, the two worked on the original soundtrack to Killer Instinct over a decade ago. He also composed music (but was not totally credited) for other Rareware games, such as Diddy Kong Racing, Jet Force Gemini, and Perfect Dark.

Norgate has a personal website, specifically devoted to the music of the Commodore 64 era of gaming / remixes.

Norgate works under a number of aliases including: MC Graeme Norgate, Dumbledore, Freckleface Beefburger, Beefburger, Bebagoo, Magoo, Mr. Magoo, Achamagoo, Achamadingamagoo, Achamadingamagoogoo, and also Zookeeper McTinkle.

He has remixed two songs for the UK band Goteki.