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Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra

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Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra are British composers who have collaborated on various TV, Production Music and game projects as part of their company, Swallow Studios. Their specialty is jazz, although they have also written in other genres. They are also known as Blythe Joustra.

Career

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Blythe and Joustra have been composing music together for 25 years, and in that time they have composed over 1,000 pieces of music for television, radio, film, games, production music libraries, and video.[citation needed] Joustra's background is as a classically trained pianist. He is a jazz pianist and has played in a variety of orchestras, rock bands, jazz quartets and a TV House band.

Blythe's background is in recording and production. Having started out as a drummer in various rock and pop bands, he opened and ran a commercial recording studio. It was through this that he and Joustra met.[citation needed] They quickly established a mutual ambition to write music for television and initially gained experience composing soundtracks for corporate videos, radio commercials, and live events. Since then, they have contributed tracks to over 40 library music albums and written themes and incidental music for clients all over the world.[citation needed]

Aside from movies and video game music, they wrote music and songs for the UK TV show Dick & Dom in da Bungalow, which aired between 2002 and 2006. A soundtrack CD of this music was released.[1] The tune "Good Evening and Welcome" appeared on the Swedish TV series Ursäkta röran (vi bygger om) by Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. They have also written music for OOglies.

List of works

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Video games

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Year Title Notes
1994 Mickey Mania With Matt Furniss & Michael Giacchino
1995 Toy Story Sega Genesis and Windows versions.
1997 Formula 1 97
1998 Rascal
A Bug's Life
1999 Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
2000 Muppet RaceMania
2001 Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
2002 Haven: Call of the King
2003 Finding Nemo
2005 Disney's Peter Pan: The Legend of Never-Land

Film/TV

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Year Title
1998 Waffle
A Date with Fate
The World's Greatest Magic 5
The Naked Eye
1999–present Tonight
2002–2006 Dick & Dom in da Bungalow
2003–2009 How Clean Is Your House?
2006–2014 The Slammer
2007 Harry Batt
Chute!
2007–2009 Mister Maker
2009 Da Dick and Dom Dairies
My Last Five Girlfriends
2009–2011 The Legend of Dick and Dom
2009–2015 OOglies
I Can Cook
2011 The Night Clerk
2012 Hoopla
Diddy Movies
2012–present Let's Play
The Martin Lewis Money Show
2013 Jack the Ripper
2014–2017 The Furchester Hotel
2017–present Saturday Mash-Up!
2018 My World Kitchen
2019 The Tez O'Clock Show
2020 How 3

References

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  1. ^ According to VGM Rush "VGM Rush - Andy Blythe". Archived from the original on 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
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