Today, I was reading an interview of Jesper Kyd on www.hitmanforum.com He's the guy who has composed music for the entire Hitman series. Born in Denmark, Jesper started to play the piano at a very young age. At the age of 14, Jesper got a Commodore 64 (a personal computer released in 1982). At that time, the Commodore was the best selling single computer model of all time. Incidentally, it costed $595 at that time to buy one of them. Lucky Jesper :-) The Commodore lasted till 1994 and during this 12 year period, sold 17 million units.

Anyways, the Commodore pretty much kick started Jesper's music composition. He started to compose music for different demogroups on the Commodore 64. Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer-based audio-visual works of art known as demos. Demogroups form a subculture collectively known as the demoscene.

Jesper teamed up with his friend, Mikael Balle became a member of the group Silents DK, and eventually started collaborating with a group of coders known as crionics. They eventually made the legendary amiga demoscene production "Hardwired".

At this point Jesper Kyd decided to quit the demo scene and focus on a professional carer as a game musician. He and his friends who had collaborated on the "Hardwired" demo created the computer game development team "Zyrinx" and started working on a game called Subterrania for the SEGA Genesis. The game had a succes full development and the music of the game got very good reviews and many stating it was "The best ever" for this particular system.

Since the game was a commercial succes Jesper Kyd and the rest of the team relocated to Boston,USA. Jesper Kyd composed music for 3 more titles before their game publisher the now defunct Scavenger went bankruped, which caused the "Zyrinx" team to dissolve as well

In spite of his friends going back to Denmark to start IO Interactive, Jesper Kyd decided to move to New York City and set up his own sound studio in Manhattan called "Nano studios". Jesper eventually made it big when his music for the Hitman series became a big hit.

Today, in honor for some awesome music that he's composed for the Hitman series, I bought the entire Hitman Silent Assassin Album from iTunes for $9.99. As I write this piece of blog, I am listening to the theme song....