Jake Kaufman

Jacob Jake Kaufman is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of Qbert. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a fulltime freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several bigname projects such as Contra 4, Red Faction Guerrilla, DuckTales Remastered, and Shovel Knight. In early 2015, he and Jessie Seely formed CSP Industries, and launched a Kickstarter for The New Renaissance, a project that they call the worlds first virtual reality rock opera. In late 2015, Kaufman composed and wrote lyrics for Power Overwhelming, the debut

Kaufman was born on April 3, 1981. Kaufman dropped out of high school, with what he describes as a total lack of work ethic and no concept of timeliness or organization. He spent the next few years composing arrangements and remixes of video game music under the alias virt. In 2000, Kaufman broke into the video game industry as a composer, with his first work being the Game Boy Color port of Qbert. Over the next few years, he composed the music to several Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games. In 2002, Kaufman was one of the cofounders of the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes. VGMix has been described as being just as influential as OverClocked ReMix, the other major video game music arrangement hosting website.

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