Martin Iveson

Martin Iveson is a British video game composer and deep house, hip-hop, and jazz artist under nicknames Atjazz, Spaceman, and Nuke.

He moved from northeast England to Derby in 1991 to take a position as in-house musician for the then fledgling video games company Core Design. Martin experimented with sounds on his small keyboard and home computer. He co-worked with Nathan McCree on the two first Tomb Raider games and with Peter Connelly on Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.

Iveson then started his first label Mantis Recordings which went on to release underground dance music for 13 years. Iveson took on the artist name of Atjazz', and in 1996 released his first single, Story. He then released his debut album, That Something. A second Atjazz album, Labfunk, was released on the same label in 2001. He continued to work on the music and sound effects for video games. He also makes remixes of his works and performs DJ sets.

He cites Shostakovich, Stravinsky, John Frizzell and John Williams as influencers for the soundtrack.

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