The Dead Rising video game series is known for a number of things, including a fun-to-explore open world, a slightly goofier look at the zombie apocalypse than its sibling series, Resident Evil, and a really solid sound score.
Oleksa Lozowchuk is the man behind that score, at least for two of the three Dead Rising games. He’s the musical director for Capcom Vancouver, and has been responsible for composing large chunks of the music for Dead Rising 2 and 3 — he figures he wrote about 60 per cent of the latter's soundtrack — as well as finding people to write and record the rest of the music. (On Dead Rising 3, released the end of last year, that included 54-40’s Dave Genn, former Redd Kross drummer-turned-film score composer Brian Reitzell and industrial musician Celldweller.)
According to Lozowchuk, the most important part of making it onto a video game soundtrack, or at least one that he’s supervising, is to make sure it doesn’t sound like “video game music.”
