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Yooka Replaylee / Yooka Laylee (Playtonic Games) Rextro Arcade Early Sketches and Unused Tracks

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Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · 22h

Get in to the mood for playing Yooka-Replaylee out tomorrow (9th October). Early drafts and unused tunes written for the Rextro Arcade minigames, found deep in the subfolder lair of my musical ideas backup folder! Swing on over to @playtonicgames.com
youtu.be/OMsAW-WT1Wg

Yooka-Laylee (Playtonic Games) Mixing Session 2016. Check out Yooka-Re-Playlee 9th October 2025!!

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Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · 1d

Yooka-Laylee @playtonicgames.com Music Mixing Session 2016. This is the first time I've shared this, check it out. Yooka-Re-Playlee 9th October 2025!
youtu.be/PJCPnBp7GvE

Xbox 360 Avatars Complete Music Collection

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Aug 26

Nice! Thank you :)

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Aug 26

Happy days working on that. I can remember Dale asking me to record burping sounds at different pitches for the right thumbstick push ins on the Avatar Editor. What a job! :) on close to a hundred million Xbox 360's now, ha!

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Aug 26

Xbox 360 Avatars Editor music, the complete collection.
0:00 to 9:56 NXE 2008 Dashboard Update.
9:57 to 19:53 Kinect 2010 Dashboard Update.

Lots of marimba!
youtu.be/M87b0yeB6Dw

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Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Aug 16

Big thank you to Robin @robinbeanland.com ! Much appreciated Mr. B.

Rare 40th Anniversary Box Vinyl Set. A few tracks of mine on there along with the great and wonderful past and present Rare Music department composers.

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Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Jul 12

Great video! Nearly 20 years since the game was released, nice to look back at it.

Kameo Elements of Power: A Rare Gem

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Jul 4

Oh aye. Nice video following the development of Kameo from Gamecube to Xbox 360, and a section about the music too. Splendid.

youtu.be/7pOzBiniRlg?...

YouTube video by Jiggylookback

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Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 7

Nice! I'll have a look on there

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 7

We got the Stockholm Xbox 360 faceplate, that was about it.

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 7

Ooh cool. Can you still get these in the UK? I'd like to have some of those. I don't remember getting any Avatar Editor tat while at Rare/MS.

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 3

And sounds :)

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 3

Lots of tunes. It's the way to go.

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 3

It says "Insert Rumble Pak" on the menu

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 3

Ooh, nope. Does it have some extra goodies in the cartridge?

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · May 3

Hi, rarely check my messages just saw this. Nope, I didn't rerecord my tracks for YL, I think it was just Grant's stuff that was recorded with the orchestra. Mine were mostly retro game style with a bit of orchestral sampled filling.

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hey Charlie. Yeah, I have been meaning to join for a while, and thought I'd see what its like over here.

Steve Burke @steveburkemusic.bsky.social · Apr 4

Alright there Chris! Hope all is well with you. Thought I'd give this new fangled Bluesky app a go.