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2	Erik Aho is an American composer who primarily works for the American TV and video games. He has his own [[http://www.erikaho.com website]], and is the co-founder of a music production company [[http://www.waxlabmusic.com WaxLab ]]. In 2013, he has received the ASCAP Foundation’s David Rose Award.
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4	!! TV Series music he has worked on:
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6	* ''Series/TheAmazingRace''
7	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''
8	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
9	* ''The Miracle Workers''
10	* ''Blood Relatives''
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12	!! Video Game music he has composed:
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14	* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever''
15	* ''No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In HARM's Way''
16	* ''{{VideoGame/Drakan}}''
17	* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''
18	** ''The Suffering: Ties That Bind''
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20	!! Tropes related to the creator:
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22	* {{Industrial}}: The Suffering’s soundtrack has been designed with the explicit aim to only include sounds relevant to the situation at hand. Thus, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7XjY2_CzTk quarry soundtrack]] uses rhythmic sounds of rock scraping, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Killjoy’s]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d6r0akI7XU&list=PL5959045B453A71C1 office]] has the sounds of medical instruments and whispers and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAcOZnVw8Pg&list=PL5959045B453A71C1 boss fight]] against Hermes, who died in a gas chamber, is full of gas hissing. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXVkvYrxGk&list=PL5959045B453A71C1 main theme]] for the game consists of nothing but the monster audio composed in order to sound as creepy as possible. Surprisingly, it all works well.
23	** The Suffering: Ties That Bind continues the tradition. This time, the soundtrack is urban-themed, like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnW-D3OwwH8&list=PL999DB3A38DFFEDD3 crowd noise]] edited into a fight theme, the sounds of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqp2W1c-MQ&list=PL999DB3A38DFFEDD military march and broken glass]] for the [[GasMaskMooks Foundation soldiers]], and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkl0TyuQor8&list=PL999DB3A38DFFEDD3 police sirens]] for another section of the game – all to contrast with the desolate, empty Baltimore devoid of all those sounds.
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