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#128 - Ben Kasparek Interview (DBZ, Editing, Bruce Faulconer, 9/11, Pikkon Theme Cell Saga etc.)
Episode 128
Ben Kasparek was the music editor on the English Dub of Dragonball Z for the Android, Cell and Buu Sagas of DBZ and worked closely with the composers of the show Mike Smith, Scott Morgan and Julius Dobos
#dbz #dragonballz #brucefaulconer
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - How Ben Got Into DBZ/Getting Job At Faulconer Productions
04:08 - Ben Originally Wanted A Job At Funimation But Couldn’t Find The Office
04:49 - Watching Mike Work/What Episode Ben Started First When Editing
06:30 - Editing An Episode Took One Week/Editing Process
08:07 - DBZ Music Library/Mistake With Vegetas Theme
10:13 - Ben Favoured Hyperbolic Time Chamber Theme In Editing
11:25 - Limiting Of Pikkons Theme
12:56 - Ben Inspired Scott To Write The Arpeggiated Part Of Pikkons Theme
14:56 - The Genius Of Mike Smith,Scott Morgan & Julius Dobos
15:59 - Japanese DBZ Music/Gohan Vs Cell Kamehameha Episodes Had No Changes In Editing
18:19 - 16 Rips Off Cells Tail/Gohan & Icarus/Perfect Cell Runs
19:25 - Such A Massive Library Existed By Buu Saga So Cell Saga Music Was Hardly Used
20:32 - Having A Bigger Catalog Made It Easy To Edit
22:33 - How The Best Of DBZ Vol 1 Soundtrack Came About
25:12 - Ben Would Give The Musicians Requests And They Nailed It Every Time
26:32 - Ben Was Late To Work On The Day Of 9/11
28:21 - Gohan Goes To School Episode Had To Be Edited In 24 Hours
29:32 - Hardcore DBZ Fan In Ben’s Class/New Generation Of DBZ Fans
31:04 - Groove Of Work
32:05 - Bruce Faulconer’s Involvement In DBZ
34:24 - Cakemix Studio/Internets Effect On Bruce’s Studio
35:34 - Ben Not Knowing Gohan SSJ Is Goku’s SSJ Backwards
36:24 - Tying Gohan’s Music To Piccolo During The End Of Cell Saga
37:32 - Character Moments
38:30 - Going From Fighting Music To Silly Music Being Jarring/
41:45 - Ambient Pieces Being Easy To Edit/Transitions
43:45 - The Final Atonement Episode
46:15 - Emotional Scenes
48:15 - Mike, Scott And Julius’s Different Styles Of Composing
51:10 - SSJ3 Theme
52:46 - Julius’s Work On Editing On Outside DBZ
55:00 - Bittersweet Feeling Of DBZ Ending
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago