#128 - Ben Kasparek Interview (DBZ, Editing, Bruce Faulconer, 9/11, Pikkon Theme Cell Saga etc.)

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

 

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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