Michiel van den Bos

Michiel van den Bos (born 23 May 1975), is a Dutch musician and electronic composer. He attended the former Caland Lyceum in Rotterdam. He worked full time at a games store and a DVD/Laserdisc store, while overcoming the limitations of Impulse Tracker, to make soundtracks for Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Age of Wonders based on textual map descriptions.

2000s Van den Bos composed four tracks for the original Deus Ex of Ion Storm CD with the Impulse Tracker in 2000.

2010s In 2012, Van den Bos collaborated with other composers for One Big Album, a charity album, of which 80% of the proceeds were evenly donated between Starlight Children's Foundation and Save the Children. Subsequently, he scored music for various mobile games. Most notable are Hardlight's Sonic Jump, Sonic Dash and Sonic Jump Fever

2020s In 2020, Van den Bos collaborated with Alex Brandon to reimagine iconic songs of Deus Ex for the album Conspiravision: Deus Ex Remixed to celebrate the 20th anniversary. Van den Bos made the full OST of Age of Wonders 4 which released in 2023. In 2023, Van den Bos crafted the music for mobile game Sonic Dream Team. On 15 May 2023, Van den Bos released a composed and mixed lo-fi soundtrack called Age of Wonders 4 LoFi Fantasy which includes a few AoW 1 and 3 songs. Van den Bos made soundtracks for the AoW 4 expansions: Empires & Ashes (November 2023), and Eldritch Realms (June 2024).

Musical style and influences Van den Bos' musical style is primarily energetic electronica, natural orchestral and soundscapes.

Van den Bos' greatest musical influences are John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, LTJ Bukem;

Van den Bos is also an indie/alternative DJ with the alias Mike Boss. 2014 Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux Deus Ex: Revision 2015 Microsoft Windows Voidrunner 2017 Microsoft Windows Age of Wonders: Planetfall 2020 Microsoft Windows Age of Wonders 4 2023 PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S