These games were made without Anderson's involvement and featured licensed music from musical acts such as The Upsetters and Harry J All Stars. During GTA 2's development, DMA Design's publisher Rockstar had its Canadian studio Rockstar Toronto make two London-based expansions for the original game: GTA London 1961 and GTA London 1969. In between GTA and GTA 2 there was a noticeable change in attitude towards the radio, with the studio willing to invest more in the idea.

Though this was fine for the first game, after Grand Theft Auto released and the radio feature proved an overwhelming success with fans, that idea wouldn't last. All of these were made up of entirely original compositions from DMA's musicians, with Anderson deciding to make the absence of licensed music a core tenet of the series. Grand Theft Auto featured seven radio stations in total, with stations divided into hip hop, funk, pop, rock, country, house, and drum 'n' bass. 'We could do pretty much anything we wanted to over there, so a lot of experimentation happened because of that.' The additional time also gave them the chance to win over the rest of the team, too. 'It was out of sight, out of mind,' says Anderson. The ideas for advertisements and radio DJs both sprung from those broom closet brainstorming sessions, though neither appeared until the sequel due to memory and budget issues. But it took a long time after thatвЂ¦ We had to start with, how would a radio station work in that world? And that's when I realized-it would work even better if we put them in the cars.' 'Seeing him say 'That would work, that would be really cool,' that was the moment. 'It was when I said 'If only we could get radio stations in it'-it was his reaction,' Anderson explains.

To unify the various genres into something coherent and save the tracks, Anderson suggested separating them by genre and creating different radio stations for each style of music. Conner had been developing demos for the game in a wide-range of musical genres and Anderson knew that they would likely need to scrap two-thirds of them when they settled on a singular style. A member of the sound department at DMA Design (Grand Theft Auto's original developers), Anderson came up with the idea when speaking to Craig Conner, a musician working on the first GTA. I had this idea of creating almost like a mini-Motown Records here in Dundee Colin AndersonД¬olin Anderson is the person you have to thank for bringing radio to Grand Theft Auto.

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