yeah, this is lovely; thanks for reminding me to finally try it
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
listening to Jun Chikuma's soundtrack for Bomberman Hero, and it's really fun -- smooth drum & bass with some spacey, sci-fi leads that give it retro-futuristic feel. Probably fans of Pizzicato 5 would like it, but what I'm loving about these game soundtracks is that since they don't have to work as club bangers necessarily, they can focus on melodic themes, and be over without the need to open up for lengthy breakdowns. Basically, bite size 90s electronica that sounds like cartoon aliens made it
― Dominique, Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
yes that soundtrack is so relaxing!
― clouds, Sunday, 2 July 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
love the weirdo garbled pop songs in splatoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggaAg_SXHCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFG6770beMc
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
'Sorcerian', an awesome action RPG from the early 90s (PC), had excellent music. So did SEGA's beat-'em-up 'Streets of Rage II'. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out, years later, that the same guy was behind both (Yuzo Koshiro).
Another 90s RPG with excellent music: 'Darklands'. Great matching of mediëval melodies with original themes.
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
yeah Yuzo is a god. i recently bought the Revenge of Shinobi soundtrack on vinyl and it is so sick.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
that yamaha ym2612 in the genesis made some beautiful sounds
― adam, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Tid2htBlE
The lyrics are a problem but god DAMN this is a catchy tune.
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
I think this stuff by Carsten Bohn's Bandstand was originally written for German radio plays but was also used as loading music for some Atari 8-bit games.
The code would be on one channel and the music in the other would play through to the output while the game loaded. This means they were mono tracks so the stereo mix here has been reconstructed from two different game tapes and you can hear the code towards the end of the clip.
https://youtu.be/mpcBmyWa4DE
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
thinkin about this tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlkO3OJhjYE
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 05:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj6q2rMcz3s
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 August 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWiyrOvJbXc
― ciderpress, Monday, 13 August 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvBla5NUlvk
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3egbaw-VK4
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbBCBM2tluc
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 August 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/09/19/legendary-composer-nobuo-uematsu-ceases-work-due-to-health-issues
― crüt, Thursday, 20 September 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
I saw that, it sucks, I hope he gets to relax. Splatoon 2’s music is infectious
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 September 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
I have not played the game but the Sonic Mania OST is really great, really feels like it was beamed in from Sega's late 90s heyday. Probably even better than the original tracks really. Thank you RYM
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
I liked the New Jack Swing track on that.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
I recently replayed Icewind Dale and found the soundtrack to be as integral to the experience as ever.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
speaking of great Sega music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWnzfA9AqrA
I have probably watched this video like 30 times. how can you not love it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42pszbJgRGE
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
silent hill soundtracks 1-3 absolutely the best music ive heard in games, aside from castlevania
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
Agreed on the Silent Hill soundtracks. Wish _Silent Hills_ hadn't been cancelled.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
Loved the beach tune from the latest Yakuza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWd-8sjLx0
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 October 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link
thanks for that daytona vid; it's pretty magical
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 October 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
(COME ON!)
― mick signals, Sunday, 21 October 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
listened to some sega tunes from the early 2000s today, particularly a few on the gamecube that apparently all shared a composer, hidenori shoji. the super monkey ball soundtracks certainly had their share of clunky, forgettable filler, but when they hit, they hit. love the bright, airy house tracks that appear here-n-there, and some of the more aggressive, mechanical-sounding stuff is pretty good too. the second game in the series had the better soundtrack imo, certainly with more highlights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5bUpJ5mGoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2rP5GFwcaw
f-zero gx's soundtrack, despite having a decent amount of synthesized hard-rock shite, was probably the most noteworthy out of all these. one of the really amazing, immersive features about it was how many tracks would seamlessly leap to a new level of intensity as soon as you reached the final lap of the race. i adore this one in particular: the final-lap transition comes in around the last 50 seconds of the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De7XH0sVcbg
(yeah i know f-zero is a nintendo property but that particular entry in the series was developed by a division of sega)
― dyl, Sunday, 21 April 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
sorry, you invoked f-zero gx & music so now i have to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M8XeFEHRCI
― ciderpress, Sunday, 21 April 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
f-zeeeero, f-zeeeero
― dyl, Sunday, 21 April 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
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― meisenfek, Friday, 26 April 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
I just finished replaying Final Fantasy III on the SNES and want to give a shout out to Kefka's theme, possibly the greatest expository piece of video game music ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O11KHKlGxmM
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
the practice of running out a character's theme song every time they make an entrance is classic and not enough rpgs have stuck with it
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
i thought this was a really good analysis of "dancing mad" and its relation to kefka's theme
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRHyH824KIM
― oder doch?, Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
that soundtrack slaps
― clouds, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
A lot of Final Fantasy soundtracks are now up on streaming services
― Duane Barry, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
thanks for that; though you may have to apologize to my partner when she gets tired of me blaring FF7 all day
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrPYGSm2YsM
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 9 June 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
before i make this putt, let me first listen to "birdie try"
*2:02 passes*
he sinks it!
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Sunday, 9 June 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about Kefka's theme just the other day and I love how it starts off a little cheeky, a little scampery and mischievous before taking a darker turn. You're right Crut.
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
Think I posted this on another thread, but this is a playlist of SNES and Ghibli-ish soundtrack music I use as concentration music quite a lot https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1LArAWIwZLQmH7tnhS0ZnO?si=UKft3l8PTZiBacpn6UZA5A
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
age of mythology had a v legendary soundtrack. tenchu another classic
― ogmor, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
Almost every song from Mystical Ninja/Goemon [N64 again] is a dead set classic.― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:45 PM (fifteen years ago)
this game is insane in all the best possible ways! and the music is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kjYyI5b_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXGvrleGSeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-t9y0Hcp5U
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 22 November 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
i came across summer carnival '92 a couple weeks ago and was pretty blown away. it's late in the famicom lifecycle but this shit is still being done on a famicom. i mean, i've heard the VRC6 Akumajou Densetsu and even the VRC7 used on Lagrange Point (such a good sound chip it sounds as good as the Sega Master System's built-in sound chip!), but this song is on a completely different level. the whole game is basically a crazy technical masterpiece. hats off to you, noboyuki shioda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJZ0QCKqhRA
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 22 November 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
that is awesome, thanks!
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 22 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
A detailed old article about C64 music and composing, put together by Karen Collins:
"Loops and bloops": Music of the Commodore 64 games (2006)- http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME08/Loops_and_bloops.shtml
"Some composers were adventurous with the coding, and included random number generators into the code which would select from a group of loop options, something not seen on the NES. For instance, Times of Lore (Martin Galway, Microprose 1988) used a selection of guitar solos that were randomly selected for the eleven-minute duration of the song. In this way, the game's ten songs — over thirty minutes of music — could fit into just 923 bytes, and sound a lot more varied than it was. [16] A similar random generation was used in California Games (Epyx, 1987), and in Rock Star Ate My Hamster (CodeMasters, 1988), a rock management game which has the band practicing, with a tune which picks from a random combination of sixteen sequences, intentionally out of tune but improving as the band practices (Figure 5)." - (Soundscapes.info)http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME08/IMAGES/Loops_and_bloops06.JPG
Something that would also have fitted in 'chip music' : the new punk. / Music made from computer game sounds - a nice track by Linus Åkesson that was first posted by Camaraderie:
Lunus Sakesson's 256 byte(!) Commodore 64 demo "A Mind Is Born"Explanation: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 10:52 PM bookmarkflaglink
[From the video description]"A tiny demo for the Commodore 64. 1st place in the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017.(Yep, what you hear and see is generated by a program that is no larger than 256 bytes.)Kudos to Lemming for the video capture!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 29 December 2019 09:50 (four years ago) link
that was one of my favorite songs from that year!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
that's really great
― dyl, Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Seems like Mega Man 2 - Wiley Stage 4 is considered the worst music of the game because it just cycles four notes through all twelve keys (which I guess is lazy composition?), but it was one of my favorites as a kid. Creepy and tense, relentlessly cycling upward.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link