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
this beat samples shinobi 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFojwKDp9k
― Bstep, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
lol my bad i meant this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nry2KXKr1OI&feature=emb_title
― Bstep, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHTCpCthFns
― Bstep, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
Hirosato Noda - prelude (Final Fantasy X OST)reworked dance/hip-wiggling version that has been already mentioned in this thread, i'm sure
resent rendition of the FF Prelude Theme by three (?) presumably japanese girls on a huge Xylophon(?)
Yū Miyake - kitsch (Tekken 4 OST)jazzy fun loop; vocal parts sound like an electrified version of Manhattan Transfer
Yasunori Mitsuda - 風が呼ぶ、蒼穹のシェバト Xenogears OST Revival Disc - the first and the last', Track 31.Arranged version that oozes with influence from those big 70's TV score composers like Bill Goldenberg. But maybe it's just me.
Chill & Zelda - dark world (Mikel Lofi Remix)Ian Taylor - sea shanty 2, Runescape OSTOSRSBeatz - sea shanty 2 (Trap Remix), Soundcloud still & again popular banger on twitch.tv gamer streams; helps rng in different games
― meisenfek, Monday, 27 July 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
that last one reminds me of this banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxSO9jbYF0
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
Final Fantasy XIV - Exponential Entropy (Alexander: Cruise Chaser's Theme) by Masayoshi Soken
Forward and back and then forward and back And then go forward and back, then put one foot forward (x2) Transcendental minds unleashed Exponential entropy Forward and back and then forward and back And then go forward and back, then put one foot forward (x8)
Transcendental minds unleashed Exponential entropy
Forward and back and then forward and back And then go forward and back, then put one foot forward (x8)
(crossposted to hoover tunes: what are the essentials )
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Terraria - underground (by Scott Lloyd Shelly)
Description: It's a fast and whimsical track, with an almost robotic tone.
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Runescape 07 - Book of Spells (Trap Remix)
RING THE BELLS @ 1:50.
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
yuzo koshiro's ys soundtrack is one of my alltime favorites. my partner said this one sounded like the pet shop boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELuvkU32Lg
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
the ff14 soundtrack is astonishing. i played a lot of hours of that game and there's still a zillion tunes i've never heard, including that one.
― adam, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
https://grahamdunning.com/portfolio/panopticon/
"‘Half-Life’, all in-game sounds replaced with samples from 90s rave tracks and sample CDs."
― adam, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Not sure if anyone has mentioned Quest Master yet but found it on bandcamp recently and am kind of blown away. It's a Dungeon Synth "love letter to the RPG's of the 1990's". All 3 albums have been pretty fun. This is the latest: https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/album/the-twelve-castles-3
― gman59, Friday, 11 September 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Kamil Orman Janowski - Shaper's Realm (OST Path Of Exile - Atlas Of The Worlds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LPRZ3c44w
I listened to this a lot, A LOT of times looping ingame for hours. And it still grows and makes me wanna pee.
― meisenfek, Friday, 25 September 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
Short interview and performance by the Panzer Dragoon musicianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYGU3PWuc1I
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
She (Saori Kobayashi) and Yoko Kanno. That makes two female computer game composers i know.
― meisenfek, Friday, 16 October 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
Pascal Michael Stiefel - scootin' through clocktowers beneath the sea (A Hat In Time OST)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CtDTVDg0Cs
― meisenfek, Friday, 16 October 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Michiru Yamane is pretty famous.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 16 October 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
good stuff herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Thursday, 12 November 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
err, that was supposed to be a link to a youtube channel but apparently ILX thought it was a video URL
link
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Thursday, 12 November 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
mentioned it in the console games poll but the thread blew right by it lol
the "highway star" meets jean-luc ponty "mute city" song from f-zero x is one of the all-time video game bangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXHcZZcbFA
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Actually, I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon listening to the F-Zero X OST thanks to your post--it shreds wayy harder than I remembered. Some of the tracks are like straight-up death metal w cookie monster vox and everything
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
e.g.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWQEy0n6lg
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REdRAlPysSU
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
omg i totally forgot about devil's forest
the 8-bit version of "mute city" shreds, obviously, but doesn't have the garish grandiosity of the orchestrated version
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
a friend of mine has done a radio show about video game music: https://www.mixcloud.com/pete_forsaken/forsaken-on-sub-fm-201400815/
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
F-Zero OST > F-Zero X OST, but I might be biased, the commentator on X is just too irritating
Devil's Forest is crazy haha
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
another banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1cZs95kYE
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
give the drummer some!
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
Yeah Big Blue was my jam from this game
― Vinnie, Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
lol you can buy the soundtrack on cd from discogs for the low-low price of one thousand and thirty three dollars
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 November 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Taro-Bando-F-Zero-X-Original-Sound-Track/release/2158441
you know a fight's about to get real when this starts playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB-xej4GFc
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 November 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3g0Ts60220
― pomenitul, Friday, 13 November 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyBn3x0zCc
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
some serious waking the witch vibes on this track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYbU2D4wgM
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
The soundtrack to Hades is great and I just nominated it in the heavy music thread. I've been thinking a lot about game music lately because of it. I also got a Switch and started playing some older titles on their NES/SNES apps and remembered how much I love the Donkey Kong Country music. Mario 2 also has great music. Just bookmarked this thread and am going to check out a lot of new (to me) stuff.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
this existshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhcKp2XAhs
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
this game and OST is goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuOkxllZpc
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
this is pretty goodhttps://leyawn.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-bird-world
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
This one is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRvYkrrpMKo
― Evan, Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link