finding that lovely too!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEDX-2M7Qk
― xzanfar, Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
zero mentions of "one-winged angel" in this thread, which is a shame because it's truly batshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDD-iYkHBhc
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
an all-time classic transformed into stars of the lid's next album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3a8zqTzats
― dyl, Monday, 8 March 2021 08:11 (three years ago) link
Loop Hero has some really good SNES-chip music. there are like 8-12 different songs and they all rule
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 March 2021 08:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjAzHlmJ2l8
― eisimpleir (crüt), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:27 (two years ago) link
That was one of the first game soundtracks I bought on CD, but I never played the game
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 April 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
i might be mistaking this for SoM, but i believe there's a rom hack that lets you provide the soundtrack as WAV files and are played uninterrupted by the other sounds on the screen which constantly take away instruments from the soundtrack
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 2 April 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
a stone cold classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTdZedIqU98
― eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
koshiro is GOTY
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 14 May 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
Not sure where to post this, but I have this Cool Notes 12" and the synthesizer and overall vibe of this track have always made me think of some lost Japan-only import SNES game:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EOhMRtfYA
In fact, just playing it again reminded me of Hal's Hole in One Golf:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFVVlbwndI
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Monday, 27 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
The course zoom around at 0:50 is the jam
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Monday, 27 September 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
streets of rage ii is coming to switch online, so maybe i'll actually play the game after jamming the soundtrack for so long
banger, right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1ULTDTdiY
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 September 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/dragon-quest-composer-koichi-sugiyama-has-died-1847815597
disgusting politics notwithstanding, he was an unequivocally great and influential composer of game music. always loved this 8-bit samba from a Japan-exclusive FDS backgammon game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rIpXeRj9A
― missingNO, Thursday, 7 October 2021 08:01 (two years ago) link
Listening to all this stuff brings home why I love so much current Balearic revival stuff, and also fusiony things like Pat Metheny
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 7 October 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
Man, Mickey Mouse Castle Of Illusion had some pure bangers on it, especially towards the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzLd8p4mc0M
The Game Gear/Master System version also had some choice cuts. I wish there were versions of Spotify but I guess Disney would intervene
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 28 November 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
Posted a while ago about how the Hylics games have some of the most original visuals I've seen in recent times, soundtrack is great toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdwVwX1hWzAhttps://masonlindroth.bandcamp.com/album/moonage-lobotomy-a-hylics-2-musical-expansion
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3BQsCCwo8w
turn it up!!!
― aegis philbin (crüt), Saturday, 2 April 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
here's one I discovered via the Cardiacs Discord, not hard to figure out why it showed up there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UrsaKcZHI0
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
That was by Tim Follin, who was a wizard. I remember his 8-bit music on the ZX Spectrum, where he managed to play polyphonically with a one-note speaker by rapidly switching notes. He also did this, which is fantastic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
Of the games I've played more recently I remember liking FAR: Lone Sails, which is a little bit like Michael Nyman:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj98RoU4HSE
And also Gris, which is a much better game than I expected:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM3w76XbExY
And NaissanceE, which has its moments but the soundtrack is neatly done (it's made up of existing pieces):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlTPLyGfZI
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
thanks for those, I've been looking up Tim Follin videos and found this really good (and long) one which showcases a bunch of it. it also explains how he did it and why he was so ahead of everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC1dTzyb5Gs
the Pictionary one made me laugh out loud, it's so inappropriately intense.
I'm in awe of how good all this stuff is. very much on the Tim Smith/Tatsuya Yoshida/Gentle Giant level but with an added element of rave/techno music. the joke of course is that virtually every game he wound up doing sucked!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
also he was quite young when he made most of this - he was barely 20 when he did all that wild NES music!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Manabu Namiki - Sally (select) from 'Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu - Black Label' (2010)
Manabu Namiki - Vertex (Stage 1), same
― meisenfek, Saturday, 17 December 2022 10:27 (one year ago) link
i can't believe this is just a throwaway joke song for a fake bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKmt3oA7Vfg
love the MBV harmonies on the chorus
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
lol wtf, that is legit
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
currently I've been jamming the Silver Surfer title screen music a lot, like can you imagine hearing this come out of your NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNpSPt30uSA
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
that's wild, definitely have never heard the NES sound like that. doesn't surprise me that he came from the C64 scene, very remniscient of SID-tracker tunes
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
This is my favourite 'Final Fantasy' related track, totally immense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al1MOxgQGf4
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
hell yeah, there's a whole genre of lush Japanese pop music that sounds like that and I'm always looking for it
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
Me too, the apex is this and the 'Ghost In The Shell SAC' theme.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kuE-yEs5VM
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 January 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
WELP i just dug in a little bit and it turns out both the songs we posted were composed by Mitsuto Suzuki, that guy rules i guess
also looks like he did a shoegaze album with the vocalist from the kamekame track: https://www.discogs.com/release/15719043-Mojera-Overkill
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
That Plok track Frogbs posted is so wonderful.
Can't recall what thread this album was mentioned on but this guy is worth bringing up againhttps://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-diaspora
He has a youtube channel where he does cover versions of videogame tunes
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 January 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
this is gorgeoushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MygaMv5fVRY
― c u (crüt), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:18 (seven months ago) link
reminds me of this fav of minehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKwI4myq2dk
― ciderpress, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:45 (seven months ago) link
Very good
https://x.com/coney/status/1709597886470562029?s=46&t=ybWek2m57bcE72i3ldMsfA
― (the poster formerly known as Twitter) (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 9 October 2023 14:28 (five months ago) link
interestingly he also did the music for the snes version of this track... sounds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u55wZLBQPS4
ok beasley was going a little wild with the voice samples on this one. maybe he just didn't give a shit about the genesis version of the soundtrack, or maybe the emulation on the genesis version is off (that happens sometimes). anyway yeah it's not great but i've heard worse honestly lol
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:14 (five months ago) link
the Genesis uses FM synthesis which can make for some really harsh sounds. I think the SNES sound chip might be entirely sample-based?
― c u (crüt), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:47 (five months ago) link
yes it is, and a lot of the instrument samples in SNES games sacrificed their high-end when downsampled, which is why it comes across as muffled but less harsh than Genesis games. Kinda cool that some composers were able to figure out how to make the most of the two different consoles' limitations
― Vinnie, Monday, 9 October 2023 18:03 (five months ago) link
the genesis did have one PCM channel, which you can hear they used the voice samples for. idk why they sound so much worse than the SNES version though. i'm guessing a lower samplerate
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:18 (five months ago) link
Also the Game Boy Robocop title theme (as immortalized in "Dilbert 3") is surpirsingly well done for such a tossoff game― frogbs, Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:21 AM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:21 AM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Such a beautiful piece of music. "Dilbert 3" was my first encounter with it lol. It works perfectly there, but I wish I had heard in in its original context as a kid; seems like hearing it now would unlock some powerful nostalgia.
Also I'm willing to bet that the Game Boy Robocop theme is the primary musical inspiration for Oneohtrix Point Never's "No Nightmares" though I haven't seen confirmation of this.
― J. Sam, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:30 (five months ago) link
in the uk that music is famous for its inexplicable use in an ariston ad in the early '90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUVs7vXNZiw
and yeah the tech specs allowed for way better sample based playback on the snes than on the genesis/megadrive
basically my take is that the two systems had very different capabilities... you look at something like streets of rage 2, and that would've been a lot tougher to do on the snes. on the other hand, a lot of the RPG music, like final fantasy vi, that wouldn't have worked so well on the genesis/megadrive.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:30 (five months ago) link
There can be no worse music thatn Tazmania on the Game Gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQe4qcrwMKo
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 15:46 (five months ago) link
good call - it has a lot of the same chords doesn't it? and if anyone was gonna draw inspiration from an obscure Game Boy game...
― frogbs, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:07 (five months ago) link
This deep cut FromSoftware game called Evergrace has one of the wildest future-music soundtracks I've heard.
I've always wondered if Oneohtrix was familiar since it has some surprising overlaps with some of his more esoteric sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm17vgmh854
And just last night I discovered he featured a track from it on a BBC 6 playlist! Cool.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/djmix/oneohtrix-point-never/freak-zone-playlist.p/
― Travisssss, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
I should mentioned the Evergrace composer is Kota Hoshino.
He also did the sequel to Evergrace, Forever Kingdom. This is from 2001 and it sounds like an Animal Collective song.
This guy was on another level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjEhb0DLv3s
― Travisssss, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:51 (five months ago) link
damn, never heard of that before, like if jp massiera wrote PS2 video game soundtracks
today i'm nerding out on the adlib gold, a soundcard that was screwed by creative, maker of the soundblaster (creative and adlib got their fm synth chips from the same source, and that source had mysterious delays in making the new chips for the adlib gold)... so the company was bankrupt by the time it came out. basically the only adlib gold soundtrack anyone knows is stephane picq's "dune" soundtrack (not dune ii i don't think). anyway apparently in the korean demoscene people are writing songs for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBXhcTEKIuI
also somebody transferred stephane picq's soundtrack to "kgb" in 24/96 fidelity using an OPL3 card (the OPL3 is the FM synthesis chip on the Adlib Gold - the OPL2 is on most of the FM soundcards of the era), worth checking out for you hi-fi heads out there:
https://archive.org/details/picq96khzmasterskgbopl3
i like the kgb soundtrack better than the dune soundtrack myself so this is cool to have
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 13 October 2023 16:26 (five months ago) link
just clicking around on that link reveals a lot of great stuff, thanks for posting that. absolutely love this sound.
I know Stephane Picq from Megarace - perhaps the game itself was not great, but I loved the cutscenes, and the music was incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7JgalAgkjE
I was probably like...9 years old when I first heard this. had no clue about techno or electronica or anything else but this blew my tiny little head off
― frogbs, Friday, 13 October 2023 16:37 (five months ago) link
so here's an album of the works of russian composer nikolai kapustin arranged for chiptune
https://sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/album/staffcirc-vol-4-switched-on-kapustin
turns out kapustin has a certain notoriety for sounding like kirby music
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
ok wait _this_ is the worst video game music ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uifYj8Efaw
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 16 October 2023 00:34 (five months ago) link