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C&C Red Alert... pretty awesomely matched to the game
Perhaps I can interest you in this live performance of Command & Conquer songs by the original composer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJClbTrY0VE
Best video game soundtracks, I feel: Persona 3/4/5, Nier Automata, Jet Set Radio Future, Katamari Damacy, Final Fantasy Tactics / Radiant Silvergun (same composer, very similar). I listen to several others but I keep coming back to these. Really surprised Nier didn't get a mention, as they do some cool experimental stuff with it.
To pile on: LA Noire, Deus Ex (whole series), Red Strings Club, Minecraft's full release album by C148, Myst/Obduction (thanks Robyn Miller), pre-emptively Star Citizen (what has been released already is excellent) But also, so many indie games. We are in a golden age for game soundtracks.
I found this article nigh impossible to get through with it's weird scrolling and transitions. I had to give up. I listen to Video Game music while I work. Mostly via rainwave.cc [0] or OCRemix Albums [1]. It's pretty much the only non-vocal music I can tolerate for longer periods of time that don't bore me, but help me maintain focus and block out externalities. The Final Fantasy soundtracks and their similar epic A…
If you haven't seen these rock covers on YouTube, you might enjoy them: https://www.youtube.com/user/BurningIdolmusic/videos
I found this article nigh impossible to get through with it's weird scrolling and transitions. I had to give up. I listen to Video Game music while I work. Mostly via rainwave.cc [0] or OCRemix Albums [1]. It's pretty much the only non-vocal music I can tolerate for longer periods of time that don't bore me, but help me maintain focus and block out externalities. The Final Fantasy soundtracks and their similar epic A…
Donkey Kong does have some of the best music I've heard in video games. If you haven't seen these rock covers on YouTube, you might enjoy them: https://www.youtube.com/user/BurningIdolmusic/videos
Have you heard PPF's or SmoothMcGroove's DK covers (or really any of their VG music covers)? PPF tries to exactly reproduce every channel in the original MIDIs with real instruments (and often jerry rigged contraptions), smooth mcgroove does all the channels acapella. Pretty amazing variety.
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When I was a kid, I would load up many of the C64 games just for the title screens & leave the music playing. Favourite ones were: turbo outrun, the last ninja. Good old times! LOAD "*",8,1
I used to work with Ben Daglish, the composer of the Last Ninja tune I think. He was a programmer, but mainly did it to make money so he could make music... his real passion. Funny guy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Daglish
Ben Daglish Remembered: Wastelands loader (Underworld, 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj6Amy1Bmeo
He is also in the "From Bedrooms to Billions" documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRsLOUYL3mk
EDIT: he wasn't just funny, I remember him as a very positive spirited guy.
Yes, the brief commentary between tracks is in French — but music still is front and center.
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I used to work with Ben Daglish, the composer of the Last Ninja tune I think. He was a programmer, but mainly did it to make money so he could make music... his real passion. Funny guy...
Just found out he passed away - this sucks - way too young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Daglish Ben Daglish Remembered: Wastelands loader (Underworld, 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj6Amy1Bmeo He is also in the "From Bedrooms to Billions" documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRsLOUYL3mk EDIT: he wasn't just funny, I remember him as a very positive spirited guy.
May his music live on. RIP.
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completely agree, this would have been much nicer if it was simpler. The scrolling and transitions makes it kinda impossible to follow through for me too.
As a counterpoint, I very much enjoyed the presentation and felt the transitions were well done. I also enjoyed the example videos.
I grew up with a C64 and a big part of the charm, for me, was the sound chip and the noises/music it made. I can understand why that chip has such a cult following. Back then, when we had nowhere near the fidelity in graphics that we have today, these basic sound chips were used to add a lot of character to those early games. Today you have high profile composers like Hans Zimmer doing work for video games and everyt…