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Harry Gregson Williams's work on Metal Gear Solid 2 can reliably give me goosebumps. It even works on people who have no idea it's from a game.
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…
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
He was a programmer, but mainly did it to make money so he could make music... his real passion.
Funny guy...
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.
It’s been a few years, but I went to several of the early Video Games Live concerts and liked seeing this music celebrated.
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…
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.
David Wise and his Donkey Kong Country tracks are really something else as far as ambient music goes.
[1] https://open.spotify.com/user/115694390/playlist/6nfksYi3hJx...