Journal

These are some of the top-rated news stories on videogame music posted to the Nobuooo website during the month of October 2008.

Video

Nobuooo 10.08 Update

The Nobuooo video update returns to its multi-narrator format. This time we hear from Larry Liontamer Oji on Street Fighter II HD Remix, Kenley of Into the Score on Shadow of the Collosus, Dekunology on Hyadain and Nico Nico Douga, and Jeriaska on Final Fantasy Remix and Siren Blood Curse.

http://nobuooo.com/item/4831

News

Qu'ran references on LittleBigPlanet BGM force worldwide recall

Sony has confirmed that it is delaying the release of LittleBigPlanet and recalling the game from retailers worldwide because it has identified "two expressions that can be found in the Qu'ran" in one of the background songs.

http://nobuooo.com/item/4876

A Sense of Fun: Anybody Could Be Your Player 1

In an impassioned opinion piece, recently published in Game Developer magazine…

soundtrack ist ein weit fassender Begriff. Meistens taucht er im Zusammenhang mit Filmmusik auf. Markante Titel aus guten Filmen einfach mal ohne dazu gehörige Bilder zu genießen lohnt sich immer wieder. Es ruft die Bilder sowieso mehr oder weniger bewusst ins Gedächtnis (Je besser die Musik, desto unbewusster geschieht es ;) ).
Neben Filmen gibt es jedoch auch noch die Spiele-Soundtracks. Was wären neue und ältere Spiele ohne ihre musikalische Untermalung. Ob Konsole oder PC, ob Jump'n'Run, Action-Adventure oder Shoot'em'Up, die Soundtracks solcher Spiele zu hören (gerade älterer Spiele wie z.B. Mario, etc) ruft Erinnerungen an alte Zeiten wach. :)

Favoriten Spiele-Soundtracks
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII - X-2 Koji Kondo - Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Kart 64Matt Uelmen - Diablo IIZUN - Perfect Cherry Blossom (Touhou games)Yuzo Koshiro - Act RaiserYumiko Kameya & Naoto Ishida - F-ZeroMasanori Adachi & Taro Kodou - Super Castlevania IVTed Follin & Geoff Follin - Plok
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Wed 23 Apr – PLAY! A Video Game Symphony "Recording Concert"

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 - the day that will go down in history as the day PLAY! A Video Game Symphony blessed this little backwater country in the heart of Europe with it's presence. It took a few days for the whole experience to soak in but here I am with my random thoughts on this fantastic evening.

Two weeks prior to the concert one of my friends stumbled upon an annoucement on a game site saying PLAY! would be performing in the famous Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum here in my hometown and that they'd be recording the whole thing for a CD / DVD release for the first time. The concert was to be performed by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Kuehn's mixed choir and conducted by Grammy Award-winning artist Arnie Roth. I knew immediately that I had to be there.

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While it doesn't quite show in my charts I have always loved video game soundtracks, one of the coolest things about them is they will get me listening to things I'd never think to check out otherwise. Anyway in tribute to them I feel like geeking out and writing a journal about some of my fave tracks that no one will read.


Metal gear Solid 3
Snake Eater - Cynthia Harrell

Konami decide to send MGS back to the sixties, so what they do? Why they only give it a very awesome Bond-esk theme. Even if I do still think Snake eater was an absolutely dreadful sub-title.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlcEe2VGkg

Killer 7
Rave On - Masafumi Takada
This is nothing like what I'd normally listen to. My mind struggles to cope with the fact I like a track entitled "Rave On" but no I do. In the game I hung around in the room where it played just to listen.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi-CxR-a2o


Portal
Still Alive - Jonathan Coulton (vocals Ellen Mclain)

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This is now a regular feature! The last one was "Another Retrospective" (http://www.last.fm/user/Gnac/journal/2006/12/31/302256/).
This one has had more effort put in.

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Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique
Ah yes, what better way to start a rundown of this year's notable albums than with a disappointment. Apparently this is too dark for me. It's not boring at all, no. Each track is totally unique, fresh and exciting.
I can't even pick out a single standout track here, so let's leave it at that.

Standout tracks: feh.


Aesop Rock

None Shall Pass
Ace is one of the few Hip-hop artists keeping the genre alive for me, which is some feat considering that it died over a decade ago. I was going to have a segue here about how the video for Coffee ties in well with this, but actually, it doesn't. But it is one of the many fine tracks on offer here! 39 Thieves reminds me of how much fellow Def Jux stablemate Mr. Lif needs to get back on track.

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So I guess I score 114/160 for having extensive taste.

Get your own taste results here.

"The script lists the users top 20 overall artists and lists the 8 most similar artists to each one, then delete's any repeated artists.

The idea is to see how varied your taste is, a score of 9 is extremely unvaried while 160 represents an extremely varied one."

So heres mine:

1: Fear Factory
2: Machine Head
3: Sepultura
4: Soulfly
5: Static-X
6: Chimaira
7: In Flames
8: Pantera
9: Slayer
10: Pitchshifter
11: KMFDM
12: Ministry
13: One Minute Silence
14: Spineshank
15: Gravity Kills
16: Nine Inch Nails
17: Nirvana
18: Red Hot Chili Peppers
19: Green Day
20: Foo Fighters
21: The White Stripes
22: Radiohead
23: Metallica
24: System of a Down
25: Led Zeppelin
26: Motorhead
27: Black Sabbath
28: Iron Maiden
29: Judas Priest
30: Megadeth
31: AC/DC
32: Children of Bodom
33: Killswitch Engage
34: Trivium
35: Anal Cunt
36: Napalm Death
37: Agoraphobic Nosebleed
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Wed 23 Aug – Viertes symphonisches Spielemusikkonzert

Dirigent: Maestro Andy Brick
Orchester: FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague und Chor
Künstler: Daniela Kosinova (Klavier, Orgel) und Michiru Yamane (Cembalo)
Ort: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Datum: 23. August 2006

Titelliste (Spiel- und Musiktitel):

1. Official Opening Fanfare - Games Convention 2006
2. ANNO 1701 - Suite
3. BLACK - Main Theme (Reprise)
4. Sonic The Hedgehog - Suite (Masato Nakamura)
5. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - Suite (Leon Willett)
6. Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad (Nobuo Uematsu)
7. Gothic 3 - Suite (Kai Rosenkranz)
8. The Revenge of Shinobi - Suite (Yuzo Koshiro)
9. The Legend of Zelda - The Legend of Zelda Theme (Koji Kondo)
10. Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night - Wood Carving Partita (Michiru Yamane)
11. Castlevania - Suite (Club Kukeiha)
12. Shadow of the Colossus - Epilogue - Those Who Remain (Kō Ōtani)
13. Turrican 3 - Suite (Chris Hülsbeck)
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Mylo's Destroy Rock And Roll didn't really click with me the first few times I heard it. I didn't really think too much of the title track, and it just fell by the wayside.

Then, Emotion 98.6 just came up in rotation, and I can't remember ever falling in love with a track so fast.

It's the sort of music that reminds me of the good ol' 16 bit days... this song would feel right at home as the ending credits roll for a Genesis game. The arrangement and melodies are just beautiful, it's just a nice track to listen to when you feel like sticking your head on the clouds. It's a head bopping, toe tapping, ease off the throttle and just cruise along kind of song.

Guilty Of Love is also a somewhat similar track, with the chorus being very reminiscent of the work of Yuzo Koshiro.