Arkadiusz Reikowski

• Game Music, Indie Music

  Indie Game Steel Rats Original Soundtrack Now Available

  November 14, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Indie Game Steel Rats Original Soundtrack Now Available Share this Indie Game Steel Rats Original Soundtrack Now Available

  

  The new indie game by Tate Multimedia, Steel Rats, recently released to Steam and consoles with positive reviews. Playing in a arcade-like 2.5D retro-future environment, the game is beating Devil May Cry 5 to the punch of motorcycle combat as you wreak havoc with the ultimate killing machine; your flame spewing, saw bladed bike. Given it’s almost cyber-punk aesthetics, composer Arkadiusz Reikowski was brought in to help to contribute to the atmosphere with a synth-heavy soundtrack.

  Arkadiusz Reikowski, who has a knack with bringing out a certain flavor of aesthetics to the music of his past game works Layers of Fear and Kholat, continues with Steel Rats. Invoking a bit of a John Carpenter/Vangelis vibe with the soundtrack, Reikowski creates a synthwave soundscape that compliments the backdrop of futuristic robot-slaying.

  
  

  Spanning 18 tracks, the game’s soundtrack offers an enjoyable retro sci-fi feel upon previewing it. The Steel Rats Original Soundtrack is currently available on Bandcamp and as DLC content on Steam.

• Experimental, Game Music

  Listen to Vocalist Emi Evans Sing on My Brother Rabbit OST

  September 28, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | 1 Comment Share this Listen to Vocalist Emi Evans Sing on My Brother Rabbit OST

  

  Vocalist Emi Evans has been spreading her talents since her work on Dark Souls and Nier:Automata. She’s provided her vox for the soundtrack to the puzzle adventure game My Brother Rabbit that was released September 21st. Composed by Polish musician Arkadiusz Reikowski, My Brother Rabbit tells the tale of young siblings invoking a fantastic universe filled with bizarre objects and wonderful creatures to deal with the harsh realities befalling them in real life (and the game’s whimsical cover looks like something released by The Birthday Massacre).

  “Because there are no voiceovers in the game, we knew from the very beginning of the project that the audio and music is going to be of the utmost importance, practically a separate layer of the game world. One of the greatest highlights of the score is the performance of a very famous singer, and my friend, Emi Evans.” – Arkadiusz Reikowski, Composer

  “When I read the story about My Brother Rabbit it really connected with me. I spent lots of my childhood making up imaginary games, and the piece composed by Arkadiusz is really haunting, but also simple in the most wonderful way possible.” –  Emi Evans, Vocalist

  Last month, Arkadiusz traveled to London to meet Emi and recap the project that was captured in the documentary, which you can watch on Youtube.

  My Brother Rabbit is available now on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The song “Dreams”, which features Evan’s vocals, is available for free on Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Youtube, soon on Spotify and iTunes

   

   

• Game Music

  Turn That Frown Upside Down: Sadness “Soundtrack” Released

  April 4, 2010 | Audun Sorlie | 8 Comments Share this Turn That Frown Upside Down: Sadness “Soundtrack” Released

  

  If you’re not familiar with Sadness, let’s do a short recap. When Nintendo announced their next console, then titled Revolution, a small Polish company named Nibris announced they were working on a new psychological horror game named Sadness. Nibris, who described themselves as being situated in the city of Krakow where East meets West (which sounds like a slogan for an anime convention where fat people cosplay), announced that Sadness would take place in Eastern Europe and be completely in black and white. This helped it gain some attention, and as Revolution turned into Wii, Nibris even released a live action teaser, showing no gameplay whatsoever. From here it all went downhill.

  If the rest of that story interests you, N-Europe interviewed a staff member who revealed that all they did over the course of 4 years was create a 3D mining cart. And now another employee has come forth and voiced his frustration, this time the sound composer. His name is Arkadiusz Reikowski and he notes that that all these songs are works in progress, but his intention was to blend the styles of Akira Yamaoka and Hitomi Shimizu while keeping his own style. Apparently he also recorded some voice work, but the project went nowhere and therefore he decided to release the music.

  The tracks can be downloaded here. At least the music isn’t as fake as the game turned out to be.

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