05.09.12 | Audun Sorlie | Comment? David Saulesco has traveled far since his mid teens in the world of video games. Born and raised in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, the child of meatballs and Kalle’s caviar was raised in a musical family which had him bit by the music bug at an early age, and alongside his deep love for [...]
05.06.12 | Audun Sorlie | 2 Comments Daniel Brown is gearing up to a live broadcast of his Final Fantasy/Phantom of the Opera crossover project Final Phantom on Monday 7th at 9PM EST. For those who have not heard of it yet, Final Phantom is a showing of the 1925 public domain Phantom of the Opera motion picture back-dropped by a live [...]
05.05.12 | Audun Sorlie | 2 Comments Today, we talk to Jacob Diaz, the video game remixer who goes by the name Jakesnke17 and DjjD. He has been active on the Overclocked Remix scene for a little while now, creating catchy dance remixes of your favorite video game themes, and participated on some of the many projects the community continues to spew [...]
05.01.12 | Audun Sorlie | Comment? coda, one half of the retro-glorious unit yogurtbox, is ready to take on the world by himself with his new album, Tracer. The album promises over half an hour’s worth of chiptune prog-rock fusion, a familiar sound to those who follow the Ubiktune universe of releases. The artist has had previous success along with surasshu [...]
04.30.12 | Audun Sorlie | Comment? Since the summer of 2002, David Saulesco has climbed the ladder of success slowly but surely in his lifelong dream to work with video games and music. It was in that year that the then 16 year old composer was launched to indy fame and recognition with Derek Yu’s freeware masterpiece Eternal Daughter. Since then [...]
04.27.12 | Audun Sorlie | Comment? Ever wondered how Takenobu Mitsuyoshi has managed to look as young and fit as a 20 year old for his entire career? Well Dekoboko Gymnastics of course! The SEGA music veteran is these days doing promotion for the Dekoboko Motors activity, a LEGO inspired go-kart track for children that is presented at various arcades and [...]
04.23.12 | Audun Sorlie | Comment? It is only one week since Chris Hülsbeck’s Kickstarter project, the Turrican Soundtrack Anthology, was announced to the world. What was then, a hope and dream over a 2 month period to revisit the past, has now become a reality. In less than 7 days, the Kickstarter has reached over $50,000 of the $75,000 asked, [...]
04.16.12 | Audun Sorlie | 1 Comment At the end of the 1980s, the video game world had found itself many new heroes, rising to their iconic place in video game history through the joyous trip of their virtual worlds and stories, gaining love and recognition from all nations and ages. The gaming landscape had become a place filled with the most [...]
04.14.12 | Audun Sorlie | 1 Comment In 1991, game music maestro Koichi Sugiyama began his new concert series Orchestral Game Music Concert in his native Japan, allowing the unexplored potential of video game music to be fully realized as he employed the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra to perform a wide arrange of material. Sugiyama truly believed in game music as a [...]
04.02.12 | Audun Sorlie | 2 Comments On April 5th, the dead will rise, bringing the funk to town the way only classic game music can provide. The graves tremble in unrest, the electronic screams reaches further and the haunted sound that shall never be forgotten will fill the streets once again. OSV visited the tomb of the FM Synth, actually because [...]
03.28.12 | Audun Sorlie | 1 Comment With the release of Around Past in 2010, C-jeff along with Megus illustrated a fully realized vision of his blend using chiptune music combined with live instruments, a combination that has been done before, but not with the rather unique way in order to seemlessly craft a very expressive and organic soundscape that stands out [...]
03.27.12 | Audun Sorlie | 1 Comment Symphonic Fantasies set the benchmark for what a symphonic game music concert should be. On September 12th 2009, the audience were not only hearing their most beloved game music pieces performed by an orchestra, but transported into the world in which the games represented, with landscapes built on emotion and the memories in the hearts [...]