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Demoscene, Game Music
Beaterator: Humiliating Timbaland’s Son Since 2006
October 7, 2009 | David Hsu |
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For a man who claims to be the next Mozart, Timbaland seems to be unsuccessful in impressing his own progeny with his rhymes. But with lines like “Break it down, do somethin’/Somethin’ somethin’ somethin’ somethin’,” how can you lose? Beaterator, now out for the PSP and iPhone, is the long-awaited collaboration between the now Internet-infamous producer and Rockstar Games. And…
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Game Music
Confirmed: Touhou Fans Have No Life
August 9, 2009 | David Hsu |
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According to a recent post on Music Machinery, the artist on Last.fm with the highest plays-per-listener ratio, which the blogger dubs the “passion index,” is Team Shanghai Alice. Some of you may recognize TSA as the one-man development studio (he also goes by “ZUN”) behind the ridiculously popular Touhou Project doujinsoft series. Or if you’re not…
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Game Music
Bobby Prince Tells You To Eat Your Vegetables
April 13, 2009 | David Hsu |
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id Software co-founder John Romero recently posted this video on his blog Planet Romero, consisting of a brief tour through the id office, followed by pre-release footage of the original DOOM. About two minutes in, they sit down with id Software composer Bobby Prince, who demos a track he originally wrote for Keen Dreams, simulating a Blaze…
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Game Music
Video Games Live Pulls The Trigger: Chrono Medley Added to Repertoire
April 8, 2009 | David Hsu |
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If you’ve ever gone to Video Games Live, you might have gotten the vague feeling that something was amiss, namely the woeful absence of Yasunori Mitsuda’s name in the program notes. Fortunately that should no longer be a problem in future concerts, as Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall debuted their new Chrono segment with the…
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Game Music, Reviews
You Must Defeat (Sheng) Long Game Titles To Stand A Chance: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix OST (Review)
January 30, 2009 | David Hsu |
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This review started as a part of the “behind the scenes” post I wrote last month, but the article was beginning to get so massive that it threatened to collapse under its own weight and form a black hole of text, sucking the rest of the site into itself. Fortunately we realized this before it…
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Game Music
From Blood To Sweat: How OverClocked ReMix Scored Its First Gig
December 23, 2008 | David Hsu |
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There is no shortage of success stories in the video game music arrangement community. Just a few weeks ago we reviewed Beatdrop’s Burn Out EP, the title track of which is featured in Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3, following his success with “Until Forever” in Dance Dance Revolution Suprnova 2. Jill Goldin, aka “pixietricks,” worked…
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Indie Music, Reviews
Beatdrop Releases Sizzling New EP: Burn Out (Review)
November 28, 2008 | David Hsu |
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In the midst of his busy life sipping Mai Tais and wooing the local Hawaiian females, Dain Olsen (aka Beatdrop) still manages to find the time to compose and produce music. And quite a lot of it, in fact, with four full studio albums under his belt so far, not to mention the dozens of…
Demoscene, Game Music
Beaterator: Humiliating Timbaland’s Son Since 2006
For a man who claims to be the next Mozart, Timbaland seems to be unsuccessful in impressing his own progeny with his rhymes. But with lines like “Break it down, do somethin’/Somethin’ somethin’ somethin’ somethin’,” how can you lose? Beaterator, now out for the PSP and iPhone, is the long-awaited collaboration between the now Internet-infamous producer and Rockstar Games. And…
Game Music
Confirmed: Touhou Fans Have No Life
According to a recent post on Music Machinery, the artist on Last.fm with the highest plays-per-listener ratio, which the blogger dubs the “passion index,” is Team Shanghai Alice. Some of you may recognize TSA as the one-man development studio (he also goes by “ZUN”) behind the ridiculously popular Touhou Project doujinsoft series. Or if you’re not…
Game Music
Bobby Prince Tells You To Eat Your Vegetables
id Software co-founder John Romero recently posted this video on his blog Planet Romero, consisting of a brief tour through the id office, followed by pre-release footage of the original DOOM. About two minutes in, they sit down with id Software composer Bobby Prince, who demos a track he originally wrote for Keen Dreams, simulating a Blaze…
Game Music
Video Games Live Pulls The Trigger: Chrono Medley Added to Repertoire
If you’ve ever gone to Video Games Live, you might have gotten the vague feeling that something was amiss, namely the woeful absence of Yasunori Mitsuda’s name in the program notes. Fortunately that should no longer be a problem in future concerts, as Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall debuted their new Chrono segment with the…
Game Music, Reviews
You Must Defeat (Sheng) Long Game Titles To Stand A Chance: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix OST (Review)
This review started as a part of the “behind the scenes” post I wrote last month, but the article was beginning to get so massive that it threatened to collapse under its own weight and form a black hole of text, sucking the rest of the site into itself. Fortunately we realized this before it…
Game Music
From Blood To Sweat: How OverClocked ReMix Scored Its First Gig
There is no shortage of success stories in the video game music arrangement community. Just a few weeks ago we reviewed Beatdrop’s Burn Out EP, the title track of which is featured in Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3, following his success with “Until Forever” in Dance Dance Revolution Suprnova 2. Jill Goldin, aka “pixietricks,” worked…
Indie Music, Reviews
Beatdrop Releases Sizzling New EP: Burn Out (Review)
In the midst of his busy life sipping Mai Tais and wooing the local Hawaiian females, Dain Olsen (aka Beatdrop) still manages to find the time to compose and produce music. And quite a lot of it, in fact, with four full studio albums under his belt so far, not to mention the dozens of…
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