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Doujin, Game Music

Slumber with Strength with Prescription for Sleep: Fight for Your Dreams

October 4, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Slumber with Strength with Prescription for Sleep: Fight for Your Dreams Share this

Scarlet Moon Records, Norihiko Hibino (Metal Gear Solid) and AYAKI (Eterian Odyssey) are at it again with yet another Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies. After producing several albums based around video game music to help sooth you into relaxation, the team now brings it’s newest iteration: Fight for your Dreams.

Fight for your Dreams centers itself around battle themes and boss music from both video games and other popular media, all spun into a jazzy and smooth sequence of music tracks that will help ease your tension for the rigors of every-day life. Battle Themes from Undertale, Mega Man 2, Super Metroid and more are given the GENTLE LOVE touch of Hibino and AYAKI.

<a href="http://scarletmoonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prescription-for-sleep-fight-for-your-dreams">Prescription for Sleep: Fight for Your Dreams by GENTLE LOVE</a>

I’ve been wanting to create a volume dedicated to battle music for quite some time. I’ve been trying to increase the challenge factor with each installment of the series, and what better way to challenge Hibino-san and AYAKI than by taking some of the most intense music from videogames and having them transformed into lullabies? I thought it would be a unique way to celebrate the Halloween season. We hope you enjoy it! – Jayson Napolitano, Scarlet Moon Records producer

Fight for your Dreams is currently on pre-order through Bandcamp for $10 and will be fully released on October 10th. You can check out more of the Game Music Lullabies albums on the Scarlet Moon Records website. (Personally, I am really looking forward to that “Autobots vs. Decepticons” theme from the 1985 Transformers movie.)
Doujin, Game Music

Dark Electronica Super Metroid Album Released by Ghastly Ghost

May 3, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Dark Electronica Super Metroid Album Released by Ghastly Ghost Share this

If you’re jonsing for a taste of Super Metroid music on the heavier electronic side, artist Ghastly Ghost has released a new remix album dedicated to the game.

<a href="http://ghastlygh0st.bandcamp.com/album/super-metroid-ost-remixes">Super Metroid OST Remixes by Ghastly Ghost</a>

Hailing from Salem, MA, Ghastly Ghost puts a house trance-like spin on classic Super Metroid fans are familiar with. Those who enjoy dancable eletronica can check out the 19-track album streaming on the artist’s Bandcamp, and purchase the album at the Name Your Price tier. If you find yourself a fan of the artist’s flare, you can check of Ghastly’s music demo also on Bandcamp.

While I find some of the track arrangements to be a bit heavy for my taste, that album art really drew my attention and I give it a solid thumb’s up.
Game Music

Arrangement of the Week: Dancing in the Jungle

April 22, 2016 | Michael Hoffmann | Comments Off on Arrangement of the Week: Dancing in the Jungle Share this

One of my favorite game soundtracks from the Super Nintendo era is Super Metroid. While it may not have the catchy melodies of some of its peers of that day, it builds a great atmosphere for the game that’s hard to forget. For this week’s Arrangement of the Week, I found a rock cover of Super Metroid’s music that strays far from the tone of the original material.

“Dancing in the Jungle” is a rock interpretation of the “Brinstar Plant Overgrowth” track by artist Cyril the Wolf, aka Connor Pelkey. I think you’ll find he’s done something quite interesting with the Super Metroid material.

While creating a rock version of this particular track is nothing new, the lighter tone for this arrangement is something that caught me by surprise. Cyril the Wolf has created a 70s style rock cover of the music, which results in a much brighter and upbeat version of the music. Usually cover artists create something that matches the dark atmosphere of the game, but this arrangement takes the road less travelled and it stands out as a result.

The piece has an almost disco genre feel, with it’s steady drum beats and lively bass line. I particularly like the inclusion of the organ throughout the track. There’s enough variation in the guitar parts as well to keep the listener’s interest and the the arrangement is just the right length to be enjoyable without overstaying its welcome. It’s another excellent cover of one of my favorite game soundtracks.

Have any favorite Super Metroid covers, remixes, or arrangements? Feel free to share them with us in the comment section. You can check out “Dancing in the Jungle” at OC ReMix.
Game Music, Indie Music

Four Tracks from GameChops’ Chozo Legacy now Free

November 21, 2015 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comments Off on Four Tracks from GameChops’ Chozo Legacy now Free Share this

If you’re still on the fence about GameChop’s latest release — bLiNd’s Chozo Legacy tribute to Super Metroid — and our own review hasn’t swayed you, maybe some free tracks will. GameChop has just released Chozo Legacy: Free Missions on Bandcamp offering four tracks from the full album for whatever price you’d like to pay, including $0.00. The four songs are embedded below and when you’re ready for more you can pick up the full album for $10 on Loudr.
<a href="http://music.gamechops.com/album/chozo-legacy-free-missions">Chozo Legacy: Free Missions by bLiNd</a>
Doujin, Game Music, Reviews

Chozo Legacy (Review)

November 18, 2015 | Sebastian Urrea | 1 Comment Share this Chozo Legacy (Review)

Chozo Legacy is the latest release by music producer and game remixer bLiNd, released through record label GameChops. It’s a 10-track album featuring music from the SNES game Super Metroid remixed in a variety of electronic house, trance, and techno music styles. The album sets out to be more than just an assortment of remixed tracks though, and it achieves this goal quite well. If you’re a fan of the Metroid series or EDM, read on to learn more.

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Game Music, Reviews

Super Metroid Symphony (Review)

September 22, 2014 | Richard McDonald | 6 Comments Share this Super Metroid Symphony (Review)

A while back, I wrote an article on Blake Robinson and his Symphonic Orchestra albums. Specifically, I had issues with the branding of his albums; that of “symphonic.” You can read the article HERE. I felt that his albums played on people expectations of orchestral game music and capitalized on its popularity. All his albums include orchestral instruments and the word symphony on their covers, which lead you to the impression that this is orchestral music. Considering that all the albums use samples, Blake does use the term “synthetic orchestra,” I find the premise of his music to be, at best, troubling, and at worst, outright deception. However, this is not to say that I haven’t found enjoyment in his full orchestrations of Chrono Trigger and Banjo Kazooie, although, they are overly long. I have also never played a Metroid game and there are few orchestrations out there to listen to, a track here and there. So; I am very curious about this album and how it will measure up, in terms of quality, with Blake’s other albums, with the original compositions by Kenji Yamamoto, and whether re-creating the entire soundtrack actually works. Find out what I think after the jump.

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Metroid Metal “Other Album” Released

April 8, 2014 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Metroid Metal “Other Album” Released Share this

Just in time for their performance at PAX East this weekend, the boys over at Metroid Metal have dropped their newest album!

“Other Album” is an 8-track digital album released on the band’s Bandcamp for a going price of $6 and features arrangements of music from Metroid 2, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime 2 as well as their “Autobot Decepticon Battle” piece from Transformers: The Motion Picture.

‘Other Album’ is 40 minutes of MM tracks we’ve been playing live, but didn’t exist on an album until now. If the other albums were guitar albums, this is a rhythm section album. It’s the most visceral, pounding, and dark album we’ve done – hope you kids enjoy it! <3

Metroid Metal performs at the Friday night concerts at PAX East, so be sure to check them out and possibly hear some of this awesome tunage!