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This Week In Random – Impending Fantasies and Tales Giveaways

May 30, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | 1 Comment Share this

For This Week in Random, there’s some neat little tidbits to look forward to in the near future!

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This up, the Kickstarter campaign for the game Unraveled: Tale of the Shipbreaker’s Daughter looks like it very well might make it’s goal on it’s second go-around. With 56 hours left in the campaign, the game is less than a grand away from basic funding, and in order to encourage some last-minute backing, a giveaway of a separate OST of the game’s composer Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana) is happening for a handful of lucky backers.

The next 100 Backers to do this will receive a digital copy of this amazing album by our legendary composer himself! Consisting of 13 tracks, the album is divided into two halves: “PULSE” is 21th century classical acoustic music in minimal style. “PICO PULSE” is electronic music in 8bit chiptune style. The result is captivating and strangely beautiful to listen to.

So if you haven’t backers Unraveled yet, you might want to in order to be one of the lucky few to get this album included, and even if not, it’s certainly an excellent album to check out regardless!

Unraveled: Tale of the Shipbreaker’s Daughter

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If you’re a fan of the older Final Fantasy game’s scores, you’ll soon be in luck. Overclocked Remix will soon be launching Rebellion: Inspired by Final Fantasy II. Directed by artist Brandon Strader, the album will feature several artists and regular OCR arrangers remixing songs from the 1988 game Final Fantasy II. You can check out the OCR-hosted trailer for an idea of what to expect.

The album will be dropping on Monday, June 8th on Overclocked Remix. Check out the trailer for a taste of what to expect and mark your calendars if you’re a hardcore FF2 fan itching for some classic tunes reborn!
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This Week in Random – High Dinos and Chrome

May 7, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on This Week in Random – High Dinos and Chrome Share this

For This Week in Random, it’s all about chiptunes and browser extensions!

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High Strangeness OSV by Cheap Dinosaurs

Chiptune savants Cheap Dinosaurs have released their newest album since last year’s “Triangle Trash” mini-album; a soundtrack for the indie game High Strangeness that’s described as a “a hybrid of 8 and 16-bit games… A 12-bit adventure”.

The inspiration of the game comes from many Action-Adventure and RPG games of yesteryear. The game’s core ability is to switch between 8 and 16-bit worlds and the player uses their generational differences to solve puzzles and explore the universe.

High Strangeness was released on this past Tuesday for the WiiU and Steam. The 17-track album released this past Monday at $6.00 (or $1 for individual tracks), making it the largest album to date from the band and should prove to be good listening for retro game music fans.

High Strangeness OSV – Bandcamp | CheapDinos.com

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Game Music Appreciation – Google Chrome

http://gamemusic.multimedia.cx/

This site allows you to listen to music for classic video games. You can listen to a vast amount of video game music (in the form of chiptunes) directly in your Google Chrome web browser and it will sound precisely the same as it did on the original console.

Pretty much everything it says on the box – a streaming program that allows you to stream an extremely extensive variety of game music soundtracks straight over Google Chrome, all for free. You can search for specific game albums, search by composer, search by console or just throw caution to the wind and play from random albums at-will; all without the need for separate programs to be open. A neat option for all of us!
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This Week in Random – Bloodborne & Bosses & Beats, oh my!

April 30, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on This Week in Random – Bloodborne & Bosses & Beats, oh my! Share this

So I’m thinking I’m going to start little filler posts that deal with random game music-related things that I happen to come across during a given week that aren’t substantial enough to warrant their own full posts, but still are neat enough to give a bit of a nod to. It might not be an every-week thing, but something to sum up recent little gems I’ve come across either via social media, through friends or through news feeds. (Or just my casual bumbling about online.)

Beat the Boss: Remixes by Atavistic Spawn Records

Neat album I stumbled upon via Reddit that features recompositions of classic and not-so-classic boss themes, much like Overclocked Remix’s BadAss: Boss Themes albums. Caught my ear for it’s inclusion of the boss theme from Turrican done up with carefully-placed sound effects from the game, but also has stuff from Cave Story, Portal and Yoshi’s Island. Worth a listen to. On their Bandcamp (name your price).

“Paleblood Moon” by Miracle of Sound

Something neat for Bloodborne fans to enjoy by Irish-Jesus himself, Gavin Dunne, aka: Miracle of Sound. It’s a nice orchestral piece featuring his own vocals that pretty much speaks for itself. (Or sings, in this case) I originally it posted to in-game cutscenes on Youtube, but you can grab the piece for yourself for a dollar on his Bandcamp page. I love him for his metal, but it’s a pretty kick-arse orchestral piece.

MAGStock 5 has opened up for registration. The event is MAGFest’s answer to Lollapolooza, with outdoor music, camping, and I’m told a bouncy castle. (Just giving further weight to the need for a ball pit at MAGFest Prime) The event is held is Louisa, Virginia this year from June 19-21st and registration is $50 plus the need for your own camping gear. Bands haven’t been announced yet, but last year featured Super Guitar Bros. amongst others, just to give you an idea of what to expect.