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Regardless of what anyone says about Star Ocean: The Last Hope I liked the music. Even some reviews of the OST I've read where the reviewer was "tired of Sakuraba's style" found stuff to love in this OST. A Place For Reflection - The song that plays on your spaceship. I loved just listening to this. Silk Road in the Sky I - An appropriately majestic and grand theme for the human race's first steps on a new home world. Silk Road in the Sky II - ...or not. The transition in game really is one of my favorite parts of the story. It has excellent atmosphere. Symetry - An actual dungeon theme. I liked it a lot. Brilliant Rose - Final Dungeon Theme. My favorite Sakuraba final dungeon theme to date. For Achieve - Easily my favorite battle theme in the game. A lot of the world and locations have unique battle themes and that is one thing I loved about the game. Having this awesome rendition of SO1's battle theme play while you are on Roak was a really cool move. Don't Be A Hero - My other favorite battle theme. Plays during one of the hardest fights in the game. I Do, Therefore I Am - God I loved this boss theme. The slow, ominous nature of it contrasted with SO4's high speed gameplay really did wonders for making the bosses feel...imposing. Yin and Yang - The best emotional piece in the game. Harlequin's Slumber - An emotional piece of a more haunted sort.
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carry on then posted:lol whose parachute account are you? one of your two gay dads
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Wyw posted:you have to be a dumb retard child to seriously listen to video game music thoughts on my video game music collection?
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Konami were gods at 8-bit chiptunes. They had some really talented composers and sound designers that brought their games to life. Definitely the best snare drum sound on the NES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-P4SjqtRkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GMTs3SAVpY This one is from Castlevania 2 Belmont's Revenge on Game Boy, but the clip is from the album Dracula Best 2, which sounds a lot better than the game rip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPh7GyGOPzc The PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16 had decent sound hardware. Not that it mattered once the CD addon came along, but devs made some groovy tunes with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsMr7237_1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2N_Vl7Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCv5cHixP_c
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Ofecks posted:Konami were gods at 8-bit chiptunes. They had some really talented composers and sound designers that brought their games to life. Definitely the best snare drum sound on the NES. One thing I love about NES music are the factions of fans that it creates based on the traits of music. There's Sunsoft fans, Capcom fans, Konami fans, etc. Really shows the diversity and talent of developers for that system.
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I have been playing Dying Light lately and the ambient/incidental music is very good.
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My favorite console for VGM is the Mega Drive/Genesis. A lot of people don't like it for the robot fart sounds it commonly produced, but here is a selection of tunes I hope people would like. Shinobi 3 - "Whirlwind" - Morihiko Akiyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjaW4ZYzVHI Battle Mania Daiginjou - "Twilight Express" - Yasuyuki Hamada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9n3qro6tg Ecco: Tides of Time - "Title Theme" - Gábor Foltán https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32S2oJuANxo Contra: Hard Corps - "Hard Corps Blues" - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Souji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, Hirofumi Taniguchi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGSzy_QRpk Langrisser 2 - "Leon" - Noriyuki Iwadare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvkCRCJyrus Thunder Force IV - "Stand up Against Myself" - Toshiharu Yamanishi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJVuRTIIS4 Master of Monsters - "Black Dignity" - Hitoshi Sakimoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDmIiHKictU Alisia Dragoon - "1-1" -Fumihito Kasatani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShmM6VKDR4M Streets of Rage 2 - "Spin on the Bridge" - Yuzo Koshiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr_8TlVx9P8 Alien Soldier - "Runner/AD2025" - Kazuo Hanzawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sSgMfR4gyo Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf - "BGM 1" - Tokuhiko "Bo" Uwabo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrFknFeaYYc Sword of Vermilion - "Last City" - Hiroshi "Hiro" Kawaguchi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSrsQ1549ag Herzog Zwei - "There is No Time to Lose" - Tomomi Ootani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEf-jS4qwYM Road Rash - "Sierra Nevada" - Rob "God" Hubbard (The drum solo bit just out of this world) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eV1kudRbt0 Arcus Odyssey - "Opening Theme" - Motoi Sakuraba (Sure, the X68000 version may sound better, but I love the instrumentation used here by Sakuraba, along with the rest of those Wolf Team Genesis games.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1iSECtvHf8 Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators - "McRock" - Tommy Tallarico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcKAX7aYlz4 Jewel Master - "The Gate of Delirium" - Motoaki Takenouchi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rNC7YRW60g Ecco the Dolphin - "Ice Zone" - Andras Magyari, Brian Coburn, Spencer Nilsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMIIqK_ovg Mega Bomberman - "Slammin' Sea" - Jun Chikuma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ugqPshMtoM Pulseman - "Stereo Protect" - Junichi Masuda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCyPKnU0ZA
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NikkolasKing posted:Regardless of what anyone says about Star Ocean: The Last Hope I liked the music. Even some reviews of the OST I've read where the reviewer was "tired of Sakuraba's style" found stuff to love in this OST. I'm one of those jokers that thinks Sakuraba's a bland composer but I have a couple favourites of his. Expiration from Star Ocean 3 is very much a Sakuraba track but it stands out. Rust Color on the other hand is very unlike Sakuraba's style replacing progressive rock with a folky acoustic vibe.
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Commander Keenan posted:Genesis tunes. It's tempting to believe one's love of this music is purely nostalgic, but my god those first two tracks are beautiful and I'd never heard them before. And holy crap, Rob Hubbard did the music for Road Rash? I had no idea. It's funny because I worship his C64 music, but I always found Road Rash showed up the worst of the Genesis sound chip, with robot farting bass and nails on a chalk board leads. Edit: Bonus content - cheesey cop show theme that was nabbed for Rob Hubbard's One Man and His Droid Edit 2: both Ecco the Dolphin games had outstanding music. Majestic, haunting, and downright terrifying in places. Here's a classic piece of horror music - Ecco the Dolphin - Welcome to the Machine EvilGenius fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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EvilGenius posted:It's tempting to believe one's love of this music is purely nostalgic, but my god those first two tracks are beautiful and I'd never heard them before. That's what I love about VGM. Discovering great game music is just the same as discovering a band or album that was there all along. EvilGenius posted:And holy crap, Rob Hubbard did the music for Road Rash? I had no idea. It's funny because I worship his C64 music, but I always found Road Rash showed up the worst of the Genesis sound chip, with robot farting bass and nails on a chalk board leads. Yeah, Road Rash definitely depends on the person. I just can't hear the screechiness anymore. I must have blocked out it from hurting my ears. EvilGenius posted:both Ecco the Dolphin games had outstanding music. Majestic, haunting, and downright terrifying in places. I adore the Ecco games on the Genesis. The first one is in my top 10 games I've ever played. The soundtrack could be the reason! Here are some more Genesis tunes I like: Columns III - "Column Dive" - Morihiko Akiyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDvyVijohOM Elemental Master - "Cursed Destiny" - Toshiharu Yamanishi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwetnr_t16k Socket - "Treasure Castle" - Shigenori Masuko, Yoko Suzuki, Fumito Tamayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uLXeQP_yCE Phantasy Star II - "Pressure" - Tokuhiko Uwabo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJiYLeP8gFw Chakan: The Forever Man - "Air Dimension I" - Mark Miller, Jason Scher (Reminds me of '90s-00s King Crimson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rB2TOpEA9Q Gleylancer - "Stage 1" - Masanori Hikichi, Noriyuki Iwadare, Yoshiaki Kubotera, Isao Mizoguchi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWSYuBYpKFc The Hybrid Front - "Moon / Mars - Sukarabe Fight BGM 1" - Naofumi Hataya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7eA76FM-w
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Commander Keenan posted:My favorite console for VGM is the Mega Drive/Genesis. A lot of people don't like it for the robot fart sounds it commonly produced, but here is a selection of tunes I hope people would like. Herzog Zwei had all kinds of kickass music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmtC76WSsic A Breach of Contract https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgXd7hTYIvk The Mournful War Not bad for the very first RTS game. And it had loving SPLIT-SCREEN! Commander Keenan posted:Road Rash - "Sierra Nevada" - Rob "God" Hubbard (The drum solo bit just out of this world) I used to play Skitchin, as well as Road Rash, and I have the music from this first stage embossed on my eardrums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfKJAqxk4_E&t=73s Notable track titles from the terrible Skitchin soundtrack: "Eat My Junk", "Jerky Curtains", "Let's Plow", "Silken Liver Slipper", "Smells Like Tuna", "Sniff", and the ever charming "Spicy Placenta". Commander Keenan posted:Ecco the Dolphin Hey, if you like Ecco, you might enjoy Kolibri, a side-scrolling hummingbird shmup from the same studio. It's a rare 32x gem with awesome music. My favorite track is at this stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds5klrkqvCg&t=459s Expiry Hard to hear over that drat laser, though. Some dude managed to extract the whole soundtrack off the cart a little while back. Otherwise it's really hard to find in any decent quality. Most of the stuff on youtube sounds like it was recorded from tv speakers.
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I may have a look at this tonight, but there are sound chip emulators and soundtrack files out there. They're all ancient (one's a bloody Winamp plugin, if anyone still uses that). I had one where you could switch the different oscillators on and off and isolate certain tracks.
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second-hand smegma posted:Hey, if you like Ecco, you might enjoy Kolibri, a side-scrolling hummingbird shmup from the same studio. It's a rare 32x gem with awesome music. Holy crap, I have never heard this before. Sounds so good! The game looks great too. I'm tweeting Ed Annunziata about it right now. Here's the soundtrack rip: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kolibri/kolibri.htm EvilGenius posted:I may have a look at this tonight, but there are sound chip emulators and soundtrack files out there. They're all ancient (one's a bloody Winamp plugin, if anyone still uses that). I had one where you could switch the different oscillators on and off and isolate certain tracks. Yep, I have pretty much all the plugins and whatnot for ripped music files. I recommend using foobar2000 with all of these plugins: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/tag/game+music (I summon kode54 to this thread! I know you're here.) Here are the collections you want: Project2612 (Genesis/MD) VGMRips (Genesis/VGM formats in general) SNESMusic (SNES and, weirdly other stuff like Japanese PC rips) Slick/The Shizz/Zophar/2a03/bucky (NES) HVSC (C64) Hoot archive (Lots of Japanese PC, some Adlib-era PC stuff like X-COM) CaithSith/LLin (PS1, GBA) joshw (DS) I'm missing a bunch, but it's a good starting point. Commander Keenan fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Commander Keenan posted:Holy crap, I have never heard this before. Sounds so good! The game looks great too. I'm tweeting Ed Annunziata about it right now. Here's the one I found: OST Kolibri was the last cart I ever purchased before getting a Playstation and going down that road. It was a nice way to go out. VVVVVVVV No prob, goon sir. BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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second-hand smegma posted:Here's the one I found: OST Yep, that's way better. Thanks for letting me know about this soundtrack!
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I mentioned in an earlier post the limitations of the SID chip in the C64, and how composers worked around its 3 voice limit. Here's a brilliant visualisation of that - an oscilloscope view of what all 3 voices are doing through a Rob Hubbard tune. http://youtu.be/c1iY-7ZhVJM Listen/look at the offbeat synth on the middle oscillator, and the bass line/snare on the bottom one. It's a real juggling act, and he manages to pack so much variation in there. Edit: Christ, the sound design on this one is outstanding. Wind and rain, bells, ghosts, wolves, theramins, heart beats. They even manage to emulate the harmomics on an organ using two of the voices. C64 Tim Follin's "Ghouls'n'Ghosts Intro" http://youtu.be/BEUJd8iQiOE EvilGenius fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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EvilGenius posted:I mentioned in an earlier post the limitations of the SID chip in the C64, and how composers worked around its 3 voice limit. Here's a brilliant visualisation of that - an oscilloscope view of what all 3 voices are doing through a Rob Hubbard tune. Very cool stuff. The C64 is the definitive system for creative limitation. Sorry to the Genesis haters in the thread, but here's some more Genesis stuff. This music in particular is chill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msGy0i4LIOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPSVJ7tUKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfpDfxAbqsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gUUHNUFsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JyQJVo9qa4
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Commander Keenan posted:Very cool stuff. The C64 is the definitive system for creative limitation. Incidentally, once you know about it, you start to notice just how many C64 bass lines leave a gap on the 2 and 4 for the snare. Limitation is a huge part of composing that's easy to miss in the digital age. If you've ever tried to do an orchestral piece, simply knowing the range of the instruments you're using makes it an order of magnitude more convincing. You hear it on chip tunes too. If you just stack up a bunch of C64 patches it won't sound like a C64, because a huge part of the sound and composition was its limitations.
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I almost never heard it mentioned but Might and Magic VI has an amazing soundtrack. Free Haven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrlDRGAJ8Cg Moonlit Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDavwZsti68 Arena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqgXUrBQ0PY Also, Resident Evil clone Overblood was a pretty crappy game with some neat music. This track in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9oDSakgfU Industrial fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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Industrial posted:I almost never heard it mentioned but Might and Magic VI has an amazing soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkx0lkVvgwg
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SupSuper posted:That's because Heroes of Might and Magic III usually gets all the attention since the soundtracks are pretty similar (they were released close to each other). I know, I played both to death. I prefer the more low-key atmospheric soundtrack of MM VI to the intense orchestra or Heroes III but both are great.
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I've uploaded some of my favorite music from lesser known artists. No tracks were on youtube before..except rush 2 probably now I uploaded that long ago. Planet Mini Golf OST - Soho, by Zen Studios 2010 afaik - This game had some pretty cheesy music and the game is so weird but amazing fun, severely overlooked. For some reason had this kickin' rad theme for the Soho levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uPmRUbnXqQ Rush 2 Extreme Racing - Circut Complete, by Barry Leitch 1998 - No love for non-rareware n64 games all that often. This song fits the intro demo very well despite not being the actual intro theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuYjX8gP8o Unreal Tournament 1999 Monster Hunt Mod Music - Kick the beat by Andreas Viklund June 1998 - Super upbeat and awesome for running around a map with 20 people shooting 1000's of enemies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SwWizXomk 64fanatic fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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EvilGenius posted:Edit: Christ, the sound design on this one is outstanding. Wind and rain, bells, ghosts, wolves, theramins, heart beats. They even manage to emulate the harmomics on an organ using two of the voices. Tim Follin must be a god in human form.
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maou shoujo posted:Tim Follin must be a god in human form. Yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbJSftFr20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_IJYc9t3vQ
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That last one reminded me of some stuff I've got lurking in YouTube favourites after searching for chip tunes. These two bands have more or less the same sound, so it may be an entire genre that I've just scratched the surface off. They both find the common ground between the cheerful melodies of early 90s shoot-em-up themes and melodic punk and turn it into something pretty beautiful. Anamanaguchi - My Skateboard Will Go On: http://youtu.be/iCNfYjZ26ow Slime Girls - Vacation Wasteland (Full Album) Chi…: http://youtu.be/SvfeL9vbfd4 Anamanaguchi - Viridian Genesis: http://youtu.be/SGo8RbY5PPQ Here's some more random stuff I found: Scorcher. A WipeOut wanabe on the Sega Saturn. This was done using the Saturn's impressive internal sound chip. The dev team for the game, including the composers, were mostly plucked from the Amiga demo scene. I just adore this piece in particular. It epitomises the moody techno and big beat of the mid-late 90s. An 8-bit cover of Miles Davis. I think they did the entire album like this. Edit: whoops, I broke the rules with the non-videogame music, sorry. EvilGenius fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Slight derail - does anyone know of a SID emulator where I can solo the voices?
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maou shoujo posted:Tim Follin must be a god in human form. Don't pass this one up. I had been reading through this thread since I found it the other day to see if anyone had posted this yet. Tim Follin did amazing work on terrible to mediocre games, so chances are he will be forgotten before too long. Whenever VG music comes up, I introduces someone to Solstice, describing it as "the best music in a game I never played." His music for the terrible NES game Silver Surfer was also amazing 8-bit work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlLl2j5THQ
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EvilGenius posted:That last one reminded me of some stuff I've got lurking in YouTube favourites after searching for chip tunes. These two bands have more or less the same sound, so it may be an entire genre that I've just scratched the surface off. They both find the common ground between the cheerful melodies of early 90s shoot-em-up themes and melodic punk and turn it into something pretty beautiful. Check out http://disasterpeace.com/music if you haven't already, specifically the soundtracks to Jammage the Jam Mage and Atebite and the Warring Nations. They're near the bottom of the page, but some of my favorite chip and even has real percussion accompaniment!
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Disasterpeace also recently did the soundtrack for the horror movie It Follows which is definitely worth checking out. I'd link to one of the songs, but all this embedding is slowing the page to a crawl already, so here's the direct link to the Bandcamp page: http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/it-follows
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The soundtrack for Pillars of Eternity is very, very good. some hauntingly pretty string and wind arrangements there, and a lot of the tracks have this certain kind of sound, like they're from some old movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAiP__OB9k (The game itself is also ridiculously good.)
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Is there a good Spotify playlist, or maybe a good internet radio station for videogame music? Some of the tracks here I like but I'd like to listen to at work
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Theres a guy with an OCRemix radio station here: http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16566 edit: You could also pop your favorite composers name into Pandora radio. SolidSnakesBandana fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Fat Turkey posted:Is there a good Spotify playlist, or maybe a good internet radio station for videogame music? Some of the tracks here I like but I'd like to listen to at work
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I had a bunch of GBA games when the thing was relevant, but this soundtrack was the only one that stood out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFn0Xo24R0g
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The Kins posted:Here's some Shoutcast radio stations I've found over the years: This is great. Thanks Kinsie!
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Super Time Force was my hands down GOTY last year, and it's fantastic OST had a pretty big part in it.
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While listening to Pandora radio today, I stumbled upon Taylor Davis, an extremely talented violinist that does all sorts of movie, anime and game music. Here's a youtube playlist of one of her albums. Every time I hear one of her songs, the word 'flawless' comes to mind. I'm not familiar with her entire selection but there's a lot of stuff out there and I promise you will like some of it.
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As an epilogue to my Tenchu 1&2 post back there... I had this stuck in my head ALL DAY. Tenchu 3 - Theme from Ronin Village Different developers on the game, but Asakura returned to compose the music.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:While listening to Pandora radio today, I stumbled upon Taylor Davis, an extremely talented violinist that does all sorts of movie, anime and game music. Here's a youtube playlist of one of her albums. Every time I hear one of her songs, the word 'flawless' comes to mind. I'm not familiar with her entire selection but there's a lot of stuff out there and I promise you will like some of it. Having said that, I admit my #1 favourite track she's involved in is from Guild Wars 2 which I've never played either. It's her on the violin, Lara on the piano and Malukah doing vocals, and it's just breathtakingly beautiful. Though that's probably just because I'm a gibbering Malukah fanboy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQKspH34BkM EDIT: Seriously though, even without Malukah, Taylor and Lara's collaborations are just pure gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVLWyt66Yj4 Nordick fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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I was just at the Symphony of the Goddesses concert with the London Philharmonic performing, which was perfect except for the huge idiots in the audience cheering and hollering at every single thing. Don't cheer over the drat orchestra, you cretins! Anyway, here's my favourite piece from the night, the 25th anniversary Wind Waker medley https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7yZ-jAj7Zk
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