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I’m playing RE4 for the first time, I think I’m like halfway through, and this music has been the creepiest thing in the game so far https://youtu.be/bcg4rjUeuSQ Game is awesome
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today is a lovely day for some SID music. enjoy some, why don't you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glyq91vRzeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8LEA23R-Nc And don't forget the demos. this was made in 2014, but it's on the C64 so it's going in this thread, deal with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxtBxyWhFU Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Sep 14, 2022 |
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Sep 14, 2022 12:26
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For when you're in a melancholic mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSCiMKG5EM
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Big Scary Owl posted:For when you're in a melancholic mood: Why is this 12-second loop a 14-minute video? (Well, ok, the intro takes another 22 seconds...) How many times has the Lorule Castle theme been posted? Time for another one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSeEk1TVQqk And if you haven't heard it played backwards, you can best hear the Hyrule Castle melody in the supporting parts starting at approx 4:09 up until 4:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3x3EaEA3nI I guess everyone is already listening to the Super Marcato Brother podcast already? Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Sep 19, 2022 |
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Sep 19, 2022 10:42
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:I guess everyone is already listening to the Super Marcato Brother podcast already? thanks for the link, the "Bad Music" series is pretty great. Some of it's so bad it's good.
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IT'S SID SUNDAY Today we're appreciating C64 soundtracks that exploited a glitch in the SID's register to play back 8-bit samples. By rapidly changing the volume, the SID would produce a click. Do this many times a second, and now you're cooking. (or at least, that's how I understand it works.) The SID's three synth channels are far more versatile than you'd expect from a chip of that age, each being capable of forming many types of waves in rapid succession, but the addition of this unexpected pseudo-PCM channel was a game changer. Unfortunately, the glitch was "fixed" in later revisions of the hardware, though enterprising individuals can mod it back in by soldering a capacitor to the right spot, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8kyhQC5XL8 Martin Galway is I believe the first person known to have exploited this glitch for an actual game soundtrack in the C64 version of Arkanoid (1987), but not with samples. He just sorta free-handed it, hoping to come up with something that vaguely sounded like drums. But as you can hear, it didn't quite work out. The cymbals are squeaks and the drums are farts, but that sound still has a weird charm of its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50h7SMI_Tg Rob Hubbard is perhaps the first person to use actual samples, in the C64 version of Skate or Die in 1987 (which was the original, actually). He backed the normal SID synth with some sampled electric guitar riffs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-IdGE51f8 Jeroen Tel did a mix of rock, techno, and pop-inspired tracks, often using voice and drum samples. In After Burner for the C64 (1989), he did those in addition to a pretty nice-sounding bass line, freeing up the synth channels to do some sick square-wave chords. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny743c32gPg The C64 Tetris (1988) doesn't do anything particularly innovative with the sample channel, but I want to include it here for how wild it is. Instead of breaking up the music by level count or having a single short looping track, Wally Beben decided to write a 26-loving-minute epic. It's basically many different variations of a shorter loop, but each one is interesting and it keeps the track fresh for the entire duration. It's a great and deeply underrated way to approach Tetris music, imo. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Oct 16, 2022 |
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Oct 16, 2022 12:39
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I really like Follin's Bionic Commando music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmCRSGfhg0&t=178s
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I also want to appreciate how many C64 composers embraced the unique sound of the SID. Composers for many other synth chips often seemed to try to force those chips to make sounds they weren't well suited for in an effort to make them sound more like "real" music. Some C64 composers had success by doing the same thing on the SID, but my favorites are the ones who really leaned into the iconic C64 arpeggios and poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glyq91vRzeI The Rubicon (1991) OST is obviously inspired by "real" music with some excellent synthesized drums and bass lines, but it's also still video game bleepy-bloopy as hell and I love it for that. The division of labor here is Reyn Ouwehand: Loader themes, levels 1 - 2, ending theme; Jeroen Tel: Title theme, high score theme, levels 3 - 5. The high-score theme here shows an excellent example of the SID's versatility, with arpeggios being formed by a rapid succession of sawtooth and square waves. And then they somehow managed to do all the in-game BGM using just two channels so they could reserve a channel for SFX. There's some real wizardry they must've pulled off here to make the BGM as complex as it was. I still can't wrap my head around how Level 1 is possible with just two channels. 
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listening to my favorite DOS game soundtrack, KGB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNSmv8zq7o Stéphane Picq is much better known for the Dune soundtrack, but I prefer this one quite a bit. It's excellently composed and arranged, making kinds of music with the OPL that you never thought were possible, while staying thematic with the game and its setting.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BNj3DiFVE
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Dec 14, 2022 23:41
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was one of my favorite time-killers as a kid, and the theme was hella dope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDe8AIrwNW4
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So someone randomly posted a Lemmings gif in a Discord server the other day and this immediately started playing in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV5OU5n3_zk Funny how some things stick.
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Jul 16, 2023 22:30
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https://youtu.be/4yRNYUSJaU0 this song gets me so pumped to kick some loving rear end every single time!!!!!
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Jul 25, 2023 08:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdd4rBlsj2o The Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOUR! is a pretty amazing system. It's hard to believe now that Goldeneye and Conker got through Nintendo 'family safe' censoring.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdd4rBlsj2o Surely you mean the NINTENDO ULTRA 64? Anyway, fantastic username/post combo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bzFbrufMyw Fear the all powerful Paula
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Aug 6, 2023 22:56
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The GBA counts as retro now, right? (The remastering is legitimate, this is the original composer's channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOdzHIp-So
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Aug 9, 2023 05:45
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This is probably pretty well known but I'm glad I'm not the only one who heard it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTU08jmkAmE
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kirbysuperstar posted:I really like Follin's Bionic Commando music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOYBR1frV8&t=2197s I like this track because it starts out so innocently with a simple sawtooth channel duet, and then suddenly ...
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Itzena posted:So someone randomly posted a Lemmings gif in a Discord server the other day and this immediately started playing in my head: Even before pressing Play I knew which track this would be! Been replaying the original Tomb Raider Trilogy and both versions of Nathan McCree's main theme are just superb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyCk2mifktI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLY0nlnMi0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fGq2BfstZs
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This lady is rad and played the Top Man suggestion I gave her once.
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Extremely pro-click, thank you for this
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Did she… Did she de-tune her piano for Boss Battle 1? Because something is seriously out of tune and I doubt it’s the organ. If she did, that’s some serious dedication. Awesome video, thanks for this!
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Did she… Did she de-tune her piano for Boss Battle 1? Because something is seriously out of tune and I doubt it’s the organ. If she did, that’s some serious dedication. Only watched it once but I think the instruments all retain the same tuning they had before, it's just that the song sounds more discordant with those bass notes being played on a piano rather than an electric bass guitar sample. Low piano notes on their own are pretty hairy harmonically. It was also written with a bit of polytonality to begin with but her instrument choices def add to it.
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:This lady is rad and played the Top Man suggestion I gave her once. Next time we're on Kara's stream together, we'll have to do the secret Goon handshake then
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_UAu-n-f4 How about a wonderfully produced big band version of one of Tim Follin's best tracks? e: The whole playlist is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVoOFxIi1SYHQPPAo0Rjsf3_KQ1kXp6Ag SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Nov 9, 2023 |
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Nov 9, 2023 07:09
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Battletanx is kinda meh, but this badass song is one of my favorite from the Nintendo 64 (in addition to the Great Mighty Poo aria): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0QGVaNOro Video games have had an impact on my musical tastes. I'm pretty sure playing Vigilante 8/Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense is why I'm a fan of disco today, and GTA: Vice City is what got me into '80s pop and rock.
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I do generally appreciate repurposing music in new styles, but TBH choosing that particular Wagner piece for a war game soundtrack seems kind of tired to me. Edit: Hey, the samples in that tune made me think of this game. It does something similar in reusing classical music, though Frontier tries to play it straight, and make as faithful a reproduction of an orchestra as possible on an Amiga -- which isn't very faithful. Still, it made me as a kid start to appreciate Mussorgsky and Strauss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbegNmKRZUM Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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That's completely fair; Ride of the Valkyries is an extremely cliche choice. I never had an Amiga nor played Frontier Elite II, but I really like that theme! It is very similar to Battletanx soundtrack except less bombastic and more orchestral.
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Remember when Road Rash came out on the Amiga a whole year after it was released on the Mega Drive and all of Rob Hubbard's  tunes had been replaced with inferior ones by Jason A.S Whitely?Well, I replayed the Amiga version for the first time in about 20 years (I wouldn't recommend it, it's an awful port) and this track is actually pretty decent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjObqyJvrbo
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Been obsessed with the Rhyme Star soundtrack for some time. Just immaculate, perfect grooves from composer Takeshi Abo, who is still composing game music to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfElweEQIVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN0wW_K3VHs full playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCxiJpyreHoUx0gfbkDpMhi1N_U_FwXR-
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I put super meat boy on my steam wishlist. I played through it 100% when it originally came out on Xbox 360 The soundtrack was fuckin fantastic, but since first release there was some sort of disagreement between the composer (Danny B) and the publisher, so subsequent releases had a totally new soundtrack I'm listening to the new music on YouTube and...it's kinda rad. Definitely has my toe tapping. Now I dont know what to do when I play through it on steam, I guess there's a mod to switch back to original soundtrack but I like what I'm hearing so far with the new one
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Been playing a lot of Master System games lately. Never really thought much about the music, but there are some gems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFlfmeHRLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwz_EVYRTM4 (Yuzo Koshiro, so not really surprising that these are great tunes) Awful game, great track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFEgoHynVwQ Great game, great track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hd8EA9NgXU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQ5ryaA7u0
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I bought a silly thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBfXkRTMvZA
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 https://archive.org/details/voyetra_audiostation_crystal “Voyetra licensed Audiostation to various soundcard makers and various OEM's. It was often bundled on recovery disk from Gateway, Compaq, and IBM.” This was on my first PC - I never drew the line between why the MIDI “set top box” had an image of a floppy drive. Of course - it’s supposed to be a standalone MIDI player!
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Question: If I were to arrange a medley of the top 3 songs from Katamari games, which tunes should I include?
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Question: If I were to arrange a medley of the top 3 songs from Katamari games, which tunes should I include? From Beautiful Katamari I'd include: Sayonara Rolling Star Guru Guru Gravity
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