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Steel Samurai’s self-titled Second EP (Review)
August 17, 2017 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comments Off on Steel Samurai’s self-titled Second EP (Review) Share this
Steel Samurai has been kicking around the Baltimore, Maryland scene since late 2013, making appearances at MAGFest and Bit Gen while contributing their brand of rock to an array of game music compilations. They specialize in power-rocking “the most ancient, unused and obscure video game compositions” and their second, self-titled EP definitely holds true to that mission statement.
Released on July 29th, Steel Samurai is a short EP but it rocks all the way through and covers a lot of rarely-revisited source material. The theme of the band’s namesake — the fictional TV hero from the also-fictional world of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — opens things up with a powerful rendition of the traditional Japanese-style tune from the DS game. But track two is what really pulled me into this album.
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Featured, Game Music, Indie Music
Grab Your Purchases from Loudr by June 30th
June 29, 2017 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comments Off on Grab Your Purchases from Loudr by June 30th Share this
Apologies for the late notice, the date really sneaked up on me! Last December Loudr announced that they would be terminating their online sales marketplace and focusing solely on their music licensing and distribution service. As such, new sales of music already on Loudr ended on January 31st but the ability to re-download anything you’ve already purchased ends this Friday, June 30th.
The site has been a little finicky ever since the announcement. That’s why I’m now scrambling to download my own purchases which include several of the Game Music Bundles that the site was known for. It may take a few tries and some patience while the page loads but the download process is working well. You can still choose multiple audio formats (320 MP3, FLAC, etc) and either download to your hard drive or export directly to Dropbox.
Fortunately, it looks like most of the video game related music on Loudr exists elsewhere. Most of the artists I’ve checked have their music available on Bandcamp, Soundcloud or other digital platforms. But if you already bought it on Loudr you may as well grab it while you can.
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Featured, Game Music, Indie Music, Reviews
The Sound of Spellcraft: Mages of Mystralia The Original Soundtrack (Review)
June 24, 2017 | Ryan Paquet | Comments Off on The Sound of Spellcraft: Mages of Mystralia The Original Soundtrack (Review) Share this
I have been listening to the Mages of Mystralia Original Soundtrack for almost a month now. The music was composed by Antoine Vachon who we profiled on Original Sound Version back in 2015. At that time the Montreal based composer has scored the music for some short films and mini games. In the spring of 2015 he released three preview tracks for Mages of Mystralia which resulted in the soundtrack making my most anticipated scores of 2017 list. The full soundtrack was released with the game on May 18, 2017 and you can read on for my full review of the score.
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Featured, Game Music, Indie Music, Interviews, Music Production
INTERVIEW: Composer Jon Everist talks to us about BattleTech, and scoring for video games
With the late summer release date quickly approaching for the upcoming Harebrained Schemes BattleTech, we took some time to talk to composer Jon Everist his work on the music for the game. He has also composed music for the games Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, Necropolis and Planetstorm: Fallen Horizon which recently came to Android. In the interview the composer shares details about his musical background, how he approached scoring Battletech, working with the Budapest Scoring Symphony and more. Read on for our full interview:
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Anime, Featured, Reviews
Turn Up The Dark: TV ANIMATION BERSERK OST (Review)
April 25, 2017 | Ryan Paquet | Comments Off on Turn Up The Dark: TV ANIMATION BERSERK OST (Review) Share this
The new Berserk TV series aired its first season last year to mixed reviews due to its use of a cell shaded 3D animation technique. In all of the reviews I came across, none had much to say about the music in the series. I have seen the original low budget Berserk anime TV series, the three Golden Age Arc films, played the Dreamcast game and read the manga up to volume 36. I am very familiar with the musical history of the series and actually passed on buying the scores to the trilogy of films by Shiro Sagisu.
However after watching Berserk last year, and listening to the music as it played in the series made this an album I could not pass up. Read on for my thoughts on the latest Berserk musical experience.
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Featured, Game Music, Reviews
Epic Battle Tunes: Halo Wars 2 Original Game Soundtrack (Review)
March 31, 2017 | Ryan Paquet | Comments Off on Epic Battle Tunes: Halo Wars 2 Original Game Soundtrack (Review) Share this
The Halo Wars 2 Original Game Soundtrack boasts 38 tracks of glorious orchestral music performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. The music was composed by the trio of composers Gordy Haab, Brian Trifon, and Brian Lee White. Additional music for the game was composed by Samuel Smythe, and Jay Wiltzen.
I’ve taken some time to listen to the soundtrack over the past week which has been both an engaging and rewarding experience. Read on for my impressions of the album, and my favorite tracks.
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Featured, Software
PAX East 2017 Preview: Klang
Our last game preview from PAX East 2017 is a rhythm platformer from developer Tinimations. Like the previous game that I previewed, Klang is a game that came out last year but was available on the show floor for us to try out. The game does some interesting things that I had not seen in a rhythm or platforming game before, so this game was an interesting discovery at the event. (more…)
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