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  Holiday VGM Album Dump – For Your Yuletide Pleasure

  December 15, 2014 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Holiday VGM Album Dump – For Your Yuletide Pleasure Share this Holiday VGM Album Dump – For Your Yuletide Pleasure

  There has been a rather jolly amount of holiday-related video game music albums being released this season. It seems a lot of game musicians have gotten into the spirit of the season by coming together ans coming out with a good variety of Christmas and other holiday-themed tunes to help any reluctant Scrooges out there get into the mood for the Yule. So if you’re scrambling to find appropriate game-related music for your holiday gatherings, here’s a rundown of what’s come out recently:

  Scarlet Moon Christmas EP

   

  

  Put together by Scarlet Moon Records, the Scarlet Moon Christmas EP is a five-track release that features a good chunk of tunes centered around Final Fantasy by the likes of Dale North (Dragon Fantasy Book II), Jayson Napolitano and Goomin Nam (Monarch: Heroes of a New Age). Also on the album is a arranged track from legendary composer Vince DiCola (Rocky IV, Transformers: the Motion Picture) from his Saturday Morning RPG album released earlier this year! The Scarlet Moon Christmas EP is up on Loudr for $5 (or more if you choose) so be sure to grab it up quick! – Loudr

  Super VG Christmas Party

   

  

  A huge holiday-styled album from a slew of the video game music arrangement community, Super VG Christmas Party features the likes of Triforce Quartet, Armcannon, Jeff Ball (Tiny Barbarian DX), Playing with Power,  Super Guitar Bros. and many more artists and groups from all genres. Tackling everything from Donkey Kong Country to Actraiser with a wintery twist, Super VG Christmas Party was produced by Ian Luckey and is absolutely free to download! So if you’re looking for a hodge-podge of great artists and great tunes to crank for your holiday party, look no further! – Bandcamp

  Also, be sure to check out the X’Mas Collections: Music From Bravely Default album that we reported on last week! So if you’re having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit, check all these albums up and see if some of that festive flare can’t tickle your yuletude bone.

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  Get Into the Holiday Spirit With the Bravely Default X’mas Collections Album

  December 12, 2014 | Michael Hoffmann | Comments Off on Get Into the Holiday Spirit With the Bravely Default X’mas Collections Album Share this Get Into the Holiday Spirit With the Bravely Default X’mas Collections Album

  

  Every winter season inevitably brings with it the release of new Christmas and holiday albums. It should come as no surprise that videogame music gets in on the act as well. This year Square Enix has released a special arrange album of Bravely Default. The album X’Mas Collections: Music From Bravely Default is a continuation of Square Enix’s X’mas Collections series and features winter themed arrangements of pieces from the 3DS title. Some tracks stick with covering the game music source material, while others add references to traditional Christmas tunes.

  Arrangers on this album include Yuzo Koshiro, Motoi Sakuraba, and Yasuhiro Yamanaka. The music styles vary between tracks and range from simple piano and vocal arrangements to more electronic flavored mashups. So if you’re a fan of the Bravely Default soundtrack and want to hear some interesting new holiday arrangements, give this album a look. The X’mas Collections: Music From Bravely Default album can be found and purchased on CD Japan.

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  Sounding Very SQEXY: Square Enix Music Sampler CD 2011 Vol. 6 (Review)

  October 5, 2011 | Jayson Napolitano | 1 Comment Share this Sounding Very SQEXY: Square Enix Music Sampler CD 2011 Vol. 6 (Review)

  

  Okay, first they strayed from their SQ series naming conventions with SQ Chips, and now they’ve added the date to their title for this year’s TGS sampler CD. But anal rant aside, it’s that time of year again, and while we’ve posted about some of the surprises on the sampler, we now have it in-hand for a formal review.

  While the tracks here are once again snippets of the full-length versions that will later be featured on their respective final releases, I think this disc gives fans a lot to look forward to over the next year.

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