The OneUps have just released their seventh studio album, appropriately titled “Part Seven”. The OneUps are a video game music cover band that performs arrangements of a wide variety of music, oftentimes in variations of jazz and rock styles. Their latest album, released just prior to this past MAGFest last month, continues this trend with new covers in a funk rock style. It includes a nice selection of songs, including some fairly familiar ones and some less so. Read on for the full review.
Shift by WASD is a metal album that is a solid tribute to early PC era video games. WASD is an obvious reference to keyboard shortcuts. For me listening to the album took me back to a time that I had long forgotten about, the age of 3 and 1/2 inch floppy bootdisks, and 4X to 8X CD-Rom drives. The band’s mantra is “Console games are dead. Long live the personal computer.” If you grew up with early PC games, this is an album you will appreciate.
So come take the trip down PC game memory lane with my review of the album.
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We all knew it was only a matter of time. Video Games Live is looking to create a LEVEL 5 album with a third kickstarter campaign. Video Games Live has successfully funded two previous campaigns in the form of their LEVEL 3 and LEVEL 4 albums. You can read OSV’s review of their Level 4 album here.
Planned Track Listing for Level 5:
SUPER MARIO WORLD
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA
CHRONO CROSS
GRIM FANDANGO
PHOENIX WRIGHT
METROID
ICO
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: WARLORDS OF DRAENOR
COMMAND & CONQUER: RED ALERT
TOP GEARwith stretch goals:
Mother/Earthbound, Okami, Xenogears/saga/blade, Katamari Damacy and more…
Video Games Live
The initial goal for the Level 5 album is $150,000. The stretch goals begin at $275,000 and increase in increments of $25,000. For each stretch goal reached another track will be added to the album which will be decided by kickstarter backer voting polls.
Video Games Live has an excellent kickstarter record and has always delivered their rewards to backers on time. You can find all the details about the campaign on their kickstarter page. Backers are already grabbing up rewards fast.
Will you be backing Video Games Live Level 5? Is there a song that you think should be on their next album?
