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Diddy Kong Racing Gets EDM Tribute Album with Future Dance Land

November 29, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Diddy Kong Racing Gets EDM Tribute Album with Future Dance Land Share this

It’s been a prolific year for celebrating milestone anniversaries of classic video games. (1992 and 1997 truly were blessed years.) There’s also been no shortage of tribute albums dedicated to celebrating the music of said games either. Diddy Kong Racing is no exception to this treatment, as Materia Collective has released yet another in their already impressive video game library with Future Dance Land: An Electronic Tribute to Diddy Kong Racing.

Released in North America for the Nintendo 64 on November 24, 1997 and composed by the legendary David Wise, Diddy Kong Racing was Rare’s response to Nintendo’s Mario Kart. Album producer and arranger Nicholas Arden Day (aka Nikolyst) decided to pay homage to the game’s soundtrack by creating an electronic fusion album.

“Diddy Kong Racing contains some of my all-time favorite game music. I felt it was only fitting to combine these catchy tunes with EDM. Once I discovered the 20th anniversary of Diddy Kong Racing was approaching, the idea for this album was born.” – Nikolyst, Album Producer

<a href="http://materiacollective.bandcamp.com/album/future-dance-land-an-electronic-tribute-to-diddy-kong-racing">Future Dance Land: An Electronic Tribute to Diddy Kong Racing by Taylor Ambrosio Wood</a>

The album includes contributions from several artists over the 20 tracks, including Viking Guitar, John Weible, Jay Kim, former OSV editor Michael Hoffman and more, all done in a energetic, electronic mashup.

Future Dance Land: An Electronic Tribute to Diddy Kong Racing is available for download on Bandcamp, iTunes and streaming on Spotify. You can find out the full album credits on the album’s page at Materia Collective.
Doujin, Game Music

GameChops Releases Cuphead Remix Featuring James Landino

October 23, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on GameChops Releases Cuphead Remix Featuring James Landino Share this

The people over at GameChops have decided to get in on the massive love for Cuphead and the game’s fantastic soundtrack by composer Kristofer Maddigan by creating an EDM-swing arrangement of “Botanic Panic” from the game’s music!

This remix of Botanic Panic is by James Landino and mastered by Dj CUTMAN. Cutman also edited the video, showing many boss fights thanks to the excellent gameplay footage by Emily Feder! Oh my gosh we sure have fallen in love with Cuphead over here at GameChops! Hope you enjoy this Cuphead electro swing music video, what an amazing soundtrack, incredible animation and an awesome game!

The catchy beats of the electro-swing arrangement fit perfectly with the game’s original melody and works with the zany gameplay of the video. The “Botanic Panic” Electro Swing Mix is free to download on the Gamechops website.
Doujin, Game Music

Mischief Makers Remixed EP Gives N64 Shmup the EDM Treatment

October 19, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Mischief Makers Remixed EP Gives N64 Shmup the EDM Treatment Share this

Once upon a time in 1997, there was a Nintendo 64 game developed by Treasure by the name of Mischief Makers. It was a cute side-scrolling platformer/shmup where you play a robotic maid and go on an adventure to save your creator from a bad guy. While the game was a bit obscure and only received mixed reviews at the time, it still has a niche fandom that remembers it fondly.

Enter Materia Collective, who decided they’d release little EP for the game featuring the likes of EDM artists James Landino, Voia, Ben Briggs, Baircave, and a guest appearance by Hyper Potions in order to create a arranged tribute to the game called Mischief Makers Remixed. The EP features five tracks of electronic dance arrangements of the music originally composed by Norio Hanzawa (of Gunstar Heroes fame under the alias NON), and is entirely produced by indie composer and arranger James Landino.

<a href="http://materiacollective.bandcamp.com/album/mischief-makers-remixed">Mischief Makers Remixed by James Landino</a>

“When I was young, Mischief Makers was one of the titles I continued to rent from the video rental store and I grew a nostalgic fondness for it. To my surprise, many fans have reached out to me and requested the possibility of remixing the soundtrack to this game.

Nowadays the game industry is seeing a resurgence of cult classics and hidden gems being remastered. It would be awesome for a developer or publisher to consider remaking Mischief Makers for the current generation of consoles” – James Landino, Producer

Mischief Makers Remixed is a fully licensed album and can be purchased and downloaded digitally on Bandcamp for the tidy sum of $5.
Doujin, Game Music

EDM Meets A Capella in Smooth McGroove Remixed Vol.2

January 20, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on EDM Meets A Capella in Smooth McGroove Remixed Vol.2 Share this

In terms of mashups between musical genres and styles, I can safely say combining EDM and A Capella was never one I thought about before. However, Youtube VGM vocal star Smooth McGroove teamed up with the people at GameChops and decided “Why the heck not?”. Thus, we have Smooth McGroove Remixed Volume 2.

Remixed by music producers like A_rival, Dj CUTMAN, Grimecraft, and James Landino., the album features licensed EDM remixes of classic videogame music from Super Mario 64, Undertale, Pokemon, Mega Man and many more based on the the a capella talents of Mr. McGroove. The album is available now for purchase on ITunes and Google play, on Spotify for your listening pleasure, or you can just watch the neat music videos like the one above.

I can safely say that an a capella of Castlevania‘s “Vampire Killer” remixed into a danceable electronic music was never something I asked for, but I’m appreciative at the quality put into the production of such a chimera of VGM and can say I give such an effort a thumbs up.
Game Music, Indie Music

Four Tracks from GameChops’ Chozo Legacy now Free

November 21, 2015 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comments Off on Four Tracks from GameChops’ Chozo Legacy now Free Share this

If you’re still on the fence about GameChop’s latest release — bLiNd’s Chozo Legacy tribute to Super Metroid — and our own review hasn’t swayed you, maybe some free tracks will. GameChop has just released Chozo Legacy: Free Missions on Bandcamp offering four tracks from the full album for whatever price you’d like to pay, including $0.00. The four songs are embedded below and when you’re ready for more you can pick up the full album for $10 on Loudr.
<a href="http://music.gamechops.com/album/chozo-legacy-free-missions">Chozo Legacy: Free Missions by bLiNd</a>
Doujin, Game Music, Reviews

Chozo Legacy (Review)

November 18, 2015 | Sebastian Urrea | 1 Comment Share this Chozo Legacy (Review)

Chozo Legacy is the latest release by music producer and game remixer bLiNd, released through record label GameChops. It’s a 10-track album featuring music from the SNES game Super Metroid remixed in a variety of electronic house, trance, and techno music styles. The album sets out to be more than just an assortment of remixed tracks though, and it achieves this goal quite well. If you’re a fan of the Metroid series or EDM, read on to learn more.

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