Music

Song of Da Day: Shared Dig – Unreal

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Another song by Alexander Brandon. I’ve fallen asleep countless times on this one as I would have it playing all night (among other similar ones) it to inspire my dreams and hoping that my subconscious or some voodoo like that would pick up on this style of music. Why? For the same reason I had awesome dreams on it: this is music with a story, and it also helps that in my mind it directly connects to visual memories of places in the game.

Song of Da Day: Laboratory level – Jazz the JackRabbit

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A hard to forget song if you’ve ever split screen deathmatched or raced on it with silly cute rabbit noises :D I’m so very happy I found the text: “Alexander Brandon”. I’m a huge fan of this guy. It’s one of those handful of people that I somehow felt had a big impact on my life and over the years I kept trying to track him down but he disappeared. So here’s what I know: he was part of Straylight productions, a group that made brilliant music for Unreal. I think they later split up and each probably became big in their way. I think i found some traces of them on last.fm. Other games in which you can get a taste of their brilliant work are Crusader: No Regret & Jazz (2?). I remember I was staring impressed in a time when under Marius’s tutelage i was learning about making music on trackers such as Fasttracker/Madtracker/Ittracker (modtracker?) … and i was amazed how he would use amazingly many challenge to simulate on low machines complex sound effects, make true stereo depth stuff, and generally manage to create out of looping simple stuff that took lil memory and cpu music that sounded original and non-repetitive.

Song of Da Day: Klaymen’s Theme – Neverhood

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He he, i even found the whole soundtrack on grooveshark :)) Yep, it’s all super silly :P But it’s best enjoyed in game!

Song of Da Day: The Rocking Grounds – Final Fantasy 3

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It’s really amazing to me how much these guys remind me of my old fave band Dream Theater.

Song of Da Day: Reign of the Septims – The Elder Scrolls 4

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Glorious, no? :D

Song of da day: Unreal Tournament 3 Theme

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Something glorious and energetic!

Black & White sailor song

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The last sketch reminded me of how you help these silly sailors build their ship in Black & While. The funny song got stuck to my brain ever since :D

Katamari music

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This game had (for me) much more than it’s crazy visuals … the music was a big part of my experience.

Gabriel Knight 3 Music

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Gabriel Knight 3 was the first game whose soundtrack fascinated me perhaps even more than the gameplay itself. Especially the main theme, which is brilliant, original and full of emotion! The music goes hand in hand with the profound atmosphere and story making it one of those games that you’ll never forget you played and experienced. In fact this is the perfect pick for my fist post here: it’s the game that showed me – a long, long time ago – that there can be much more to games besides the entertainment value!

Another masterpiece from GK3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Na6PNdizkI; and a piano interpretation made by a fan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBKiAIYEwh4. Enjoy!

PS: for those of you that played the game – here’s a short film shot in the real village Rennes le Chateau in the south of France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jylqtzTFGv4 – just like in GK…!

Eyes on Me

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I think i must’ve watched this clip at least tens of times in the last … ummm 10? … years. The first time i saw it i was like… umm… moved to tears (no way! of course real tough men don’t cry! )

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