The Soundtrack of Our Lives
By Brackynews 1 Comments
I've been listening to and collecting video game music seriously for about 15 years now, and have travelled to Japan twice to find some of it (...and do other stuff too...) So this is a topic I feel pretty comfortable blogging about, and thought a good start would be plugging a new iTunes iMix I made, Where are all the Video Games?
In case you didn't realize, there is a ton of video game music available on iTunes, and I'm just looking at the Canadian store. It's bloody hard to find it all, because most everything is classified as a Soundtrack, even though Game is a perfectly common MP3 genre.
Currently the iMix has 69 tracks, which is populated at 1 key track per album. So yes you could go nuts and drop $700 on the iTunes store right now by grabbing each full album. I really don't recommend that, because all the Medal of Honor and Harry Potter stuff would get a bit repetitive. Yep, EA is doing a pretty good job cranking it out, but it's definitely high quality scores. Can't fault the production values.
Here's my posted description:
What you will find here are OSTs by publishers, tracks by original composers, and skilled re-mixes both electronic and orchestral. What you won't find here are alternative "tribute" songs.An iMix of tribute songs would be almost as much again, but I wanted to highlight the composers foremost. And really you can find Beck anywhere.
If you find more or new tracks, please post it in the comments and I'll update the mix!
Future blogging will give me the opportunity to revisit my amassed collection for colourful and winsome reviews, and to trawl the soundscape for things neither of us has run across before. With a little grass-roots momentum, we might even get ourselves a Game genre search on iTunes.
How beautiful is that?
>B
P.S. Yes my username is also game music related. First guesser of the game and location and composer wins a totally rad prize (srsly!)