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2011-02-15 15:07

Hate Bush

Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 465

straight from YOUR playlist

if you encounter a piece of sound so great you want to hang yourself for not being able to write something of similar quality...
if you think you've just found the best music ever made...
if you think a certain song/tune/symphony contains some unusually awesome elements...
...and you want to share it with other c64 composers and not necessarily via your facebook wall, just do it here.
explanations, reviews and so on warmly welcome.
one link per day max.
have fun.

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2013-06-07 21:07

G-Fellow
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VNV Nation - Carbon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1socY_ptN4

Powerful song with a great message.

2013-06-08 13:17

_V_
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You all probably heard of Tomb Raider at some point of time. The series has always had an impressive soundtrack, and I think I covered the main theme of the first Tomb Raider in JCH v14.g0. Nathan McCree did that tune way back, and it was my favourite Tomb Raider theme for a very long time.

Until Troels Brun Folmann walked by, that is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWa6SfuNaE

Folmann composed the main theme of Tomb Raider: Underworld which just blew me away the first time I heard it. I recall being so ecstatic about it that it took me about 15 minutes until I remembered: "Oh yeah, there's a game I can play!" :).

Hints of McCree's original piece were worked into the composition but really, what shines here is how the tune just builds up more and more critical mass. Every time you think it reached its maximum in sheer power, Troels adds another, even more powerful layer. Sublime. Eventually, it just explodes in the best possible way. Think of Martin Galway's Terra Cresta theme song masterpiece, but now with a full symphonic orchestra.

It's uplifting, it's inspiring, it's powerful. It's all that and the most complete feeling of ultimate victory compressed into a soundwave. This is the kind of music you can play when the winning Champion's League team is being crowned. Move over "Champion's League" anthem, you're just not good enough anymore.

Does that mean I've forgotten everything about McCree's work? Hell no:

(bonus link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdQmWTorTsk&list=PLBE8954C255E15..

The Midas Palace score, no matter what, will always be the second Tomb Raider track I will fondly remember and speak of. It's short, but so bloody sweet.

-- La vie, c'est la guerre des dualités.

2013-06-09 10:10

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The Silent Hill series, and in particular the parts made by Team Silent, will always be one of my favourite 'between the ears' horror series. Although general consensus places mainly Silent Hill 2 on a pedestal, I personally prefer part 4 (The Room) as that one can become an extremely creepy mindf**k if you allow it to.

Anyway, a good horror series stands or falls with its soundtrack, so Team Silent was very lucky to have Akira Yamaoka do the honours for a very long time (I believe he stopped composing for it before the most recent instalment). In these games, Yamaoka's work has been detrimental to their success, bringing anything in between heavy atmosphere and sad melancholy to the table. He never really gives you a reason to celebrate your progress in the game - even his most 'upbeat' Silent Hill tunes will leave you feeling sad, helpless, depressed. Most of the time however, you'll face a really oppressive atmosphere as you walk the fog-covered, abandoned streets of Silent Hill. Which is, of course, exactly what Team Silent intended and what you wanted to experience willingly.

There are far too many awesome tunes to choose from. I covered my favourite, "True" (one of the upbeat tunes I talked about :), on c64 with "WinACookie". The one I'm linking to below is not super high on my playlist, but it is a good synopsis of the emotional spectrum the composer generally infused into the series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khdRqQMXD88

Dang, now I want to go play Silent Hill 3 again. Laters!

-- La vie, c'est la guerre des dualités.

2013-06-09 13:25

Jammer

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335

I prefer SH2 OST the most - scary, captivating and nostalgic at the same time. Pity that official soundtrack doesn't cover all themes from the game. I'm working to make something with this sound on sid - well, something between SH and STALKER too ;)

2013-06-09 19:27

Linus

Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639

Boards of Canada's new longplayer "Tomorrow's Harvest" on repeat for days. Recommended especially for those who thought "The Campfire Headphase" was too lightweight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0

2013-06-10 18:46

_V_
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@Linus: that track reminds me of Lackluster/Sunflower, in a good way :)

All right, so let's take a look at Erina Niwa:

http://www.last.fm/music/Erina+Niwa/+images/69322356

Erina is your golden ticket whenever you need adrenalin pumping music for your latest and greatest action game. She did the honours for Bayonetta and Vanquish, both critical successes but unfortunately, commercially not so... boo :(.

My favourite tune (and quite a few more) hails from Vanquish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKfw7vVEH2s

This is the first tune that plays after the tutorial. At first, I was a bit disappointed. As you can see from the pictures in the Youtube video, Vanquish is a futuristic bullet hell cybershooter, yet the music brings a classical composition to the table, heavy on the brass.

Then, at 1:28, when I'm just about to accept fate and endure the game's beaten to death 'space opera' music style, Erina Niwa says "Haha, fooled you!" and 303 happens. Gorgeous, delicious Three "Oh, f**k yeah." Three. And then, half a minute later, the brass returns, but this time layered into the 303. And it's "OH. F**K. YEAH!" sublime! I'm in bullet hell and at the same time in fusion trance heaven.

"Breaking into the Colony" sets the tone for the rest of the game. Not a single beat is dropped as Erina and co-composer Masafumi Takada hit you with fusion trance, lots of 303, cybertrance, ambient and... android commie disco (trust me, it makes sense in the game :):

(bonus kawaii!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9FQOImlTlo

Tomorrow will be my final playlist entry for a while. See you then!

-- La vie, c'est la guerre des dualités.

2013-06-10 20:53

Hate Bush

Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 465

suave, rich, funky, sublime, Minnie Riperton & Peabo Bryson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjpnnsS4XB8
preferably, play this with your girlfriend/boyfriend in a close vicinity ;)

2013-06-11 21:34

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I'm, as they say, a child of the eighties. The eighties were the decade where - in my case - music was absorbed, assimilated and shaping the id and the ego.

For my last entry into this thread (for a while), I've picked the one track from the eighties which I literally cannot live without. In 1981, this song firmly kicked off everything wrong and right about the eighties and will last me my entire life (and it would be truly impossible to remove any rose-tinted eyewear from my lookers, not that I'm wearing any mind you, no seriously, there are no recognisable rose tints within my field of vision as I continue to rant poetic):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9WdUgn0XkU

I love everything about this :). Composition (with gradual tempo progression), vocals/lyrics (and I'm not a big fan of vocals/lyrics as you may have noticed from my previous entries), instruments (a first step towards the fusion of analogue and digital), atmosphere and even the accompanying bonkers video clip (back when suave mustaches and weird camera shots for the heck of it were all the rage).

At some point, I'm going to convert this treasure to c64. Some day. Until then... may this mean nothing to you!

-- La vie, c'est la guerre des dualités.

2013-06-12 23:50

Hate Bush

Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 465

to my utter surprise, i think i've never heard a song that complicated, that dissonant and that beautiful at the same time.
http://sorjamorja.bandcamp.com/track/stany
the name's Norwegian i guess, but the band's Polish.

2013-06-13 21:23

Linus

Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639

Randall: Beautiful. But ... complicated? Dissonant? Where?

http://disasterpeace.com/track/polis <3

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