Taking a second to spread some love. My friend Tommy plays music under the moniker of lovehandles and made the video above to one of his songs, “Yes Yes Oui Oui”, and it’s pretty damn awesome. Have a watch/listen, let him know what you think on his myspace page.
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With June fast approaching, I thought I would do a short list of my favorite albums of 2008, six months into the year:
Heading down to Mexicali, Mexico for Video Games Live on the 15th at the Califia Bullring pictured above. Pretty pumped, especially because the show is going off hand in hand with the new Gamacon Convention taking place right now in the heart of Baja. Expect a full report Sunday.
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The Man Behind the Music
Do you know who this friendly, Ewok of a man is? What if I told you that he is responsible for some of the most well known, intricate and beautiful music you have ever heard? Well, maybe you haven’t heard his music, because it’s usually only in video games. Specifically, the Final Fantasy series. It’s Nobuo Uematsu, and the man is a musical Midas. He sets the bar for video game soundtracks.
I bring all of this up because 1UP has an awesome interview ( less of an interview and more of a documented slice of life) with the man and his wife taking place in and around his house on the slopes of Mount Fuji. I gotta say, going to E3, attending the VGAs and seeing triple A titles before they launch are big attractors to working in the games biz in a spectacular, look-what-I’m-doing way. Taking part in a meeting like the one with Uematsu seems more introspective and personally enriching. I’ve never been so jealous of games journalists as I am of Ryan and Milky.
I was inspired by Mark and his recent music list, and I decided to make one of my own.
I speak a couple different languages, so I’m always impressed when a non-native English speaker can speak English well. Here is a list of five great albums written by non-native English speakers but sung in English.
The 8 bit era of video game music is a fond time period for most of the people who currently play video games. If you are still playing today, you have a favorite game song. It was the point in gaming history where the music of the game added significantly to the emotion of playing the game. Would I have liked Bionic Commando as much if when I began my first mission the stark bombed out environments didn’t match the military snare beat pushing me though the world? Most likely I would not, because the music primed me mentally to play the rest of the game. This is what happened when actual musicians began actually writing actual music for games, instead of the code writers who made the game adding it as an afterthought. Continue reading ‘Why I love video game music’
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