Game Music's New Canon

January 20, 2016 7:35 PM

Jeremy Parish writes about video game(-ish) music label Brave Wave and has interviews with Ninja Gaiden composer Keiji Yamagishi and Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae, both artists on the label. (Brave Wave previously)
posted by curious nu (3 comments total)

The Top Score podcast has lots of interviews with video game composers of all sorts, and is pretty wide-ranging and fascinating. I don't even play video games, and loved listening to this when it was being produced. (And I hope more episodes are coming someday.)
posted by hippybear at 7:45 PM on January 20, 2016

I just finished playing (well, looking over my girlfriend's shoulder while she played) Oxenfree, and it had some of the best video game music I've heard in recent memory. It did a really incredible job of using the music to set mood and tone in a way I haven't seen done so well in a game since Myst (which still, to this day, has the best music of any game I've ever heard).
posted by Itaxpica at 7:58 PM on January 20, 2016

This is amazing! Thanks! Yay!

Listened to Retro-Active Pt. 1 last night. Sounded like Super Chemical Brothers 2 player. Now I'm listening to AKANE's Journey. It's rillygood
posted by Taft at 9:34 AM on January 21, 2016