22 Jul 2009, 10:09 am
02 Aug 2009, 3:09 pm
These are awesome in each of their own game. Listen to all of them and you will know that there is lots of epicidom(?) to be found in games.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OsbL5zK9ds[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOWKlbICz0M[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl9IGwoYCms[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SGUbLn_Uhw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdyYJxb2PWo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElm4lh8rt4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sfEDG74hNo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMqksh3xNY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks_O7sLtw_4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KcrAA-x1gw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cK8mOG4Q8[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1VdPBC8kU4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFeK9PwgjtI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBR61GfGNzI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIop055eJhU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKlohxOEwsk[/youtube]
Holy cow, i have too much time on my hands.. And controllers apparently! 
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15 Aug 2009, 9:02 am
The first computer music I can remember being impressed with was the title music for Trantor on the ZX Spectrum (http://www.zxspectrum.net/ 1987 section), that's because at the time nearly every other game on the Spectrum was limited to not much more than a melody of beeps, while this game actually had different instruments playing at the same time. In music class at school it's the piece of music I played on the day everyone was asked to bring in a piece of music they liked (the guy sat next to me surprised everyone and gave them a good laugh when he played Kylie Minogue's 'I Should be so Lucky').
The only other in game music I've really been bothered with (most of the time I turn it off, as it can ruin immersion, and I can't handle listening to some music and doing other things at the same time), is the soundtrack to Deus Ex 2. While the game wasn't anywhere near as good as the original, it was still pretty engaging, and one of the characters you met in the game was a celebrity singer, whose music was provided by real life band Kidneythieves. I ended up getting as many of their songs as I could, and a lot of my goth friends who've never heard of them are impressed too.
My music taste really became my own (not just my parents music, or what people at school were listening to), when I moved on from the original PC game music, and it's connection to the tracker scene - the software used to write small high quality music files for games before mp3s came around. The format was even used in Unreal Tornament, and in the deathmatch map I made (dm-[trn]sewer, which has spread around a bit since I uploaded it to Nali-City, and is still available), I included one of the old tracker scene tunes I liked (along with full credits to the artist, his group, and the whole scene).
I ended up getting into Psy Trance and Techno, because they were like the stuff in the games I played, but at the same time even more energetic and full on than the metal I was listening to (Machine Head, Sepultura and White Zombie, which was the most 'computer' generated). The first Psy Trance album I bought was Green Nuns of the Revolution - Rock b***h Mafia, and I never found anything that came close to it in terms of raw energy, even after buying maybe 300 other psy trance CDs, so I ended up going back to the tracker scene, and mellowed out a bit into minimal techno.
I don't do 'pop' music at all (or radio, TV, magazines or newspapers), and I get most of my music free and legally from the groups listed at netlabels.org, mostly from the electronica, techno and minimal sections.
I played the demo for Braid, and confused my aspie friend no end with all the time twisting. You just reminded me, I still haven't listened to the soundtrack files that came in the bonus pack I got for pre-ordering Machinarium. (RockPaperShotgun.com - best site on the internet for discovering new games, indy or otherwise). [edit] Just as good as I expected. Machinarium is from the same people who made the Samorost Flash games. I can't wait to waste time playing a point-and-click game that looks and sounds so good
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15 Aug 2009, 3:21 pm
30 Aug 2009, 6:10 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ysDV9POBXE[/youtube] and [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTz9RLYUc8[/youtube] these are epic 
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