Skype Conference 2012: Laura Shigihara
Melolune designer and composer Laura Shigihara is joining Skype Conference 2012 as the fifth announced guest. Austin Wintory, C418, Disasterpeace and Darren Korb will also be participating in the Skype chat series associated with the Winter Bundle, whose funding goal is rapidly approaching on Kickstarter.
Otherman delivers Chiptunes Change Christmas
Otherman Records has released Chiptunes Change Christmas for free download, a yuletide bundle of chip music tracks curated by Tokyo artist Storz. The glitchtacular collection combines boisterous holiday-themed remixes and wintry original tunes by Blip Festival Tokyo performers Orloc, Toriena, Abortifacient and NNNNNNNNNN.
Famitsu shares DoDonPachi Maximum MBS EP
Famitsu's online news site has uploaded Cave's DoDonPachi Maximum MBS Ver2.02 EP, a set of six mp3s made available to download until the end of the year in Japan. Featuring music from Ketsui by series composer Manabu Namiki, electronic arrangements for the mobile phone shooter are by WASi303.
Theophany's Time's End remixes Majora's Mask
Nintendophile game arranger Theophany has released an ambient electronic album called Time's End, reinterpreting ten themes by Koji Kondo from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The arrangements, featuring vocalist Laura "Flute Link" Intravia, are available to download through Bancamp for "name your price."
FF Violin IV planned for Comic Market 83
Violinist TAM will release his fourth collection of Final Fantasy arrangements at Tokyo hobbyist convention Comic Market 83. Video clips of the main theme from Final Fantasy V and "Aerith’s Theme" from Final Fantasy VII, among other tracks, can be viewed on the TAMUSIC YouTube channel.
Skype Conference 2012: Austin Wintory
Journey composer Austin Wintory is joining Skype Conference 2012 as the fourth announced guest, and backers of the Winter Bundle's Skype chat are invited to take part. Disasterpeace, Darren Korb, C418 and an additional musicians to be announced this week will be participating in the Skype chat series.
Osamuraisan vol.4 offers acoustic RPG selections
Acoustic RPG arrange album Osamuraisan Selection vol.4 Six String Story will debut at hobbyist convention Comic Market 83 next week. The album, which can be sampled on YouTube, inventively plays with the source material by treating Front Mission and Chrono Trigger battle tracks to mellow guitar arrangements.
FAMI-MODE radio program on Noise Channel
The newest installment of the Noise Channel radio program, hosted by TrueStar, features the FAMI-MODE 2012 Live Recordings. Music from the show by Kplecraft, Omodaka, Professor Sakamoto and Sexy-Synthesizer is included in the Nubuwo Winter Bundle, approaching its fundraising deadline on Kickstarter.
Skype Conference 2012: C418
Minecraft composer C418 is joining Skype Conference 2012 as the third announced guest, and backers of the Winter Bundle's Skype chat are invited to take part. Disasterpeace, Darren Korb and two additional musicians to be announced this week will be participating in the remaining Skype sessions.
Lightning Returns single "Crimson Blitz" on iTunes
Square Enix has released "Crimson Blitz" through iTunes, featured in the upcoming RPG Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The two-minute arrangement of "Blinded by Light" appearing in the debut trailer is composed by Masashi Hamauzu, with a vocal performance by Mina.
Takeharu Ishimoto of Square Enix joins SoundCloud
Square Enix in-house composer Takeharu Ishimoto of Crisis Core has joined SoundCloud. Five of the composer's The World Ends With You -Solo Remix- live event demos are streaming on his page, including "TATAKAI LIVE! [The Death March feat. Stephanie] DEMOMIX" and "Twister LIVE! [feat. SAWA]."
Ninja Sprint soundtrack by Rafael Dyll on Bandcamp
Rainbow Moon composer Rafael Dyll has released Ninja Sprint - The GROOVE Collection on Bandcamp, the soundtrack to the mobile game by Eastasiasoft. Composed of thumping electronic beats and video-game inspired 8-Bit sounds, the album can be sampled in full and purchased in your file format of choice.
Five Seasons of kiЯitɘ streaming on Procyon website
Our Millennial Fair, the official website of Chrono Trigger composer Yasunori Mituda, is continuing its annual holiday tradition of streaming a previously unreleased music track in time for Christmas. This time music from the Five Seasons of kiRite live concert from 2006 will be playable until the 25th.
