Mystery Gift: an Original Pokémon Tribute
Mystery Gift, available for "name your price" through Bandcamp, is an all-original album by Benjamin Briggs, designed to sound like a video game soundtrack. What started as an ordinary music project quickly became a full expression of the game cover musician's love for the Pokémon franchise and what it meant to his childhood.
Austin Wintory Q&A: Gentleman's Private Collection
Journey composer Austin Wintory discusses the score to IGF-winning heist game Monaco and the remix album The Gentleman's Private Collection in a recent interview on IndieGames.com. His underscore for the short film The Forge and contribution to the game-inspired album World 1-2 are available to stream in full on Bandcamp.
Diskette Deluxe's My Amiga vol. 1 on Bandcamp
My Amiga vol. 1 by indie game composer Rutger Muller is now available for "name your price" through the Diskette Deluxe Bandcamp page. The album is inspired by the Commodore Amiga, the musician writes, from the prog of Chris Huelsbeck and funk of Martin Iveson, to the house music of Barry Leitch and the melodies of David Whittaker.
Name your price for the Banjo-Tooie N64 soundtrack
GoldenEye co-composer Grant Kirkhope has posted the first two Banjo-Kazooie game soundtracks to Bandcamp. The 14-track score to the Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Tooie by Rare, released today, can be streamed in full and downloaded in your file format for "name your price."
Name your price for Banjo-Kazooie N64 soundtrack
GoldenEye co-composer Grant Kirkhope, currently based in Los Angeles, California, has posted the digital soundtrack to Banjo-Kazooie to Bandcamp. The 17-track album featuring music from the 1998 Nintendo 64 platformer by Rare can be streamed in full and downloaded in your file format for "name your price."
Danimal Cannon's Cursor Curse score on Bandcamp
Danimal Cannon of the Armcannon game cover band has released the seven-track soundtrack to Cursor Curse, available for download for "name your price" through Bandcamp. Music for the Windows 8 freeware title by Jan de Vries was composed using LSDJ for Game Boy, infused with acoustic drum recordings.
Lauren the flute posts RPG cover compilation
Lauren the flute (Lauren Liebowitz) of cover band The Returners has posted Moogle's Flute, six flute arrangements covering music from Final Fantasy, Suikoden and Terranigma. The musician, whose birthday is today, has performed live music with Descendants of Erdrick, Those Who Fight and The World Is Square.
James Primate shares Mega Quad game scores
James Primate of the chiptune group BR1GHT PR1MATE has made four of his indie game scores available for "name your price" through Bandcamp. Published by GameChops, the Mega Quad VideoGame Music Bundle includes Nanoloop and LSDJ music from Abrickadabra, Junk Jack, LiquidSketch and Tangled.
Masikus shares Versus game cover EP
Electronic musician Masikus has released the EP Versus, a series of game covers arranged as an exercise to get acquainted with the Renoise tracker-based digital audio workstation. The remixes of music from Contra, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania II and Sonic the Hedgehog are available for "name your price."
A_Rival shares Street Fighter X Mega Man album
San Francisco-based chip-hop artist A_Rival has released the soundtrack to Street Fighter X Mega Man, an officially licensed PC freeware game coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the NES series. All 22 tracks, incorporating FamiTracker arrangements of themes from both franchises, are available for "name your price."
4mat shares closure bonus tracks
Game composer and chip music artist Matt Simmonds, contributor of sound design to Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, has shared a collection of eight bonus tracks from his album Sans Titre, freely available online. Closure can be streamed in full and downloaded in your file format of choice via the 4mat Bandcamp page.
Amanda Lepre covers Uematsu's 3-D WorldRunner
Game cover artists Amanda Lepre (Descendants of Erdrick) has arranged two of Nobuo Uematsu's compositions from Square's NES title 3-D WorldRunner, available for "name your price" through Bandcamp. The collaboration with Stemage (Metroid Metal) is titled "Running through a 3D World." Press [Select] for 3D.
Have yourself a Very Random Christmas, 2012
Nerdcore rapper Random, aka Mega Ran, has added vocal track "Christmas In My Town (Feat. Lefty)" to A Very Random Christmas EP. Available through Bandcamp for "name your price," the holiday-themed album is written and performed by the creator of Forever Famicom, Mega Ran 5th Anniversary Edition and Black Materia.
