rhythmroo:

Title: SNEStale (Preschtale, Parts 2-4-5)
Track: 05
Composer: Dmitry Zhemkov (C-Jeff)
Arranger: Shannon Mason (Pongball)

The album from which this track comes from is “Preschtale Variations”, which is an arranged album of the music of C-jeff’s “Preschtale,” a catchy album that was released last year. “Preschtale Variations” is real treat for those who enjoyed the original, and deserves attention for it’s unique and amazing arrangements…

Today, I present you with Pongball’s contribution to the album; an astonishing track that pours an emotional feast as to tug at the heart strings of listeners. Myself? I get a sense of mystery and lonely melancholy—especially during introduction of the accordion(?)/harmonica(?). Wonderful, wonderful track. Bravo Shannon.

I wonder, what emotional response do you have from listening to this track?

rhythmroo:

Howdy everyone,

I wrote up a quick, general survey asking some questions about Video Game Music, and I would love to have you beautiful people take part in the survey. Pretty much what I’m asking is:

What makes Video Game Music Unique?
and
Can you spot it out from a group of music?

I gave one or two examples in the question help section underneath the main questions as to show possible ways to go about answering it, but please don’t let it limit your responses to follow that frame of thought…let it it be a starting point. So in other words…even if both questions are general, you don’t have to let your answers be! :)

Thank you for your time for reading, especially if you do take part in the survey. I’m not collecting personal information either, so it’s a straight forward form submit without the strings. Also, depending on the success of this survey, there may be additional surveys in the future that link together. Thanks again…

Note: It would be a great help if you could spread this survey around via reblog for those on Tumblr. You’re kindness and help is always appreciated…thank you.

http://axlstatus.bandcamp.com/

My first video game OST, which I’ve been working on for the past few months. It’s a full-length mix of house, ambient, orchestral, and avant-garde music that draws heavily from works such as Chrono Trigger, Nier, and EarthBound.

Give it a listen if it sounds like your kind of thing!

Hi all,

Just wanted to see if you guys would like to check out my site on ReverbNation.  I have been submitting a piece every few days for the last couple months.  I am a die hard gamer with much love for composition in the fantasy realm.  If you would like to check it out I would very much appreciate it :)  Here’s the link:

http://www.reverbnation.com/mikerunyon

Cheers!

If you love FF7 and Electro/House - You’ll probably love this :

http://soundcloud.com/drlevymusic/final-fantasy-vii-remix-shinra 

Howdy everyone! Apologies for the inconsistency of posting, as I have poured most of my attention to my classes (finals and papers) and posting on my main account: Rhythmroo.tumblr.com. I should note this now so I don’t forget: I’m probably going to focus my attention on my main account (which will harbor the rest of my audio uploading) and other sporadic thoughts/comments on music (knowing me, it’ll keep to music from games). I recommend if you’d like to be part of the discussions I post on my other tumblr on game music and such to follow it. As for this blog, it’s going to continue posting future game music-related submissions and reblog game music audio from my other account.

And speaking of submissions, for some reason I wasn’t notified of new submissions…sorry about that. I just checked my inbox and saw it had a couple in there (where are now posted). Thanks for your patience submitters! :)

Here’s the link to my main tumblr if you are interested in game music musics/discussions:
Rhythmroo.tumblr.com

http://dubambassadors.bandcamp.com

download album free

New Halo 4 music video, performed by the talented Jesse Cale. Featuring pro gamer Nak3d Eli!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGjaVl8KeY

rhythmroo:

Title: The Prayers Become Power
Disc: 02
Track: 20
Game: Tales of Legendia
Composer: Go Shiina

Spectacular. ‘nuff said.

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Orchestra: New Japan Philharmonic
(disc1-02,11/disc2-13,18,20,22)

Conductor: Taizo Takemoto

Orchestrator: _Hironori Osone, Natsumi Kameoka_
Orchestration Supervisor: Akio Naraoka
Transcription Supervisor: Masato Kouchi

Orchestra Recording Engineer:
Masaki Takamura, Takashi Irisa, Keiko Kizawa, Shinichi Yanadori
Keishi Hirakawa, Tomomi Nishizaki, Shigeharu Nakauchi

Concert Master: Jun Tsujii (辻井淳)

1st-Violin: Mariko Aikawa, Momoko Inagaki (稲垣桃子),黒田絵奈, Kazuyoshi Sawada (澤田和慶), Hayato Takenaka (竹中勇人)
Naotaka Tamura (田村直貴), Masamichi Hara (原雅道), Kenji Magaki (間垣健二), Makiko Matsumiya (松宮麻希子)
Sachiko Yamaguchi (山口幸子), Ayumi Tamura (田村安祐美), Yukako Funahashi (舩橋由佳子), Makiko Murakoshi

2nd-Violin:
Satomi Tomatsu (戸松智美), Asami Tamura (田村安紗美), Hatsumi Ishida (石田はつみ), Mio Unosawa (宇野沢美緒)
Hidekazu Shinohara, Yoshie Sunahata (砂畑佳江), Fumiko Nakagawa (中川富美子), Eiji Nakaya Mari Fukaya (深谷まり), Kanae Shima (志摩かなえ)

Viola:
Keiko Kimura (木村恵子), Nao Kaneko, Kaori Iwai (岩井 香保里), Noriko Karaki (唐木紀子)
Takaaki Hara (原孝明), Yoko Mase (間瀬容子), Reiko Yanami (矢浪礼子), Ai Takayama (高山愛)

Cello:
Kaoru Hanazaki (花崎薫), Shozo Kaibara (貝原正三), Reo Tada (多田麗王), Toru Hirota (弘田徹) Yutaka Morizawa, Akiko Yano

Contrabass:
Tsutomu Takeda (竹田勉), Tatsuya Anpo (安保龍也), Tsunefumi Ishida (石田常文), Yoshihito Hiroshima (廣嶋嘉人)
Youko Muramatsu (村松裕子), Koichi Morizono (森園康一)

Flute: Akira Shirao (白尾彰), Kenji Wada (和田健二), Yasushi Watanabe (渡辺泰)
Oboe: Ken-ichi Furube, Hidetaka Nanasawa (七澤英貴), 徳田振作
Clarinet: Kimie Shigematsu (重松希巳江), Yasue Sawamura (澤村康恵), Akira Ueki (植木章)
Fagot: Motoko Kawamura, Akira Ishikawa, 高橋あけみ
Horn: Masato Yoshinaga, Shozo Ainda (会田省三), Noriki Kaneko (金子典樹), Masaki Tanaka (田中雅樹)
Trumpet: Takaya Hattori, Kazuhiko Ichikawa, Shigeo Ohkura
Trombone: Hisato Yamaguchi, Kou Okumura, Sakon Ishihara (石原左近)
Tuba: Kazuhiko Sato
Timpani: Tatsuya Kawase (川瀬達也)
Percussion: Hikaru Kojima (小島光), Koya Nakatani (中谷孝哉), Toru Yamada (山田徹), Junko Naka
Harp: Yuko Yamaguchi, Midori Tajima (田島緑)
Piano: Ryuta Suzuki
Stage Manager: Kiyoaki Naruse, Hideaki Iino

*Information pulled from Tales of Legendia entry on vgmdb.net.

rhythmroo:

Title: A Cheerful Bandit
Disc: 01
Track: 05
Game: Tales of Legendia
Composer: Go Shiina

Again. Tales of Legendia or Tales of Jazz? I’m completely blown away on the quality of the compositions and orchestrations. It’s one thing to have a diverse soundtrack—as most game do—but it’s another to dish out work like this, and keeping it up…

I’m under the impression that the last two I mentioned arranged only a couple of pieces and Go Shiina did the rest himself. If I’m getting that mixed up, correct me on it so I can give credit where it’s do.

rhythmroo:

Title: Sunlight Filtering Through the Trees
Disc: 01
Track: 05
Game: Tales of Legendia
Composer: Go Shiina

Tales of Legendia? More like Tales of Chopin…maybe even Tales of Romantic music. The piano playing and other soothing playing makes me wish that other games had a piano concerto as background music for RPGs. (This track isn’t a piano concerto, but has many pleasant piano inserts.)

Namco, should’ve kept this guy on staff for more than two other “Tales of” games. Of course, the same goes for the arrangers Natsumi Kameoka and Hironori Osone.

rhythmroo:

Title: FUGUE ETERNITY MIX
Track: 10
Album: The Millennium of BACH
Produced by:TOMOKI HIRATA.

Found this on my laptop…forgot I burned this a year or two ago. The album is enjoyable, and it’s a darn shame that it’s not on youtube for listening. I’ll post some more later on so you get a chance to experience these pleasant arrangements of Bach’s music…