rhythmroo:

Howdy everyone

Now that I am officially done with college, I have a little bit more time to spare with posting videogame music. Well, and I’ll tell ya, I’ve picked up a great deal of game music since my last post.

I occasionally like to theme my posts around certain games, so this time I plan on posting the music of the Dragon Quest series. I recently did a batch purchase of 7-8 soundtracks of the series, so I think I have enough to last me the rest of this summer if I continually post every day.

I’ll try to keep things interesting with some of the posts and see what the track resembles to me in regards to classical music, or just information on the game series/composer. Without further ado, the “Overture March” of our beloved series and summer.

[SFW] A “future-trap” remix of the past, present, and future of The Legend of Zelda.

Free Download: https://soundcloud.com/joeyverbeke/ganons-lament

Hey There! I’m Kairi Blodeuyn, and I make lots of weird Orchestral music for games!

http://snd.sc/127QpoN

Check it out!

rhythmroo:

Title: Mullen
Track: 8
Composer: Noriyuki Iwadare

Working on a paper about the use of this game’s music in regards to development and narrative. It’s a bit of work…but the fun in playing through this game and listening to its soundtrack frequently is well worth it!

rhythmroo:

Title: Climb, Lest I fall
Track: 05
Composer: Aivi Tran

If you took part in funding the Cryamore through Kickstarter, one of the perks was a digital download of the album. So far, only an 8-track album was released for download for backers. I’ve soaked in this first release for a while and really love this one track. If you’re a fan of snes games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past juxtaposed with 8-bit timbres…then you’re going to love the final release of the full album. I already foresee an amazing soundtrack. Here’s a taste of what I mean with this track, “Climb, Lest I Fall.”

Hello everyone! I’m Scrub Club Records artist 2 Mello and I just wanted to tease my newest project, a full album combining Jay-Z lyrics with Chrono Trigger-sampling hip-hop beats. Here is the first single, a mix of Jay-Z’s “Ignorant Shit” with Chrono Trigger’s “Wind Scene”, on Soundcloud. Thanks for the listen!
 https://soundcloud.com/madhatter-mcginnis/2-mello-ignorant-scene-jay-z

Here are links to my social networks if you want to contact me!
www.facebook.com/2mellomakes
@MelloMakes on Twitter 

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.

Title: Castle of Pharamond
Track: 11
Game: Suikoden Tierkreis

rtwlovesvgm:

song Cutting Edge of Notion
composer Motoi Sakuraba
game Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
released 31 August 2004
developer tri-Ace
publisher Square Enix
platform PS2 

One of my favorite battle tracks from the Star Ocean Series. :)

Title: Salsabil Kingdom
Track: 10
Game: Suikoden Tierkreis