ONLY ON OFFWORLD: GIVE DANIEL PEMBERTON’S LITTLE BIG MUSIC ANOTHER LISTEN
In early December, Offworld debuted a track off Daniel Pemberton‘s then-forthcoming collection of his contributions to Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet, with the ragtime/big band turntablism of ‘Horny Old Man.’
Since then, the album — Little Big Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBigPlanet — has been properly released to iTunes [link], and, as was noted in early February, LittleBigPlanet‘s soundtrack has been nominated for the UK’s BAFTA award for best original score, alongside Assassin’s Creed, Dead Space, Fable II, Fallout 3, and Metal Gear Solid 4.
In celebration of the work that Sonica‘s Mat Clark, Media Molecule’s own Kenny Young and Daniel put into the game’s stellar soundtrack, Pemberton has given Offworld another exclusive track for your downloading or streaming needs.
This time it’s the haunted toy-box pop of ‘The Appliance of Science,’ one of the tracks from the game originally available on TVPOPMUZIK, Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra‘s debut album which also features ‘Pip Pop Plop,’ Pemberton’s excellent original theme song for Offworld fave Brit-com Peep Show (and is also available on iTunes and amazon.mp3).
Listen below, or grab
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Previously:
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Daniel Pemberton's Little Big Music hits iTunes – Offworld
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ONLY ON OFFWORLD: A SNEAK PEEK AT DANIEL PEMBERTON’S LITTLEBIGMUSIC
It’s no secret that LittleBigPlanet has one of the outright hippest soundtracks in recent memory, coolhunting its way through the basically heart-melting naiveté of The Go! Team’s ‘Get It Together’ and the fractured pounding rhythm of Battles’ ‘Atlas’ (which I’d like to go ahead and declare our gaming generation’s version of Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott’s Looney Tunes staple ‘Powerhouse’).
So it was with great excitement that I woke up to an email from Daniel Pemberton (of the Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra) with news that Little Big Music, his own collection of 18 tracks composed for the game, was nearly due for an iTunes release. Most notably, Pemberton is the man behind ‘The Orb of Dreamers,’ the warmly angelic dusty-vinyl ambient track that marks your entry into the game.
Even better, Pemberton has partnered with Offworld to give you the first listen to the album with ‘Horny Old Man,’ one of the seven ‘b-side rarities’ on the collection that didn’t make it onto the final release of the game, but may be used in the future as the Planet evolves and expands.
Somewhat akin to Montreal DJ Kid Koala, the song’s a romping bout of ragtime/big band turntablism, and my favorite on the album outside of ‘Dreamers’. Without further ado, then, here’s that track, which you can also download directly here:
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‘Little Big Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBigPlanet’ is due to appear on iTunes by December 15th (we’ll link you to it again when it goes live), and you can hear more from Daniel on his debut album TVPOPMUZIK, which includes some tracks later reworked for the game as well as ‘Pip Pop Plop,’ the theme song for the first season of Offworld favorite British comedy Peep Show.
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