LISTEN: DB SOUNDWORKS’ BLUSH SOUNDTRACK
It might only be three tracks, but it’s three tracks good: dB soundworks (the same previously mentioned studio behind Edmund McMillen’s WiiWare Super Meat Boy) are giving away their soundtrack for Flashbang’s just-released deep sea tentacle-whipper Blush, my favorite being the skittering and clicking ambiance of its “mellow” track.
The three songs can be downloaded or played via the site’s still inexplicably entertaining built in pixel-arena-rock header.
Blush soundtrack [dB soundworks]
Previously:
Gimme Indie Game: the flails and flagellations of Flashbang's …
Super Meat Boy gets musical, and Nintendo gets forward – Offworld
Flashbang let loose a little Blush – Offworld
Flashbang Relentless-ly tease new game – Offworld
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LISTEN: DOUBLE FINE’S PSYCHONAUTS SOUNDTRACKS GO ‘E’
Being a double-strong supporter of basically everything Double Fine related, I was happy to see this morning that the Brütal Legend developer has just released its original Psychonauts soundtracks to essentially every digital music retailer on the face of the earth. But let Double Fine head Tim Schafer do the explaining in his own inimitable fashion:
Sure, you already own the Psychonauts Soundtrack and also the Original Cinematic Score… But you have them on deadly plastic discs that spin at dangerous speeds and must be read with eye-burning lasers. What were you thinking??
For your own safety I insist that you purchase a new, safer, ELECTRONIC copy of the soundtrack, from one of these reputable cyber-vendors. That’s right, Psychonauts is EVERY-EFFING-WHERE! You thought you were done buying it but now you must buy it again! And again! (Or, if you don’t want to buy it again, at least go there and give it a five-star rating!)
Quickly, before your eardrums calcify and your retinas detach and all of the other horrible things that happen to mortals.
Let me take you away from all this Death [Double Fine]
Previously:
Double Fine Open the Psycho-pedia – Offworld
Countdown to Brütality – Offworld
Brütal news is now: EA to publish Brütal Legend – Offworld
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LISTEN, TOO: ANOTHER PICOPICT YMCK NES MEGA-MIX
As with the last, while I can’t embed it here, do yourself the favor of heading over to Tiny Cartridge for the second in their series of ripped theme tunes from Skip’s DSiWare downloadable PicoPict.
As with the happy hardcore of YMCK‘s Bowser-battle theme, this one’s a remix of a number of classic NES themes that shifts seamlessly from Super Mario‘s world 1-1 to the square-wave purr of Excitebike‘s engines to a Legend of Zelda overworld mix nearly the same half-note off as Konjak’s below.
And with that, I actually am off to buy the game.
PiCOPiCT’s “Ending” (Credits) song by YMCK. [Tiny Cartridge]
Previously:
Listen: YMCK's Bowser-busting hardcore Mario remix – Offworld
DSi getting more downloadable Art Style, Tetris Attack – Offworld
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LISTEN: KONJAK’S LEGEND OF PRINCESS SOUNDTRACK
This morning’s essential download: Joakim ‘Konjak‘ Sandberg has put together a free download for his recently recommended fantastic Zelda-as-sidescroller indie game Legend of Princess, which is as parodic as the game itself for staying just one-half-note off its source material but remaining instantly recognizable.
Side note: the file sharing service used is riddled with misleading links — the actual download link is all the way at bottom hiding tinily beneath the ‘File URL’ textbox.
Previously:
Gimme Indie Game: Konjak's Legend of Princess – Offworld
Listen: 2D Boy's free World of Goo soundtrack – Offworld
Listen: Pause offers free indie game soundtrack downloads – Offworld
Henry Hatsworth: The Pompous Adventurer's Theme Tunes – Offworld
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LISTEN: YMCK’S BOWSER-BUSTING HARDCORE MARIO REMIX
Unfortunately I can’t embed this one here, but do yourself a favor and listen to Tiny Cartridge’s recently uploaded 8-bit thrash-core remix of the Super Mario Bros. Bowser-battle theme.
The remix is by Japan’s premier chiptune group YMCK, part of their selection done for Skip’s downloadable ‘Art Style’ game PicoPict that went live at the end of January.
Cartridge went to a lot of hard work to both earn and rip the tune, and it was worth it: it’s almost single handedly sold me on picking up the game myself as soon as I can.
“Super Mario Bros. Part 4” by YMCK. [Tiny Cartridge]
Previously:
DSi getting more downloadable Art Style, Tetris Attack – Offworld
Nintendo's DSiWare makes holiday debut – Offworld
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LISTEN: SIMON MATTISON’S CHIPTUNE DUB AND BUD MELVIN’S BANJO-BLEEPS
Chiptune musician Simon Mattison describes his latest ep, Leaves, in an only partially decipherable poem:
the result of a unique tradition
returns to be is a 56k modem.
a free impro(bable) session
is author’s interest in high style groovy arcade
planets,all-in-all, loads of a label.
but very-very deep and quality.
has a young electronic music spectrum
in high style and smooth sound carpets
But what you need to know: it’s nicely dub-influenced bleeps, done up on LittleGPTracker, a version of littlesounddj for obscure Korean handheld GP2X.
For other stylistically left-field chip music, try Bud Melvin, particularly the 657,644 album found on his site, who regularly overlays his Game Boy music with live banjo which, for all its anachronism, actually works. See especially Sun Salutation and Gajanana, two tracks written for a never-created Game Boy Color game based on the adventures of Hindu elephant god Ganesha (!).
Leaves by Mattisson [archive.org, via Disquiet]
Previously:
Maerleon Cedraeon submerges with Electroplankton – Offworld
Four times the DS-10 – Offworld
Listen: 2D Boy's free World of Goo soundtrack – Offworld
Listen: Pixelmod Records' Merry Pixmas Compilation – Offworld
Listen: Leeni's 8-bit kabuki 'Underworld' – Offworld
Listen: Pause offers free indie game soundtrack downloads – Offworld
Listen: Bizarre give us 46860 Choices – Offworld
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LISTEN: PAUSE OFFERS FREE INDIE GAME SOUNDTRACK DOWNLOADS
New musical awesomeness spotted via ‘Dong’s excellent EngRish Games blog: Pause, the “music label and community with a focus on unorthodox forms of 8-bit music yet prone to various other styles,” has started a separate section called +PLUS, dedicated solely to releasing free soundtracks from a variety of indie games.
The five-strong list includes not only ‘Dong’s own soundtrack to his excellent abstract freeware shooter Nanosmiles, but an orchestral album for Studio Eres’ similarly abstract tower defense game Immortal Defense (one of my favorites of the genre), EMH Soft’s Endgame: Singularity, Arue’s Another Bound Neo, and, best of all, Disasterpeace’s short EP for Offworld favorite Rescue: The Beagles.
All are top quality releases well worth a download, as is most of the rest of the Pause catalog, which together should tide you over for a good long while.
+PLUS [Pause, via EngRish Games]
Previously:
Gimme Indie Game: Rescue: The Beagles – Offworld
Listen: 2D Boy's free World of Goo soundtrack – Offworld
Listen: Pixelmod Records' Merry Pixmas Compilation – Offworld
Listen: Bizarre give us 46860 Choices – Offworld
Listen: Leeni's 8-bit kabuki 'Underworld' – Offworld
Listen: The Doyouinvert's 'A Happy New Gear' – Offworld
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LISTEN: LEENI’S 8-BIT KABUKI ‘UNDERWORLD’
A fantastic way to start the week: chiptune musician Leeni describes her latest album ‘Labyrinth‘ as “Danny Elfman, Elliott Smith and Bjork [collaborating] on the soundtrack to Castlevania or Zelda” and has marked its debut with this 8-bit mole-man kabuki video for ‘Underworld’ by Niina Koivusalo and Ville Konttinen.
There’s much more to be had — chippy Thom Yorke covers, even — via her 8bitcollective page and home site.
[Leeni.us, via the increasingly excellent Attract Mode]
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LISTEN: BIZARRE GIVE US 46860 CHOICES
Bizarre Creations’ new years gift for fans of early Xbox Live Arcade flagship title Geometry Wars? ‘46860 Choices,’ a 13 minute megamix [direct mp3 link] of the series’ music done up quite nicely by Audio Antics‘s Chris Chudley — series composer, and musician for a majority of Bizarre’s output — which should tide you over until the developer manages to get the official soundtracks to iTunes.
Try as I might, I still haven’t managed to track down the inspiration for the name.
A late Happy New Year! [via everywhere, it seems, including NeoGAF]
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LISTEN: PIXELMOD RECORDS’ MERRY PIXMAS COMPILATION
Even if you thought you’d had your fill with half of the 8-bit Jesus and our ongoing Blip Fest coverage, do not fail to download Pixelmod’s new Merry Pixmas Compilation [.zip].
In a fantastic show of love from the 8bitcollective community, the compilation brings together familiar micromusic names like goto80, 8 Bit Weapon and Computeher in HTML advent calendar style, popping up a new song or picture every day.
My tops: the Weapon’s chiptune Ave Maria (!), little-scale’s thickly echoed Coventry Carol, and Shaun Carley’s hyper-breakcore Carol of the Bells.
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