For #SymphonicMonday today, a recent upload on the Nintendo of America Youtube channel: The Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert [Nintendo Live 2024 TOKYO] 🎮🎶
This week @miona is BACK for VGM Wednesday! Welcome back!
She comes at us with a fantastic theme of "Super Sixteen Bit."
From the Genesis / SNES era, one of my favorite beat 'em ups is Comix Zone. For those who never played, it tells the story of a comic book artist who gets pulled into his own comic by it's main villain. He then has to fight from panel to panel to survive. It's cool and has a 16-bit rock inspired soundtrack.
It's #VGMWednesday and todays theme is #SuperSixteenBit One of my favorite and most played Sega Megadrive (Genesis) games was Streets of Rage 2. The soundtrack is still a banger!
It still blows my mind that composer Yuzo Koshiro was only 22 back then 🤯 He started composing video game soundtracks when still in high school. Check out a photo of his setup in 1989 in this recent feature:
The game itself was pretty mediocre iirc. I actually rented the game, played a bit, got tired, then recorded the title-screen on VHS so I could listen to the music after giving it back.
Sadly I didn't reach level 2 back then so I didn't hear the best track until much later :blobcatfacepalm:
As @miona is still on VGM Wednesday theme hiatus, looks like @CM30 jumped in with a theme of "Surprisingly Dark Themes."
For that, I think I want to go with Sonic the Hedgehog.
It shouldn't be surprising, but every time the short tune for drowning comes on, it is jarring and anxiety inducing. Even with no video game context to go with it.
Since @miona is taking a break from VGM Wednesday for January and I really want to see this hashtag still up and running - here's some music for the week.
With no theme, let's go with the Minibosses 2005 album "Brass." Check out their fantastic cover album with all sort of great video game tunes https://minibosses.bandcamp.com/album/brass
For @miona's VGM Wednesday, I didn't play any games released in 2023. So I'll go with something I played in 2023, but came out in 2022. Only official link I could find was for Astra Tanuki's Bandcamp. So here's a link to the whole album XD
For VGM Wednesday, by @miona the theme is Revive the Dancefloor... This is kind of cheating, but DDR is how I found smile.dk in the first place and the first thing I thought of lol.
This week for @miona's VGM Wednesday, she has given us a theme of "Let's Take a Breather" - talking about music from calming moments in a game. Such as save points, hub areas, or villages.
For me, as an Animal Crossing lover, the opening music is such a calming moment. Yes, it's before the game even starts, but it's mellow and soothing, setting the tone for playing hours of cozy gaming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_C1Bjdqn4
That's 3, I know, but after 3 I really couldn't think of any more apart from Cake's "The Distance" and instead of spending way too much time looking things up, I'll end it here and add to it if I think of more.
Okay, @miona's #VGMWednesday has a theme of #Sampled - looking for songs where elements from video game music is incorporated into the beat / melody of a song.
Let's take it back to 1995 when Bone Thugs-N-Harmony sampled the underrated #SegaGenesis fighting game Eternal Champions in their aptly titled track, "Eternal."
Moved yet again, this time to a self-hosted firefish instance :3
I'm an AuDHD transbian girl being gay and silly on fedi. :spinny_cat_trans::spinny_cat_lesbian: I only recently started transitioning and I'm trying to be more open about my emotions. :neocat_floof_cute:
Expect lots of shitposts/random nonsense, selfies, gay yearning and emotion dumping (both positive and negative, but under a CW). ^^
I like video games, mostly indie and Nintendo ones (e.g. osu!, Touhou, TLoZ, Metroid, Celeste, Crypt of the NecroDancer etc), and I also stream them. ^^
I also listen to a lot of video game music and their covers, and I can talk about languages, though I almost never post about either for some reason.
Disclaimer: the above info is correct at the time of writing, but it will become outdated over time, as my hyperfixations shift around every few months. My overall set of interests is fairly static tho, so if I will be circling back to the previous ones eventually. :neocat_floof_happy:
I'm also a GNOME developer (mostly maintaining libadwaita and a few third party apps), and I will occasionally post updates about that, but this is my personal account first and foremost, so don't expect a lot of posts about it :3
I'm also developing a game emulator frontend called Highscore, but how many spoons I have for it varies wildly over time :neocat_sad:
Set off on a journey to faraway lands and distant worlds with an evening of fantasy and video game inspired piano music!
Including a world premiere performance of official piano collections from ‘Relics of Aeternum: Dragonsoul Chronicle’.
Come by for an evening of music that will leave you nostalgic for mystical worlds that don’t exist.
Two options for tickets!
General Admission and Deluxe. The Deluxe option includes a physical CD of my album ‘Endless Days of Rain’ (save $5 on the CD with this option!).
Very excited to perform my music again and hope to see you there!