It has finally happened. The Kingdom Hearts series has gone the way that the Final Fantasy, Pokémon and Zelda series have with Distant Worlds, Symphonic Evolutions and Symphony of the Goddesses respectively. The official Japanese Kingdom Hearts Twitter account announced on the 28th of April that an orchestral concert of music from the series will be on […]
Streets of Rage 2 is widely considered to have one of the best 16-bit soundtracks of all time, so the announcement of a forthcoming release from Data Discs has been met with tremendous nerd excitement. We reviewed the delightfully fan-friendly Shinobi III soundtrack vinyl release from Data Discs a few months back, and since then […]
I realise this is a bit belated given the talented bunch at VGMpire posted this in December, but I had to share my excitement from listening to their amazing and candid interview with video game music legend Tommy Tallarico. Tallarico was the genius behind some of my favourite soundtracks on the Sega Mega Drive, a […]
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master was an amazing late-generation release for the Sega Mega Drive. It built off the excellent template established with Revenge of Shinobi that saw our hero Joe Musashi trade in his indigo pyjamas for a less inconspicuous white and red set and was well known for its awesome soundtrack […]
Data Discs, a London-based studio dedicating their efforts to premium vinyl pressings of classic video game soundtracks, have been doing some amazing work of late. In August they released fresh pressings that covered the OSTs for Shenmue on the Dreamcast and Yuzo Koshiro’s excellent soundtrack for the original Streets of Rage title on the Sega […]
Masato Nakamura’s J-pop inspired soundtracks for Sonic 1 and 2 are amazing pieces of music on the Mega Drive’s oft-abused audio hardware that revels in 80s synth awesomeness. While reflecting on how amazing Japanese synth pop is a topic for another time, YouTube user Rush Coil has put up a technicolour dreamworld of keytar goodness […]