IDM stuff has been involved with games a little. I seem to remember Warp
having loads of stuff used in a game called HardWar? No original tracks
though just licenced stuff.
When I was working on 'Music2000' (music creation type thing) for
playstation, we almost got Aphex Twin to write a track for us. Originally we
were just going to licence Windowlicker, and do our own version of it in
music2000, but when Richard found out about it, he was really interested and
wanted to do a brand new track himself. Unfortunately, the only code we
could get him at the time was bugged to fuck, so he couldn't be arsed.
Incidentally, Horse Opera was lead tester on the prequel 'Music' on psone.
I know a few guys whos day job is writing music for videogames, who are also
pretty well known idm artists... Just a shame they don't get to do their own
thing for game soundtracks, they usually work to designers requirements,
which doesn't give them much freedom. You do hear little bits sneaking in
here and there though.
Eddie
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:17:08 -0400
To: evan shamoon <giantmech@hotmail.com>
From: Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu>
Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [idm] [OT]: videogames.
Message-ID: <37ea4537d340.37d34037ea45@homemail.nyu.edu>
I may be jumping the gun here, but I would say that Metroid Prime looks
poised to be the
IDMest game of the year.
I'm also a big fan of the Wipeout series, but I don't have a Playstation
anymore so I was forced to switch over to ExtremeG3 for my ridiculously fast
futuristic racing game fix. Now, can someone explain why they aren't lining
up top-tier IDM artists for the soundtracks to these games? I guess for
some people, the Ministry of Sound soundtrack on EG3 is pretty exciting, but
come on now... what if Autechre were to write some generative tracks that
react to some things happening on the screen? Yes, that's right, it'd be
rad.
I've never tried it, but now that I think about it, Plaid does seem like a
logical choice to accompany Super Monkey Ball. You should really upgrade to
Super Monkey Ball 2. They have really improved their formula for rad little
games with monkeys in little balls... and they have Monkey Baseball now too!
And the story in the single player game is the most delightfully retarded
thing I've ever experienced on a television screen.
-Aaron
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