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quoted 6 lines Aaarghh! Don't you want to kill those people? Have you ever gotten,

> Aaarghh! Don't you want to kill those people? Have you ever gotten, > "Nice video game music!"? I used to play IDM at my former place of > employ and I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people who would > ask what it was and express interest in it. They are probably still > listening to Hootie but at least they had a moment in their lives when > they experienced true greatness.

Actually, I quite like video game music! I remember the groovy vibes of the Legend of Zelda. The soulful flute playing of Link still brings tears to my eyes. That was the first interactive techno. Crank the mono tv speaker up to ten and wail on that B button! Brian Eno eat your heart out! YMO had the right idea! Video Game was a brilliant song, Defender samples wasn't it? Does anybody know if they actually wrote any video game music? Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintendo's music. [fletcher] - [who owned the Pac Man Fever album when he was a lad]

On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:

quoted 3 lines YMO had the right idea! Video Game was a brilliant song, Defender

> YMO had the right idea! Video Game was a brilliant song, Defender > samples wasn't it? Does anybody know if they actually wrote any > video game music?

Yeah, check out "Stakker Humanoid" by Humanoid (pre fsol) for some cool Berserk samples. Video game samples recently heard: U.N.K.L.E track mixed by James Lavelle on the new Cream vol. 2 CD. It samples Street Fighter 2, kind of unoriginal in my opinion. Nevertheless, the cd is the shit!!! Lavelle is a pretty cool DJ. if anyone here doesn't like "Altered States", they should be shot. Ron Trent is the bomb!!!!!

Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:

quoted 8 lines Actually, I quite like video game music!

> Actually, I quite like video game music! > > I remember the groovy vibes of the Legend of Zelda. The soulful flute > playing of Link still brings tears to my eyes. That was the first > interactive techno. Crank the mono tv speaker up to ten and wail on > that B button! > > Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintendo's music.

I remember Castlevania on the Game Boy had a particularly funky score! ...and Metroid, too! (right, Jason?) christian

On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, christian wrote:

quoted 17 lines Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:

> Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: > > > Actually, I quite like video game music! > > > > I remember the groovy vibes of the Legend of Zelda. The soulful flute > > playing of Link still brings tears to my eyes. That was the first > > interactive techno. Crank the mono tv speaker up to ten and wail on > > that B button! > > > > Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintendo's music. > > I remember Castlevania on the Game Boy had a particularly funky score! > > ...and Metroid, too! (right, Jason?) > > christian >

Yea Metroid was the bomb! As I mentioned before, _Spode_ from Empathy Box remindes me of Metriod. You know those solo keyboard wailings. Jason

Heh -- the Incredible Machine II's music (which my kid plays obsessively) reminds me a lot of Orbital. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I read Keyboard, but it's like staring at a book with pictures of simple looking but expensive machines." -- Michael Lazarev NEW CD Comp Electronic Music Project http://soli.inav.net/~kent/emp.html Kent Williams kent@inav.net CADSI 2651 Crosspark Road Coralville IA 52241 (319) 338 6053 (home) (319) 626 6700 x 219 (work) (319) 626 3489 (fax)

quoted 1 line ...and Metroid, too!

>...and Metroid, too!

someone around the ole sugatis plantation was playing that the other day, and i stepped in and said... hey! doesn't that sound alot like that one track off "empathy box"? on now> the background music to the first level of kid icarus...

quoted 1 line Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintendo's music.

> > Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintendo's music.

A guy called Koji Kondo. He's done all of the Mario music for years. keith duncan == unkind cheat kduncan@enterprise.net

With all this talk of video game tunes: Any of you out there with a Sony PlayStation should try popping the discs into your CD player. The first few tracks are usually data; but, the tracks thereafter are usually the music from the game. This has yielded some funky ambient stuff from Doom, and some wacky techno-like stuff from Ridge Racer. Can't say I know if this works for other game machines -- although I suspect it would since encoding music in some proprietary form would make working with it a real PITA. MC Large Ingot