Year: 2009
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Lisa Gerrard – “Balibo OST” Review
Lisa Gerrard’s recent soundtracks have seen a real return back to her roots and that starts with the astounding “Balibo Soundtrack”. There is a CD…
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Christmas Live Vault – Tori Amos
Tori Amos’ Christmas album “Midwinter Graces” is fantastic and this live performance of “Jeanette, Isabella” is beautifully warm and touching. You can watch it here…
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Final Fantasy XIII Soundtrack Samples Online
Masashi Hamauzu’s soundtrack to Final Fantasy XIII now has 30 second samples online. You can jump across to the official site here for further details…
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Happy Holidays!
Here’s to you all over the festive season. I hope all HPM’s readers and HPG’s viewers have a fantastic time and I look forward to…
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Game Review: Hyperballoid (PSN)
Ever since bat met ball, these type of brick smashing games have been made in all kinds of formats. The latest to hit the PSN…
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Buzz! Ace Racers Walkthrough Completed
Buzz! Ace Racers has been given the full playthrough treatment – I didn’t win them all I’m afraid but you can see the entire game’s…
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Jesper Kyd – “Assassins Creed II OST” Review
Following on from the epic score of the original, Jesper Kyd returns for Assassins Creed II’s OST and this time we’re going back in time!…
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Tori Amos – “Midwinter Graces” Review
Tori Amos latest album Midwinter Graces is a bold step into the Christmas genre, one that is unforgiving and cliched. However, this collection of winter…
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Game Review – Buzz Quiz World (PS3)
Buzz is back and I’ve always been game for a bit of buzzer action, but this time Buzz is better than ever… The Premise Buzz…
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Most Viewed – November 2009
Well November was a bit of a wash out for new posts due to my house move, but that didn’t stop November being the fifth…
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Charlotte Martin – “Rarities.6” Review
Charlotte Martin loves to give. Rarities-6 is the final part of a 6 piece almost single like set of unreleased materials. Having only been able…
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Back Online!
Hurrah! At looooong last, I’m back online and my goodness, it wasn’t a second too soon. My internet connection and I are now joined at…
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Still No Internet
Don’t you just love media companies?! First they take my order, then they lose me in their systems and then don’t bother with me until…
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Apologies
Just a heads up to let you know I am moving to my first flat (bye bye parents!) and that I will have no internet…
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Lisa Gerrard – “The Black Opal” Released Digitally
Lisa Gerrard has a triple bill release! Firstly, her latest album “The Black Opal” is released digitally on Lisa’s website. Also available on the website…
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Brendan Perry – “Ark” EPK!
Be prepared to be amazed and excited. Brendan Perry’s album “Ark” is completed and ready and due to be released early 2010. Brendan has kindly…
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Game Review: Vib Ribbon
Vib Ribbon is a PlayStation game (that needs a re-release in my opinion!) from madman Masaya Matsuura who created the Parappa franchise. Demented and genius…
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Jesper Kyd to Score Assassins Creed II OST
The title says it all, Assassins Creed’s composer is back for the sequel and with the new game set in the Renaissance era I’d expect…
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Most Viewed – October 2009
October saw HPM have three distinct leaders in the race for top spot and despite only being a listen-to-the-samples post, Lisa Gerrard topped the bill…
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Akira Yamaoka – Silent Hill 4 OST Review
Silent Hill 4 -The Room- once again see’s Akira Yamaoka throw himself and the kitchen sink at a bizarre mix of ambience, noise, haunting melodies…
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Ayu is Back Already!
Does she not have a sit down?! Ayumi Hamasaki is back after the fantastic Next Level album (I really need to review that don’t I?)…
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Charlotte Martin – Piano Trees comes out Digitally
Charlotte Martin’s instrumental album Piano Trees will be released digitally on 10th November. Two of the gourgeous songs can be heard on her myspace page.…
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HPM 2009 Guess The Song Clip Winner & Answer
Congrats to Danny Oldgrove from Liverpool, UK for guessing 39 of the 40 songs correctly! A copy of Kingdom Heart’s Piano Collections is on its…
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.detuned – PS3 Game Review
The demo scene has really just one title on PS3 and it really left people a bit confused and wanting for more. The team that…
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Video Vault – Freezepop
Freezepop are this weeks Video vault with the brilliantly silly video to “Parlez Vous Freezepop?” You can watch them in action here.
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Tori Amos ~ Midwinter Graces Preview Clips
Tori Amos’ much discussed Christmas album “Midwinter Graces” now has 30 second samples available and someone has kindly popped them into one clip. Take a…
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Live Vault – Lisa Germano
While we wait for Magic Neighbour to arrive on my doorstep, here’s a great live performance of Cry Wolf from Lisa Germano. There is not…
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Whispers of the Plains ~ Anoymous 4
After reviewing their excellent new compilation album, HPM managed to get five minutes with the fab quartet in between tour dates. Here’s what they had…
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Anonymous 4 – “Four Centuries of Chant” Review
Having discovered Anonymous 4 via Christopher Tin’s “Calling All Dawns” album, I picked up the quartet’s latest album which is a kind of retrospective over…
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Whispers of the Plains: Winifred Phillips on the Making of Spore Hero’s Soundtrack
Winifred Phillip’s latest soundtrack “Spore Hero” was released this week and we gave it two thumbs up! We were lucky enough to get to ask…
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Winifred Phillips – Spore Hero OST
Last time we spoke to Winifred Phillips she dangled a carrot over a possible secret EA project – well that carrot has blossomed into the…
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Live Vault – Christopher Tin
This week’s live vault is Christopher Tin with his fantastic “Baba Yetu” taken from his album “Calling All Dawns”. The sheer power of the track…
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Imogen Heap – “Ellipse” Review
Imogen Heap’s third solo album “Ellipse” has seemed like a long time coming. We’ve been treated to a fantastic iBlog that walked us through the…
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Anonymous 4 – Tour Dates
Anonymous 4, who did vocal work for Christopher Tin’s latest album on the track “Caoineadh” have announced their latest tour. The vocal ensemble’s tour dates…
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Most Viewed – September 2009
Well due to my holiday and getting back into the routine, September was a very quiet month for HPM in general but towards the end…
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Whispers of the Plains – Christopher Tin
Having absolutely devoured every sound in his debut solo album “Calling All Dawns”, HPM were dying to chat with Christopher Tin and lucky us, we…
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Tori Amos – “Midwinter Graces” New Album Tracklist
Tori Amos will be releasing a Christmas album! Entitled “Midwinter Graces” it will seemingly delve back to the older spirit of Christmas and being more…
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Christopher Tin – “Calling All Dawns” Review
Christopher Tin, well known VGM artist (“Baba Yetu” from Civ IV) and musical talent returns with his first solo album “Calling All Dawns” and its…
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I’m On Holiday!
My apologies for the lack of updates so far this month, I’ve been getting ready for my 3rd ever holiday abroad! That means there will…