Year: 2009
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Exclusive: Sitorimon Releases Free Silent Hill Tribute Album
Sitorimon today releases a free album which is a musical tribute to Silent Hill. Entitled “My Hill Is Not Silent”, the 14 tracks take you…
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Brendan Perry – “Eye of the Hunter” Review
While we wait for the new album from Brendan Perry (and my goodness doesn’t the song Utopia sound good!) I thought it’d be a great…
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Ayumi Hamasaki Joins the Book War!
Not long after Utada’s double book announcement, Ayumi Hamasaki has joined in as she’s to release a book herself. Currently titled “Deji Deji Nikki 100…
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Video – Making of “Still Alive – Theme of Mirrors Edge”
Whilst trawling the internet I came across this video from gametrailers.com which is an interview and behind the scenes footage with the writers of Still…
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Hiroki Kikuta – Koudelka OST Review
Koudelka OST is a dark horse. Of the 34 songs on the album only 10 have names and are over say a minute long! Behind…
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SuperSweep – “NanoSweep 2” Review
2005 saw the release of Nanosweep 2 from the artists aka SuperSweep. After setting the tone for hard hitting bass in the first CD things…
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SuperSweep – “Nanosweep” Review
“Nanosweep” is a brand of a collection of artists from various game music backgrounds. Together these artists are best known as Supersweep. Every so often…
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Emiliana Torrini – Video Vault
This weeks video vault is Emiliana Torrini’s latest MV to single Big Jumps. A good video on what must be a tight budget – showing…
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Live Vault – Toumani Diabate
LittleBigPlanet had an excellent soundtrack but the best new artist I found was Toumani Diabate! Ordered are several of his albums which will be reviewed…
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Vienna Teng – Inland Territory – Album Preview!
Despite being two months from its release, you can preview a stream of Vienna Teng’s latest album “Inland Territory”. You can hear the entire album…
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Akira Yamaoka – “Silent Hill Homecoming OST” Review
Two soundtracks in the same year, Akira Yamaoka has been busy with the Silent Hill series, and this is the sixth in it. Each soundtrack…
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Utada Hikaru To Release Two Books!
Utada Hikaru is to release two books of completely different content on the same date. The books are entitled “Ten” and “Sen” and are released…
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Takayuki “J99” Aihara – SEGA Mega Drive Medley Review
The Sega Mega Drive (Or Genesis if you’re American) gave us some of the pinnacle of game music with its superb 16-bit madness. This three…
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Hiroki Kikuta – Soukaigi Soundtrack
Soukaigi’s music is as beautiful as it is overwealming. From a game I know nothing of, sometimes there can be a small barrier if you…
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Yasunori Mitsuda, Hiroshi Hata & Kalta Ohtsuki – Chrono Trigger: Brink of Time Arranged Soundtrack Review
“Chrono Trigger: Brink of Time” may well win the award for most edible front cover with its fried breakfast on the front. However the task…
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Live Vault – 8 Bit Instrumental
This weeks live vault comes from the band that revamps our 8 bit melodies – 8 Bit Instrumental. I’ve only recently found this band but…
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Most Viewed January 09
This month was the most busiest month to date with HPM hitting over 2,000 hits for the first time! Vienna Teng & Ayumi Hamasaki’s new…
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HPM Podcast #1
DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST HERE Welcome to the first ever Higher Plain Music podcast! This focuses entirely on video game music and talks about the soundtracks…
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Baiyon – PixelJunk Eden OST Review
PixelJunk Eden is a beautiful game on the PlayStation Network, which is also where you can download the soundtrack from (much much cheaper than getting…
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Lisa Miskovsky – Still Alive Remixes
Go back to when the original trailers of Mirror’s Edge were released and the first thing I wanted to know about the game was what…
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Making of Amplitude Video
For those whom are interested in music games I’ve dug up an old promo that was on a OPSM demo disc that shows you a…
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Wojciech Golczewski – Linger In The Shadows OST Review
A man in desperate need of an easier name to spell, Golczewski has been scoring soundtracks for a while but recently popped up on the…
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Nobuo Uematsu – Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite Review
Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite is a fully orchestrated album, showcasing songs from Final Fantasy I-III. Epic is the name of the game here, as everything…
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Nobuo Uematsu – “Final Fantasy Mix” Review
F.F. Mix is a bizarre CD, full of unreleased material and some remixes of the classic FF songs. Great debate lies in the integrity of…
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Play! Symphony DVD’s Finally Shipping
There’s been a lot of problems with the release date of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony and a lot of complaints have been made. I…
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Video Vault – Imogen Heap
While we all wait for her follow up to Speak For Yourself, take a trip back to a little known music video for Imogen Heap…
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Live Vault – Qntal
Qntal are this weeks live vault band! Their latest album Qntal VI: Translucida arrived in the post this morning and shall be reviewed in the…
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Son Lux – Free Track “Throw” & New EP Released
Son Lux is having a busy period. Firstly a free track entitled “Throw” has been released for download. Jump onto his myspace blog to get…
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Street Fighter IV Remix Competition? Post Your Entries Here!
The guys at trackitdown.com has organised a Street Fighter IV Remix competition. All you have to do is go here, sign up and download the…
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Taro Hakase Boxset To Be Released
Taro Hakase, FFXII’s Orchestral composer, will have a 3 DVD boxset released containing 4 concerts. The concerts were recorded in 2007 and 2008 from the…
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Pj & Parappa (Masaya Matsuura – I Scream
Parappa The Rapper is already established as an icon for the rhythm action genre of the gaming industry. It was this game that really woke…
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Higher Plain Music – Last.FM Charts Group
A new feature for 2009 is the HPM Charts. This is going to be calculated from a Last.fm account for HPM. If you’ve already got…
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PJ Harvey & John Parrish Tour Dates
PJ Harvey & John Parish have announced their European tour dates for their second collaboration album entitled “A Woman A Man Walked By”. The dates…
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Whispers of the Plains – Interview with Winifred Phillips
Last week we bought you a review of Winifred Phillips’ latest fantastic soundtrack “SimAnimals” which was released yesterday. This week we have an interview with…
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Yasunori Mitsuda & Joanne Hogg – “Kokoro” Review
“Kokoro” is the vocal track single from the Xenosaga soundtrack, and is sung by Joanne Hogg in English. Interestingly, the single doesn’t begin with the…
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Video Vault – Iona
This week’s video vault comes from Celtic/Christian group Iona, fronted by Xenogears/saga vocalist Joanne Hogg. The video isn’t anything particularly special but its quite rare…
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Live Vault – Ayumi Hamasaki
Celebrating from her 10th Anniversary DVD of her Asia Tour, this week’s live Vault comes from Ayumi Hamasaki. Extra special this video is, as its…
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Winifred Phillips – SimAnimals Soundtrack Review
We (ok just me then) at Higher Plain Games have our second pre-release review in our short 9 months of life, however this is our…
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Little Wing Present A Best Of
Game music company Little Wing are releasing a Best Of entitled “Thanksgiving” on the 3rd of March. It will be a vocal affair featuring game…