Arrangements
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Video Vault – Smooth McGroove
8 Hairy Faces unite! It’s so much more than that though – amazing vocal arrangement of game music – commence!
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c64audio – “Back in Time II” Review
There are a crew of very fine people collectively called c64audio whom many of them in the 1980’s wrote some stunning songs for the now…
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Yuji Yoshino & Yoko Ueno – “Genso Suikoden: Orrizonte” Review
Genso Suikoden – the series that has spawned four games and about 44 arranged soundtracks! Some of them good, some of them not so good,…
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Keiichi Suzuki – “Mother Arranged” Review
Mother (Earthbound for the English-speaking world) seems to have a cult following – certainly it has a good cult-stone foothold in RPG history. While the original soundtracks…
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Hiroyuki Nakayama – “Piano Opera Final Fantasy I-II-III” Review
Some of my all time favourite arrangements of game music have been from the Final Fantasy Piano Collections however that series started from the fourth…
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Higher Plain Music: Top 10 Game Soundtracks of 2012
Game music continues to spread its wings and blur into all kinds of mediums. It’s strange but in 2012, in some ways I’ve struggled to…
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OverClocked Remix Does Donkey Kong Country 3!!
These guys continue to be utterly awesome. In 2013 I’ll be going back and reviewing a lot of their back catalogue of releases. Everyone needs…
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ForeverSonic – “Sonic Unplugged” Review
ForeverSonic’s little EP “Sonic Unplugged” is a low fi recording of some wonderful renditions of sonic themes. “Star Light Zone” is a great rendition as…
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JAW – Vocaloid / VGM Mashups!
JAW came to me via twitter with two simple links thanks to my general thinking aloud over how unappreciated the Final Fantasy X-2 OST is. He replied…
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William Kage – 16-bit “Journey” Arrangement
16bit music nut William Kage has made a fantastic cover of the track “I Was Born For This” for free on his band camp website.…
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OverClocked ReMix: “Final Fantasy Random Encounter” Trailer
OCR continue to break new ground as they release their first album covering the original Final Fantasy NES/Famicom titles. Some of the arrangements sound absolutely…
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Video Vault – Laura Shigihara
Laura Shigihara has worked on some beautiful music in her time and this wonderful live/recorded hybrid cover of the sumptuous Inochi no Namae from the…
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Hirokazu Tanaka – “Kid Icarus / Metroid Original Orchestra Version” Review
“Kid Iracus (Partena No Kagami) & Metroid” is a very old and rare cassette from back in the 80’s taking just 6 tracks and…
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Hiroaki Suga & Hideki Kanazashi – “HAL Game Music” Review
HAL Game Music is an old soundtrack from 1988 featuring mainly arrangements from the game series – a series I have no knowledge of at…
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Kenichi Okuma – “GotzenDiener OST” Review
GotzenDiener OGM is a quirky little album that is half arranged and acoustic guitar for a more laid back piece of music in places.…
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Nobuo Uematsu – “Final Fantasy V Dear Friends” Review
“Dear Friends” is the arranged FFV album, selecting 14 songs and transforming them into real instrumentation. “Ahead On Our Way” starts off with a nice…
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OverClocked Remix Tributes to “Unsung Heroes”
OverClocked Remix kicks off 2012 with a new compilation of songs from RPG’s than are given less love from the community such as Lufia, Breath…
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“Nier Tribute Album -echo-” Review
Nier, the PS3 RPG has one of the best soundtracks I’ve heard all generation. Now there’s been a tribute album released so I can’t be…
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OverClocked Remix Releases: BadAss: Boss Themes
Gotta love the OCR crew! Grab it for free now 🙂
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OverClock Remix (Doesn’t) Drop the Ball!
We love OverClocked Remix and their dedication to VGM. This new collection is inspired from the game Super Dodge Ball and is entitled “Super Dodge…
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OverClocked Remix Launched Mega Man 9: Back in Blue
I do love OCR. They simply make fantastic productions time and time again. This latest release today is entitled “Mega Man 9: Black in Blue”…
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Yuji Hasegawa – “Final Fantasy Songbook Mahoroba” Review
Final Fantasy Songbook “Mahoroba” is a collection of songs arranged by Yuji Hasegawa and half of them have vocals sung in Japanese by Manami Kiyota.…
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OC Remix Releases “Nights: Lucid Dreaming”
Another cracking double CD arrangement album from OCRemix, taking on the Nights series, we have all the music genres under the sun plus 30 stunning…
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Live Vault – Jin’ou Xia & Xinxin Song (Plants Vs Zombies on Gu-zheng!)
The Plants Vs Zombies cover you never knew you needed!
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Kate Bush – “Directors Cut” Review
Sometimes you need to sit back and not go by knee jerk reactions. “Directors Cut” is one of those occasions. When it was announced Kate…
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Utada Hikaru – Wild Life DVD Review
Utada Hikaru’s swansong concert before her hiatus is somewhat of a moving occasion and the DVD is a delight to watch and enjoy. Utada’s vocals…
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Hideki Sakamoto – Echochrome Concert Review
Hideki Sakamoto put on a fantastic concert on Sunday that was broadcast live on uStream. The concert, which contained a full orchestra, performed arranged renditions…
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Whispers of the Plains: Heavy Melody
The Wonderful Heavy Melody, recently showcased in the latest Shift 2 soundtrack for their excellent remixes of various artists. They kindly agreed to answer a…
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Yasunori Mitsuda & Millennial Fair – “Xenogears Creid” Review
Xenogears Creid is an arranged album from the PS1 game, with a heavy influence on the Celtic and Eastern instrumentation. Yasunori Mitsuda collaborated with Millennial Fair to produce what…
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OverClocked Remix Releases Mega Man ~ The Robot Museum!
OverClocked Remix never ceases to amaze me. Led by Joshua Morse, the latest OCR release is an eight track mixathon from the first eight Mega…
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OverClocked Remix Releases “Pokemon: The Missingno Tracks”
We love all that is OCRemix and this latest release looks like being a ball. My friends called my Jigglypuff at school as I was…
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Nobuo Uematseu – “Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale” Review
Final Fantasy VI had some stunning pieces of music in them and the soundtrack recieved a fully orchestrated arrangment album with “Final Fantasy VI Grand…
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OverClocked Remix Released “Heroes Vs Villians” Arrangement
OverClocked Remix never ceases to amaze me with its absolutely stunning arrangements and fantastic community. It’s 22nd arrangment “Heroes Vs Villians” was released today and…
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Orpheus – “Crystal Dreamscapes” Review
“Crystal Dreamscapes” is a project undertaken mainly by an artist named “Orpheus” who takes us on a completely no holds barred New Age trip. The…
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Noriko Matsueda & Takahito Eguchi – “Final Fantasy X-2 Eternity Memory of Lightwaves” Review
Final Fantasy X-2’s single takes the unique route of actually being a non-vocal single at all! The three tracks on the CD are all taken…
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Jake Kaufman Releases “Risky’s Revenge OST”
Jake Kaufman (or Virt as many VGM lovers know him as) has just released his latest soundtrack “Shantae: Risky’s Revenge” for the community. Jake has…
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Aki Kuroda – “Final Fantasy XIII Piano Collections” Review
Aki Kuroda, the ivory master for FFXPC returns for the latest installment of the Final Fantasy Piano Collections, taking 10 tracks from the 13th edition…
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Live Vault – Bjork & Skunk Anansie
In what must be one of the best moment on Top of The Pops, a collaboration of Bjork and Skunk Anansie see’s a complete screaming…
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OverClocked Remix Releases: Final Fantasy 5: The Fabled Warriors ~Wind
The first of 5 albums to do with Final Fantasy V, Wind is a collection of remixes from DarkeSword, Sixto Sounds, Mutritious, Level 99, Avaris,…
