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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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Jim Guthrie – “Corporeal” Review
Jim Guthrie’s “Corporeal” EP comes from the game Sound Shapes where the music from this EP is broken down into interchangeable sound snippets. The four…
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Game Music Connect Announced – A Game Music Seminar!
James Hannigan, composer of many game and film soundtracks over the years, has put together a new seminar regarding Game Music. Entitled “Game Music Connect”…
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Garry Schyman – “Bioshock Infinite OST” Review
Bioshock has always had a grandiose soundscape and with the third iteration “Bioshock Infinite” things become even more taut and creepy as the string arrangements are maxed…
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Josh Whelchel – “Jottobots OST” Review
The cute and over too quickly “Jottobots” soundtrack from Josh Whelchel is a delightful affair as the four tracks loops beautifully in their haze. Opener…
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Sumthing Else Helps Bring Indie VGM to the Masses
Sumthing Else have long been publishing some amazing game soundtracks however they are usually the huge symphonic top dollar explosive soundtracks. You could almost call…
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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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“Zone of the Enders Z.O.E.” Soundtrack Review
ZOE (Zone Of The Enders) is a techno-based bonanza, which is enveloped in lush string arrangements, stand-out vocal tracks and peppered with heartfelt piano pieces to make…
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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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Winifred Phillips – “Assassin’s Creed III Liberation OST” Review
Sometimes an artist does something that I think showcases everything they are about. Their quality, their emotion, their commitment to their work. For Winifred Phillips…
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Rob Lach – “POP Methodology Experiment One OST” Review
POP Methodology Experiment One caused a lot of hi-5ing on the indie game scene and Rob Lach’s one man wonder game has a chip track…
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Jessica Curry – “Dear Esther OST” Review
Jessica Curry’s “Dear Esther” soundtrack is one that soaked heavily in emotion and stands on its own two feet apart from the game. The reason…
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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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Gamadelic & Samy Cheboub – “Magical Drop V OST” Review
It’s so great to see Magical Drop back on our gaming systems and V comes with a free soundtrack too. What’s more it’s actually pretty…
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Jim Guthrie – “Indie Game: The Movie Soundtrack” Review
Whilst I was not the most enamoured person in the world with Indie Game: The Movie, I enjoyed it for what it was but did…
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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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Ben Landis – “Adventures in Pixels” Review
Ben Landis has gone one slightly beyond a lot of MP3 album releases. Where others place a picture of their album in the mp3 player…
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12 Followers – Meteo Xavier – “Impulse OST” Review
12 Followers-Meteo Xaxier have been busy making the soundtrack for a new game Impulse. The result is a technological mesh of all kinds of different…
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Austin Wintory – “Horn OST” Review
Austin Wintory earlier this year swept me away with the formidable Journey soundtrack which has become one of my favourite game soundtracks not just of the year,…
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Big Giant Circles – “Puzzlejuice OST” Review
Big Giant Circles has been creating a name for himself with all these wonderfully small but perfectly formed soundtracks and Puzzlejuice is no different. Opener…
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Elmobo – “Aliens Incursion OST” Review
Aliens Incursion isn’t a game I’ve played (IOS – poor me with a non smartphone still) but elmobo has made a corker of a five…
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Whispers of the Plains: Penka Kouenva
HPM has the opportunity to chat to Penka Kouneva, the genius behind A Warriors Odyssey which is a wonderful CD taking all the trimmings from…
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Penka Kouneva – “A Warrior’s Odyssey” Review
Penka Kouneva, is the latest in an increasing collection of game and film composers whom have branched off to create an album of their own.…
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Dain Saint – “Flight of Angels – Splice OST” Review
“Flight of Angels – Splice OST” is a very regal and relaxing soundtrack to the not very relaxing puzzle game Splice. However part of what…
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Chipzel – “Super Hexagon EP” Review
Chipzel has made a great little chiptune EP for the mobile game Super-Hexagon which has hit the stores recently. Sounding very similar to a cleaned…
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Penka Kouneva Releases Instrumental Album
I always am fascinated when composers release material that’s their own and not part of a game or a film. Penka Kouneva, best known to…
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Akira Yamaoka & The Silent Hill Band Full Concert Recording
How awesome is this? Akira Yamaoka’s Silent Hill band makes its US début and absolutely rocks it out. Mary’s voice is sublime, the music is stunning and…
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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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Dva – “Botanicula OST” Review
Oh Dva. Three little letters, and just like the little game of Botanicula there is so much hidden inside this 23 track soundtrack. Each song…
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Live Stream – Tekken Club Night @ Gamescom
All the Tekken Force are out for a fabulous evening of Tekken DJ mixes with Sanodg, ARURIKA, Shinji Hosoe and Taku Inoue. Stream found here
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Video Vault – ryo (supercell) Feat Miku Hatsune
The long awaited release of PS Vita’s “Project Diva F” comes in a few weeks (I cannot wait for the PS3 version next year) and…
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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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Big Giant Circles – “The Haunting of Magnolia Manor OST” Review
Just two tracks encapsulate “The Haunting of Magnolia Manor” but Big Giant Circles manages to squeeze as much as he can into the small riff…
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Alec Holowka – “Offspring Fling Soundtrack” Review
Offspring Fling, the fantastic hark back to old times game released recently has an equally quaint and joyous soundtrack alongside it thanks to Alec Holowka.…
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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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Indie Game Music Bundle 3 is Out!
We here at Higher Plain Music love ourselves some indie games and as an avid game music collector, this latest indie game music bundle is…
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Jesper Kyd Darksiders II Music Samples Online
Jesper’s always busy – this time with the highly anticipated Darksiders II game. I loved the soundtrack to the first game and will be hotly…