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Immortal 4 Released!
“Immortal 4” has finally been released, five years after the third volume was released! Produced by Jan Zottmann, this album has an impressive running time…
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Laura Shigihara Talks “Play for Japan”
The adorable Laura Shigihara talks on her YouTube channel about the excellent Play for Japan Charity CD that’s being spearheaded by Akira Yamaoka. The full…
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Winifred Phillips – Gamespot Interview
We at HPM are big Winifred Phillips and she’s just been featured on a great indepth interview with GameSpot. It’s great to see game composers…
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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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Heavy Melody To Contribute to EA’s Shift 2 Soundtrack
Heavy Melody have been busy of late – remixing and recomposing ten tracks from big name bands for the latest soundtrack to come from EA…
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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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Inon Zur Composes for LOTR: War of the North Game
Inon Zur continues to score the epic RPGs this year. Hot off the heels of a episodic release of the Dragon Age II soundtrack, Zur…
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Garry Schyman Live Concert Announced!
Garry Schyman, composer for Bioshock and Dante’s Inferno, will be having his music played live by the California State University Northbridge Media and Studio Ensemble.…
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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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Live Vault – Kyle Landry and Sherry Kim
“At Zanarkand” for many, myself included, is one of the quintessential pieces of video game music. Here is an absolutely mesmorising rendition from pianists Kyle…
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Naoshi Mizuta – “Final Fantasy XI Vision of Jilart” Review
Final Fantasy XI’s music is very acoustic based and extremely relaxing. After the beautiful songs from the original OST, “Final Fantasy XI – Vision Of…
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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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Dragon Age II Soundtrack Trilogy Announced
Dragon Age II will feature three parts to its soundtrack and now will have a reworked version of Florence and the Machines’ song “I’m Not…
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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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“Save the Kahoots” Music Video
Whilst trying to see if a Kahoots soundtrack had been made available to buy, I found this treasure! Enjoy!
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Whispers of the Plains – Penka Kouneva
Penka Kouneva is a versatile composer whose credits include The Sims 3 and Prince of Persia. She’s a lady you may not immediately recognise but…
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Jesper Kyd – “Assassins Creed Brotherhood OST” Review
Main staple composer of the highly respected and much loved Assassins Creed series, Jesper Kyd returns for more dramatic high-jinx in this riviting score. “Master…
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Winifred Phillips – “Legend of the Guardians OST” Review
Winifred Phillips is no stranger to big theatrical scores with pizzazz and kitchen sink attached but Legend of the Guardians is full on cinematic treats…
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Jesper Kyd to Release Assassins Creed Brotherhood OST
Jesper Kyd returns with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Soundtrack which is due for release on 16th November. Since the game takes place in the Renaissance period,…
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Winifred Phillips – Making of “Legend of the Guardians” Video
Winifred Phillips has her fingers in lots of musical pies and this latest one sounds like its going to be a chef’s special! Phillips’ score…
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Chris Huelsbeck Goes Digital!
Chris Huelsbeck goes all digital with his latest releases. Last week saw digital worldwide releases of soundtracks to Zombiesmash and R-Type Themes and with that…
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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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Vincent Diamante – “Flower OST” Review
To describe the Flower soundtrack is really quite difficult. It has eight tracks, most of which are in the same vein. It’s a gentle breeze…
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SumThing Else Get’s THQ Deal
Record label SumThing Else has secured a deal with THQ to start releasing soundtracks through them. Already bandied about are Darksiders, Red Faction, Company of…
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Split/Second Releases Soundtrack for Free!
Split/Second contained some fantastic music in its soundtrack. Now its available for free. Pop over to http://soundcloud.com/split-second to get going. Steve Emney is the talented…
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Symphonic Fantasies CD/MP3 Album Released
The talented Benyamin Nuss and Arne Roth spearhead the fantastic Symphonic Fantasies concert which is now released on CD and MP3 download, strangely only on…
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Immortal 4 Announced
The C64 and Amiga seems to have its own niche in the VGM market and with the announcement of Immortal 4, its time for Amiga…
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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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Halo Reach OST Due 28th September
Halo soundtracks have always had an extra pinch of epic sauce on them so the latest soundtrack in the series Halo Reach will be much…
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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,…
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Salta to Compose Tom Clancy’s Hawx 2
Tom Salta, a compose we’re very fond of over at HPM will be composing for Tom Clancy’s Hawx 2. There’s no release date planned yet…
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Higher Plain Music Guess the VGM Song Contest 2010!
IT IS HERE! 100 songs, 300 points available – will you take the winning honours and gain the almighty prize that has yet to be…
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Monster Tri Hunter OST Released Today
Monster Tri Hunter’s soundtrack was released today which is of particular excitement of MH and MegaMan fans as the composers are Tadayo Shinmakin and Yukko…
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IWADON Now Released as a Download Album
At long last the fantastic Hiroyuki Iwatsuki tribute album IWADON, spearheaded by Jeriaska, who runs nobuooo.com amoungst other things in the video game music world,…
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Petri Alanko – “Alan Wake” OST
Alan Wake has been a game so long in production, it could have been called Alan Will Be Awake Shortly and no one would have…
