If there’s one thing I’ve been jealous of Europeans for — besides more progressive and accepting attitudes, better treatment of workers, universal health care that actually works and so on — is their access to Spotify. Now, I love my streaming music services. I pay for access to Pandora and Grooveshark, and also use Subsonic [...]
Anyone who knows me knows I love, love, love video game soundtracks. I currently have around 200 video game soundtracks and am always looking to hear more. You can therefore imagine my surprise and delight when I came across YouTube user garudoh’s channel entitled “The Music of Video Games“. Here, garudoh has taken samples from [...]
Several years ago, a game called Civilization IV was released, and it was amazing. One thing that stuck out to me — and many others — however, was the opening song, called “Baba Yetu” by composer Christopher Tin, which was composed specifically for the game. Later, the song was placed on an album of world [...]
This Saturday, in Los Angeles, there will be a midnight showing of “Transformers: The Movie”. No, not the Michael Bay pieces of crap, we’re talking the original 1986 animated film that many people in my generation consider a beloved and seminal piece of work…so of course I’m going. (Thanks to my friend Josh for the [...]
According to an article on Ars Technica entitled, Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”, the Library of Congress has added a bevy of new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act altering the way we’re allowed to use much of the digital media and devices we have.
Hey there y’all, hope y’all are well. Busy as hell here at work today, so won’t have much time to post anything (plus my brain is wombly from lack of sleep). I therefore thought I’d share something with ya, the soundtrack to one of my favorite PC games, Interstate ’76, courtest of the awesome music [...]
Did you like the classic games “House of the Dead,” or “Typing of the Dead”? How about “Rock Band” or “Guitar Hero”? If so, then there might be just the game for you coming out on the Wii called “Rock of the Dead.” According to the story on 1Up, later this year, “Rock of the [...]
Okay, I’m something of a soundtrack nut, sue me. However, I’m not just mentioning this one because it’s an ordinary soundtrack, oh no. This soundtrack was composed by none other than Greg Edmonson, the fantastic composer behind the music for Firefly. Anyway, according to the Playstation Blog, the soundtrack to “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” — [...]
Over on Bear McCreary’s blog — you know, the guy who composed the amazing music to Battlestar Galactica — he’s announced that the soundtracks to Dark Void and Dark Void Zero have been released today. You can get the Dark Void soundtrack over on Amazon, and the Dark Void Zero soundtrack on iTunes for $13.99 [...]
