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unusual facts about Video game music



Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra, also known simply as The Synthetic Orchestra, is the pseudonym for a British video game music composer and orchestrator Blake Robinson, who has developed a substantial following on YouTube, primarily for his orchestrations, recreations and remixes of popular video game music.

Guy Whitmore

Guy Whitmore is a composer specializing in video game music, notable for creating the soundtracks to Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, Russian Squares, Shivers, Shivers II: Harvest of Souls, Blood, Blood II: The Chosen, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and No One Lives Forever.

Japanese mode

In addition to being used almost exclusively in traditional Japanese compositions, it is found frequently in video game music and the pieces of contemporary composers such as Anne Boyd.

MegaDriver

MegaDriver is a Brazilian heavy metal and video game music cover band formed in 2003 by Antonio "Nino" Francisco Tornisiello, who uses the stage name "Nino Megadriver".

Ninja Hayate

The game's battle music may have been sampled by The Immortals in their techno hit "Mortal Kombat (Techno Syndrome)", the theme song to the 1995 film adaptation of Mortal Kombat.

Robin Beanland

Robin "The Bean" Beanland (born August 27, 1968), is a British composer of video game music, composing music for numerous Rare titles, such as the Killer Instinct franchise, Conker's Bad Fur Day (which he also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Seavor), and many others.

Saki Kaskas

Theodosius Kaskamanidis (born 1971 in Krefeld, Germany; better known as "Saki Kaskas" or "Captain Ginger") is a Greek video game music composer, best known for his soundtracks of the Need for Speed series.

Solar Fields

He has released twelve albums, and has also scored all interactive in-game music for the Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge.

Sonic Adventure: Songs With Attitude Vocal Mini-Album

Sonic Adventure Songs With Attitude ~ Vocal Mini-Album ~ is the video game music album from the 3D platformer Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast video game console developed and produced by Sega.

TJ Davis

She is known among video game music aficionados for working with award-winning composer Richard Jacques on the soundtracks of Sonic R and Metropolis Street Racer.


see also

Move Any Mountain

Japanese video game music producer Yuzo Koshiro composed an instrumental background music track for the baseball stadium stage in the 1992/1993 Sega Genesis game Streets of Rage 2 named "Under Logic" that bears strong influence from "Move Any Mountain".

Nintendocore

The Depreciation Guild, who disbanded in 2011, were an indie band that incorporated 8-bit sounds, video game music, and elements of shoegaze.

Overclocked

OverClocked ReMix, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music.

Tappy

Tappi Iwase, Japanese video game music composer known for composing the Metal Gear series

The Greatest Video Game Music

The Greatest Video Game Music, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, features classical orchestrations of video game themes including those from Super Mario Bros., Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Halo, World of Warcraft, Angry Birds and many more.

The Laziest Men on Mars

The Laziest Men on Mars are an American techno band known for their successful Gabber song "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" which remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura, which became background music to the popular "All your base are belong to us" Flash animation.

VGO

Video Game Orchestra - A video game music arrangement group based in Boston.

Yasunori

Yasunori Mitsuda, composer from Yamaguchi Prefecture known for his video game music