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This is a bootleg record that was made a few years back, somehow they were able to get the original calypso voice actor to record lines for the outro

I was also lucky enough to get one of the test pressings from this, I’ll try to take photos and share later.

Well, you’ve got to start somewhere!

This is the first video in the series, where, as you’ve probably figured ou, I’m trying to stop being afraid to compose and free myself from the perfectionism that keeps me going in circles (and driving me crazy). The idea is to just do it and learn as I go :)

I hope you’ll like it anyway, haha.

The track is called “Temple,” inspired by video game music, specifically, a level set in… a temple. Spot on!

What does it remind you of?

Enjoy !

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I'm Robert, one of the co-founders of Soundtrack Scores YouTube channel and podcast.

My friends and I have had a longtime soundtrack newsletter/channel (reactions, reviews, discussions), but the goal all along has been to create an app that lets us capture our ratings and reviews, and build a community of soundtrack lovers like us.

The webapp is here. It's early days but already well on its way. Completely free as it stands, and we'd love all of you to test it out, send feedback, and help us build out the database with more reviews and tags.

Once you've explored drop your feedback here.
One of our outstanding questions that we'd love your take on: should the reviews also indicate whether the reviewer has seen/played the subject vs listened out of context? If so, how do we best indicate that?

Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me is a piece of music, composed by Akira Yamaoka, from the Silent Hill 3 Soundtrack. It is one of the pieces that get used a lot in "creepy" YouTube videos or memes.

In 2010, user AcidicVoid (still active as a German niche streamer and game dev) created a fan-track based of the original. More a reinterpretation than a direct cover. It's a reduced, more ambient sounding version of the piece.

Unnecessary yet interesting information:

One of Void's projects from the time is K is for Kraken. He made a chiptune version of Satanshimmel voller Geigen by Samsas Traum that can be Found on the release .Käfer.Maden.Würmer.Spinnen..

According to him, most of his works from back in the day are now lost. He used to make actual C64 chiptunes (SID), hosted on 8bc.org (long defunct). There is a lot of lost media related to this guy.

One of his more popular works is his famous cover of the Morrorwind theme, from 2011.

The track:

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3jdj9lgRAc

It was uploaded by fukounashoujo. I know that she also was active in this sub but her Reddit account seems to be banned. I find this very sad since she posted a lot of interesting lost-media-related stuff.

There was an ongoing search for this in a German Silent Hill forum hosted on diplompsychopath.de. The forum was closed a while ago.

Important: In the forum, he didn't use the name AcidicVoid, so I assume that the searchers don't know who made it. If I recall correctly, there was a discussion on who made it. Since the forum is gone, I cant check this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111219032535/http://www.diplompsychopath.de/cgi-bin/yabb3/YaBB.pl

The forum always required an account and strictly blocked all bots and crawlers from the beginning, so. It changed name to "Dark Games Forum" for a while.

According to the forum, the track was lost after the YouTube channel that hosted it was deleted.

I hope someone from the forum finds this.

Thanks a lot for reading.

I'm currently making playlists of every track that I enjoy from every console. I'm currently doing Ps1, and I'm looking for more songs to add to it.

Here are some of my favorites

Best VGM 955 - Croc 2 - The Mine

Muppet Monster Adventure OST - Cower Before Ker Monster!

Jinx Music - Playstation 1 - Hub World

Gex: Enter the Gecko OST - In Drag Net

Intelligent Qube - Stage 1

Sheep Raider OST - Track 3 (CD Quality)

Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness Soundtrack - Slip Sliding Away/Pacfooticus Stompicus(Crystal Caves 2) (PS1)

Skullmonkeys (PS1) Soundtrack - Science Center Level 3

The Emperor's new Groove ost (ps1) - 09 - Jungle Night 1

Wild Arms OST 1. Into the Wilderness

What are your favorite unreleased OSTs? It can either come from an unreleased game (Time Trax on Genesis), or a released game that has unused soundtrack (Sonic Mania - Unused Credits Theme).

Mine is probably Radikal Bikers for the Game Boy Color, composed by the amazing Alberto José Gonzàlez.

The 80s-infused opening and ending themes from Orbitals have landed on 7-inch vinyl.

Experience Side A with "Accelerating Destiny (加速する運命)" and "Heart To Heart", two brand-new tracks from composer duo Falk & Klou featuring the legendary J-pop vocalist Mami Ayukawa. Then, flip over to Side B for karaoke/instrumental versions of both tracks.

Each copy comes housed in a printed sleeve, complete with a lead sheet music insert.

https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/orbitals-opening-ending-theme-deluxe-7-vinyl

Pizza tower is one of my fave video game OST’s! Is there anything similar I can listen to?

Honorable mentions:
Bomberman Hero
Sonic Mania
Trauma Center Under the Knife 2
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I composed this track for the Japan expansion of Bang-On Balls: Chronicles, an indie 3D platformer where you play as a bouncy ball exploring destructible historical worlds.

The level takes place in a haunted version of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, and the brief was essentially:

90s + Japan + spooky.

I ended up combining 90s TR-909 drums and dance pianos with theremin-like synths, taiko, shamisen, koto, and shakuhachi. I was also pulling inspiration from things like Luigi’s Mansion and Madonna’s “Vogue.”

I really enjoy this part of game composition: taking a bunch of references that don't necessarily seem like they should work together and figuring out how to turn them into a musical identity that supports the world and gameplay.

This ended up being one of my favorite tracks from the Japan expansion, so I thought I'd share a little look at the thinking behind it.

I'd also be interested to hear from other game composers/developers: how do you approach translating a game's visual style or creative brief into music?

My entry will be uploaded to YouTube where I will be talking about the series and the character that I made for the contest. I am making cover music for it and an original theme.

To make this, I found the resources on Mobygames and made it 3D and animated it using DaVinci Resolve.