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16538c No.16852586
Video game music is some of the most experimental shit i've ever heard.
In this song alone, it uses conventions from four or five genres and even switches bars to match old music tones.
It starts as smooth jazz, transitions into a medieval flute piece, climaxes with seemingly western cowboy movie style orchestra, which seamlessly transitions into japanese orchestral bars. And this isn't even a standout, as soon as video games came onto the market, the skilled and unskilled composers have defied all established convention, almost by accident. I think part of this is because most video game music does not rely on vocals and has to really work the melodies to shine.
In fact, it's limitations like bad soundchips, at least back in the 80's and 90's, that forced melodic music onto the medium and accidentally trained hundreds of composers to embrace conventions that were completely unknown to the music scene at the time. It brought back classical orchestras into popularity, simply by interest.
I don't think this is touched on, but it ACTUALLY brought classical back alongside video game concerts that gateway people into the orchestra theater. When the music scene was once dominated by 4/4 bar formulaic schlock Maroon 5 and Beyonce shit for decades.
This only convinces me of the inherent justice and purity of the medium, no matter how they try to corrupt it, it brought art back to life.
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b86f8a No.16852594
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Most video game music sounds like 70's prog to me.
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16538c No.16852605
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>>16852594
It depends on the genre and composer, honestly.
70's prog itself was a convention-defying movement that rebelled against the safe 4/4 corporate push, at least to some extent, and in order to defy convention, most looked to old patterns and intentionally broke their own melodies up into full stops, almost into different "songs" entirely.
The thing about video game music is that it's made to be looped indefinitely or occasionally played and mixed with silence in open world games, since open world games have to rely on environmental sound design instead of music, GTA does it mission by mission and lets the player pick the songs outside that, Breath of the Wild uses a weaving approach with context based sound design, so a prog approach has to be made in most cases to avoid the trap of irritating the player with complete repitition.
It does end up close to prog at least in how the bars are arranged, but there's a hell of a lot more variation, planted by the medium's electronic roots.
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000000 No.16852607
> When the music scene was once dominated by 4/4 bar formulaic schlock Maroon 5 and Beyonce shit for decades.
The chronology is backwards here, but even if it wasn't, that's a pretty bad point. Pop music is almost by definition formulaic. I definitely agree on the melodic part, but as far as I know (comparatively?) many early video game composers didn't have a formal music education. Tim Follin comes to mind.
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f7727c No.16852628
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82ebb8 No.16852633
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>>16852628
I'd just like to appreciate how well the "Face Shrine" theme for Link's Awakening was so well remastered. Really fits the visuals of the dungeon. Definitely one of my favorite soundtracks for the series now.
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75a56a No.16852650
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What genre is this? It's chill as fuck.
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de4905 No.16852665
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I love the Samurai warriors style of techno-sengoku.
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61c9ff No.16852695
>>16852586
FPS/TPS action games would go well with a free jazz soundtrack and should be done more often. A GTA clone set inside the world of Lupin III with a 10/10 jazz soundtrack would be great as well.
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add901 No.16853474
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de9b17 No.16853539
>>16852594
This sounds like boss music! The cover art even looks like the boxart for some weird NES shmup. Incredible.
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035f7c No.16853623
>>16853474
it sounds like someone is trying to fuck the instrument rather then play it
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de9b17 No.16853638
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>>16852695
That's some real yoko ono shit.
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c7686f No.16853645
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>>16853623
The idea of a modern Lupin game with a soundtrack worthy of Lupin is a good idea.
That track needs to lay off the drugs.
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de9b17 No.16853655
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You know in Secret of Mana how you get to that one fight against Thanatos, and the music is this bizarre noise in the embed? That's called "Kecak". It's a Balinese tribal thing. https://youtu.be/2WHx2ITKtUg
So there you go. Now you know "what the fuck that goddamn noise is."
It was also used in one of the early KoF stages. Presumably Bali.
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47d6da No.16853658
>>16852586
Idolfag, is that you?
It's obvious you aren't into music and most of what you're saying is either wrong or embarrasingly wrong. Maybe I'll pick apart your post later, but for now all I'll tell you is that the song you posted is obviously prog rock.
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de9b17 No.16853689
>>16852650
Listening to the soundtrack, the nearest thing I can think of is jazz fusion. Like Bob James, maybe.
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61c9ff No.16853713
>>16853623
>>16853638
>you're on a mission to find the missing captain dude
>3/4ths in and your comms go fuzzy
>captain dude walks around the corner with a posse of bad dudes
>starts shooting at you
>free jazz starts playing
>turns out you've been set up and now you and your squad have to bail
>enemy dudes now throw grenades around corners/over walls
>they now use tactics like slicing the pie, baiting you by poking their gun around a corner and setting up pincer attacks
>they start picking off your squad one by one
>last of your squad either surrenders or stabs each other in the back from the stress
Tell me that wouldn't be peak vidya.
>>16853645
You could even use the jackets as difficulty levels with red/pink as ultra casual without many gunfights and focusing on heists where you're only navigating through traps, and green/blue/black as the hard modes where you're unraveling government conspiracies to steal black project artifacts. Makes total sense to do one but nobody has tried to yet.
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49656a No.16853718
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>>16853658
Because it's an identifiable genre doesn't mean what he said doesn't have weight. Limitations can bring out the creative side of musicians, and bring out how terrible sounding untalented hacks can be.
Besides, everything can have a genre. Can you tell me what Naganuma's shit qualifies as? I love it.
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61c9ff No.16853724
>>16853718
>spoilers
Big beat/breakbeat.
Reminder that http://jetsetradio.live is still alive.
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49656a No.16853727
>>16853724
Thank fuck for reminding me.
Is that DJ Professor K impersonator still around on it?
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61c9ff No.16853728
>>16853727
Wouldn't know. Sure has changed over the years though.
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c83c4a No.16853790
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>>16853539
Anon, you would love Eloy.
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c3f143 No.16855106
>>16852594
Yeah most of it is either prog, jazz fusion or synth pop (YMO) ripoffs. Especially in the 80s/90s.
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7ff259 No.16865060
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i cleaned out my webm folder on my harddrive but
late 1990s early 2000 ps1 era y2k everything absolute obsession with old sckool dnb junglist was fucking amazing.
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de9b17 No.16865090
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>>16853790
This was terrific, yes.
>>16855106
>synth pop (YMO) ripoffs.
Embed related, kek.
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