It’s a bit late for Christmas, but I don’t mind one bit. You may recall back in late December I highlighted some Christmas music for gamers (not surprisingly, this post is still on the front page. Yes, I update THAT infrequently). In that post, I had mentioned the excellent 8-Bit Jesus album by Doctor Octoroc. […]
Christmas music for gamers
I admit it. I have a thing for chiptunes. Especially when the songs are developed using the same tools that crafted the music that shaped my childhood. The soundtrack to my youth consists of music from the Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, Castlevania, Super Mario Bros., Metroid, Bionic Commando, Final Fantasy, and Ninja Gaiden (amongst […]
Rainwave: streaming video game music has just gotten better
I missed giving Rainwave some much-needed attention in the past couple of months, which is an especially grievous crime given the fact that so much has happened to the service recently. What is Rainwave? It’s a service that streams music via an ogg vorbis stream from seven generations’ worth of excellent video games. Not only […]
Final Fantasy VII remixes
I grabbed the torrent this weekend for the entire Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, the latest OCRemix community game music project. I’ve only gotten through CD2, but it is a phenomenal album so far. Far surpassing Chrono Symphonic, which I found to be fairly dull and repetitive. But this FF7 music kicks and […]
Streaming video game music: Rainwave
Courtesy of a friend at Evil Avatar, a home-grown sexy website that streams original video game music from decades of systems via an ogg vorbis stream. The site itself is a quick-moving, gorgeous work of genius. And the music is even better than listening to OCRemix (which has been my station of choice for the […]
Oh, the possibilities
Just an FYI, we’ve recently learned that Guitar Hero 3 won’t be working in this fashion, but it’s still very cool to see. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0770SMqK0]
Super Mario Trombones
Being a trombone player in high school, as well as an enormous Super Mario fan, this entertained me enormously.
I’ll get him to sing Blackbird next
This weekend my wife and I got into a crazy frenzy of cleaning and organizing the house. Anytime we do this (which is apt to occur roughly once a month), we always put some music in the stereo and crank it up to keep us motivated and give the boys something to dance to while […]
I’m not a rockabillly singer on MySpace…I swear
This isn’t me, but there’s a part of me that wishes it was… Blogged with Flock
Songbird isn’t singing to me
In a previous post, I referred to the Songbird Firefox build as "an unfortunate waste of code." This comment prompted Rob Lord–one of the principal Songbird developers–to ask me in the comments of that post why I felt that way towards their product. I guess the wonders of Technorati keep even this obscure little blog […]