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Some video game music recommendations for Bandcamp FridayBut not just soundtracks!
But not just soundtracks!
Bandcamp, if you don’t know it, is—if I may make a bad comparison—kinda a musical equivalent of Itch.io (kinda). It’s about the only way I buy music these days. As well as letting you stream music in your browser and from an app, you can download in a variety of formats: MP3 V0, MP3 320, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, Wav, and AIFF. Good stuff. Alright, on with a few reccies to get this listening party started.
Ed Harrison:Neotokyo
Some of Ed Harrison’s music appeared in theHalf-Life 2mod Neotokyo, but he made a whole double album’s worth. It is: very good. Then he remixed it. Then he released work-in-progress scraps from figuring it out. Cracking stuff. You might also know his musicfrom Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Breach mode.
Graham Dunning:Panopticon
Yellow Henge (Radio Occult)Watch on YouTube
Yellow Henge (Radio Occult)
Hot Dad:Christmas Pain In Christmas Town
You might know Hot Dad and his music from performing as a faded musician named The Chowder Man inHypnospace Outlaw. That’s also on Bandcamp but this is a Chowder Man song not in the game, a Christmas song with Dave Pino. It is one of the best Christmas songs, of all the Christmas songs. And I say that as someone who listens to Christmas radio all December. A maximalist yuletide heartbreaker. And the video…!
The Chowder Man - Christmas Pain in Christmas Town (feat. Dave Pino)Watch on YouTube
The Chowder Man - Christmas Pain in Christmas Town (feat. Dave Pino)
Sorath:Devil Daggers (Remastered)
(Hot bonus tip: grab a replay from the Devil Daggers leaderboard, slow the playback speed way way down, then alt-tab out and enjoy hours of groaning ambient music.)
The Garages:The Garages Suck
And damn, “Success is for capitalists, so every time we fail it’s basically praxis” is a hell of a lyric for imaginary ghost baseball punk.
I’ve bought more game-aligned music on Bandcamp but I’ll not throw my entire library into this particular post. You don’t want me to flood you with groaning industrial ambience. And not that there’s nothing wrong with regular video game soundtracks! Some cracking OSTs on Bandcamp. Recommend whatever you want, gang. What tickles your malleus?
