Dual Core has done it all in their musical lifespan, but it has been a while since the duo of C64 and Int 80 have dropped an album. Five years since 2012's All The Things, and I for one am very glad Dual Core is back with Downtime. I'll talk more about it on an episode of SUBCON. They are world renowned though. Don't need me to sell them.
I've been a fan of ThePlasmas for years, ever since GM4A first started out. The best possible context to talk about ThePlasmas has also come up with the release of the nearly two dozen track tribute to Castlevania known as Holy Whiplash Plus. It's very difficult to go with just one track to share, but will go with Black Night for this go. I hope this is far from the last time I'll be covering classic Castlevania music. Headbang to this for a minute.
Definitely digging Schematist's electronic soundtrack here. Very eclectic style to accomodate all the areas this Metroidvania style Mega Man might encompass. Find this album on Schematist's bandcamp page, and download at any price.
JDWasabi's instrument choices give the Dragon Fin Soup Soundtrack a warm, inviting mood. Makes me nostalgic for a game I haven't even seen game footage of. You can grab the album via JDWasabi's bandcamp page for eight pounds. I'm sharing the adventurous sounds of Bleemshroom Forest. Also, I like saying Bleemshroom. Like saying Bleem for Dreamcast, anyway, music.
Can we shift 'scary game music' into it's own category. You know the stuff. Lavender town, anything akira yamaoka. Many of the themes represented on Pinhead Larry's latest, Memory Palace II, certainly fit that mold. Whichever themes don't, Larry goes and remixes down into some chilling sounds anyway.
Marshall Art is two wonderful folks known as jmr and streifig, who blew my mind with their debut album. Then there is Cory Johnson, who has multiple times blown me away with some incredible game tribute albums. Now the two combine forces over four tracks.
