I've always loved instrumental music but there's something particularly special about video game music. My personal theory is that it's different from other species of earworms, because it's soaking into your neurons while your cognitive faculties are flexing to solve some gameplay riddle or another.
With the Grammy powers-that-be reorganizing categories to recognize music appearing in video games, my first thought was "It's about damn time!" Once my indignation cooled, I wondered about game music that would've won Grammys if the new openness had been in place since the earliest days of the medium. Here's a quick list of killer tracks that I've loved over the years.
1. "Creation - The State of Art"
"A Gamer's Guide to Rez"
Ken Ishii
"Rez" creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi took his inspiration from the rave music scene so the whole soundtrack vibrates with glowstick energy. (An official CD release came out years ago and has...
With the Grammy powers-that-be reorganizing categories to recognize music appearing in video games, my first thought was "It's about damn time!" Once my indignation cooled, I wondered about game music that would've won Grammys if the new openness had been in place since the earliest days of the medium. Here's a quick list of killer tracks that I've loved over the years.
1. "Creation - The State of Art"
"A Gamer's Guide to Rez"
Ken Ishii
"Rez" creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi took his inspiration from the rave music scene so the whole soundtrack vibrates with glowstick energy. (An official CD release came out years ago and has...
- 4/30/2011
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
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