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Video Game Music Mixes

Posted by michael on from the wakka-wakka dept.

Matt Pollard writes: "A group of video game music fanatics and musicians have opened up a new website at VGMix.com. If you're like us, sometimes you can't get the snazzy tunes of today's video games out of your head. Also, if you're up for a bit of nostalgia, this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school."

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  1. Awesome Tetris cover song by Chicks_Hate_Me · · Score: 3, Insightful

    May seem a bit offtopic but Ozma has a great cover song of 'Korobeiniki.' Ozma's just a damn good band and it's my job of an over-obsessed fan to advertise 'em as much as I can...

    Ozma Mp3's

    Ozma's Website

  2. Re:Big launch by shymog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a huge difference between what VGmusic.com does and what VGmmix.com does.

    VGmusic.com present MIDI data of song mixes, most of them trying to mimic the originals as much as possible.

    VGmix.com, on the other hand, presents MP3 remixes of songs. Decent ones, too.

    I dunno, I'd rather hear an MP3 of someone playing actual music than listen to some dinky MIDI data running through a cheap wavetable chip or soundfont any day.

    --
    "I wasn't sniffing your spicy brains."
  3. Re:Why do they track their visitors ? by AdamJ · · Score: 3, Insightful
    So my question is : what business does a mere "group of video game music fanatics and musicians" has logging people's browser infos into a SQL database ?

    The same business any web server that logs user agents types has.

  4. Re:like that's going to last by Jake+K · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, it DOES make money in Japan, and as a result, fan-made arrangements ARE illegal in most cases, if I'm not mistaken. This hasn't happened yet in the states, and I'm seriously VERY doubtful that the American popular music market is going to be very receptive toward video game music ...arrangements, seeing as game music soundtracks themselves don't even sell too well to begin with, over here.

    You have a very valid point in theory, but in practice it's just not panning out like that. American people as a whole don't seem to appreciate game music in the same way that Japanese people do, and while I'd like to kid myself into thinking that a few talented American composers can change that, it's just not happening yet. Game music is a cultural thing in Japan. Here, it's just seen as background noise by most people. There are the few for whom that's NOT true, and for them, there are many good import houses and then sites like this that can help satisfy their cravings.

    OverClocked ReMix has been around for two years and - unless I'm mistaken - has remained unmolested by legal professionals because it really ISN'T a money-generating market here in the US and so no copyright sparring has taken place.

    So.... Yes, it is going to last. Maybe not into the next decade, but for at least long enough to be remembered, absolutely.

    -j