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As participants in an interactive medium, it is only fitting that video game players take ownership of the games written on their hearts. By appropriating the music of video games, remixers and arrangers transmute their favorite works into interesting, new configurations. And it isn't just bedroom producers who are remixing game soundtracks; big publishers are extending the mix as well. Here frequent Gamasutra contributor Jeriaska takes a look some of the outstanding remix albums of the year.
Kind of Bloop
http://kindofbloop.com
Andy Baio risked trampling on sacred ground when he set out to arrange Kind of Blue for the Miles Davis album's 50th anniversary. Recruiting aficionados of 8-bit chip tunes' Ast0r, Virt, Sergeeo, Shnabubula, and Disasterpeace--the album has sparked a contentious debate among listeners as to whether retro gaming and an improvisatory medium like jazz are natural bedfellows or inherently at odds.
Composers: Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.
Arrangers: Ast0r, Virt, Sergeeo, Shnabubula, and Disasterpeace
Scream no Hito, Volume 2
www.sweeprecord.com/?p=286
To be fully appreciated, Super Sweep's latest remix album must be supplemented by a series of YouTube videos. They depict the cloaked, mask-wearing Scream villain performing arrangements of classic game themes, including Castlevania and After Burner, on the violin. Volume Two caters to those truly in the know by remixing "Morning Music," the tune vintage Konami arcade cabinets played while...