And there goes a first Falcom release. Falcom PC Engine games are famous for their redbook audio (CDDA tracks), which were most of the time handled by Ryo Yonemitsu. However, the music generated by the PCE itself remained, at that time, unavailable (game logs were made possible since then, though). Anyway, this archive consists of both the redbook tracks and the chiptunes.
Enjoy ~
Here’s a short Amiga game recording. I love medievalish chiptunes, as you’ll probably notice …
The Follin Project was started on a forum with various members. It aimed at recording MP3s of all VGM related works by Tim and Geoff Follin.
Although recordings from original hardware were announced to be preferred, the produced recordings were most of the time from emulated game music logs. The project generated quite a lot of enthusiasm for a while then, as expected, died. However, in the meantime, quite a lot has been made.
This first volume are recordings from the ZX Spectrum games the Follin brothers composed for. I did those from emulated game logs, and I’ve been told the sound isn’t always very accurate, but heh, I don’t own a ZX.
Enjoy ~
That one is an actual repost from the old days, i’ll quote the nfo there too:
I never played PC88/98 or any other japanese retro PCs as a kid. In fact, I pretty much ignored their existence until a few years back. I discovered them, and their sound systems, thanks to my tastes in videogame music. Almost exclusively Falcom works at first, of course, then after much listening to Sound Team JDK’s goodness, my ears kinda learned to appreciate the true minimalist power and poetry of those early chiptune sounds. I thus widened my horizons, and became quite addicted.
There is a reason why Falcom’s music or people like Yuzo Koshiro are so famous, though: they do tend to rock much more often than the others. After listening to so many PC88 soundtracks, one understands why something like the first Ys OST was such a shock. Still, many hidden gems are hiding in what could sound like an average, or even mediocre soundtrack, at first. This is of course the reason to be of this compilation.
Enjoy ~
And there goes a first release. Re-release actually since it was posted on specialized forums already a while ago…. Anyway, I’ll just quote the nfo:
This is part of a project which aims at creating video game music compilations of all the essential titles me, my brother and cousin played as kids and thoughout our adolescence. In this first volume, we first get to hear music from games of my cousin’s Master System. We then continue on the Game Gear part, which was the first console I ever actually owned. I had to record most of the Game Gear tracks myself since game logs for this system are rare. All the rest, though, are recorded from emulated game logs. The purpose of this isnt as much to create an objective best-of as it is an attempt to re-create the atmosphere of what seems to be so long ago already, and awake memories.
Hope some people out there will like it ~
So it would seem we’re kinda back … In case some of our 4 readers would actually remember us, we’d like to say sorry for the couple years of intense wait it must have been. heh ^_^;
Anyway, both of us have been caught into, you know, real life business as they say, and we still are more than ever. That’s why instead of resurrecting our oh-so-ambitious project we thought of doing a rather simple blog thingie to finally get things started.
Started to what ? Who knows. But yeah we’re back. =3
