Tag: Music

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News Sega

Sonic Symphony World Tour Returning to London

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Here’s good news for fans of game music, especially if you're also a fan of Sega’s speedy mascot: The Sonic Symphony World Tour is speeding back to London!Sonic Symphony is an immersive multimedia concert experience featuring over three decades of music from across the Sonic franchise, performed by both a symphony orchestra and a full rock band. Co-produced by SEGA and Soundtrec, and presented worldwide by MGP Live, the Sonic
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Atari 50 soundtrack LP
Atari News

Atari 50 Soundtrack LP Pre-Orders Open

Paul Twist0
The Atari 50 soundtrack LP, titled Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Compilation, is the latest release in the seemingly ongoing Atari 50 celebrations, which began with the wonderfully presented and well-curated Atari 50 compilation of Atari classics for modern formats, released to celebrate Atari’s 50th anniversary in 2022.Since then, the celebrations have continued, with further releases including a deluxe arcade machine and a box set of Atari 2600 cartridges.This latest
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News Nintendo

Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert to be Streamed

Paul Twist0
If you enjoy listening to video game music, particularly music from the Legend of Zelda series, then you won’t want to miss an upcoming streamed Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert.The pre-recorded orchestra performance will be available to stream in full from Nintendo UK’s YouTube channel from Friday 9th February 2024.Here at Fusion R Gamer, we do enjoy listening to video game music even when we’re not playing games, such as
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8-bit

Lukhash turns Chiptunes into Chart Tunes

Paul Twist0
The chiptune musician Lukhash, who incorporates SID chip music in his 80s-influenced synth compositions, has turned the “hit parade” into the “8-bit parade”, with his latest album entering the UK’s Official Album Downloads Chart at number 36, just one place below Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, which is apparently back in the charts again, for some reason.Lukhash’s album, titled Virtual Burnout includes such retro gaming-friendly song titles
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Nintendo

Limited Edition TMNT NES Soundtrack to Blast Out from the Sewers

Paul Twist0
As you may have gathered, we’re more than a little partial to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles here at Fusion R Gamer, so we were “turtley” thrilled to learn that Limited Run Games are releasing the TMNT NES soundtrack on “ooze green” vinyl, and on cassette and CD, but if you want to add this TMNT NES soundtrack to your record collection, you’ll have to be as quick as Michaelangelo
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Radiohead’s OK Computer – reimagined using Nintendo 64 sounds

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Talented Youtuber on4word has recreated the entirety of Radiohead's masterpiece OK Computer album using sounds from famous Nintendo 64 games. Games such as Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Banjo Kazooie, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and many more have had their sounds extracted and re-used to create something truly special. The complete track listing along with its gaming source is: Airbag [Super Mario 64] Paranoid Android [Mario
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News ZX Spectrum

Crash Radio crashes and zzaps its way onto the Internet

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The makers of Crash Magazine have now launched a brand new Crash Radio channel, allowing fans to listen to the view best Beeper, AY, and digital music twenty-four hours a day. The current schedule has an hour of dedicated beeper music between 6pm and 7pm GMT every evening, but they plan for this to evolve over time. Regular slots, including chats with ZX Spectrum developers, artists and musicians - both
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BBC Radio Broadcast Video Game Music Special

Paul Twist0
BBC Radio 6 Music have broadcast an episode of Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone dedicated to video game music.Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone is a weekly show dedicated to experimental and underground music. The episode broadcast yesterday evening (Sunday 22nd January 2023) was dedicated to video game music and featured soundtracks from a pleasingly eclectic selection of games. Previous BBC broadcasts dedicated to video game music have included last year's From 8-Bit
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News

Rogue Trooper Game Soundtrack Released

Paul Twist0
Via their Rebellion Music imprint, Rebellion have released the soundtrack to their Rogue Trooper video game of 2006, based on the long-running 2000 AD comic strip about a big blue fella who fights in wars or summat.Rogue Trooper was co-created by Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons.The soundtrack is available on a variety of platforms for streaming or download. These include Spotify, Apple Music & iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube Music, as well
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News Nintendo

Jazz Tribute to the SNES Released

Paul Twist0
That headline isn’t the nonsensical word salad it may seem. Yes, it’s true, a jazz tribute to SNES soundtracks has been released - nice! OverClocked ReMix are behind the project. They state that heir aim is to “promote video game music as an art form”, and we’re sure you’ll agree they’re doing a grand job!The title of this project is “Mode 7: A Jazz Tribute to the SNES.The game soundtracks
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