Let’s talk composers shall we? Namely Nobuo Uematsu, famed composer of the Final Fantasy soundtrack and subsequent Final Fantasy titles along with dozens of other game soundtracks spanning over two decades.

This man is a beautiful mind.

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I love 8-bit music so much. Music made from old video game sounds and consoles, um yeah, this is me saying I dig that shizat. I was going through some old links I had and found this for 8bitpeoples which is a group of chip music and 8-bit artists.

They even do live gameboy concerts, which is crazy awesome to watch and makes me feel so inept since the most daring thing I ever did with my Gameboy was to pretend it was a super computer when I played Mission Impossible or MacGyver. Yeah…I used to do that. My sister and I had super imagination fueled childhoods, bitches.

Anyway, there’s links to all the individual artists’ sites and each have tons of free songs and videos of performances. I wish there was more of this stuff here locally. Maybe there is but I dunno how to find it. D and I once tried to go to a Robot Music night…It was a terrible, terrible choice…There was good Guinness to drink but pretty much the rest was a lesson in extreme awkwardness. I was with D so that was good, the music was just super bawls.

Sometimes even I can only take so much digital input into my aural nodes…but when I am in the mood this type of music is so essential to my well being.

Right now I’m listening to Randomizer’s Downstairs and you tell me that’s not the sweet tits.

I was watching Toku play Shadow of the Colossus the other night. I’ve never played it, I wasn’t a Sony person til recently so I have alot of catching up to do. He explained to me his reasons for loving the game, the storyline, the landscapes and the vast open feeling with hidden load times, the fact that it was like a ‘almost silent opera’.

The first thing that struck me was the music. The achingly beautiful music. I was once again brought back to my thoughts of the power of game music and the sheer beauty of emotion that music can generate. Roar of the Earth, the official title of the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack, was released in Japan in 2005.

The emotion, the action, and the passion that is included in this first minute of music is so staggering to me. It breaks my heart, invigorates me and shocks me all at the same time.

I just wanted to share that with you.

When I first heard hints of the Lost Odyssey theme song two years ago I played a short clip of it over and over again.

This is the full version and it blows my mind with the amount of beauty and emotion. Seriously, soundtracks are about the only kind of music I really seek out to listen to during the moments where I can actually sit down and enjoy music. This song just makes me feel so many things…I just find game music incredible and I wish there was more coverage of it in North America.

That is all.