what games have blues/jazz soundtracks? i can think of codename viper for nes.
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Tokyo, Japan
Listen to Bluescreen on Ubiktune, not soundtracks but awesome jazzy stuff. Also get Kind of Bloop!
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This is sick stuff. WAV sounds much better on a real Gameboy
Also - it is important to listen to real jazz
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Puerto Rico
(All of Grim Fandango)
Also kplecraft I think.
Last edited by Xuriik (Oct 7, 2012 11:43 pm)
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thebitman wrote:
it is important to listen to real jazz
i absolutely disagree.
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Tokyo, Japan
Also this isnt chippy and it might be a bit more swing than Jazz but space channel 5 is one of my all time favorites.
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good call on sonic 2 and streets of rage, i forgot about those.
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Saskrotch wrote:
thebitman wrote:it is important to listen to real jazz
i absolutely disagree.
This thread is now about real jazz:
EDIT: Serious contribution
I'm a huge jazz person, and I haven't really contributed to this thread because I idiomatically have trouble viewing 100% sequenced music as "jazz," even if it is using a lot of the compositional techniques and stylistic conventions associated with jazz. I feel that the improvisational dynamic is essential to the idiomatic definition of "Jazz." Do I love jazzy electronic music and jazz chip music? I do, and quite enthusiastically. But making "real jazz" as I understand it in our idiom would be a next level exploration of the art, getting into stuff like randomized / generative music, or software that behaves differently and creates different music in different circumstances.
Which is not to say that a very talented live performance with chip fusion can't be jazz. If you're improvising at all, it's approaching jazz.
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Telerophon wrote:
Saskrotch wrote:i absolutely disagree.
This thread is now about real jazz:
gotta love some art tatum.
stride piano is jazz, right?
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Fuck yeah it is, albeit a very specific style from a specific era.
Actually, topical to the thread. Koji Kondo wrote ragtimes for the air stage levels in most of the Super Mario World games.
Check it:
Compare to actual period era ragtimes, such as these by Scott Joplin:
And a modern ragtime, composed by the guy from the first video: