Game Music Revue: Rez Infinite (iam8bit Edition)
- Credited Composer: Various Artists
- Released February 15, 2017
- Label: Nippon Columbia
- VGMdb Information Page
The Rez soundtrack is the dopest shit.
It’s the soundtrack to the future, if your present is the mid-90s. It’s what you listen to when you’re in The Matrix. What you put on your headphones if your Angelina Jolie in Hackers. It’s the top 40 radio of the Ghost In The Shell universe. Continue reading
Game Music Revue: The Legend of Zelda 30th Anniversary Concert
- Credited Composer: Koji Kondo with additional artists
- Released February 15, 2017
- Label: Nippon Columbia
- VGMdb Information Page: Deluxe Edition, Standard Edition
Last year, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo held a short concert series featuring orchestral arrangements of Zelda tunes performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Now, less than six months later, the concerts have made their way to CD, and in a swank deluxe edition to boot. Continue reading
David Bowie Is Rare Vinyl
David Bowie Is was originally an exhibition at the V&A in England. It was massively successful, and since then it has gone on the road around the world. Now, it has made its way to Tokyo. I went there just the other day. It was amazing, breathtaking and at times nearly reduced me to tears. It’s the end all be all experience for any David Bowie fan, an audio/visual smorgasbord of memorabilia, rare video, behind-the-scenes footage and various Bowie ephemera from his birth to now.
You should go. That’s all I really have to say about that. Besides, photos weren’t allowed inside so writing anymore about it would be rather pointless. So instead, let’s talk about the records you can buy there, because vinyl. Continue reading