Game Music Remixes, Covers, Mashups and Messes
by Vladimir Cole 
{ May 26th 2005 at 1:48PM }
It's clear that companies aren't putting out
enough great product when their biggest fans are spending hundreds of hours making remixes, covers, mashups and
(sometimes) messes of older video game music.
Well, that's the industry's problem. Not ours. We're happy that VGMix is hosting these fan-made tracks and that they're not requiring registration or navigation through a minefield of popups to do it.
Zelda fans should try "Blood of Ganon" by artist virt, who says, "It incorporates my favorite themes from the NES and SNES Zeldas (anything newer is sort of outside of my nostalgic jurisdiction) and is about as metal as you'll ever hear my prog-metal get." That's pretty metal right there, dude.
It's said that Bart rocks the game music category as well. And don't forget Nullsleep or Bitshifter for non-game music performed on Gameboys.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ubernym @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM
www.ocremix.org
VGMix was born from this site, in a manner of speaking. While VGMix has a much larger selection because of its more lax posting rules, OCRemix has an excellent catalogue of game remixes as well, most of which are very high quality. Both are excellent sites.
high roller @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM
This guy's metroid stuff is great: www.myspace.com/eviltomwaits
cbisquit @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM
I personally love the neskimos http://www.soundclick.com/bands/writePage.cfm?myType=_music&bandid=91259&bandnamesave=neskimos
Brinstar @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM
Check out Metroid Metal(http://www.metroidmetal.com/) for some very awesome Metroid remixes.
The OneUps (formerly the One Up Mushrooms) do some great work as well: http://www.oneupstudios.com/
GamingFM is good for non-remixed video game music. Streaming audio and they take requests.
Yanik Magnan @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM
Anyone who likes Virt's music should check out Neon FM Dance Radio, a music game going to be released for the arcades this summer. There is a song that sounds oddly like it comes from an 8-bit game, called Zap! (Chipset Remix), featuring DJ Potatoe, and it may sound similar to music from the classic Gradius games.
You can find more information on this game at the official site (http://neonfm.com) or my site (http://yanik.merkey.net).