If you're into Bowser anthems and pipe organs, then today is your lucky day. Follow the link and watch Harold Rodriguez from the University of Florida rock several Nintendo related themes on a nice fatty pipe organ. Best if listened to on a nice, loud stereo.[via 4cr]




















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IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
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But yeah, awesome tunes.
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Louis S post #2. University of Florida is a total party school. Your sister is sooo going to get banged...
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Seriously though, cool songs and great selection.
I once passed by a PBS program on TV where they were showing various organ performances, mostly in cathedrals. I asked my cousin, who was there with me, why is the most evil sounding music always played in churches. Right as he shrugged his answer, "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" started to play.
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There have been many better renditions on other instruments. We're just going to have to wait longer for the organ.
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Actually, both were nice "personalizations" of the original tracks. Good to see him experimenting a bit and seperating himself from the from-the-sheet kids like The Video Game Pianist; at least he tried to imbue some personality into it, and that's respectable. Purism is ugly.
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in OOT; why didn't he play that? Oh well, great job on the other songs anyway.
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Paul Gale
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i try to play vg songs on the piano >.>
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orchestrated vg music is one type of music that can be either really beautiful or really stupid.
this was a masterpiece.
thank you harold rodriguez and joystick.
god bless you all.
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Also, I just graduated in this building and this is in the University Auditorium. If you were in the building and took in the interior architecture this experience would be 10 fold in awesomeness.
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You probably won't get this message but look for the following music for organ:
Bach - Christ Was Laid In Chains, Bwv 622 - Otto Winterman
Bach - Concerto No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 593 - Michael Murray
Bach - Fantasia And Fugue In G-Minor, Bwv 542 - Otto Winterman
Bach - Fugue In D Minor ('giant'), Bwv 680 - Michael Murray
Bach - Passacaglia And Fugue In C Minor, Bwv 582 - Peter Hurford (this is the touchstone...if someone can play this, they're an organist)
Bach - Prelude And Fugue In A Minor Bwv 543 - Peter Hurford
Bach - Prelude And Fugue In E Minor ('cathedral'), Bwv 533 - Michael Murray
Bach - Prelude In C Minor ('great'), Bwv 546 - Michael Murray
Bach - Sinfonia, From Cantata No. 29 ('we Thank Thee, Lord'), Bwv 29 - Michael Murray
Bach - Toccata, Adagio & Fugue In C-Major, Bwv 564 - Otto Winterman
Liszt - Prelude And Fugue On The Name Bach - Conrad Kleiger
Castlevania - Haunted Castle - Cross Your Heart - Snabald
Castlevania Symphony of the Night - 15 Requiem For The Gods
Castlevania Symphony of the Night - The Cursed Prison - Saturn CD
Dracula X - 06 Bloody Tears
Danny Elfman - Tales From The Crypt
Thomas Newman - To The Shock Of Miss Louise (organ and weird mix of percussion instruments)
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