Brave Wave opens preorders for Pulstar and Jupiter & Mars LPs

May 15, 2019 rpbtz

Brave Wave have just opened up orders for two new game soundtracks. One is for the 1995 Neo Geo game Pulstar and the other is for the new PSVR game Jupiter & Mars.

Pulstar will be a 2LP on black vinyl. It will be housed in a gatefold jacket with never-before released artwork from the game’s development on the outer jacket and original game art on the inner. It will include a booklet with artwork and interviews from people involved with the game. 150 signed copies will be made available (75 for US/Canada distro and 75 for European/ROW distro).

Jupiter & Mars will be a 2LP on black vinyl. It appears to be housed in a gatefold jacket with art by Arkotype. It will also include a booklet with interviews.

Both are priced at $35 and are scheduled to being shipping in early September, 2019.

Pulstar can be preordered from Fangamer here.

Jupiter & Mars can be preordered from Fangamer here.

Please note that only the US/Canada distro have opened for now. European distro will open via BigWax later this week.

Preorders for the Mother Fucking Earthbound! 2LP up now

May 3, 2019 rpbtz

They’ve been teasing this one for a while, but now it’s available to preorder. Debug Records are releasing the album Mother Fucking Earthbound! on vinyl. The album is by ErichWK (known from Kirby’s Dream Band) and features new arrangements of tracks from the games MOTHER and Earthbound (MOTHER 2).

The release will be a 2LP on blue translucent vinyl with green splatter. It will come in a gatefold jacket with artwork by Maiko on the outer jacket and artwork by Barfchan on the inner. It will be a pressing of 500 copies.

It is priced at $35 and is scheduled to release in June, 2019. It can be preordered from Debug Records’ store here.

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Shinobi III live instrument arrangement album now available on vinyl

May 2, 2019 rpbtz

The band The Analog Music Project have opened up vinyl orders for their live instrument arrangement album of the soundtrack to Shinobi III: Return Of The Ninja Master.

The release is a single black vinyl LP. It comes in a regular LP jacket with band photos.

It is priced at €20 and is ready to ship out. It can be ordered from the band’s Bandcamp here.

Kingdom Hearts arrangement “Kingdom Heartbeats” available to preorder on vinyl

April 30, 2019 rpbtz

Materia Collective have announced that they will be releasing the Kingdom Hearts arrangement album, Kingdom Heartbeats, on vinyl.

The release will be a single LP on clear vinyl. It will be housed in a gatefold jacket, which will be housed in a printed acetate slipcase. It will feature artwork by Leon Tukker and additional layout and design by Rozen. It will be a pressing of 1000 copies.

It is priced at $35 and is scheduled to release in September, 2019. It can be preordered from Bandcamp here.

Limited Run Games to release the Lumines soundtrack on vinyl

April 26, 2019 rpbtz

Limited Run Games have announced that they will be releasing the soundtrack to Lumines Remastered on vinyl.

The vinyl release will be a 2LP housed in a gatefold jacket. It will be available in two color variants – one with one record on white and the other on orange colored vinyl, and the other with a record on pink and white swirl and the other on orange marbled colored vinyl.

The white and orange variant will be a standalone vinyl release limited to 1000 copies, while the pink and orange variant will be available in the Deluxe and Ultimate edition sets limited to 3000 and 1000 copies respectively.

The standalone will be $35, the Deluxe set will be $65, and the Ultimate set will be $135. Orders will be opening on April 26, 2019 at 10AM Eastern time via Limited Run Games. The standalone variant will be available from this link and the Deluxe and Ultimate editions for both PS4 and Switch can be found in the games section from this link.

Orchestral album “Gaming In Symphony” to be released on vinyl

April 23, 2019 rpbtz

EuroArts have announced that they will be releasing a selection of tracks from the orchestral album “Gaming In Symphony” on vinyl. The album will feature music from Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Grim Fandango, World Of Warcraft, and the Halo trilogy.
There is also a gaming legacy medley with music from F-Zero, DOOM, Castlevania, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter II, and Super Mario Bros.

The release will be a 140g black vinyl single LP housed in a regular LP jacket with original cover art.

The price varies a bit depending on the retailer, but is around €20-25. It is scheduled to release on June 14, 2019. It can be preordered on Amazon Germany here and there’s a page for Amazon US here (although it is not available to preorder yet there).

Mario & Chill vinyl release now up for preorder

April 22, 2019 rpbtz

Materia Collective have just opened up preorders for another “Chill” partnership with GameChops like they did with Zelda & Chill recently – this time Mario gets the treatment.

The release will be a single black vinyl LP and it comes in a regular LP jacket with art by CindyLab, Onsta, and Rozen.

It is priced at $25 and is scheduled to release around early September, 2019. It can be preordered from Bandcamp here.

The soundtrack to The Cat Lady is getting a vinyl release

April 21, 2019 rpbtz

New label Stumpy Frog Records have announced that their debut title will be the soundtrack to horror game The Cat Lady.

The release will be a black vinyl 2LP, which will be housed in a gatefold jacket with artwork by AliceYuric. The release will be limited to 500 copies.

The album is priced at $25 and is scheduled to release in June 2019. It can be preordered from Stumpy Frog Records’ site here.
The ordering process might seem a little old-fashioned, but you sign up for the preorder via the form and they’ll send you a quote including shipping costs.

iam8bit is releasing a 2LP “best of”-style album with music from Cuphead

April 18, 2019 rpbtz

iam8bit likes Cuphead. They like it so much that they released the full soundtrack on a 4LP box set back in 2017 and later the same year they also did a promotional 7″ for it. Well, today they announced another Cuphead release.

The new release will be a black vinyl 2LP and is said to come in 1930s style packaging. Whether that refers only to the art style or other aspects of the packaging is not clear at this point.

The 2LP wil lfeature a selection of tracks from the original Cuphead soundtrack, but will also include some previously unreleased solo tracks.

It is priced at $30 for early birds through May 1, 2019 – and will then rise to $40, and it is scheduled to release in Q3 2019. It can be preordered from iam8bit’s store here.

The Fract Osc vinyl soundtrack can NOW be backed on Qrates

April 17, 2019 rpbtz

Mogi Grumbles – the artist behind the soundtrack to the video game Fract Osc – is doing a Qrates crowdfunding campaign in order to release the soundtrack on vinyl.

If the campaign is succesful the vinyl release will be a single black vinyl LP. It will come in a regular LP cover with artwork by Richard Flanagan.

The campaign needs a minimum of 100 backers before May 17, 2019 in order to be succesful.

The vinyl release can be backed for $20 and will release late Summer, 2019 if succesful. It can be backed on Qrates here.

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