Ship To Shore have just opened up preorders for the soundtrack to the WiiWare-exclusive shoot ’em up Gradius ReBirth on vinyl.
The release will be a 2LP in two variants – a blue and black swirl colored vinyl variant exclusive to Ship To Shore and a clear vinyl variant for retail. It will be housed in a jacket with new artwork.
Once upon a time in 2018 Ship To Shore PhonoCo. announced that they would be releasing the soundtracks to Japan-only RPGs Esper Dream and Esper Dream 2: Aratanaru Tataka on vinyl. They are dropping together on the same release, which is now up for preorder.
The release will be a single LP on purple-in-clear vinyl with purple splatter colored vinyl. It will be housed in a standard LP jacket featuring new artwork by Maddie Copp.
Ship To Shore PhonoCo. have just opened up preorders for the soundtrack to the SNES action game The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja on vinyl.
The release will be a 2LP available in multiple color variants – a red and white pinwheel colored variant from Ship To Shore, and a clear retail variant. It will be housed in a die-cut gatefold jacket with new artwork by Maddie Copp.
Ship To Shore PhonoCo. confirmed that they were working on it a while ago now, but today they have finally opened up orders for the vinyl soundtrack to the side-scrolling platformer Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 for the Sega Genesis.
The release is a single LP on “Rocket Flash” yellow vinyl with red splatter colored vinyl. It comes in a regular LP jacket with new artwork by Rob Charleston and will include a 24″x24″ poster.
Originally announced more than 2 years ago there are now details and orders up for Ship To Shore’s vinyl release of the soundtracks to Konami Wai Wai World and Konami Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley Castle.
The soundtrack to both games are essentially Konami 8-Bit greatest hits as it features numerous themes from a large variety of Konami games arranged for the Wai Wai World Famicom games.
The release is a 2LP and will be housed in a gatefold jacket with brand new artwork by Mike Luckas and liner notes by Anthony John Agnello. It will be available on yellow colored vinyl directly from Ship To Shore while Black Screen Records will be getting an exclusive yellow & clear split with red splatter vinyl.
Spacelab9 have just opened up for their vinyl release of music to the Konami NES run and gun game Rush’n Attack (also known as Green Beret).
The release will be a 7″ on red vinyl and will come in a regular 7″ jacket with game art. Orders from Spacelab9 will come in a NES cart-style slipcase. It is limited to 250 copies.
Ship To Shore PhonoCo. have just opened up preorders for their vinyl release of the soundtrack to the shoot ’em up Life Force (also known as Salamander).
The album will feature music from the NES/Famicom version of the soundtrack on one side and music from the MSX version on the other.
The release will be a single LP. It will be housed in a single-pocket jacket with new artwork from Tbone & Aljax and includes an insert with liner notes by Anthony John Agnello.
It will be available in nothing less than 5 different color variants. A clear variant with orange splatter from Ship To Shore themselves, a gold and purple split with white splatter variant from Black Screen Records, a “Salamander” green smoke variant limited to 125 from Debug Records, a “Brain Golem” purple and red swirl limited to 125 from One Run Records, and finally a clear variant for retail.
Mondo teased these in their mixes earlier this year and now it’s finally possible to order both the MSX2 and NES soundtracks for Metal Gear on vinyl.
Both titles will be 10″ records cut at 45RPM. They will both be housed in gatefold 10″ jackets with new artwork by Paul Mann.
The MSX2 variant will be on green vinyl with green splatter, while the NES variant will be on silver and green split colored vinyl. The NES variant is limited to 1000 copies.
Ship To Shore PhonoCo. is now ready with preorders for their next Konami title – the soundtrack to Castelvania: The Adventure ReBirth. You cannot buy the game, but you can get its soundtrack on vinyl!
The release will be a single LP available in four different variants. A crystal clear retail variant, a red with black splatter variant exclusive to Ship To Shore, a clear with black smoke variant exclusive to Debug Records (and limited to 125 copies), and a red and black split variant exclusive to Black Screen Records. It will be housed in a regular LP jacket with new artwork by Drew Wise. It also includes a heavy card stock insert with the cover artwork and liner notes by Jeremy Parish.
Ship To Shore PhonoCo. have prepared a massive line-up of new releases and repressings for Black Friday and here you’ll have a breakdown of all six (!) titles. New releases first.
Continuing their Konami partnership they will have preorders for both Gradius II and III available.
Gradius II is a single LP that will feature the Famicom soundtrack on one side and the MSX soundtrack on the other. It will be available in multiple color variants – red vinyl with black splatter and clear vinyl from Ship To Shore, a clear and blue split with blue splatter from The Yetee, and a red-in-clear from Black Screen Records.
Gradius III is a 2LP that will feature the SNES soundtrack on one disc and the arcade soundtrack on the other. It will be available in multiple color variants – black vinyl with green splatter and clear vinyl from Ship To Shore, a clear and yellow split with yellow splatter from The Yetee, and a green-in-clear from Black Screen Records.
Both Gradius titles feature new artwork by Ian Wilding. Gradius II will come in a single pocket jacket while Gradius III will be gatefold. The artwork for all three Gradius titles line up in one long piece if lined up next to each other.
Cosmic Star Heroine was initially teased more than 2 years ago, but is now finally here. It will feature a selection of 15 tracks from the game picked by the composers.
It will be a single LP housed in a regular jacket with artwork by Drew Wise. It will be available on blue & black vinyl with red splatter from Ship To Shore, and on silver vinyl (limited to 400 copies) from Limited Run Games.
And now repress news! There will be new pressings for MOTHER, MOTHER 2 and Celeste available in new color variants.
MOTHER will be available on blue/yellow split from Ship To Shore, “Magicant and Flying Man” color from The Yetee, and an unannounced color from Fangamer.
MOTHER 2 will be available on “Tessie” purple from Ship To Shore, on “Fourside and Moonside” color from The Yetee, and an unannounced color from Fangamer.
Celeste will be available on clear vinyl from Ship To Shore.
All titles are scheduled to release in December or Q1 2019 (depending on title and store) and are available to preorder today (although exact times they go live vary from store to store). Here are the links available so far:
