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Final Vendetta - Feature

The Final Vendetta soundtrack is now available on vinyl from Bitmap Bureau

April 2, 2023 rpbtz

Developer Bitmap Bureau are now taking orders for the soundtrack to their beat ’em up Final Vendetta on vinyl.

The release will be a 2LP on black vinyl. It will be housed in a gatefold jacket with game art.

It is priced at £30 and is expected to start shipping out around late April, 2023. It can be ordered from Bitmap Bureau here.

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  • Album: Xeno Crisis Artist(s): Savaged Regime Label: Bitmap Bureau (@bitmapbureau), 2019 Games: Xeno Crisis Not sure if it's entirely in "hidden gem" territory, but it feels close. Xeno Crisis is a successfully Kickstarted twin-stick shooter made for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (and ported to PC and modern consoles as well). The game itself have received lots of praise for both gameplay and for being faithful to the MD/Genesis it was made for. As with most things I post about I haven't actually played the game (I suck at twin stick shooters), but I HAVE listened to the soundtrack and whether you dig the genre or not that one is an absolutely banger! Not only have composer Savaged Regime been faithful to the console (or well, sounds that way to me, I'll admit to not being an expert on MD/Genesis sound hardware at all), but it's incredibly catchy and varied and absolutely stands strong as a listening experience on its own. Tracks like "Dune (Area 3)" has a dreamy feel to it, yet could still entice a dancefloor, "Forest (Area 5) has a floaty, ethereal feel to it, "Lab (Area 6)" is just a mean, pumping banger. The boss tracks are a bit more game-y, but still sounds dirty and quite different from each other (even though there's four of them). There's literally not a weak track here. The release itself is quite plain - single-pocket jacket with game art and good ol' black vinyl. But that's all it needs because the music is what matters here and it is fantastic. Initially released as a backer reward for the game's Kickstarter it has since been made available from developer Bitmap Bureau's own store and is still in stock! Fans of the MD/Genesis FM synth sounds (and fans of good music in general) should not sleep on this one. #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #xenocrisis #bitmapbureau #savagedregime
  • Album: Game Mix Artist(s): Xasqui Ten (@xasqui) & Toni Ten (@tonitm10) (XTM) Label: Melody, 1993 Games: Super Mario Land, Zool, Lemmings, Street Fighter II, Sonic The Hedgehog, Tetris, The Addams Family Surely this is the one you've all been waiting for! The epic 1993 Spanish techno remix album of several classic game tracks released under the novel name "Game Mix". No? Your loss surely. It features takes on the classics such as the Overworld Theme from Super Mario Land, the title theme from Sonic The Hedgehog and an ...interesting take on Vega's Theme from Street Fighter II among others. Also included is a remix of a track called "Arriba, Arriba" by John Boy, which samples some video game sounds as well as a "Game Mix" with nods to all the tracks on the album supposedly made by Spanish DJ Jodi Carreras. They general approach seems to be adding some heavy pumping bass and drum sounds on top of the tracks along with their vocal samples shouting "Hey!" or "Breakdown!" and stuff like that - plus the occasional samples from the games themselves. Credits on the release are a little unclear (although they've done their best to credit the original composers with a couple mistakes, but not the remixers behind it), but it's generally assumed that the remixes are done by XTM - brothers Xasqui and Toni Ten - who did a lot of techno remixes in the 90s with their Ten Productions production company. The release itself is fairly simple and comes in a regular thin LP jacket with the title in big pixel-y letters, although it's surprisingly missing in gaming references on the art. It's pretty affordable on Discogs and elsewhere, although the takes are probably more fun novelties these days than anything else. But as noted on the cover it was advertised on Spanish TV, so it has the distinction of being maybe the only VGM vinyl release with TV ads! #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #gamemix #xasquiten #toniten #supermarioland #sonicthehedgehog #streetfighterii
  • Album: Distant Worlds II - More Music From Final Fantasy Artist(s): The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Label: AWR Records, 2018 Games: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XI It's no secret that I have a sweet spot for Final Fantasy and its music, so it always makes me a little happy whenever AWR Records drop one of their Distant Worlds albums on vinyl. The second in the series was originally released on CD and digitally in 2010 and finally got a vinyl release in 2018. To those unfamiliar Distant Worlds is a concert world tour of orchestral renditions of music from the Final Fantasy series and they've also released several studio albums of these arrangements. This second one was the last with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and is yet a lovely recording featuring several great takes on fan favorites such as "Terra's Theme"from IV, "JENOVA" from VII, "A Place To Call Home/Melodies Of Life" from IX among others. A personal favorite of mine here is the take on "Dancing Mad" which sees the orchestra joined by composer Nobuo Uematsu's band Earthbound Papas! The vinyl release came out via Distant Worlds own account on Amazon only and is on white vinyl which matches nicely with the white jacket. It comes in a gatefold with photos from the sessions as well as lyrics for the vocal tracks and liner notes by Uematsu and conductor Arnie Roth. Sadly, like the first release this one too is an inconsistent pressing with reports of wow and flutter, warped records and distortion on the last tracks on each side of the records. Some copies are seemingly better than others, but it's a bit of a gamble. They restock these occasionally so if you're interested I'd encourage you to be patient instead of paying scalper prices for what isn't a fantastic pressing. #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #distantworlds #finalfantasy #nobuouematsu #arnieroth
  • Album: Alwa's Awakening Original Soundtrack Artist(s): Robert Kreese (@kungkreese) Label: Thunderful (@thunderfulgames), 2020 Games: Alwa's Awakening All the way back in 2018 developer Elden Pixels (@eldenpixels) retweeted a fan mockup of an Alwa's Awakening vinyl release asking if there's interest in this. And lo and behold, we had to wait a bit, but in 2020 we finally got an actual vinyl release! Personally I'm thrilled as I've listened A LOT to the digital release and really love the OST (despite not really being able to get into the game at all). The album is full of NES-style chiptune-y goodness and they actually managed to get the full soundtrack on there. The original digital release of the OST is actually 80 minutes, but they've managed to to use shorter loops of each tracks to get them all down to like half that length and it works very well. I'm not listening to this and thinking anything is missing at all. Stand-out tracks for me are opener "Theme of Zoe", "Central Alwa" and "Vicar" (the latter by guest composer Prof. Sakamoto), but I don't really think that there's a bad track here. They even went as far as to release the soundtrack on an NES cartridge (which is also still available). The release itself comes on green translucent vinyl and sounds excellent. The jacket features nice new illustration by Manuel Samolo and graphic design by Dane Baudoin (@danebaudoin) (who also did that original fan mockup!). It's limited to 250, but is still available from Thunderful, so definitely go check it out! It's one of my favorite titles from last year and one that I think most people slept on. #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #alwasawakening #eldenpixels #robertkreese #thunderfulgames
  • Album: Ape Out Original Game Soundtrack Artist(s): Matt Boch Label: iam8bit (@iam8bit), 2020 Games: Ape Out Gonna try this writing thing again. This time with an album released in October last year for the PC/Switch top down beat 'em up-ish game Ape Out, where you play as a giant captive Gorilla trying to escape. What is particularly interesting about this record is that the soundtrack for the game was made out of a massive library of percussion sounds coded to play in reaction to the players actions, movements and perfomance in the game. It's all made to play as percussion jazz music during game play and it responds beautifully to the game's intensity (yes, I actually played this one, so for once I somewhat know what I'm talking about!). This means that the soundtrack on the vinyl release was recorded from a playthrough by the game's developer Gabe Cuzillo, which is a pretty solid representation of how it sounds in the game, too. While the music helps set the pace and intensity when playing, it makes for somewhat of a hectic listen. It's not bad by any means, it's just hard for me to stomach almost 50 minutes of all percussion jazz (but hey, you might dig it if that's your thing!). iam8bit even claimed that this was the "first ever live gameplay album", which is debatable at best given many retro soundtrack releases were record from hardware during playthrough. The pressing itself sounds surprisingly great (especially since they crammed almost 50 minutes of music on a single LP). The game's levels are divided in A and B sides and shown in-game as jazz-style vinyl jackets, which artist Mark Borgions (@handmade_monster) have adapted very well for his great jacket design here. The release is still available and while the looks and quality of the release is very, very good, I'd highly recommend playing the game first to see if this is something you'd listen to on its own. #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #apeout #iam8bit #mattboch #markborgions
  • Album: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition Sound Selection • Sélection Musicale Artist(s): Yoko Shimomura, ACE+, Manami Kiyota Label: Nintendo of Europe (@nintendoeurope) Games: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition This is a special one! This is the first time since the 80s that original music from a Nintendo game have been officially released on vinyl and made commercially available! And it's a good choice of soundtrack too as the music from Xenoblade Chronicles is something special indeed. As usual I haven't played the game (but I will!), so it's hard to pick favorites or say if important tracks have been left out (it is a selection of 12 tracks from a very long soundtrack after all), but purely from listening there's a lot of variety in the tracks and I thoroughly enjoyed them all. What strikes me the most about the music when listening to this is the amount of different instruments being utilized. They seamlessly mix heavy guitars, strings, synthesizers, and much more and add percussion and drums as needed. It's a single picture disc LP housed in a regular LP jacket with some fairly standard game art. The picture disc itself looks very clean and fits the design well. It was released as part of the European collector's edition from the game. Thankfully the sound is surprisingly nice for a picture disc, barely noticed any surface noise and there's only minor crackle and a few very small pops throughout. Unfortunately, most of the collector's sets that included this LP sold out in preorder, so it will probably be difficult to get moving forward. It officially releases tomorrow, so it's still a new and relevant release, so maybe some will pop up if keep an eye out. It's definitely worth trying to find! #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #xenobladechronicles #nintendo #yokoshimomura #ace+ #manamikiyota #monolithsoft
  • Album: Pac-Man Run For Fun Artist(s): Unknown Label: Kid Stuff Records, 1980 Games: Pac-Man Time to bust out the real good stuff. Or not. This will be a quick one because there really isn't a ton to say about this. This is a 7" record with a story about Pac-Man who is participating in a run against Speedy the ghost. Major plot spoilers: The ghosts set up a trap for Pac-Man, but due to sheer incompetence end up trapping Speedy instead resulting in Pac-Man winning the run to the surprise of no one. There's a good bunch of different children's stories like this that were released on vinyl by Kid Stuff Records back in the early 80s (and I'll subject you to more of them later with equal amounts of enthusiasm). Most were seemingly written by Dana Walden and Patrick McBride, but generally there's not a ton of info on how these came to be. Instead of a regular jacket the 7" comes with a children's book with images so you can read along to the story while listening. There's plenty of pictures and I'll admit that there's some charm to them. They are typically quite cheap and easy to find second-hand online, so if you're into this kind of thing you shouldn't have issues tracking most of these down. #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #pacman #namco #kidstuffrecords
  • Album: Kurohyo 2 Original Soundtrack Artist(s): Hyd Lunch, skankfunk (@hideki_naganuma), ZENTA, Yutaka Akiyama Label: Wave Master Entertainment, 2012 Games: Kurohyō 2: Ryō Ga Gotoku Asura-hen Time for something that most people aren't aware is out there. The Kurohyō games are a spin-off series to the popular Yakuza game franchise introduced for the PSP and - to my knowledge - only ever released in Japan. The soundtrack here is for the second game in that series. The music is unfortunately a well-kept secret because it is a pretty amazing mix of shredding guitars and high energy electronic beats weaved together in a surprisingly cohesive way. I don't know a lot about the composers outside of skankfunk, who is better known under his real name Hideki Naganuma (of Jet Set Radio fame). And it's kinda surprising (but positively so) to hear him embrace the sounds of guitars shredding on the hectic "Panter In The Storm". Other highlights include Hyd Lunch's opener "Catch The Battle" and Yutaka Akiyama's superb almost heavy metal-like banger "EPIC 80". For all intents and purposes all the music on this could be boss battle music, but the kind that makes you feel super satisfied when finally knocking down the big bad boss (I haven't played this so I have no idea of the in-game context of the tracks). The vinyl release comes with in a regular LP jacket, which is reversed in orientation (from a Western standpoint at least, like a manga would be) and features some wild dragon artwork from Spooky Graphic. It was released by Wave Master Entertainment shortly after the game's release in 2012 and was available only from Sega's Japanese online store. It is limited to 1000 copies, is long sold out and only very rarely goes up for sale. It's an absolutely awesome and shamefully overlooked album, so do not sleep on this if you come across it. #vinyl #instavinyl #vgmvinyl #vgm #videogamemusic #gaming #blipblop #records #gamemusic #soundtrack #music #videogamevinyl #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowplaying #nowlistening #vinyljunkie #vinyligclub #igvinyl #kurohyou2 #yakuza #wavemasterentertainment #hydlunch #skankfunk #zenta #yutakaakiyama #sega
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