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Video Game Music<\/em> (1986), produced by Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Swing Slow, et al) features music from the popular Namco<\/a> arcade games from the early to mid 80s: Xevious, Pole Position, Galaga, Dig Dug, etc. The actual music having been written by other early musicians writing in pioneering 8-bit digital sound, Hosono’s role as producer was in getting tracks meant for gameplay into a composed format that could be listened to without feeding a thousand Yen worth of quarters into Namco-Bandai’s slot-jockeys. (Playing video games in order to reach levels with different musical scores was definitely a motivation for me to lose many quarters in the 80s). Hosono’s hand can best be imagined on the mixing board for the first track “Xevious.” Listen to the 6 minute album version in the MOG player below and I think you’ll agree that it’s an important pioneering track at the outset of many different forms of electronic music using digital sampling layered over found sound, producing ambient noise, melody, and rhythm. A careful ear can make out the sounds of other arcade game music in the background.<\/p>\n

This was later re-released as a 12″ single with liner notes and a short sci-fi story by Xevious game designer Masanobu Endoh. A 3.5 minute video of Hosono playing the club version can be had via youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rest of the album features shorter tracks with delightful kitschy hooks like the track “Little Rabble,” an adaptation of many popular piano songbook classics into 8-bit. The other long-ish track is the 4 minute long “Galaga” which after listening to Hosono’s other albums sounds just as whimsical. “Galaga” leaves the medium of 8-bit to include extra orchestration, and sounds very similar to the style Hosono expressed in his ambient-dream lounge albums of the early to mid-90s. The most experimental track is the 16 second long “Bosconian” (nice filler for any mix-cd). Really, the whole album is a treat. Although the album was re-released in 1999 as “The Best of Video Game Music” with non-Hosono produced tracks, this has been hard to locate as well (but seek and you shall find).<\/p>\n

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