A selection of spooky sounds from videogames, including classic themes, killer remixes and ambient menace.

00m00s <a href="http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01558/">zircon - Super Mario World Monstrous Turtles! OC ReMix</a>
03m42s <a href="http://zelda25.ocremix.org/">Kozilek - Last Dance of the Giants [Majora's Mask]</a>
08m38s <a href="http://music.djcutman.com/album/gamechops-vol-2">Dj CUTMAN - ghostsngoblins (hauntedhousemix)</a>
11m51s Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Bloody Tears
13m02s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn2JiQeSyIQ">Sweet Home - Central Lobby Theme</a>
14m26s Super Metroid - Item Room
15m09s Deadly Premonition - Shadow
17m15s <a href="http://graemenorgate.bandcamp.com/album/timesplitters-future-perfect">TimeSplitters Future Perfect - Mansion of Madness</a>
22m30s Shadowman - Main Theme
24m00s Resident Evil 2 - The Second Floor
25m30s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Dodongo's Cavern
26m09s Silent Hill 2 - Betrayal
28m33s <a href="http://spacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/lone-survivor-original-soundtrack">Lone Survivor - Descent</a>
29m55s Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Menu Theme
31m10s <a href="http://limbogame.bandcamp.com/">Limbo - Boys' fort</a>
33m15s <a href="http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/article/orchestralscore">Bioshock - Main Theme (The Ocean On His Shoulders)</a>

VGSPOOKY

Yokosuka Nights 2: Dobuita After Dark
Another journey into a neon-lit nightscape of martial arts and motorcycles.

00:00: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/zacbentz/the-electric-witch-the-stumble">The Electric Witch - The Stumble</a>
05:15: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/solar_bears/a-sky-darkly">Solar Bears - A Sky Darkly</a>
08:12: Space - Magic Fly
12:18: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/chromecanyon/generations">Chrome Canyon - Generations</a>
16:55: Cliff Martinez - Wanna Fight
21:27: John Carpenter and Alan Howarth - Abduction At Airport
25:41: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/groundislava/cool-party-2">Groundislava - Cool Party</a>
29:10: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lazerhawk/visitors">Lazerhawk - Visitors</a>
33:14: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/fuckbuttons">Fuck Buttons</a> - The Whip
39:10: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/gatekeeper-online">Gatekeeper</a> - Chains
42:49: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/daataa/mitch-murder-street-hawk-redux">Mitch Murder - Street Hawk Redux</a>
45:49: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/powerglove">Power Glove</a> - Resurrection
49:06: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/big-black-delta">Big Black Delta</a> - Roost

Yokosuka Nights 2

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Terminator and released on the anniversary of Judgement Day (29th August), this Tech-Noir mixtape brings to life a world of neon and testosterone, gunfights and car chases, cyborgs and skinjobs, through the power of synth and electric guitar. So grab your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle, and head on down to Pico Boulevard for a killer night at LA's coolest retro-future hot-spot. It'll be a blast!  

00:47	01 Starcadian - Pompey Pirate
05:27	02 Myrone - The Pump Master
08:31	03 Tahnee Cain and the Tryanglz - Burnin' in the Third Degree
11:54	04 A Space Love Adventure - Death Wish
15:52	05 Flash Arnold - Unlimited
20:29	06 The Power Station - We Fight For Love
24:24	07 Perturbator - Humans Are Such Easy Prey
28:38	08 Moxx - Plan B!
33:11	09 Mega Drive - Total Control
39:00	10 Makeup and Vanity Set - System Override
42:59	11 Daniel Deluxe - Wasteland
48:00	12 Danny Baranowsky - RUN! (Theme 1 from Canabalt)
49:42	13 Le Matos - Kiyoko
54:29	14 Power Glove - Sloan's Assault
57:07	15 Crystal Castles - Sad Eyes
60:29	16 Mitch Murder - Terminator Theme
 


Tech-Noir

A minimal mini-mixtape of songs about love and sex and feelings and humans and machines and minds and bodies in all their beauty and horror. This is not to be used as backing music for love-making. This is not to be used for when you're sweet on a girl or a boy and want to express your feelings through song. This is not for make-ups. This is not for break-ups. This contains naughty language - and not just French. Listener discretion is advised - I can't be held responsible for any impact made upon your relationships, positive or negative, upon exposure.

01: 00:00 Hippo Disco - Answering Machine
02: 03:30 Bruce Haack - Party Machine (Prince Language Remix)
03: 07:15 Ruth - Polaroid/Roman/Photo
04: 10:15 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
05: 13:49 Is Tropical - Dancing Anymore
06: 19:05 RAC - Dreams (ft. Pink Feathers)
07: 24:40 Porter Robinson - Sad Machine
08: 27:54 Big Black Delta - Capsize
09: 31:44 Tami Tamaki - I Never Loved This Hard This Fast Before
10: 36:01 Emmy the Great - Swimming Pool

Image adapted from photograph taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen.

FKNLVU

Audio experiment, mixing Jasper Byrne's Hotline from Hotline Miami, and music from Ski or Die.  Anyone who wants to take the idea and run with it and make a proper mash-up remix, please do!

Hotline or Die

Audio experiment, mixing the main theme from Space Harrier and the battle theme from Skies of Arcadia. It sort of works? I don't know, spotted some similarities in how they were composed. Please feel free to take the idea and run with it for a Sega mash-up remix of your own.

Space Arcadia

A videogame Chrismix of favourite festive and snow/ice-level tunes:

Christmas Nights - Christmas in Nightopia
Banjo-Kazooie - Freezeezy Peak
Diddy Kong Racing - Walrus Cove
Mario Kart 64 - Snow
Super Mario 64 - Snow Mountain
Kirby 64 - Shiver Star
Sonic 3 - Icecap Zone
GoldenEye 007 - Surface
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Ice Cavern
Mother 3 - Snowman
Animal Crossing - Christmas Eve
Shenmue - Christmas on Dobuita St

VGXMAS

A journey into an 80's night of neon, kung-fu and biker gangs, of retro fauxtronica, modern synth, and leftfield sampling, of dark soundscapes and weird melancholia. It's the kind of music Ryo Hazuki would listen to on his portable tape player while hanging around Dobuita after dark, if he was a) cool, and b) didn't have to warp home at 11.30pm. (Note: not a lot of videogame music here, let alone Shenmue tunes!)

00m00s: Jasper Byrne - Miami
03m46s: Miami Nights 1984 - Ocean Drive
07m40s: Jesse Ruins - Dream Analysis
10m48s: Mr Oizo & Gaspard Augé - Tricycle Express
14m37s: Glass Candy - Digital Versicolor
20m26s: Pivot - Fool in Rain
23m23s: Solar Bears - Twin Stars
27m26s: Boris - My Machine
29m12s: Portishead - The Rip
33m28s: Grimes - Oblivion
37m35s: WIK△N - Bosozoku Highway
43m16s: Power Glove - Night Force

Yokosuka Nights

You can find me DJing at Gamerdisco every month (http://www.gamerdisco.com/), or listen to my Japanese music podcast Tokyo Soundscape (http://soasradio.org/tokyo-soundscape). More mixes on Mixcloud (http://www.mixcloud.com/BeatRoyale/).

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