Explore the wide-ranging soundtrack music and scores for the monthly PlayStation Plus titles as well as deeper cuts from games in the Game Catalog and Game Trials offerings.

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Need for Speed: Heat (Original Soundtrack)

Racing For Glory

Falling Funk - William Pugh & Tom Schley

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (Original Video Game Soundtrack)

Squad Up! (Main Theme from "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League")

The Worst Is What We Do Best

30 Seconds To Mars

Edge Of The Earth

So... 2 hours with records and proper hangover (thank you Nick Stephens and The Gun / http://www.thegunwellstreet.com!) on The Day of Republic of Yugoslavia on Netil Radio / http://www.netilradio.com/ (thank you Miro SundayMusiq!). Music by Miroslav Miletić, Smagghe & Cross, Löwenherz, Boris Kovač, Vanishing Twin and more.

Vladimir Ivkovic Netil Radio 29 11 19

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Over the last month, the music and events industry has entered unchartered territory due to the Covid-19 lockdown, and artists and online media have found themselves in a financially vulnerable position with much more time on their hands.

To help some of those artists, and provide Ransom Note with much-needed financial support, three weeks ago we reached out to some friends of the website with the challenge to make a track in collaboration with another producer, musician or vocalist, remotely, in 10 days. The result is ‘Pen Pals’: a compilation featuring 15 collaborations from 32 artists.

Due to the current situation we’ve increased royalties for all artists involved and, whilst the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions apply, accounting will be processed fortnightly. Profits from the compilation will also provide financial support for Ransom Note who have been heavily impacted by the halt of the events industry.

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Edward Nesbit (composer)

St. Aldhelm was a 7th-century English bishop, scholar and author. Among his literary output is a collection of 100 Latin riddles with a wide variety of solutions ranging from a sieve to a unicorn via a pregnant sow. I am attracted to the riddles’ unusual subject matter and to the vividness of their imagery, and am currently setting 26 of them for voice and piano.

The present riddle is about a nightingale, and the text is as follows:

Vox mea diversis variatur pulcra figuris;
Raucisonis numquam modulabor carmina rostris.
Spurca colore tamen sed non sum spreta canendo,
Sic non cesso canens fato terrente futuro.
Nam me bruma fugat sed mox aestate redibo.

The English translation (by Judy Nesbit) is:

My beautiful voice is varied with many different melodies.
I shall never sing my songs with a harsh-sounding beak.
Though my colour is dark I am admired for singing lightly.
So I shall not stop singing, though the future is frightening,
For winter may chase me away, but soon, in the summer, I shall return.

The riddle, set to music in East London during the early days of the lockdown, has, I think, a special resonance in the context of the current global pandemic. The fourth line tells of how the nightingale 'shall not stop singing, though the future is frightening’ – as we continue to create music in this time of uncertainty.

Thomas Hodgson (arrangement, piano, recording/mix engineer)

I live in central London and as the lockdown began I was particularly struck by the birdsong outside my window. The idea behind the arrangement was to leave the noise of the news behind and follow the birds outside. 

Being in lockdown meant I had to make use of the limited equipment available in my apartment. The melody was sung and recorded by Michael Wood - a countertenor at St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh - using an iPhone. There is something creatively interesting about working within the social and technological constraints of our time. It is the product of a particular moment and I think that comes through in the song.

Acalantida

Acalantida (feat. Michael Wood)

Nubes sets the third of St. Aldhelm's riddles, and is about a cloud. The arrangement relates to mixed feelings about the easing of lockdown. The text is:

Versicolor fugiens caelum terramque relinquo,
Non tellure locus mihi; non in parte polorum est.
Exilium nullus modo tam crudele veretur,
Sed madidis mundum faciam frondescere guttis.

The translation, by Judy Nesbit, is:

Changing colour, flying away, I leave the sky and the land. 
There is no place for me on the earth, nor in the space of the sky.
No one now fears such cruel exile,
But with my wet droplets I shall make the world grow green.

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