Hey Guys! Rich (Disasterpeace) here, I wanted to give you a glimpse into the very early process, concepting and sketching of the music for Hyper Light Drifter. This is the very first thing I've gotten the chance to write, and is by no means a finished piece of music. I envision what is here so far as the opening section of a much longer piece that plays during gameplay, which would evolve and grow right as this version of the track ends. It really is a brief glimpse, and the most preliminary, but maybe we'll look back in a few months and be surprised at how far we've come! Or maybe I hit the nail on the head, I guess we'll find out!

Hyper Light Drifter - Preliminary Sketch

Birds by Upusen, released on Friday, August 26th, 2022.
Available on 12" Vinyl at https://upusen.bandcamp.com/album/birds
and https://MidwestCollective.cc at 3:00PM EST

Composed by: upusen

Artwork: Johnmoproductions
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Physical: Midwest Collective
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Birds

Cramped Skunkman - Bad

The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed video games industry. Equally striking was the game’s original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, mixing the accelerated beats of drum & bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt. 

The second single of the timeless wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack presents two of the most iconic tunes of the score, the original intro track of the video game and the speedy 'DOH-T'. The package is completed with two masterful remixes by Planet Mu's founder μ-Ziq, aka Mike Paradinas (@mikep), and the braindance producer @wordcolour.

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General Blurb:

Back in the 1990s video games were still largely seen as nerdy: fun, sure, but basically a guilty pleasure that you’d soon grow out of. The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed all that. This was a game that looked and sounded both adult and cool, the kind of game you would put on display in your living room, rather than hide away under your bed. Key to this was the fact that wipE'out'' borrowed unashamedly from the clubbing experience and electronic music, in a way that put it at the heart of progressive mid 90s culture. It soon became a phenomenon.

wipE'out'' looked sensational, with Sheffield agency The Designers Republic - known for their work with Warp - creating the visuals, packaging and manual for the game, drawing heavily on the bright colours and excitable geometric shapes of the rave and club flyers of the early 90s.

wipE'out'' also sounded like a new rave dream. The European version of the game included music from The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield and Orbital, the kind of fashionable game syncs that were almost unheard of at the time. Equally striking was the game’s original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka @coldstorage, by this point already a veteran in the video games world, having worked on the music for Amiga titles such as Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast 2. His music for wipE'out'' was, if anything, even more extreme than the big-name syncs, mixing the accelerated beats of drum & bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt.

These tracks were burned into the brains of millions of gamers; the soundtrack to a generation of late-night anti-gravity racing, as the sun gingerly rose beyond the curtains. But they haven’t, perhaps, quite got the respect they deserve, something that this release will address. In 2023, video game music is finally getting its dues; here, remastered and repackaged –and also remixed by cutting edge producers such as Kode9, μ-Ziq, Brainwaltzera, Simo Cell, Wordcolour, James Shinra, Surgeons Girl and Dattassette– are some of the most important, thrilling, innovative and most fun songs ever committed to game release.

wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack

CoLD SToRAGE - DOH-T / wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack [LPS-PS14]

Track Breakdown: https://youtu.be/YqwQETsKfWE

Unreal Tournament - Foregone Destruction (Remastered Remix) Michiel van de Bos

Dark and foreboding but with hints of hope and calm. 

CORVUSDREAMS

technical difficulty (hammer down)

Two-Tone City (unfinished track)

Found something in the attic of one of my old hard drives. It's a song I wrote for One, but never finished or decided to add, for whatever reason. I think I tried to get out my inner Uematsu or something like that.

One B

An outtake from the Lucky Day Forever sessions.

Vocals performed by Amelia Harrison.

dreamer

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/alex18/toonami

Two-Tone City (unfinished track)

LudoWic

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