i'll hold it in my hands and cry

[muladhara]

Yesterday, before I went to work, I watched a documentary series on Youtube called Diggin' In The Carts, which is primarily about chiptunes and Japanese game composers (I say primarily, because it takes a swerve during the episode about Final Fantasy/after that, and there's stuff about games that don't use chiptunes, like FFVII, Metal Gear Solid, and Tekken).

I found it really interesting, although I wish there had been closed captioning on all the episodes (I think four of the six were captioned), as I can't understand Japanese very well at all, and the people who were talking weren't subbed otherwise.

I learnt that Nobuo Uematsu had no formal training in how to compose music, and that he finds it difficult to read scores, even to this day! I also learnt that Keiichi Okabe worked on some of the later Tekken games, which is probably of no interest to anyone but me.

Anyway, it was a good use of an hour and a half, and I wouldn't have even known it existed it, if it weren't for some random tweet about zines I saw going on months ago at this point.

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Turns out I haven't done a "music videos I linked to on twitter" in OVER A YEAR, so here's a long-ish list:

Ahoy There! - Mr Scruff

Night on Bare Mountain - Mussorgsky

Halo 2 Main Theme (Scorpion Mix) - Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori

A Carefree Existence - Naoshi Mizuta

Dark Saint - Nobuo Uematsu

The Breaking of the Fellowship - Howard Shore

Eloise - The Damned

Fighting Fate - Masashi Hamauzu

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

The Maple Leaf Rag played on a 1915 piano - Scott Joplin (played by Vinheteiro)

Pascal - Keiichi Okabe

Emil's Song - Keiichi Okabe

Clash on the Big Bridge (Yusnaan Version) - Nobuo Uematsu (technically; I don't know who did this arrangement)

Silent Night (Ragtime Version)

Uncharted Galaxy from Mass Effect (Synthwave Remix)

Traverse Town - Yoko Shimomura

Just - Radiohead

Gnossienne No. 1 - Satie

Dusty Dunes Desert - Keiichi Suzuki

Flat Beat - Mr Oizo

Dragon Age: Inquisition Main Theme - Trevor Morris

Faraway (So Close!) - U2

Blumenkranz - Rie and Hiroyuki Sawano

This is Yesterday - Manic Street Preachers

Saturn Valley Theme - Keiichi Suzuki

Dance of the Line Riders (Sugar Plum Fairy) - Tchaikovsky

As usual, please let me know if any links are borked, and otherwise, enjoy!