Video Game Music: Fan Renditions

Believe it or not, some video game music is just plain awesome. Most Japanese game music composers are pretty well known and loved. Koji Kondo of Mario/Zelda fame. Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy fame. Even Martin O'Donnell composed the Flintstones theme and then composed all the music for the Halo series. There are lots of composers. And lots of fans.

Of course there is a lot of usage of commercial usage of already produced music in games, like the game I'm playing now from EA, Burnout Paradise. There are about 20 tracks of licensed music in the game.

But what were talking about is music specifically composed for a game with as much of a thought process, if not more so, than in most movies.

Game music has become a subculture world-wide. Bands have been formed. People record themselves and post on YouTube. Most play the piano. A few guitar too. But recently there is a trend to recreate all the parts of a song by yourself and mix them together like this dude. Color me impressed.