Tech Smartly

I’ve been collecting more and more music nowadays, after realizing how much awesome game music there is at the time. There is a whole new world out there in which I didn’t know existed, the world of game music. Nowadays, if I’m ever in the mood for some new music, I don’t go see the top 100 songs. I don’t ask my friends what they like. I’m not really that interested in that anymore, except for a few exceptional bands. Now, I ask my pal Google to search for game music. I can sometimes get great results from certain searches, and I get to listen to awesome music. Sometimes I get nothing. But after much googling, I have several games from which awesome music is derived from. Here is a list of my favorite game music. Oh, and pardon my lack of music knowledge. I barely know anything about different genres, so anything that has a strong beat, a lot of synthesizers, and often little change in melody, is what I would refer to techno music.

• F-Zero GX

This game has a pretty nice soundtrack, consisting of techno music, and it’s nice to listen to in the background. My personal favorites are ZEN and F-ZERO GX/AX Arrange Version “Big Blue”.

ZEN

F-ZERO GX/AX Arrange Version “Big Blue”

• Jet Set Radio Future

One of my personal favorites, this game has a really sweet soundtrack. It’s hard to explain sounds tracks when all I can really say is that it sounds like techno, but this is different from f-Zero GX. It also has talking, and is different in style. Well, I think you’ll understand what I mean when you hear The Concept of Love and Fly Like a Butterfly.

The Concept of Love

Fly Like a Butterfly

• Sword of the New World

This is an MMORPG with a great soundtrack, consisting of techno, some heavy metal tracks, European violins, with some new age as well as some funky music. With half a gig of music, with half of it up to 5 minutes long, and 4 tracks that are 10 minutes of techno, this is a great soundtrack if you’re into any of those things. Sometimes the songs even contains a mix of two. sword of the new world Is one of my favorites, and the large amounts of songs means that I’ll almost never get bored of it. I couldn’t pick only two songs that best represent this soundtrack. Therefore, here are my favorite songs: Sol de la Centro, Espada Nigerio, Rosa Rosado, and Old Speckled Reel.

Sol de la Centro

Espada Nigerio

Rosa Rosado

Old Speckled Reel

• Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
  

A stealth game based on feudal japan, this has some excellent music in the style of that time. If you like that type of music, I’m sure there are several songs that will tickle your ears in Tenchu’s soundtrack. My personal faves are Sadame (which means fate in English), and Echigoya’s Estate.

Sadame

Echigoya’s Estate

Now, you may be wondering where you can find the complete soundtrack of all these songs. I was wondering myself, until I found a site called Kingdom Hearts Insider, or simply khinsider. Khinsider has a large collection of songs, from many different games. It does not have every song, but name 3 games, and at least one will be on the list. That is, unless you choose incredibly rare and almost unknown games. If you’re looking for game soundtracks, you can get them free at http://downloads.khinsider.com.

Although their web page contains little information,  it contains much free music available for anyone to listen. Now don’t go off thinking you”l get the latest hits from some popular band that is horrible,this isn’t your standard music. It is a style similar to game music, all made by the same person. Originally know as Cicada, the name was changed to Tettix to avoid legal issues. There are several albums worth of stuff, and sound like it really should be in a game. I’ve listened to two of his albums so far, and they are amazingly good at being what they are: game music. So far I’ve listened to two albums, so there is still more to go, but technology crisis II has a very nice retro feel to it, and I particularly like The slave rebellion at Genesis Point. Technology Crisis I also has a retro feel, and has an eerie beginning. Just now, the intro has finished, and I’m listening to the first song, and it also has an eerie quality, but in a sort of “going into a madman’s lair” sort of way, or maybe “entering dracula’s castle”. So far the music is very nice, especially since it’s free. I do not know about the rest of the albums, but I hope they will be of similar quality of what I have just listened too. Of course, this isn’t to anyone, as the style of music isn’t exactly the most popular. However, I think that Tettix creates the best music of its kind.

I will enjoy the music for a long time.

Edit:

Here is a track from Technology Crisis.
http://www.tettix.net/songs/unsuspecting_town.mp3