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Posted by trancechan on Jul-19-2009 09:23:

thematic music, anyone?

doesn't necessarily have to be classical, but a theme to some movie, video game, play, etc.

growing up as a kid i played the final fantasy series, so the music stuck with me. nobuo uematsu & hitoshi sakimoto are responsible for some of my favorite songs, such as this one:

not as intricate as mozart or vivaldi, but dammit it never fails to at least brighten my mood

there's a previous thread about classical music somewhere, & nobuo uematsu's final fantasy themes made it into there, which is fine & all but i'm sure there's great theme music out there that's non-classical, too.

so show me some badass themes!

Posted by the1g on Jul-19-2009 11:02:

Ah. I've always been inspired by Uematsu.. I remember even doing a lot of 'orchestral' VST tracks back in the day for a FFT-like game my friend was making at the time...

Can't track down most of them now but I did find this little World-Map theme xD http://members.cox.net/exogen1/spirit_venture.mp3 (mind you, I didn't know anything about mixing and production way back then hahah, just thought it would be worth some nostalgic laughs to put it up.)

Cheers.

Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Jul-20-2009 15:21:

Definitely check out Joe Hisaishi, he did the theme music for many of the Studio Ghibli anime movies:

Howl's Moving Castle main theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5tTiYT1cgU

Also, Ryuichi Sakamoto might be worth looking into. For game music, Masashi Hamauzu (SaGa Frontier 2, FF13), Falcom Sound Team JDK (Ys), Yuzo Koshiro (Actraiser, Streets of Rage, Shenmue), Kou Otani (Shadow of the Colossus), and Yoko Shimomura (Live A Live, Kingdom Hearts) are worth checking out.

Posted by PSi on Jul-20-2009 17:36:

My bad i misread the title for therapeutic music lol, I have not heard the above in any video game....