I’m trying to expand my library of classic game/game-inspired music. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m including some music that I particularly enjoy for reference.
Developer Konjak (Joakim Sandberg) did good work on the Noitu Love 2: Devolution soundtrack, which is a free download (zip file) from his website and is very chiptune. The actual link on the website’s main page has an errant slash at the end that has to be deleted for the download to work. Some of the album can be found on YouTube if you want a preview.
Another banger chiptune to go for comes from Zircon and the work he did for the Demon Truck Soundtrack, especially The Devil’s Mudflap. It’s 16-bit Genesis goodness, and the game is pretty fun! Zircon’s done stuff for several games and is generally an all-around musical badass.
Crawl OST by Alex Yoder. All his other stuff is pretty good as well, but this one is my absolute favorite. Too bad he doesn’t release stuff very often.
If you want to combine chiptune with sea shanties The Longest Johns have an album that is all chip tune version of sea shanties. It’s called Commodore 1864.
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I initially thought you had terrible taste in music after listening to the first song… I had NewPipe set to 2.0× speed.
Whoops!
Thanks for the recs, OP and everyone else.
Not exactly like the ones you oncluded, but I really like this one: Challenger - Lemmino
Ooo I like that. Thanks for the suggestion!
Toby fox has been in my top listens for the last 3 years at least.
EX-LYD is full of bops
Gooseworx is nice
Leon Chang has some good ones.
Ben briggs too.
A_rival
Nick Nitro
I like to throw all the songs of a certain type i like into a spotify playlist and use the playlist radio to add more and find many other artists
And then listening to those brought me into some EDM electro pop hyper beat ish genre, so:
USAO, Camellia, Meganeko, Shirobon, Zekk, and many more
Have you heard Anamanaguchi?
Tokyo Machine!
Chipzel has already gotten a mention, but I have to say her stuff is fantastic, especially Chipped of the Necrodancer and Super Hexagon.
Developer Konjak (Joakim Sandberg) did good work on the Noitu Love 2: Devolution soundtrack, which is a free download (zip file) from his website and is very chiptune. The actual link on the website’s main page has an errant slash at the end that has to be deleted for the download to work. Some of the album can be found on YouTube if you want a preview.
Another banger chiptune to go for comes from Zircon and the work he did for the Demon Truck Soundtrack, especially The Devil’s Mudflap. It’s 16-bit Genesis goodness, and the game is pretty fun! Zircon’s done stuff for several games and is generally an all-around musical badass.
Herbert Weixelbaum’s Tanzmusik on the album 8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk is a total earworm. The album is full of good chiptunes, but that one’s my personal favorite.
You might also enjoy Adventure by Adventure. Very upbeat and energetic stuff.
Lastly, I have to give a shoutout to Zweihänder. All his stuff is pretty good, and much of it game-inspired.
Enjoy!
Don’t forget the Dicey Dungeon soundtrack. I’d love to hear some real-life rendition of Swing Me Another 6.
Crawl OST by Alex Yoder. All his other stuff is pretty good as well, but this one is my absolute favorite. Too bad he doesn’t release stuff very often.
Old, but I think at least inspired or adjacent: Apparat Organ Quartet - Romantika
One of my favorites 8 bit trip
Another of my favorites
Dunderpatrullen
I like trotus and the Gameboy
Rainbowdragoneyes makes good chiptune music (no fusion). Very underappreciated, it feels like.
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If you want to combine chiptune with sea shanties The Longest Johns have an album that is all chip tune version of sea shanties. It’s called Commodore 1864.
these are more rock than chiptune, but very much video game inspired!
Some radios:
Anything by Ben Prunty https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/