As arguably one of the best made games of all time, Super Mario Galaxy must have one of the best video game soundtracks I’ve ever had the pleasure to hear. This particular song is a remix of an old school Super Mario 64 track, Bowser Star Reactor just pumps you up for the battle ahead. Tune in, enjoy.

Nintendo – Super Mario Galaxy – Bowser Star Reactor

I just recently completed Shadow of the Colossus, and I have to say, one of the worst demos I’ve ever played, one of the most epic games I’ve ever played. To give you an idea of how bad this demo was… I completed it, 3 times, trying desperately to like it (Huge fan of Ico here), but couldn’t get into it… luckily, my buddy Kristi had the full game and had me try it out. Amazing. Far from the best game I’ve played, but definitely one of the most immerse and epic. Here’s the key: The soundtrack! Here’s tune from one of the fights with the colossi. Epic, loud, orchestrated, you can’t do much better than this for boss music.

Try the game if you haven’t already! Its pretty damn good!

Sony Computer Entertainment – Shadow of the Colossus – The Opened Way ~ Battle With the Colossus

If you haven’t played Street Fighter 4 yet, go out and get to it. By far my favorite game in the series. One of the things that makes this game so badass is the soundtrack. Enjoy this double take today, with 2 songs! I’m sure I’ll be pulling more jems from this OST as time goes on, so stay tuned!

PS3 – Street Fighter 4 – Theme of Ryu

PS3 – Street Fighter 4 – VCN Stage

Its that time of the week again, and this time, I bring you a song from the Streets of Rage Remake. In case you haven’t heard of us talk about it on the podcast, this is a completely redone version of Streets of Rage, and by far, my favorite version. Bomber Games did something completely ludicrous, and they aren’t even done with the project yet. Currently in the works are online play, standard bugfixes, cheats, and a ‘store’ where you can buy game cutscenes. I can’t stress enough how much I love this game. Enjoy the game, enjoy the soundtrack. This is a HUGE entry for Battletunes.

Bomber Games – Streets of Rage Remake – Bar Hopping (3Mb)

Microsoft Windows – Streets of Rage Remake v401b (70Mb)

Bomber Games – Streets of Rage Remake OST (174Mb)

Again… I can’t stress how much I love this team. First off, this is a TON of work, second off, giving this away for free. Do your childhood memories some justice, grab this awesome game.
http://www.bombergames.net/

If you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know that I’m a huge fan of World of Goo. A great independent game for PC (Windows, OSX, Linux, no one gets left out!) and WiiWare. The game starts as a standard physics simulator, but then quickly tries to teach you something. The meaning of life? Who knows… MOM would. But it sure is tasty.

-The Musical Sign Painter

2D-Boy – PC – World of Goo – Brave Adventurers

If you like this, I’m sure you’ll like the full soundtrack! Amazingly enough, Kyle Gabler is giving this away for free!! You should pay him a visit or send him an email at ‘Kyle (at) kylegabler.com’. We’ve put the zip file here for your convenience, but its all thanks to this man! Its a rare occurrence that we can release an entire soundtrack without legal repercussions, so head over to his site and pay him a visit!

Kyle Gabler – World of Goo OST – (ZIP-85Mb)

Buy World of Goo Today! All your friends are doing it!

- The Entrepreneurial Sign Painter

Ok, this is one of my favorite Zelda song’s of all time. Its catchy, melodic, and salsa. Yes. Salsa. Its a wonderful example of a stereotypical desert theme and a completely batshit crazy example of a Zelda song. Its so god-damned different from the rest of the music in the entire series that it absolutely deserved a plug.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Gerudo Valley

Konami – Silent Hill – Tears Of…

I wrote a review for The World Ends With You a while back, and as you know, I loved it. One of my favorite parts about this game is how the music quickly goes from grating, offensive, and against the norm, to catchy, fun, and empowering. Here’s Shibuya, one of the most common tracks in the game. Enjoy! This particular track has an almost Jet Set Radio feel to it. Very scratchy, very awesome.

Square-Enix – The World Ends With You – Shibuya

Just found this while browsing the interwebs. Doctor Octorok has just released an amazing Christmas album! His site is getting hammered right now, so we here at 72 decided (along with just about half the internet) to lend a hand and throw a mirror up here. Give this stuff a listen. Its made for the Christmas Nerd in you. 8-Bit Jesus is a classic NES-style take on the Christmas carols of old, and by God do they rock! Hit his site up and give him a comment or two!

Link to Doctor Octorok (And to the music)

This link to the music pack in case his server is loaded!

Again, total thanks to Doctor Octorok for this amazing set!

In summary, Christian Vander did a lot of LSD.

Whether drugs were involved or not is not the case though. We care about the music.

Kohntarkosz Anteria, or KA, as we will call it is not for anyone.

The music sounds like music from another planet. Really. It isnt laced with generic space sounds or anything, but it sounds like another species made it. Mix church hymm music, progressive rock, blues, avant-garde, Gregorian chant, and jazz together. Most of the music is chanted repeatedly, possibly making Magma one of the underground influences on hip-hop, as this style of music originated before any rap.

KA starts out with KA I, which is simply two or three different chants done over and over again for 11:12. While the repetition is overdone a little on this track, the drums are unbelievable, and the guitar is easily overlooked, but extremely well-thought out. You might feel the urge to skip ahead at parts, but I urge you back. This album is definitely too repetitive, but on first listen, it is worth listening to every little section to hear the changes.

KA II begins with chanting, and that chanting will continuously change and repeat for the next 12 minutes. The track gets interesting at the  13 minute mark, and the last minute is an epic section that sets the tone for the grand-finale track, KA III.

The next track, KA III, is similar in style to the other tracks, but still completely different, which I’m finding is what every Zhuel song is like. The vocals are beautiful, and more sung than chanted. KA III continuously builds up while throwing in some AMAZING drumming (Zach Hill, a drumming legend in my book, states Christian Vander as his favorite drummer of all time, and I can see why). While listening, remember to listen hard for everything going on. It is easy to get caught up in a chant and almost miss some insane guitar fill. At 5:30, the keyboard solo comes in. No, its not some four measure solo repeated a couple times like a normal song. You forgot this was Magma. The solo goes on until 8:30, without repeating any phrase. How these people remember this stuff live is beyond me.

Crazy Frenchies…

KA is a continuous track separated, as sections from part I and II are repeated in part III, but not over and over again like you would expect.

The highlight of KA is the entire part III with the last 2 minutes of part II. (The last 6 minutes of III being the best 6 minutes on the album). I’d say the low point is part I, as it repeats only a couple sections. This CD is recommended to fans of the weird. It really was maybe one of the hardest albums to review for me, as I have nothing else in the genre to compare it to. Although I hear if you really get into Zheul, there are a whole slew of bands that tried to evolve the style besides Magma.

Give this a listen, but I would understand if anyone didn’t like it. These guys are about as accessible as The Locust.