Awesome Street Fighter tribute
Perfectly gameish, J Pop-y and cheesy. Love it!
With the original song (and video) here…
A Few Notes of Elton John in Mega Man 2′s Soundtrack
Mega Man 2 was/is one of my favorite games of all time. The gameplay, graphics, music…oh, the music! So it turns out that a lot of the music might’ve been possibly inspired from elsewhere allegedly. Doesn’t matter to me one bit however; the game’s still near absolute perfect.
Worth checking out the comments on the Kotaku post for further examples…
Great stagedive shot of Mike Patton (Faith No More)
Loving this photo of Mike Patton from the first US concert of Faith No More’s comeback tour (click to view at full size). There’s one woman in the audience who looks truly terrified/shocked.
Please return to the UK soon so I can hopefully buy a ticket this time!
Macs, GarageBand ’09 and Casio keyboards
We’ve an underused Casio LK-93TV at home and the announcement of GarageBand ’09 (as part of iLife ’09) got me pretty interested as there seems to be music tutorial features in the package. Connecting the Casio keyboard to GarageBand ’08 didn’t seem to work however, which then prompted me to do a search and I found out Casio don’t make Mac drivers for their keyboards (supposedly).
I then found a link to a MIDI driver here which enabled GarageBand ’08 to recognised the USB-connected Casio and now everything’s working fine. Thanks a lot to ferland francois for taking the trouble of coding a solution!
Beatmaker for the iPhone
iPhone apps continue to evolve. I recently stumbled upon Beatmaker, a music creation tool on sale through the Apple store. It’s a bit more expensive than the other apps (around £12 I think) and doesn’t have midi support yet, but the demos I’ve seen so far have been extremely impressive.
Considering there’s a solid business model in place for developers with the app store, I can’t wait to see what others develop in the coming weeks and months. The iPhone really is a portable computer; not just a smartphone, and I think that’ll become increasingly evident as time goes on.
Good chiptune music
There’s a good selection of chiptune music up on the 16 dimensional records website. I’d heard the Gerbera track before by Dong and liked it a lot and the new album, 9801st marriage proposal, is really good.
Especially recommend hanatachibana, top track.