Style: video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: A modern uncompressed take at 8 bit video game soundtracks
Thoughts: I think one of my biggest issues with getting into really old school video game music is the compression that is used to get the blips and bloops on the cartridge. I find that a vast majority of the time I'm put off by the limitations of the hardware, and it takes a really special soundtrack to get me beyond that.
Now when a soundtrack uses the same instruments as those of yesteryear but does not put them through the same compression, I'm curious at the very least. Necrosphere does just that. It takes the same bleeps and bloops you would find in the 1980's video game soundtracks and creates an uncompressed soundtrack. The resultant music not only sounds like video game music, but it also gives a very specific atmosphere that no other genre of music can match.
These bleeps and bloops manage to create an atmosphere that is somewhere in between retro video games and a creepy ambient composition. The music is more subtle than the scores of yesteryear and that is what draws my curiosity into outright attention. After having listened to this for some time now, I can confidently say that Necrosphere is a great album on it's own. Even outside the context of the game itself.
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