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A chiptune tribute to John Carpenter's synth movie scores
Sometimes it pays to stalk people on Twitter. For example, I was peeping in on Max Scoville's feed when he dropped word of a John Carpenter chiptune tribute album. Naturally, my interest was piqued. Famed film director John Carpenter not only made memorable movies like They Live and Big Trouble in Little China, he also scored most of them himself. His lo-fi synthesized soundtracks were able to express so much through so little, a lot like how 8-bit era game composers were able to create memorable melodies with limited resources. To celebrate Carpenter's creative vision, the videogame net label Pterodactyl Squad published It's All In The Reflexes, covering various Carpenter film themes. If you want to hear chiptune arrangements of Escape from New York, Assault on Precinct 13, and of course Halloween, give the free album a download. C'mon! Don't be a formaldehyde face! It's All In The Reflexes - A John Carpenter Tribute [Pterodactyl Squad] Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)Carpenter's soundtrack for Assault on Precinct 13 is the bomb. Made a great alternate soundtrack to playing co-op on some of the GRAW games. This is fun, but I really worry about the sanity of anyone who thinks John Carpenter's soundtracks were actually, unironically good. Every single one of them is the same, just with a slightly different patch. They're more or less a masterclass in Casio keyboard demo tunes. 5:00 AM on 06.10.2013 Mega Ran and JP chip artists to remix Mega Man once moreMega Man rapper Mega Ran may have recently dropped a stellar Castlevania hip hopera album, but he'll never forget the little blue dude who propelled his music career, resulting in his decision to leave his teaching gig and fo...
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