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.
Aethernaut - Neo-SF strut from 2064: Read-Only Memories.
20XX from 20XX.
Forest Mystery from World of Horror. A bit esoteric but it’s wild.
Thanks in advance for the recommendations!
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.
Not exactly like the ones you oncluded, but I really like this one: Challenger - Lemmino
Old, but I think at least inspired or adjacent: Apparat Organ Quartet - Romantika
Anything by Ben Prunty https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/
these are more rock than chiptune, but very much video game inspired!
Not sure if it’s totally your vibe, but Machinae Supremacy is more on the rock/metal side of gaming themed music with a lot of C64 chiptune layers.
“Indiscriminate Murder is Counter-Productive” is one of my faves from them.
I recently discovered IsabelleChiming and I am in love. They do remakes of classic gaming soundtracks.
https://isabellechiming.bandcamp.com/album/the-legend-of-zelda-remade
https://isabellechiming.bandcamp.com/album/zelda-ii-the-adventure-of-link-remade
…and I wrote the soundtrack to the recent Game Boy Color homebrew game, Dangan GB2, if you’re interested… 👀
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.
I’m surprised that Chipzel (of Super Hexagon soundtrack fame) has yet to be mentioned: https://chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/
Some radios:
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
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.