Cyber Centre - Electronic Music, OSTs and Interviews — interview

FFO: She Remembered Caterpillars, Mutazione, Hilda and Baldo Favourite Track : Opening the Bridge Gate Find more of their music below! www.thomashoehl.comsoundcloud.com/thomashoehl   Thomas was kind enough to answer a few questions about his creative process and what he's been gaming recently. Here is what he had to say.  Q1: How do you find / create your percussion sounds? I collect samples of unusual customized instruments and I’m always on the lookout to sounds that are organic/acoustic but don’t sound like traditional instruments. If I got some time left I even record my own samples of instruments I collected, put them through...

STEEL_PLUS is an electronic music producer from Japan who has created the soundtracks to Blue Revolver, Maiden Spell, and One Step From Eden. While the first to games are both bullet hell / shoot'em up titles One Step From Eden is an ambitious 3-way genre hybrid. A rouge-like deck builder with a real time grid-based battle mechanic and a notoriously punishing learning curve. Track 34: Garoad - Chaos in Paradise is very reminicent of Yoko Shimomura's infamous Parasite Eve battle theme Arise Within You. Much of it reminds me of a higher BPM version of the FFX-2 or FFXIII OSTs or a hi-fi take on the Advanced VG soundtrack. STEEL_PLUS clearly...

a future that is already happening is the first solo LP from Jackson Scovel aka 'jackson from online'. Jackson is exceedingly well liked member of the west coast's screamo, chiptune, and electronic music scenes. He plays the drums in the Seattle based electro-punk / digital hardcore band Yufi as well as the VGM inspired synth-pop project Slime Girls. This 8 song dream-pop / drum&bass record perfectly skirts the lines between the music scenes Jackson takes part. With shoegaze and bedroom-pop on the inclusivity driven emo side and elements of jungle and happy-hardcore to represent the burgeoning PLUR focused rave scene. I asked Jackson about their process and influences. Here's what he had...

Thunder Lotus Games are an indie dev team from Montreal whos catalouge includes Juntun, Sundered and the recently released Spiritfarer. All three of these titles have been scored by Max LL a Canadian multi-instrumentalist who has created the music for an extensive resume of short films, documentarys, games and commercials. His music has been preformed by Montreal's Metropilitan Orchestra and he recently released not only the Spiritfarer OST but also a lovely 5 song EP called Regeneration. Thunder Lotus describes Spiritfarer as "a cozy managment game about dying." The amount of care and detail put into this wonderful handrawn adventure is evident from start...

Interview with California based composer sillythewilly who recently released not only the 60 track OST to Phoenotopia Awakening but also a short EP entitled Slightly Uplifting.