LACED WITH WAX

Writer Mat Ombler and Laced community manager Tom Quillfeldt pick their favourite original and licensed video game soundtracks from the Teens.

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Listening to classical music can be glorious, even life-changing, but it’s a field that’s daunting to navigate. We highlight some accessible (but still brilliant) classical works that fans of video game music will love — with the help of composers Jessica Curry, Austin Wintory and Lloyd Coleman, podcaster Emily Reese, and the Videri Quartet.

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Composer and orchestrator Jim Fowler talks about his hopes for an increasingly interactive future for games music, the joys of live instruments on soundtracks and the movement for more VGM on national radio. By Thomas Quillfeldt As an art form within an art form, video game music has come a long way...

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This is part of a blog series “Why we ♥ video game music”: – ‘Nostalgia’ – ‘The background soundtrack to our lives’ – 'Scratching the vinyl itch' By Thomas Quillfeldt Those of us enamoured with video game music beyond its initial, functional purpose love it for several reasons: feelings of...

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By Thomas Quillfeldt As we’ve been exploring in our blog series, ‘Why we ♥ video game music’, game soundtracks can come to mean an awful lot to people, not least because they become wrapped up with memories and emotions of specific gaming moments. We asked some of the most passionate...

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