Atsushi Fukai makes game soundtracks professionally, and in his spare time he makes "homage" game soundtracks:

here is his soundtrack to a Castlevania game that doesn't exist
and
here is his soundtrack to a Gradius game that doesn't exist

I posted about the neat dying Hitachi hard drive samples a while ago, and then this morning killbox posted about the contest to make a song out of them. Anyway, despite my total lack of musical talent, I decided to make a song, particularly because all the songs submitted so far use REAL instruments and just toss in a few samples of the dying hard drives ( Read more... )

Two turntables and a shamisen, two turntables and a shamisen...

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