Friday, January 28, 2011

A great composer!

Since everyone knows my next piece already, I'll skip the boring Work in Progress photos until it's done for good. It's not too exciting to update them unless they're still unrecognizable or completely done. I should be done with her by tomorrow or the next day. Also, made a Title banner for my blog. 10 minutes in Paint.net, fun.

This update I'd like to show some appreciation for Richard Jacques. He's well known for composing some of the songs for Jet Set Radio, Jet Set Radio Future, Super Smash Bros. Brawl!, and Headhunter. Headhunter's gameplay was very close to Metal Gear Solid (action, stealth, etc). I've never played it, but the reason I want to bring Mr. Jacques up is because I've admired one of the soundtracks from Headhunter for as long as I've been watching GameCenter CX (I'll post about this show in the future). GameCenter CX used "Jack's Theme" from the Headhunter soundtrack and I've got to say I can't of a better song to use as a montage than this. Sure you can use songs like Chariots of Fire, but I really love how orcestral Jack's Theme sounds. It's sweeping and dramatic. Here's the song on Youtube, give it a listen and tell me what you think!





17 comments:

  1. Never heard of this game but he has composed some epic game soundtracks. Love the arrangement of the strings on this song :D

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  2. The music is cool, the game might not be too bad even though I've never heard of it.

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  3. jet set radio was amazing. The soundtrack was fun and inventive. Props for introducing me to the actual composer!

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  4. He does great work!

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  5. jwowws face always looks like that lol. theme kinda sounds like something you'd hear at a football game

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  6. Wow this is awesome, really well put together

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  7. this is excellent work but this style does sound common and not very unique anymore :(

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  8. Shit I remember jet set radio future. I'm still tormented by the constant 'hah' and 'haha'-ing.

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  9. never heard of the game too but nice music!

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  10. cool song! very interetsing

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  11. dude that's awesome. i love video game music. good stuff.

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  12. cool stuff dude keep it up!

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  13. Wow nice I love this kind of music!
    Does it change in-game like (generals) other games? like when your in a battle the music volume comes up and it becomes more ''exiting''?

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