Game Music Central today announced that
The composers who created music for God of War, EverQuest, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Hitman, Jade Empire, King Kong, Myst, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Lord of the Rings, Outcast, Rayman, SOCOM and World of Warcraft have joined together to produce Best of the Best: A Tribute To Game Music – a compilation featuring music inspired by some of the greatest games ever, performed by award-winning celebrity game music composers. The album, on compact disc, includes a six-page booklet with photographs and printed autographs from the 20 featured composers.
The CD is available exclusively at Game Music Central, a new online music store dedicated to people with a passion for games and game music.
“Game Music Central is a great place for gamers and game music composers to connect,” says Tommy Tallarico, Composer and Co-executive producer of Video Games Live. “Game Music Central has videos of the composers in recording studios and message boards where gamers can interact with the composers themselves and actually ask their favourite composer a question.”
For Game Music Central’s first game soundtrack release, 20 award-winning video game composers recorded all new performances of music inspired by some of the most popular video games of all time, including: God of War, Super Mario Bros, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Super Metroid, Earthworm Jim, Medal of Honor, Kingdom Hearts, and many more, all available on one collector's edition CD.
The full list of 18 music tracks and 20 artists is as follows:
1. Invertebrate Retreat (Subterranean Remix)
Inspired by Earthworm Jim 2
Artist: Tommy Tallarico
Previous works: Advent Rising, Earthworm Jim, MDK.
2. The Hunt
Inspired by Conan the Barbarian
Artist: Inon Zur
Previous works: EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALS.
3. Exile
Inspired by Myst III Exile
Artist: Jack Wall
Previous works: Jade Empire, Myst III & Myst IV.
4. Around the World
As featured in Crackdown
Artist: Atlas Plug (aka Tom Salta)
Previous works: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter I & II, Red Steel, Need for Speed: Underground 2.
5. Silent Hill Theme
Inspired by Silent Hill
Artists: Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan
Previous works: God of War, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Hellgate: London.
6. Go Mario!
Inspired by Super Mario Brothers
Artist: Winifred Phillips
Previous works: God of War, The Da Vinci Code, Shrek the Third.
7. Beneath the Surface
Inspired by Alone in the Dark
Artist: Jesper Kyd
Previous works: Hitman 1-4, Freedom Fighters, The Chronicles of SpellBorn.
8. A Premonition, and Chrono Trigger
Inspired by Chrono Trigger
Artist: Gerard Marino
Previous works: God of War I & II, Fantastic 4, The Punisher.
9. Zanarkand
Inspired by Final Fantasy X
Artists: Rod Abernethy and Jason Graves
Previous works: BlackSite: Area 51, Blazing Angels I & II, Star Trek: Legacy.
10. That Was Then (This is Now)
Inspired by Kingdom Hearts
Artist: Billy Martin
Previous works: Chicken Little, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Tarzan Untamed.
11. The Vengeful Spartan
Inspired by God of War
Artist: Mark Griskey
Previous works: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, The Chronicles of Narnia, Rayman: Raving Rabbids.
12. Medal of Honor Improvisation
Inspired by Medal of Honor
Artist: Chance Thomas
Previous works: Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
13. The Legend of Zelda
Inspired by The Legend of Zelda
Artist: David Arkenstone
Previous works: World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, Emperor: Battle for Dune.
14. Grabbag
Inspired by Duke Nukem
Artist: Lennie Moore
Previous works: Dirty Harry, Outcast, The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring.
15. Super Metroid Theme
Inspired by Super Metroid
Artist: Will Loconto
Previous works: Rayman: Raving Rabbids, X-Men: The Official Game, Aliens vs Predator 2: Primal Hunt.
16. A Call to Arms
Inspired by World of Warcraft
Artist: Chris Rickwood
Previous works: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Civil War: Bull Run.
17. The White Horse
Inspired by The Lord of the Rings
Artist: Colin O’Malley
Previous works: Superman: Returns.
18. Retro Bitz 2070
Inspired by RoboBlitz
Artist: Daniel Sadowski
Previous works: RoboBlitz.
For more information, visit www.gamemusiccentral.com.
