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Last Revised: July 28, 2007

Video Game "ReMixes" and Arrangements:

• OverClocked ReMix - The original game music arrangement site.
• VGMix (currently down) - The "other" big game music arrangement site.
• Remix: TheSauce - An arrangement site with a new approach.
• Overlooked Remix - A humourous spinoff of OverClocked ReMix, featuring the "misunderstood remixes of the world."
• Metroid Metal - Metroid music metallized.
• Dwelling of Duels - A game music cover competition, featuring live instruments, with a new theme each month.
• Project Majestic Mix - A planned series of albums featuring musical arrangements comprising numerous musicians.

Video Game MIDIs

• Quest Studios Sierra Soundracks - An official archive of music straight from the classic Sierra games.
• Fruitcake MIDI - MIDI sequences and arrangements by the well-respected Dr. Fruitcake.
• vanBasco - If you can't find it on our site, try vanBasco's MIDI search engine, and you just might find what you're looking for.

Game Music Cover Bands and Live Performers:

• Armcannon - Progressive metal styled video game cover band from Western New York.
• Crow's Claw - Japanese hard rock band that makes original music in addition to remixes of music from Final Fantasy games.
• Chromelodeon - AKA Sprite Slowdown. Philadelphia based progressive rock band covering a series of platform games, including most of Ninja Gaiden 2.
• David Hasselhoff Big Band - A Finnish demoscene band covering various video game songs.
• Megadriver - Brazilian Heavy Metal band performing mainly Mega Drive/Genesis music.
• Minibosses - NES progressive/rock cover band based in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Neskimos - A hard rock band that remixes video game music.
• Press Play On Tape - A Danish band covering Commodore 64 game songs.
• Select Start - A Florida-based cover band with classical instrumentation.
• The Advantage - California-based NES cover band.
• The OneUps - A band that does remixes to all sorts of video game music. Remixes include hard rock, jazz, piano, Christmas tunes, easy-listening, and everything in between.
• The Video Game Pianist - Classical piano treatment of several classics.
• Temp Sound Solutions - One man band from Baltimore, Maryland that has made 5 cover CDs.
• VGPiano - A group of individuals who perform video game music on the piano.
• Year 200X - Heavy Metal NES cover band from Lansing, MI.

Game Music Symphonies:

• Video Games Live - An immersive multimedia show featuring music from a wide variety of games -- currently touring the US and Canada.
• Play! A Video Game Symphony - An ongoing symphonic tour that plays music from a wide variety of games -- currently touring in North America and Europe.
• Dear Friends - Live symphonic music from Final Fantasy games.
• Symphonic Game Music Concert - An annnual concert held in Leipzig, Germany.

Game Music on Internet Radio:

• VGDJ - The offical OverClocked ReMix Podcast.
• VGAmp - Over 6000 songs in full 128kb Stereo MP3!
• Kohina - Over 53 hours of handpicked oldschool game and demo music.
• Zone Radio Network - Hosts many small game music related stations, including VGMusic Radio.
• Gaming FM - Features different streams from modern consoles, classic consoles, and PC games.
• OCRemix at Ormgas.com - Streaming music from OCReMix.
• SLAY Radio - Streaming remixes of Commodore 64 music.

Game Music Quizzes

• Videogame Music Midi Challenge - It's challenging, and it's...really, really pink.
• Video Game Music Quiz - A new site that tests your knowledge of common to obscure video game tracks.

Game Music Resources and Soundtrack Reviews:

• Chuddah's Corner - A large collection of track listings, linear notes, lyrics, reviews, and other info about video game soundtracks.
• Final Fantasy Music Online - Everything you'll ever need to know about Final Fantasy music.
• Game Music Revolution - A game music CD information database covering mostly Japanese game music releases
• Game Trax - Track listing and art from many game music soundtracks.
• Music 4 Games - Find out what's happening in the world of video game music.
• Soundtrack Central - Video game and anime soundtrack reviews and info.
• SquareSound A comprehensive Square-Enix music resource.

Soundtrack Retailers

• Animenation - Tons of video game and anime soundtracks available to order.
• CD Japan - A great site to import CDs from Japan.
• Game Music Online - Video game and anime soundtracks, as well sheet music books and other goodies.

Sheet Music:

• Piano Themes - Formerly Cerulean Pictures.
• Ichigo's Sheet Music - Game and anime sheet music.
• Game Music Themes - Sheet music from many games.
• Shivasar's RPG Sheet Music - A collection of RPG sheet music.
• NinSheetMusic - A collection of Nintendo sheet music.
• Riulyn's RPG Sheet Music Shrine - Another collection of RPG sheet music.

Guitar Tabs:

• Video Game Jam - Guitar and bass tablature for video game music.
• Nintendo Tabs - NES guitar tabs.

Professional Game Music Composers:

• Aaron Marks - Author of "The Complete Guide to Game Audio"
• Andy Brick - Arc The Lad, The Sims II, Sim City 4: Rush Hour, and more.
• Attila Heger (Laren d'Or) - Ecco the Dolpin 2, Contra '96 and '97, Jurassic Park: Lost World, Tiny Tank, Wacky Races, and more.
• Bill Brown - Quake II, Quake III Arena, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and more.
• Billy Martin - Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Chicken Little, Spy Kids 3D: Game Over, Finding Nemo: Learning with Nemo, and more.
• Clint Bajakian - Indiana Jones & The Emperor's Tomb, Indiana Jones & The Infernal Machine, Escape From Monkey Island, Outlaws, Dark Forces, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Tie Fighter, X-Wing, and more.
• Chris Huelsbeck - Jim Power, R-Type, Star Wars Rebel Strike, Star Wars Rogue Leader, Turrican, many, many more!
• Donald S. Griffin - Aladdin, Cool Spot, Mario's Time Machine, The Jungle Book, and more.
• GameBeat Studios - John Madden Football, Nuclear Strike, NCAA Football, Die Hard Trilogy 2, March Madness 99, and more.
• Inon Zur - Klingon Academy, Star Trek: New Worlds, Star Fleet Commander II, Fallout Tactics, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, and more.
• Jack Wall - Myst III: Exile, Myst IV: Revelation, Rise of the Kasai, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Unreal II, Wrath Unleased, and more.
• Maniacs of Noise - Many, many C64 games.
• Richard Jacques - Headhunter, Sega Rally 2006, Sonic R, Sonic 3D, Jet Grind Radio, Daytona CCE, and more.
• Tommy Tallarico - Alladin, Earthworm Jim, Evil Dead: Hail to the King, MDK, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Unreal 2, and many, many more!
• Google Directory - Games > Video Games > Music > Composers - Links to many more composers that are not list here.
• Game Audio Network Guild - A union of video game composers, musicians, sound designers, voice talent, etc. Open to both professionals who have already made it big, and amateurs hoping to find their place in the industry!

Composer Fan Sites:

• Nobuo Uematsu: The Man, the Legend - Unofficial Fansite for Nobuo Uematsu.
• Uematsu's Music - Official Fansite for Nobuo Uematsu.
• The Follin Drome - Fansite for Tim and Geoff Follin.

Gaming Resources and Fan Sites:

• Gamasutra - The art and business of making games.
• GameFAQs - The largest collection of information about nearly every game ever released.
• RPGFan - Extensive coverage of import and domestic RPGs for all platforms.
• RPGamer - More RPG coverage. Check out the "Sound Test" section!
• Zelda Universe - Huge Zelda site with lots of info and downloads.
• The Metroid Database - Tons of info about every Metroid game ever released.
• The Mushroom Kingdom - The most complete source for information about Mario games.
• The Mega Man Home Page - Tons of info about the Mega Man series.
• The Castlevania Dungeon - Tons of info about the Castlevania series.
• Sakari - Infinity - Original game music written by aspiring composers.

MIDI Sequencing Software:

• Cakewalk - Cakewalk Sonar (professional - Windows) and the now-discontinued Cakewalk Pro Audio series.
• Logic - Logic Pro (professional - Mac OS)
• NoteWorthy Software - NoteWorthy Composer (shareware - Windows)
• Anvil Studio Catalog - Anvil Studio (freeware - Windows)
• JazzWare - Jazz++ (open source freeware - Windows, Linux)
• Steinberg Media Technologies - Cubase (professional - Windows, Mac OS)
• Sibelius - Sibelius (professional - Windows)
• FinaleMusic - Finale Notepad (freeware - Windows, Mac OS)
• Brahms Music System - Brahms (opensource freeware - Linux)
• Muse - Muse (opensource freeware - Linux)

Soundfont Resources:

• SF2MIDI - Large soundfont archive, allowing users to easily submit their own creations.
• SoundZone - Large collection of soundfonts.
• SoundFounts.it - Large collection of soundfonts and VST instruments.
• SynthFont - Software that allows people without SoundBlaster soundcards to use and create soundfonts.

VST Plugins:

• KVR Audio - Plugin Resources, news and information about open standard audio plugins.
• VST Central - Searchable list with all the free VST and DirectX plugins for PC and Mac
• Tweakbench - A small collection of neat little VSTs, some designed to emulate the sound of the NES.

VGMusic Sub-Communities

• Omidia - The Original MIDI Archive - Many of the composers from or forums post their original work on this site. Great music!
• RP Haven Community - This is where all the role-players went after we closed down the Role Player and Fiction Board at our forums.

About VGMusic.com:

• Alexa Web Search - Find out our "average traffic rating" and more!
• VGMusic.com on Wikipedia - Our very own Wikipedia entry.

Articles About Game Music

• Wikipedia article - The Wikipedia page for computer and video game music.
• "Quality Video Game Music Scores, Considering the Standards Set, and Personal Reflections" - by Daniel DeCastro, Paper Provided to VGMusic.com 05/24/2007
• "Levels of Sound" - by Eric Pidkameny, Paper Provided to VGMusic.com 06/15/2002
• "Music for Games" - by GIGnews.com 04/2002
• "Head First" - by Sound On Sound Magazine (UK) 03/2002
• "The Joystick Symphonies" - about video game music by the Washington Post (District of Columbia) 02/09/2001
• "Scoring a Grammy" - Brad King refers to this site and its hit counter near 2,000,000 in Wired 02/2000
• "Video game music: not just kid stuff" - Matt Belinkie, Paper Provided to VGMusic.com 12/15/1999
• Gamessound.com - a site dedicated to academic studies of games audio

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