Clocked Lists 20 famous songs and the iconic video games they sampled by Tom Cameron Since they first hit the world, video games have served as inspiration for countless musicians. These 20 tracks paid homage to the art form by sampling in-game music or SFX….
Clocked Lists The 10 best video game soundtracks of 2020 by Rian Howlett From electrically charged thrash metal to spine-tingling orchestral scores, these are the 10 best video game soundtracks of 2020. 2020 was an incredible year for gaming for a few reasons….
Clocked Music News Listen to a mega-playlist of every in-game song from the ‘Persona’ franchise by Rian Howlett Think you need some operatic funk-jazz-acid-rock in your life? Neither did I. But the Persona OST playlist has different feelings, and it’s now on Spotify for everyone to enjoy. AniPlaylist,…
Clocked Music News Listen to the official ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ soundtrack, featuring Jaden Smith by Briana Symons I’m Ready to listen to Jaden Smith’s new single in the official Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales soundtrack, are you? Marvel has been keeping fans well-fed on content leading up to the…
Clocked News Listen to the Gerudo Valley theme played on ‘Stardew Valley’ music blocks by Thomas Noss A creative Stardew Valley player has used the game as their instrument to compose a cover of the Gerudo Valley theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Something…
Clocked News Vinyl Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Quake’ soundtrack gets a vinyl release at long, long last by Thomas Noss 24 years after the 1996 release of Quake, the righteous original soundtrack produced by Nine Inch Nails has now come to vinyl. Are you an old-school id Software fan who woke…
Clocked Interviews Pro Audio In conversation with Adam Burgess: composer of the ‘Overwatch’ series by Dan Shaw From a musician in Newcastle to composing soundtracks for video games in LA — you’d be excused for thinking that Adam Burgess is well and truly ‘living the dream.’ And…
Clocked Features Scoring our memories: the evolution of video game music by Dan Shaw The impact of video game music is nigh on impossible to overstate. It not only colours our experience of the game itself, but it also becomes a de facto score…
Clocked Interviews Magazine Pro Audio Hell machines and heavy metal choirs: a chat with Mick Gordon by Tom Cameron Mick Gordon composes music for video games – in that scene, he’s about as famous as an artist can get. You’ll likely know his work from the recent DOOM or…
Clocked Lists The 10 best video game soundtracks of the 2010s by Luke Saunders Let’s face it, despite some inherent mishaps – I’m looking at you microtransactions – the 2010s gave birth to some exceptional games. Nay, incredible games. In fact, some of my…
Clocked Lists The best video game music of all time… so far by Luke Saunders Nothing else on earth has the ability to transport the soul and capture our hearts quite like video games. From landmark story-telling to mind-bending graphics, there will always exist a…
Clocked News Pro Audio Meet Analogue Pocket: the portable game station, DAW and synth in one by Josh Clarke Pocket is Analogue’s new tribute to portable gaming. Analogue is a tech company that makes products the celebrate and explore the history of video games with ‘the respect it deserves’….
Clocked Features Pro Audio From the nostalgic to now – meet the composers behind your favourite games by Claudia Schmidt Video game music first emerged in the late ’70s. These early compositions were made using simple, synthetic chips, and were aptly named “chiptunes.” Monophonic, looped scores, they accompanied arcade games…
