Einhänder OST Review

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Review:

The original Soundtrack to the Sony Playstation Video game Einhänder has a very Techno/Electro sound to it. The OST sometimes has ambient tracks or songs that start out with ambiance. It also incorporates subtle talking and 'world' vocals and Opera style vocals into some songs. A few tracks/songs contain choir and/or hip-hop style vocals.

Einhänder OST - Song: Shudder -

Info:

The music of Einhänder was composed by Kenichiro Fukui. The game was the first Square title to have a score from the techno/electro genre. Several tracks make use of subgenres of techno, such as progressive house, or other genres like hip hop, piano-based music or opera.The soundtrack of the game was published in Japan by DigiCube, a subsidiary of Square, on December 21, 1997, and was reissued by Square Enix on July 18, 2007, after DigiCube's bankruptcy. The final track, titled "Beginning", was also featured on Square Enix Music Compilation 2, a compilation album published on May 1, 2008 for members of the Japanese Square Enix website.

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The first video game music theme that I want to acknowledge is the main theme on the first Tomb Raider game. It can be described as synthesized chanting and harp and Oboe music. You can listen to it in the video below.


I really enjoyed this theme and the entire Tomb Raider game soundtrack. Excellent music that is split between a classical music feel and ambient music. Just place the original Tomb Raider game into a Cd player and it will play the entire soundtrack.

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The music for Tomb Raider was composed by Martin Iveson and Nathan McCree. Other than most other games of the time, there wasn't a musical track playing constantly throughout the game; instead, limited musical queues would play only during specially-selected moments in order to produce a dramatic effect, such as enhancing tension during an action sequence or accompanying the discovery of a hidden secret. For the majority of the game, the only audio heard is action-based effects (e.g. footsteps or explosions), atmospheric sounds (like the roar of a nearby waterfall), and Lara's own grunts and sighs, all of which were enhanced because they weren't drowned out by music. The game uses a solo "Oboe" melody for the main theme. Variations of this main theme have been used throughout all of the Tomb Raider games. The symphonic sounds of the earlier games were created using Roland Corporation's Orchestral Expansion board for their JV series keyboards.

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