Name: Diggin In The Carts : A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music
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HDBCD038

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-11-17

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5055869558556

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Electronic

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Hyperdub

Hyperdub present Diggin In The Carts - A Collection Of Rare And Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music. This release builds on the critically acclaimed Red Bull Music Academy radio documentary series of the same name that chronicles the history and global influence of this exciting early strain of electronic music. Researched and curated by Diggin In The Carts writer / co-director Nick Dwyer and Hyperdub label head Kode9, the collection plunges deep into the rare archives of the chip era of Japanese video game music. The collection features artwork by renowned Japanese anime artist Koji Morimoto, whose distinctive style has featured in films like Memories and The Animatrix.

Diggin In The Carts showcases these works not just as ‘music for video games,’ but as incredible pieces of electronically produced Japanese music that stand on their own. Some of the greatest art is created within limitations, and often the most pioneering and influential periods in electronic music have resulted from artists pushing existing technology to its limits. The 8-bit and 16-bit era of video game music in the 1980s and early 1990s saw composers squeezing the most technicolour array of sounds, tones and melodies from the limited chips and channels they had at their disposal. From Soshi Hosoi’s Steve Reich inspired minimalist masterpiece Mister Diviner from The Mahjong Touhaiden, to the dazzling high-tech chip soul of Toshiharu Yamanishi’s Shooting Stars from legendary Mega Drive shooter Thunder Force IV, and not forgetting the saw tooth heavy darkness of the Konami Kukeiha Club on titles like Mouryou Senki Madara and Esper Dream II, Diggin In The Carts aims to bring the pleasure and depth of this music to an audience inside and outside the gaming world.

2LP - Limited edition Double 180 Gram Translucent Coloured Vinyl Pressing – One Orange and One Green housed in Heavyweight Gatefold Sleeve with exclusive new manga artwork by renowned Japanese anime artist Koji Morimoto, plus three full-size double-sided card inserts featuring text-free reproductions of the manga and front cover images, sleevenotes by Kode9 in English and Japanese, and Download.

Diggin In The Carts : A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music

Music GB