Asthmatic Kitty Geeks Out With Free Video Game Comp
Final boss: your tunes
About a month ago, video game distributor Valve released AudioSurf, a sort of Guitar Hero-slash-REZ puzzle rhythm game which has the player goes through track-like stages collecting clusters of identical coloured blocks to make it to the next stage. Yet despite the game’s ho-hum premise, AudioSurf is quickly becoming nothing short of a phenomenon due to its main feature: the stages mimic the music the player provides as soundtrack. So essentially, your MP3 collection contains the levels for this games.
Now, it turns out the folks at Asthmatic Kitty are fanboyscats of the game and have released a compilation of songs specifically geared at creating the best possible game dynamics. Claiming to have “painstakingly combed through our web of friends to find songs that represent not only high quality music, but also intensive and challenging gameplay experiences,” this totally free collection bears some excellent tracks, like Sufjan Stevens’ Year Of The Boar and Seth Kauffman’s awesome Not Much Left To Give. There are also some exclusives up for grabs, like house maestro Rafter with his tart Sassy floorbuster, and Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Paths will chillfully groove up the place.
You can check out the tracklist and download only the ones you want, or you can get the whole 55-meg album in one zipped file, which contains some extraordinary music, whether you play the game or not. But it does make me wonder, if you do play the game, how to the tracks hold up? Any Audiosurfers out there who can tell us?
MP3: Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Boar
MP3: Seth Kauffman - Not Much Left To Give
MP3: Rafter - Sassy
MP3: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Paths
Free Album: Music for Videogames v.1 (zip - 55 mb)
Asthmatic Kitty Records : Various Artists > Music for Videogames v.1
Pitchfork: Sufjan, Rafter, Dosh Contribute Music for Video Games
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