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CD Spotlight: Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale

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Following my post about the Final Fantasy VI Piano Collections, I had to post this one particular Final Fantasy album, Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale. Like the Piano Collections, this album draws from the 16-bit source music from Final Fantasy VI, original for Super Nintendo (SNES), and brings it to life in a new arrangement, exceptionally recorded and mixed.

Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale is truly a work of art, featuring beautiful orchestral strings, harpsichord, piano, flute, and even operatic vocals in the closing track. Composed and arranged by Nobuo Uematsu himself, Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale is a captivating and moving collection musich.

Attached is the beyond-classic Final Fantasy VI Opening Theme, set appropriately as the opening track of the album.

[audio: ff6grand-tina.mp3]
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Android Game: Hyperactive Ninja

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Droid developers Ninja Coders recented released an awesome, retro style game known as Hyperactive Ninja. 8-bit graphics, chiptune soundtrack, and a smart control system, you can’t go wrong! The first four levels of the game are free, the rest you can buy for a super reasonable price. Available on the Android Market. One of the game’s composers is none other than chiptune duo BR1GHT PR1MATE! Want more info? ThisGreenMachine.com has a great interview with the developers.

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CD Spotlight: Final Fantasy Piano Collections

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When I think of video game music, my mind usually jump to fast, chippy, upbeat tunes overdubbed with hack and slash sound effects. Some of us this about the online video game remix community OCRemix, a site that hosts the internet’s largest collection of video game remixes done by musicians, composers, DJs and producers around the world.

I was surprised to learn many avid old-school gamers and Video Game Music (VGM) listeners have missed the wonderful music of the Final Fantasy Piano Collections, composed by the one and only Nobuo Uematsu. I had collected the Piano Collection for FFIV, FFV, FFVI, and FFVIII. Flawlessly played and brilliantly recorded, these albums capture the mood of the original 16-bit soundtracks, while elegantly taking the arrangement to new places.

My heart breaks to say I lost all my originals in a move, so now all I have are 128kbps MP3s. That’s back when iPods were only 5GB, but man, I wish I had backed them up. Anyway, attached is the “Tina” track from Final Fantasy 6: Piano Collections, composed and produced by Nobuo Uematsu. Please enjoy.

[audio: ff6piano-tina.mp3]

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