the game is up

 And the fourth + final installment of Kieran Press-Reynolds CTRL.ALT.REPEAT series on videogame musik for Repeater Radio - a terrific mix of games tunes and tunes influenced by games musik. 

                                              

Gamebient

And here's the final installment of Kieran Press-Reynolds's 3-part series on  videogame musik and how it's influenced pop and unpop, for his Repeater Radio show CTRL.ALT. REPEAT.

This episode is called "The Rise of Gamebient" and, says Kieran, concerns "how video game music is everywhere - on YouTube, on TikTok, nestled in our brains.... Chaotic game music has become a sort of study drug for hyperactive young teens... there's a new wave of artists (leon chang, galen tipton, Serlof, Lost Cascades, etc.) making soundtracks for games that don't exist.... these fake game OSTs are sometimes popular because they allow Twitch streamers/YouTubers to bypass copyright laws."

                                                  First episode here and second  here. 

games people play

Here, archived, is the next installment of Kieran Press-Reynolds show CTRL.ALT. REPEAT for Repeater Radio - part 2 in a 4-part series on the history of videogame musik and how it's influenced pop / unpop - this week heading into the 21st C with Dizzee Rascal, James Ferraro, Minecraft, Undertale and more.

The first installment in the series is here, and here also is Kieran chatting with Repeater man Carl Neville about online micro-genres etc etc.

Some rave-era intersections with videogame musik

The use of PlayStation as a music production tool is another story.

"Edwardian computer-game music"