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How Video Game Soundtracks Are Fueling The Vinyl Boom
Video games like ‘Rez Infinite’, ‘Uncharted 4’ and ‘Monument Valley’ are becoming increasingly popular for vinyl consumers.
Video game instrumentation has long had an influence on electronic music, but these soundtracks’ appearance on vinyl has further cemented the relationship between these two musical spheres.
The early ‘00s heralded a period in which soundtracks became just as important to video games as the graphics themselves. The PS4 game Rez Infinite was one of the first video games that put music at the fore of the gaming experience and that released the soundtrack as a separate vinyl release. A number of games like Hotline Miami 2, Monument Valley, The Last Of Us and Uncharted 4 have also received vinyl issues in the wake of Rez Infinite’s successful release in 2002. Many of them even feature special packaging, retrospective booklets and new graphic art that interconnect audio-visual compositions in new and incredibly unique ways.
This article from Kokatu looks at how the market for video game soundtracks on vinyl is both fueling the vinyl boom and elevating the status of game soundtracks to something closer to film scores (and inspiring some pretty desirable packaging too). To read the piece in full, click here. Listen to the Uncharted 4 soundtrack below.
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