If quality gaming music piques your interest, pick up Sonic Mania today, which is available on all major consoles (and just got a great Plus edition this summer), or play Breath of the Wild, the soundtrack of which, by Hajime Wakai, stands as not only the best music on the Nintendo Switch but an undeniable benchmark for the medium entirely.Īs for me, I’ll be humming along to 'Green Hill Zone' and the rest of the tracks on Batiste's magnificent new album. Hopefully prominent figures like Jon Batiste, who likely grew up playing these games, will bring an awareness and respect to these soundtracks and the artists who composed them, such as Koji Kondo and Nobuo Uematsu, who deserve acclaim at the same level of a John Williams or Alan Silvestri–especially considering their music is probably being heard by audiences that are just as large, if not bigger.

Orders ship the same day with our 100 Satisfaction Guarantee. It’s a dying art, especially classical music, which as a genre is almost completely gone from the cultural lexicon aside from film, TV, and video game soundtracks. Pepper carries the largest selection of music for jazz bands, ensembles, and vocalists of all levels. As some sharp-eared Redditors have discovered, you can catch the occasional video game nod in episodes of Colbert’s show, such as the 'Opening / Bombing Mission' theme from Final Fantasy VII, which YouTuber Nick Blombren posted side-by-side in January earlier this year, and yes, 'Green Hill Zone' has made an appearance on the show as well.īeyond the surface-level joy and nostalgia that gaming offers, the breadth of musicianship and orchestration has given players an inroad to the world of jazz, classical, and otherwise non-lyric-centric music. Walking Through the Green Hill Zone (From Sonic the hedgehog). I love Sonic - jon batiste September 30, 2018Īpparently, Batiste has been slipping gaming references into his music for quite some time, like in this video from 2015, where he plays music from The Legend of Zelda with his Stay Human bandmates. Sonic Chronicles The Dark Brotherhood - Green Hill Zone, SEGA Sound Team.

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