Everyone Wanted an Ocarina in Middle School

You know, if anybody actually read this site I would have been worried about letting people down over the past two months. Luckily for me, nobody does, as I've been spending most of my time job hunting and working on my friend's role-playing site. Regardless, that's not what I cam here to talk to you about (though you should go take a look at it), I wanted to discuss something very important to me, video game music.

For most people when they think of video game music they think of bleeps and bloops, or at best something like the soundtrack to Tron. This wasn't even really a fair estimation back in the 80's, but that doesn't change people's perceptions, instead you should listen to me and realize that men and women with P.H.D.'s in music agree that the best classical music in the last twenty years has come from video games. While modern, classical composers (that's a bit of an oxymoron) focus on making their pieces technically impressive, video game composers are focused with entertaining their audience, much like Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and all the great names had to. If you don't believe my words, then perhaps you'll listen to this:





This is a re-orchestration of the soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, done by the wonderful people of at Zelda Reorchestrated found here. From their site you can even find links to download the entire soundtrack, a whopping 80+ tracks, absolutely for free. Go check it out, this is some of the best music you'll hear all year. I'm working on a secret project right now, but I may give a small hint as to what I'm working in the next week. Until we meet again!